I know I featured a couple posts in the past couple of weeks of dust devils, tumbleweeds and other dry climate stuff doing amazing things, if only to give us a break from the endless discussions of winter weather.But wait! There's more!
For fans of weather porn, (the viewing of photos and videos of severe, large or weird storms, no nudity!) we have more.
From Twitter, we got a photo, originating from @KOB4, shows an enormous dust devil near Las Vegas, New Mexico recently.
(The New Mexico town is not to be confused with the glittery gambling Nevada city.)
This has to be the most humongous dust devil I've ever seen.
Most dust devils don't have strong enough winds to cause damage, but a few do. I bet if this huge
dust devil had hit any of the buildings in the foreground, there would have been damage.
Luckily, no structural damage was reported.
Next, we have a video of a controlled burn at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado, to get rid of some brush.
Or, at least it WOULD have been a controlled burn had the big dust devil not come along to stir up a ton of tumbleweeds, set them aflame, and spread the blaze all over the place.
Luckily, the crew got things under control a little while later, and the so-called control burn didn't scorch THAT much more land than it should have.
The video is next but warning: The idiot who posted the video decided screaming death metal music would be the perfect accompanyment to the visuals. So turn the volume to mute before watching.
Your ears will thank you, and you'll still get your weather porn fix:
Finally, we have a spectacular tornado in Mexico that struck Saturday. Quite the spectacle:
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