r/phoenix • u/BootyQueen69420 • 3d 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/Normal_Rip_2514 2d 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