Haboob of Eastern Washington, almost always leading to an impact with the city of Spokane. If the storms are strong enough, they can reach as far east as Post Falls and Moscow, in North Idaho. Global dust storms on Mars have been compared to haboobs on Earth. Haboob A haboob () is a type of intense dust storm carried on an atmospheric gravity current, also known as a weather front. Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout the world. During thunderstorm formation, winds move in a direction opposite to the storm's travel, and they move from all directions into
Desert whitethroat differences it follows Gloger's rule of pale colour in arid regions. The throat is white, and the rest of the underparts pale greyish-white. Three subspecies are currently recognised, though some authors only accept the first two as distinct. The presumed lesser whitethroat subspecies "halimodendri" and "telengitica" might actually belong to the desert whitethroat, or alternatively might represent hybrid intergrades between, respectively, "S. m. jaxartica" and "S. m. margelanica" and the lesser whitethroat. Desert whitethroat inhabits arid lowland regions from eastern Iran and Turkmenistan eastwards to Xinjiang in central China, breeding in open dry thorn scrub. The breeding range does not