Official Arizona Weather Thread

[Dback Jon]

why did dust storms get changed to "haboobs" this year? Did the US go muslim?

Blame Mike Oblinski

 

[O]

why did dust storms get changed to "haboobs" this year? Did the US go muslim?

Did you know the word "monsoon" also has it origin in the Arabic language?

 

[BigRedRage]

A haboob (Arabic:"هَبوب", "strong wind") is a type of intense duststorm commonly observed in arid regions throughout the world.

The English monsoon came from Portuguese monção, ultimately from Arabic mawsim (موسم "season"), "perhaps partly via early modern Dutch monsun".[7] The Arabic-origin word mausam (मौसम, موسم) is also the word for "weather" in Hindi, Urdu, and several other North Indian languages.[8]

at least monsoon is translated into english.

 

[Dback Jon]

at least monsoon is translated into english.

No - it is a bastardized version...


I hope you never drink alcohol - that is an Arabic word as well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arabic_loanwords_in_English

 

[BigRedRage]

its called a dust storm.

and I drink BEER!

 

[Dback Jon]

its called a dust storm.

and I drink BEER!

While on your couch! (can't use sofa, or the terrorists win ), while eating sweets (candy is out).

Gonna have to cut out Starbucks (no coffee), only wear wool or polyester (cotton is Arabic).

 

[BigRedRage]

While on your couch! (can't use sofa, or the terrorists win ), while eating sweets (candy is out).

Gonna have to cut out Starbucks (no coffee), only wear wool or polyester (cotton is Arabic).

My cotton was made in Amurica!

sofa king.

 

[Jersey Girl]

why did dust storms get changed to "haboobs" this year? Did the US go muslim?

Hater.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Thunder, lightning and POURING rain here.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Thunder, lightning and POURING rain here.

Ditto! That was awesome! Left my office @ 44th and Camelback in a driving rain, rode thru it all with awesome lightening the whole way home!

 

[O]

Screw ya all.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Screw ya all.

Don't even tell me you got squat???? At my office it was a deluge O! You had to get something, no???

 

[O]

Don't even tell me you got squat???? At my office it was a deluge O! You had to get something, no???

47 blocks away.

I got absolutely nothing!

 

[82CardsGrad]

47 blocks away.

I got absolutely nothing!

Unbelieveable.... the back parking lot at my office was swamped! It even sounded like it was hailing. Dude - move 47 blocks east!

 

[Jersey Girl]

Thunder, lightning and POURING rain here.

We had a ton in South Scottsdale. Pretty aweome!!!

 

[Mathew81]

Nothing in Chandler. It smelled a bit like rain but nothing.

 

[Linderbee]

Nothing in Mesa.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Another dust storm tonight. WTH? I am so over these dust storms, haboobies, whatever. All they do is make things dirty and hard to see. Give me rain, thunder and lightning or move on.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Another dust storm tonight. WTH? I am so over these dust storms, haboobies, whatever. All they do is make things dirty and hard to see. Give me rain, thunder and lightning or move on.

No thunder and lightening, but lots of rain at the moment!! Making everything muddy.... again!

 

[Jersey Girl]

No thunder and lightening, but lots of rain at the moment!! Making everything muddy.... again!

That sucks! We got no rain here, but tons of dirt.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Dust, rain, more rain, lots of rain, a TON of rain, thunder and lightning.

 

[Mathew81]

Dust, rain, more rain, lots of rain, a TON of rain, thunder and lightning.

About the same in Chandler last night.

 

[O]

Even I got a good amount of rain.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Even I got a good amount of rain.

 

[Jersey Girl]

It's cold. That is all.