DoomsdaysCW<p>NWS explains why ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MudRain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MudRain</span></a>’ fell across <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestVirginia</span></a></p><p>McKenna Galloway, Sat, March 8, 2025 </p><p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — "On Friday evening, many in West Virginia noticed something was making their cars dirty. As it turns out, this was a unique weather phenomenon is known as 'mud rain', but what exactly is it, and why did it come to West Virginia? The explanation is actually quite simple.</p><p>"According to a Facebook post from the US National Weather Service in Charleston (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NWS</span></a>), the mud rain or ‘dirty rain’ so many experienced Friday was the result of dust being blown in from the southwest and southern plains, which was then 'brought down with falling precipitation.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/nws-explains-why-mud-rain-153446469.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/nws-explains-wh</span><span class="invisible">y-mud-rain-153446469.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DustStorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DustStorms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirtyRain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirtyRain</span></a></p>