dust devil

Unlike tornadoes, dust devils grow upwards from the ground rather than down from clouds, and they last for only a few minutes.

There was an extreme heat advisory in effect for parts of Riverside County on the day of the accident, but dust devils can form in all types of conditions, Munyan said.

The winter before last, my wife and I were driving back to L.A. from Mammoth when our car began veering across the lane markers as dust devils rose from the desert floor.

Behind them stood their mounts, Arabian stallions—faster than dust devils and nimbler than Athena’s thimble.

It is the same feeling that flooded my system when I learned about the dust devils on Mars.