The westerly winds associated with this front were quite vigorous, and they actually produced a line of rolling dust storms, which are sometimes known as bedouries.
Once a chief pilot for the Flying Doctor Service, he recalled a phenomenon peculiar to the Outback—the dust storms called bedouries.
Pilots caught in bedouries could not see the horizon in the west.
I've been flying through bedouries for 30 years, in planes a lot less appetizing than yours.
I explained to the driver I was heading north-west and beyond, where the bedouries blow.
He described a bedourie to me, saying that vast clouds of red dust reached 12,000 feet into the sky.
Under such conditions, the discomforts caused by heat, flies, and bedouries are reduced to a minimum.
By sundown that night, this grazier would be tasting a cold beer—that's how they do things out where the bedouries blow.
These haboob-style dust storms are known locally as bedouries—named after a small town to the west on Eyre Creek.
Growing up in Australia: bush fires, bedouries, the smell of the mulga in winter.
Origin
1930s: from Bedourie, a town in south-west Queensland.