“In fact, there is very little in the English language that doesn’t have roots somewhere else in the world. […] The term haboob has been around for decades. As Henson notes, “‘[H]aboob’ is hardly a new term in the meteorological literature. […] a 1925 paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society was titled ‘Haboobs’.””
Arabic weather term ‘haboob’ is apparently troubling for some Texans

It didn’t sit well with some residents.

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