Sailors from Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Vandegrift assist in the rescue of a family with a sick infant via the ship's small boat as part of a joint U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard rescue effort in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy via Reuters.
A. Dust bunnies form from the surprisingly large supply of stuff in the air, including fibers from clothing fabrics and carpeting; hair; animal fur and dander; and especially human skin cells and the dust mites that feed on them, according to Joseph Laquatra Jr., professor of design and environmental analysis at the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.
While a dust devil is not a tornado in the strictest sense of the term, it is a type of vortex. They are not caused by thunderstorms and are therefore not a true tornado. A dust devil results when the sun heats dry land surfaces forming a twisting column of air. The storms may look like a tornado, but are not.