{"id":3835,"date":"2026-08-21T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:30:36","slug":"cross-border-dust-storm-blankets-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/cross-border-dust-storm-blankets-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Border Dust Storm Blankets Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clark County, Nevada, has issued a dust pollution advisory. Due to downdrafts caused by severe thunderstorms in Arizona, large amounts of dust have been carried northward by strong winds, blanketing the entire Las Vegas Valley. This marks the second time this month that Las Vegas has experienced cross-border dust pollution. During the summer, severe convective weather is frequent in the Southwest, and dust from desert areas is easily transported over long distances by air currents, leading to frequent regional air pollution events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark County, Nevada, has issued a dust pollution advisory. Due to downdrafts caused by severe thunderstorms in Arizona, large amounts of dust have been carried northward by strong winds, blanketing the entire Las Vegas Valley. This marks the second time this month that Las Vegas has experienced cross-border dust pollution. During the summer, severe convective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}