The towering walls of dust that barrel across Arizona during monsoon season will soon be easier to understand. A team of 22 meteorologists and weather experts spent years developing the first standardized dust storm scale. It’s designed to classify severity, like the Enhanced Fujita scale that’s used for categorizing tornadoes. The end goal? Safety. Cronkite […]
Author Archives: Erica Hoyt
Erica Hoyt expects to graduate in December 2025 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, geography (meteorology-climatology) and GIS. Hoyt has interned as a reporter at The Times Media Group in Tempe.