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Dust devil in East Africa |
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Africa African Safari Arusha Region Chiindii Chindi Dark Continent Dust Devil Dust Whirl EAC East Africa East African Community Eastern Africa Fasset el 'Afreet Horizontal Mto Wa Mbu Nature Ngoma Cia Aka Outdoors Safari Sand Auger Style Sub-Saharan Africa Tanzania Tanzanian Countryside Tanzanian Safari United Republic of Tanzania Whirly-Whirly Willy-Willy Images Pictures Pics Photographs Fotos Stock Photos |
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Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania - Dust devils are commonly seen in the arid parts of Tanzania. A dust devil is a rotating updraft, ranging from small (half a meter wide and a few meters tall) to large (over 10 meters wide and over 1000 meters tall). Dust devils are usually harmless, but rare ones can grow large enough to threaten both people and property. They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are an unusual weather phenomenon of swirling air vortices. Tornadoes form as an updraft attached to a wall cloud at the back of a thunderstorm. Dust devils form as an updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
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Mto Wa Mbu |
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Arusha Region
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Tanzania |
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8.0
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1/640s
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320
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16.0mm
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Image ID: |
Tanzania_2825-Dust_Devil_Africa |
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