A powerful "haboob" dust storm has caused a multi-vehicle pileup on a California highway, authorities said on Wednesday. A haboob, a dust storm carried by the wind of a weather front that typically occurs in flat areas, swept across a California highway near Chowchilla Monday afternoon.

Startling images show the dust storm that passed from Madera through Fresno to Bakersfield and caused a highway pileup on Monday.

The storm system brought rain and snow to Northern and Central California, and as the main rain band moved across the southern Central Valley, winds picked up. The Monday storm ma