The tragedy that occurred yesterday in Illinois was the latest example.
most commonBut Monday’s pileup near Springfield is a good reminder that they can happen anywhere. In this case, police said winds gusting up to 45 mph kicked up dirt from nearby farmers’ fields and dropped visibility to zero.
Crashed and burned vehicles are seen in this aerial photo of the aftermath of a deadly dust storm pileup on Interstate 55 near Springfield, Illinois, on Monday, May 1, 2023. Situations like that can panic drivers and cause vehicles to slam into each other. Yet crash statistics don’t always show the danger.
“We would see that huge highway crashes had occurred during dust storms, but later when we looked, we didn’t always see those events reflected in the official, national records,” said Tong. The research team found that was because such incidents often carried different labels in government databases and some don’t count dust storms at all. To get a fuller picture, the team also cross-referenced records with reports of dust storms on social media and other sources.The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives.
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