I drove through Death Valley National Park yesterday, and I had the pleasure of witnessing this dust devil.
Correction: I did drive through Death Valley, but this was near Ash Meadows.
@cliffordbeshers I always like to imagine how incomprehensible things like dust devils must have been to the first people to experience them. Even your photograph feels amazingly other-worldly.
@gregmoore I thought it was fire, at first. Someone nearby brought up their phone to take a picture and said, "Whoa, that's really big."
@cliffordbeshers Thanks for the find. That probably means that sandstorms are originated in cloud systems higher up, if I understand correctly.