Australilan Dust Devil Becomes A Music Festival Dance Partner

A dust devil becomes a dance partner during
an Australian music festival last week 

At the Earthcore Music and Culture Festival in Pyalong, Victoria, Australia last week, as people danced, an unusual dance partner swept into the concert grounds.

A dust devil blew through, giving people a literal whirlwind moment as the music played.

Dust devils form when the sun heats an area of ground more intensely than surrounding areas. Maybe there's darker ground or a lack of foliage that makes the patch of ground heat more than areas nearby.

The hot air rises, through cooler air above, so basically you get a column of warm, rising air. The cool air that has been pushed away by the warm column circulates vertically, up and down. Then a gust of wind knocks that circulating air sideways, so now it circulates horizontally. So it forms into a column of circulating air - a dust devil.

The Australian festival dust devil looks fairly intense at first in the video you see below, so I wonder if it was a little dangerous to get into it.

But nobody got hurt and a good time was had by all.

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