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A River of...?...
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:05 pm
by klaszlo
Hello:
Odd one.
Your guess is as good as mine.
http://www.bit.ly/1N1MZkT It makes me think (a little) of that video of the scuba
diver going into water covered with pumice.
KL
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:27 pm
by Duncan Edwards
Wow. Who knows what goes on way out there in the serious "no shit" desert. Drive your busload of cheerleaders into that.
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:29 pm
by klaszlo
Hello:
Just found pretty much the same video @ YouTube...........
http://www.bit.ly/1HUdEZn One comment...is this real?
Good question.
KL
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:39 pm
by PM2K
Check it out at the one minute mark for a close up... that looks like large hailstones to me. Must have come from one hell of a storm further upstream, and the storm surge is heading down a dry riverbed.
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 3:59 pm
by Green Heart
Shifting sand land became real!
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:57 pm
by stefani_qs
okay stuff the oil thats something worth the usa invading middle east for and handing over total rights to mpv!
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:20 am
by BogDog
The close-up I captured COULD be hail, but one might assume it would have melted to water by now. I see no clouds nearby.
If someone had shown me this image and asked me what it was, I'd venture SALT..maybe a retaining dam at some salt-collecting evaporation plant broke and took some salt along with it.
Re: A River of...?...
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:27 am
by BogDog
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! WE HAVE A WINNER!
PM2K hit the nail on the head. You are looking at a mix of sand AND hail.
Posted Monday, November 16, 2015, 3:21 PM
While the occasional sand storm will move sand around, these landscapes are typically stationary, so imagine the surprise of locals when a massive river of sand and hail started flowing through Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter, the largest contiguous sand desert on the planet.
The footage was uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2015.
Active weather has been hammering the Middle East that month, leading to unusual weather patterns, including hail.
At one point in the video, a man can be seen reaching into the flowing mass and retrieving large chunks of hail.
Heavy rain over those few weeks had triggered floods that killed dozens of people in Iraq and caused widespread damage in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.