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dust storm

Weather feature caused when large quantities of fine particles are raised into the atmosphere, reducing visibility to less than 1,000 m/3,280 ft. They happen most often in very dry places. Kuwait International Airport, for example, records an average of 27 dust storms per year.



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That others were at work he knew by the sound, and by the fact that he sometimes collided with them; otherwise they might as well not have been there, for in the blinding dust storm a man could not see six feet in front of his face.
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