different between duststrom vs haboob

English

Arabic ??????? (hab?b, “strong wind”), from the root ? ? ?? (h-b-b).

haboob (plural haboobs)

A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America.
Coordinate term: duster
- 2013, Giles Slade, American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival, New Society Publishers (?ISBN), page 154:
  Americans used to call these storms “dusters,” but as a sign of increasing globalization, most news outlets now call them by their Gulf Arabic name haboob. […] In Blackwell, Oklahoma 21, 2012, a haboob with a storm front two miles across closed the town and stopped all traffic on I-35 while causing about half a million dollars in damage.

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