Rare Dust Devil Whips Up a Storm on Irish Beach
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A swirling dust devil swept through Rosses Point beach in Sligo, Ireland, on July 3, as Ireland continues to cope with an unprecedented heatwave.A clip captured by tourist Gary McAuley and posted online by Facebook user Imelda Ryan-Jones shows the chaos created by the dust devil as beachgoers swarm and rush to retrieve items blown away by the wind.The Irish Times reported that the vast majority of Ireland entered a state of “absolute drought” on July 5 with no rainfall recorded in 24 out of 25 counties during the previous two weeks. Credit: Gary McAuley via Storyful