Cold Front Brings Dust Storm To Western Oklahoma

Thought the Dust Bowl was in the 1930s? Some photos released recently by the Cimarron County Conservation District might make you think twice.

Photos of a towering wall of dirt that bore down on Cimarron County from southeast Colorado are being circulated by the Oklahoma Mesonet environmental monitoring system. A dust storm swept through the Boise City area as a cold front moved through, sweeping away the 70-degree temperatures on Sunday, January 12.

Gusting north winds brought colder air and dust to drought-plagued western Oklahoma.