In ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language, we might call them puahiohio, or whirlwinds. In meteorological terms, these small twisters are technically dust devils, or more precisely, ash devils, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - What is that? Video captured by Scott Hansen Wednesday and sent into our Hawaii News Now newsroom shows what appears to be a dust devil in the distance behind Kilauea.

Volcano Kilauea’s puahiohio are swirling columns of ash and volcanic debris, often mistaken for tornadoes but formed by intense lava heat.

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK (HawaiiNewsNow) - Episode 37 of Kilauea’s eruption featured lava fountains shooting 400 feet in the air and a dramatic ‘volnado’ dust devil. The lava fountains began ...

Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

Often spotted by onlookers in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, or even by YouTube livestream viewers, the long, ashy gray or brown, ropy cloud-like structures tend to appear near or downwind of active ...