Haboob Guinea. Haboobs in Australia may be frequently associated with cold fronts. The deserts of Central Australia, especially near Alice Springs, are particularly prone to haboobs, with sand and debris reaching several kilometers into the sky and leaving up to of sand in the haboob's path. As with haboobs in the Middle East, haboob occurrences in North America are often created by the collapse of a thunderstorm. This is a local or mesoscale event, and at times of extreme drought they can originate in agricultural regions. Some of the most famous dust storms of the Dust Bowl and similar conditions later
Operation Eagle Claw as a cracked rotor blade. Its crew was picked up by "Bluebeard 8". The remaining helicopters ran into an unexpected weather phenomenon known as a "haboob" (an enormous, nearly opaque cloud of fine dust particles that can follow a thunderstorm). "Bluebeard 5" flew into the haboob, but abandoned the mission and returned to the "Nimitz" when erratic flight instrumentation made flying without visual reference points impossible. The scattered formation reached Desert One, 50 to 90 minutes behind schedule. "Bluebeard 2" arrived last at Desert One at 01:00 with a malfunctioning second-stage hydraulic system, leaving one hydraulic system to control the