In Texas, a 38-car pile-up occurred as winds lifted dust into ... which can leave muddy stains on outdoor objects like cars. This is known as "mud rain" or "dirty rain." While not rare, it's ...

Several large piles of sand and hundreds ... “They can be very dangerous, a lot of mud can come down and bury cars and people ...

There's no established weather term for the dirty rain, which speaks to how unusual and specific conditions have to be for it ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A series of dust storms in Texas earlier this week are the culprit if your car is covered with a filmy layer of mud this evening ... little to no rain ahead of it ...

The lack of terminology, according to Alumbaugh, speaks to how there are different things, not just dirt, that can go into the unusual weather phenomenon created out of very specific drought and ...