40 Menacing Pictures of Sand and Dust Storms

A sand or dust storm is a meteorological phenomenon that inspires fear from the hearts of people since time immemorial. It can damage houses, bury infrastructures and equipment, and it can cause widespread disruption of air and road traffic that would extend to several towns and cities. Also, it can cause health problems associated with breathing air with heavy dust concentration. Such is the effect of a massive volume of floating sand and dust particles as they advance unhindered along their path.

With their magnitude and dangerous potential, dust and sand storms are constant reminders of how frail we are against the brute force of nature. Indeed the cataclysmic workings of nature and its power to alter our surroundings cannot help us but feel awe and respect albeit out of fear. Although dust and sand storms are menacing and unsightly in every sense of a word, our helplessness to halt these advancing columns to dust and our amazement of their vastness, all combine to makes us dumbfounded and fascinated. These emotions of course would drive our impulse to record our duel with nature and tales about how we conduct ourselves as the storm unleashes its wrath with unprecedented ferocity.

Thanks to cameras, some of the photographers were able to capture photos of sand storms as they transpire in some places. If you are able to capture such stunning photos and want to share them online one of the easiest ways is to implement a photography WordPress theme on your website. This way you ensure that your photos will be showcased the very best way.

We are showing here some of the pictures of sand and dust storms that portray the beauty (from photography perspective), the bad and the ugly of these atmospheric occurrence. Check them out and enjoy!

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The massive Kuwait sandstorm on Friday evening

Photo used under Creative Commons from Kuwait-Ra’ed Qutena

Sandstorm

Photo used under Creative Commons from asco

Wind Dust Rain

Photo used under Creative Commons from Jeff Attaway

Dust Storm 1585 and Milwaukee

Photo used under Creative Commons from KCBD Communities

Looming Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from naturalturn

Dust Storm Heading For Mungerannie Hotel Jan 31 2010

Photo used under Creative Commons from Pam and Phill Proprietors Mungerannie Hotel

5 June 08 West Texas Sand Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from Brokentaco

Sydney dust storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from Ianz

Playa Dust Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from Eccentric Jeff

Haboob

Photo used under Creative Commons from HD Taylor

Dust storm, camps, 9 October 2008

Photo used under Creative Commons from Western Sahara Project

Sandstorm

Photo used under Creative Commons from Corporal Alicia M. Garcia, U.S. Marine Corps.

saudi sandstorm

Photo used under Creative Commons from zbigphotography

Sandstorm

Photo used under Creative Commons from Fawaz Albalagy

Sandstorm at the beach

Photo used under Creative Commons from kaibara87

Wait For Me

Photo used under Creative Commons from chiaralily

Untitled

Photo used under Creative Commons from tanitta

Massive sand storm hits Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (4)

Photo used under Creative Commons from BoydJones

Dust Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from expom2uk

Massive Dust Storm_11

Photo used under Creative Commons from marksontok

Red sky

Photo used under Creative Commons from 4Cheungs

Haboob

Photo used under Creative Commons from HD Taylor

Dust storm approaches

Photo used under Creative Commons from Jesse Wagstaff 

Phoenix Dust Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from squeaks2569

Coober Peedy

Photo used under Creative Commons from Marianne de Wit

Into the Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from Lanfranch

Sandstorm in East of Mauritania

Photo used under Creative Commons from AlainOlive@UNDP Mauritania

Dust about to envelope the helicopters

Photo used under Creative Commons from ToddMorris

Desert View

Photo used under Creative Commons from United States Forces – Iraq (Inactive)

weather in the black rock desert

Photo used under Creative Commons from paranoidroid

Sandstorm in Iraq

Photo used under Creative Commons from tobo

Yelta

Photo used under Creative Commons from Shovelling Son

The storm front

Photo used under Creative Commons from M.Lubinski

Apocalyptic

Photo used under Creative Commons from Mink

Abilene Dust Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from ajsmith227 

Into the Storm (4)

Photo used under Creative Commons from Lanfranch

Dust Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from diogo.saraiva

Limited visibility

Photo used under Creative Commons from M.Lubinski

Dust Storm

Photo used under Creative Commons from wasabicube

the sand is coming!!!

Photo used under Creative Commons from shan2x

Harvey J. Aniasco

Harvey is a graphic designer who used to work in print and billboard advertising. While a big devotee of digital media, he is also fond of acrylic and watercolor. During his free time you can see him playing online games and learning web development.