How are, how is the, the general public alerted to a potential incoming dust storm? Well, one that could happen, and then one that's in progress.

So usually in the morning, um, if the National Weather Service here locally sees that there's a high risk of a dust storm, they'll put out a blowing dust advisory, kind of a preemptive, "Hey, from these hours, watch out for blowing dust." And then, of course, all of the television stations are covering that as well, so we're trying to get the message out on TV, on social media.

Um, when we start to see the dust pick up, then we're wall-to-wall coverage online and on streaming and on ABC15, uh, to, to let people know.

And, you know, we have a chopper that we send out to try to give us a bird's-eye view.

That's how we're also able to kinda estimate the height on these things, which can sometimes be over 5,000 feet high.

Um, and so we're doing everything we can.

ADOT, the Arizona Department of Transportation, uh, set up years ago, um, a network of cameras and sensors to try to give us a better idea of what is happening south of the Valley, 'cause again, these things are forming mainly over open land, um, unpopulated or very low populated areas, and then they're just picking up dust for miles and miles and miles before they move into Phoenix.

So just some of the names on the list are, you know, people from across, across the, the scientific enterprise.