r/phoenix • u/BootyQueen69420 • 1d ago

Weather Look at this bad boy rollin’ in!!

HABOOB! Now it’s pouring rain!! I haven’t seen a storm like this in years, but I feel like we used to get a few every summer growing up here. Taken from my backyard 20 minutes ago 08/25/25 :)

What do you guys think, am I just remembering wrong because I would spend all day as a kid splashing around in the storm (now I grab a white claw and my cat and turn on the tv) or do we actually get less of these storms now?

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u/No-Two-5452 1d ago

You are right. It seems like it used to happen much more, at least in the valley. I know we still get them around the outskirts, but I haven’t seen a wall like this in a long time.

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u/pitizenlyn 1d ago

The last 5 years or so have been Nonsoons.

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u/farkus_mcfernum 1d ago

I'm → on the southern edge 1/2 mile from the reservation. I'd say they've not like somesoons, not nonsoons. This is the biggest in at least 3 years. Welcome back monsoon's!!!

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u/boot2skull 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m of the mind that all our expansion and pavement and roads had made such a powerful heat island effect that storms don’t cross through here as much anymore.

Before they were coined as haboobs, I remember several dust storms and good lightning storms every summer while out of school. Now monsoon season comes with barely a rain most years. I see clouds on the outskirts of the valley but they don’t roll through as often.

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u/pitizenlyn 1d ago

Absolutely facts. You can watch them just go right around the metro area on radar.

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u/Hungry-Living7513 1d ago

Dammit Imhotep, not again

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u/AJ_Aquarius 1d ago

Was sitting at the light on Elliott trying to get home before it hit! Pulled in with seconds to spare!

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u/Thurmunit 1d ago

It felt like a hurricane here in Tempe. It was terrifying.

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u/Normal_Rip_2514 1d ago

Seriously! I went out in the middle of the street to watch it come in, and within like 3 minutes, the wind was so strong it was almost blowing me off my feet. Oh god I just realized, I'm probably gonna be spending tomorrow dragging tree branches to the alley...

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u/Potential-Ad-6636 1d ago

Thanks for sharing. We were in the pool watching it roll in and made it inside just in time.

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u/BootyQueen69420 1d ago

My neighbor was on his roof until the last second, I was -this- close to yellin at him. Good job getting out of the pool, lightning always follows these storms!!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Holy shit

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u/Worldly_Resource_336 1d ago

Me: please let me save before the power cuts!!! Annnnd it's out.

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u/-Tasear- 14h ago

🤣 should of made that meme and posted it

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u/Occams_AK47 1d ago

This was a nice one. I liked when it got all red and gates of hell like.

Side note: I once had a shed like that until a microburst relocated it to a house down the street.

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u/disharmony-hellride 1d ago

I had this same shed fly over the wall and land in the alley. They love to fly lol

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u/Minute_Split_736 1d ago

Rad time lapse video.

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u/VegasBjorne1 1d ago

Now the fun part… an inch of sand on the bottom of your pool, but the filter clogs-up after only 10 minutes of vacuuming.

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u/DynomiteD06 1d ago

Well global warming. Yes there’s less of a lot and a more plain heat

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u/PretendWill1483 1d ago

Yep!! Haven’t seen a good storm like this since 2010-2012 times. I missed it

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u/999forever 1d ago

Yeah I was thinking 10 years or something since our last major “black outside” haboob

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u/smile_politely 1d ago

Haboooobb!!!

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u/Responsible_Wave_277 1d ago

Wow!! Where are you located?

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u/RVtech101 1d ago

Metal peeled off the parking structure at the apartments next door. Sent sheets down the canal at Gilbert and Main.

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u/Comfortable_Brain856 1d ago

Whoa, that is an AMAZING video!

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u/TwitchTheMeow 1d ago

Awesome video. I fell down the outside roof deck running from it lol

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u/Normal_Rip_2514 1d ago

I don't remember them from like, 20+ years ago. But I do remember the time where we got a huge one, and someone introduced the term "Haboob" for the first time. It was BIBLICAL, they had helicopters flying over neighborhoods, every square inch of every neighborhood was covered in beige dust. Took us like 2 weeks to get the pool blue again from all the algae

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u/Normal_Rip_2514 1d ago

Your pool's gonna turn as green as an apple. Shock it ahead of time, put a bunch of chlorine in the bobbers

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u/Kaye480 1d ago

Wow!

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u/HystericalSail 1d ago

Missed opportunity: add this track to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU

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u/eddie_vercetti 1d ago

Supposedly this was the biggest one since 2014?

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u/Normal_Rip_2514 1d ago

I was driving on the 101 when that one rolled in. It was..... Biblical. I'll never forget it, the entire city was BLACK

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u/grassesbecut 1d ago

That sounds about right.

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u/omn1p073n7 1d ago

doo do do do doot

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u/Normal_Rip_2514 1d ago

I don't get it

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u/farkus_mcfernum 1d ago

Byebye shed old friend!!

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u/nobadrabbits 1d ago

Is that cat in the lower right corner alive?

That's all I could watch; I was waiting for it to run into the house when the storm came in.

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u/relady 1d ago

The dust wasn't as visible up here in Cave Creek, but we can see that our pool water is full of it.

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u/GovernmentOpposite65 21h ago

My pool is a mess

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u/Manslashbirdpig 21h ago

Nice pool bro

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u/-Tasear- 14h ago

That's the mist...I have seen a movie like this