A paraglider in Austria recently had a frightening encounter with a dusty devil. The man was waiting to take off on a paragliding trip when he got a premature start, as the dust devil blew up, grabbed his parachute, and sent him flying over a fence and then into a tree. The event took place on March 21, 2022 in Steuermarkt, Staubenberg, Austria. In the 20-second video shared on YouTube channel ViralHog, we can see the man wearing a parachute as the dust devil suddenly appears out of nowhere and hoists him into the air in an eerie spiral.
As he gets swept away on a frightening ride, he hits a fence first, and then a tree on top of it. We can also see some branches breaking and falling on the ground when it hits the tree.
The paraglider captioned the video, “I was preparing to launch with my paraglider when a dust devil picked me up and smashed me into a fence, then into a tree. I didn’t get hurt during this incident.”
To date, the video has been viewed over 4,500 times youtubeAnd many users have also commented on this.
Some users saw the funny side of it.
One of them wrote, “Is it bad that I saw it more than once, and I laughed? On the other hand, I hope he is okay, nothing is broken.”
Another said, “Mother Nature’s way of saying, ‘Time to leave’.”
A third user commented, ‘First the wind caught him and then the tree too! If it wasn’t for that tree, that thing would have been too late.”
in another Video A few years ago, a dust devil blew up a skate park in Fairfield, California, breaking a roof and spinning a man in the process. The man can be seen dancing while roaming in one place, while the dust devil moved the debris around him. It also blew off the roof of a concession stand and sent it flying through the air.
according to National Weather Service According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the dust devil is a “common wind phenomenon that occurs worldwide”. The National Weather Service states that these tornadoes are “dust-filled vortices formed by strong surface heating” and are generally “smaller and less intense than tornadoes”.
Dust devils occur “when the ground can warm the air well above the temperature just above the ground”. When the ground is sufficiently warm, a small pocket of air rapidly rises through the cooler air above.
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