At lunch today I was going to drop off a pair of boots to be resoled and was sitting at a stoplight when I saw this:
A HUGE dust devil formed right in front of me, just a few yards away. Actually, when it first formed (in a matter of a couple of seconds) it was much closer and larger. By the time I got my cameraphone out, it had already started to retreat and shrink.
Don’t know what it is with dust devils. Have been seeing them a lot lately. When I was on my recent trip through the Southwest, I ran into a dry lake bed in New Mexico where there were something like a dozen active dust devils at once.
Interestingly, dust devils have electrical fields associated with them.
Santa Ana winds.