Douglas County Dust Devils

The conditions were just right for dust devils the other day when I was travelling through Douglas County. I must have seen 50 of these little funnels travelling across the fields. The most I saw at once was five whirling across the plains. Not knowing a whole lot about them, I decided to read up on these peculiararities of nature.

Wikipedia is full of Dust Devil info, including a short animation of a dust devil travelling across the surface of Mars.

The Weather Channel has a short description for dust devils and other wind anomalies.

The above is two dust devils spinning right next to the Farmer Cemetery.

This tall dust devil was one of many travelling over these large open fields.