black blizzard
Prairie soil tempest
A black blizzard is a severe dust storm, particularly those that swept across the American Great Plains during the 1930s Dust Bowl.
The name comes from the massive clouds of topsoil that darkened the sky, sometimes turning day to night: The black blizzard rolled in and we couldn't see the barn from the house.
- dust stormWind-carried soil phenomenon
- sandstormWind-driven desert grit
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
- Great PlainsCentral North American grassland
- erosionGradual wearing away
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black blizzardflood
Overwhelming water overflow
inundation · deluge · flash flood · monsoon season · saturation
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