See the dust storm from Mad Max in real life

Footage from an increasingly popular YouTube video shows a towering wave of orange dust that obscured

horizon and engulfed northwestern Sao Paulo. As the cloud swept past the camera, it transformed the cityscape into a scene from a Mad Max movie.

Dust storm footage filmed in four Brazilianmunicipalities on several cameras owned by Clima au Vivo (CV). It is a privately held company that uses live weather monitoring cameras for local news outlets.

The edited frames show how densedust clouds cover parts of several regions of Sao Paulo - Barretos, Morro Agudo, Bebeduro and Viraduro. Residents of the cities of Ribeirão Preto, Arasatuba, Jales, Franca and Presidente Prudente in São Paulo state also witnessed the power of the light-absorbing sandstorm, according to the national news agency Agência Brasil. Cities in the neighboring state of Minas Gerais have also been shrouded in dust, the agency said in a statement.

A similar storm in which strong windsraises a wall of dust thousands of meters high, known as a haboob. The term, which originated in Sudan, comes from the Arabic word "habb", which means "to blow". According to the American Meteorological Society, these fast-moving dust walls typically appear after thunderstorms and  common in arid regions of the world.

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