Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Fatal Crash On I-10 In Dust


The desert along portions of I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix resembles scenes from Mad Max, due to nearly a century of over-grazing and commercial agriculture during recent decades. This corridor is prone to serious dust storms and multiple vehicle crashes. Yesterday afternoon blowing dust south of Casa Grande resulted in a pileup involving about 20 vehicles, many of them 16-wheelers (see above). There were three fatalities and many injuries, leaving I-10 westbound closed for more than five hours.


The 5 pm webcam view of the Catalinas, from the Computer Science Building, at 5 pm MST yesterday (above) appears to have captured some of the dust storm in the distance - at lower, left corner of the image. There were also thunderstorms with some lightning strikes along the Mogollon Rim (below) yesterday afternoon as the 500 mb short wave slowly moved eastward across the state.


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