EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A recent study published by UTEP professors shows El Paso has surpassed the yearly average for dusty days in 2025.
According to data compiled by Thomas Gill, co-author of the study and professor of Earth environmental and resource sciences at UTEP, El Paso experiences around 22 dusty days throughout the year.
“As of May 12, we have actually had 30 days so far this year with blowing dust and that’s already over the annual average, which is about 22 or 23. When the dust gets so thick that the visibility gets down to half a mile or less, brownout conditions, you can only see a few blocks or less, that’s an official dust storm, and so far this year we have actually had 10 days with full dust storm conditions, and the last time that we had that many days, with complete dust storm conditions, the absolute brownouts was back in the Dust Bowl in 1936,” Gill said…