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May 16th, 2025 continues to be an interesting weather day and is keeping meteorologists like me on their toes. Earlier in the ...
Last Saturday’s storm started near Bloomington, Illinois, before traveling northeastward. It was the first such storm of this ...
The National Weather Service in Chicago said the dust storm experienced in Iroquois County and elsewhere on May 16 could be ...
Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.
The National Weather Service in Chicago says they believe yesterday’s rare and powerful dust storm across Central and ...
A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...
Have you ever heard of a haboob? These giant walls of dust can entirely change a landscape in just a matter of minutes.
open image in gallery A historic dust storm hit Illinois last weekend. The haboob may have sent lead, pesticides and other worrying toxins into downtown Chicago skies (Eric Lenning/NWS Chicago ...
A rare dust storm swept in from the southwest and enveloped the Chicago metropolitan area Friday evening, darkening the sky ...