Weather Wednesday: Dust Storm and Blowing Dust Warnings

Weather Wednesday: Dust Storm and Blowing Dust Warnings

FARGO — This time last week was our lone "calm" day, as it was in the middle of a windy spring week across North Dakota. However, dry conditions caused major problems: blowing dirt dropped visibility to nearzero at times, leading the National Weather Service in Grand Forks to, for the first time in office history, issueboth a Dust Storm Warning as well as a Blowing Dust Warning. The difference between the two: all a matter oftime . While both w…