Mud rain

[Cougsfan]

Last night my wife read me the local weather forecast for today. It read: high winds, lots of rain and dust. We laughed, wondering how can you have lots of rain and dust at the same time?
Today I stopped at a store noticed some very weird looking dark brown clouds. I went into the store for quite a few minutes and came back out and got in my car and noticed all the windows had a slimy coating and I couldn't even see out. I turned on the wipers and could see that the wipers were actually swiping mud! As I drove home the mud rain started again from some more dark brown clouds.
I have never seen anything quite like that! The land upwind from us is desert. The winds must of blew up dust and the rain clouds came along and picked it up. Must have been one heck of a dust storm!

 

[mag410]

Mud Rain, brings back memories of riding with an uncle when I was a teenager. Spent half the time pushing his pickup out of every mud hole he just had to see if he could get through.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Yep.... mud rain.... We have had it here in the SW at least once a year. Makes a mess for sure!

 

[Roadworthy]

You sound like a newcomer to eastern WA. Wait for some of the good spring winds. We're getting a taste of that at the moment.

 

[Rockbadchild]

interesting phenomena … i know the dust from the Sahara desert cross the Atlantic and make its way to amazone helping it to fertilize it, that’s the reason the amazone is so fertile despite having a poor soil …

I know why but I always found this is a contradicting statement, because this phenomenal makes the soil rich but the amazone soil is poor in nutriment…

That’s because once they cut the forest for agriculture purposes there is nothing to retain the water who as the nutriments so they have hard time grow crops on it …

 

[oosik]

Cougsfan is about fifty miles south of me. Glad all the crap dropped out before it got here. Yesterday morning - 0.35" of rain. In the afternoon I "troweled" the muddy section in my driveway.

Now if I can manage to stay off for a couple days - it will dry and harden like concrete.

I've seen the gray - gray/brown clouds Cougsfan speaks of. By the time they get up here all the heavy stuff has dropped out.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

A bit off subject, but my wife, raised in East Texas, tells the story of the time she was on the school bus, and it rained small frogs. It sounds like a BS story, but apparently it is a real phenomenon that has happened other places.

 

[oldballs]

I've seen pinkish snow in Minnesota from the dust coming out of the Dakotas.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Rockbadchild]

A bit off subject, but my wife, raised in East Texas, tells the story of the time she was on the school bus, and it rained small frogs. It sounds like a BS story, but apparently it is a real phenomenon that has happened other places.

It Sound very biblical as a story but I guess its true I easily found 3 article about the phenomenon and they explain it as well its tornados or weather pattern lifting them in the air and dropping them miles away..

The day it rained frogs in Calgary | Globalnews.ca

Sometimes rainstorms produce much more that just rain.

globalnews.ca

Can it rain frogs, fish, and other objects?

There have been reports of raining frogs and fish dating back to ancient civilization. Of course, it doesn’t “rain” frogs or fish in the sense that it rains water – no one has ever seen frogs or fish vaporize into the air before a rainfall. However, strong winds, such as those in a tornado or …...

www.loc.gov

Can it really rain frogs?

A heavy rain in which frogs come plummeting down isn't a pretty sight, but it happens more often than you'd think. Why do animals sometimes fall from the sky?

science.howstuffworks.com

 

[Doughknob]

"Geologic cycle" moves dust, water, air, insects, and apparently animals all around the planet.......