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 rat-kangaroo AC Robinson (1997) The present status and distribution of the desert rat-kangaroo Caloprymnus campestris (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) The South Australian Naturalist, 72(1) 1997 Desert rat-kangaroo The desert rat-kangaroo ("Caloprymnus campestris"), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta, is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to desert regions of Central Australia. It was discovered in the early 1840s and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time. It was formed like a kangaroo, but had the bulk of a small