Burning Man Threatened by Dust Storm, Flood Warning

Flame participants faced the threat of dust storms and heavy rains at the opening of the festival, the National Weather Service (NWS) issuing weather alerts for the North and the Center of Nevada.

Why it matters

Burning Man is a one -week festival in the desert, where participants create art, music and culture.

The festival is organized in the Nevada Black Rock Desert, in Black Rock City – a temporary colony built just for the event. He emphasizes the community and inclusiveness, taking his name from the effigy burned in his penultimate night.

The bad weather threatens to put a shock absorber the first days of the festival, which should be assisted by some 70,000 to 80,000 people, according to ABC 7.

What to know

THE San Francisco Chronicle reported that the campsites that had been erected early were damaged after a dust storm struck the desert before the festival start.

A dust opinion published on Saturday by the NWS said that a “blowing wall of blowing dust” coming out of the Playa areas of the Smoke Rock and Black Rock desert moved to the north at around 30 mi / h.

The agency warned against a sudden reduction in visibility, which could be less than a mile. He said travel should be delayed.

Shared images on social networks seemed to show the festival -goers who try to secure their tents in the middle of the dust storm. Nowsweek could not verify the video independently.

On Sunday, the NWS warned that dispersed thunderstorms were expected in the north and the center of Nevada until 10 p.m. that evening, some of which could be strong, he said.

The agency said that the gusts of wind nearly 50 miles per hour would be possible and that localized floods could occur.

“If you are on the Playa at the Black Rock Desert, you might very well be in a muddy disorder from Monday to Wednesday, a published forecast of the NWS office in Reno said on Sunday.

Showers and thunderstorms would be possible for the region in the middle of the week, said the NWS.

An update of the organizers of the festival published early Monday said that the rain and the wind had stopped at Black Rock City and that the ground was starting to dry.

What people say

The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Elko, Nevada, said in an article on X on Sunday: “The humidity of the monsoon will increase north in most of the north and the center of Nevada today until Wednesday, causing the probability of wet the thunderstorms every afternoon and in the evening. Strong rains can cause minor floods of scars, streams and recent streams.”

What happens next

The Burning Man Festival takes place from August 24 to September 1.