May 16th, 2025 continues to be an interesting weather day and is keeping meteorologists like me on their toes. Earlier in the ...

In mid-May, a giant wall of dust paraded across parts of the U.S. Midwest, and, thanks to the National Oceanic and ...

A fast-moving dust storm swept across the Chicago area Friday evening, creating an eerie sight as a thick haze quickly blanketed the region.

That warning did not include Chicago. In the 2023 dust storm, seven people died in a crash involving 72 vehicles on Interstate 55 in central Illinois. Chicago was last affected by a significant ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...

The last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during the Dust Bowl in the early to mid-1930s.

A new report from the National Weather Service concluded that a combination of drier soil, recent agricultural tilling, and ...

A rare dust storm warning was issued for much of the Chicago area Friday night as fast ... and thunderstorms were moving through northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. The National Weather ...

Weather officials issued a dust storm warning for the Chicago area, central Illinois and Northwest Indiana that was lifted at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Residents were told to seek shelter and avoid roads ...

Dr. Alan Black from SIUE notes that while dust storms are rare in Illinois, they can pose a severe weather hazard for drivers ...

A massive dust storm was racing toward Chicago and the rest of northern Illinois, putting motorists and people with respiratory illnesses at risk, weather officials warned Friday evening. Zachary ...