“There’s a dust storm out west and it’s called a haboob.

“It’s a particularly fierce variety known as the haboob.

It’s miles wide and it’s thousands of feet tall.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos co-host ‘Live with Kelly and Mark’

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on ‘Live With Kelly and Mark’.Credit:ABC

“This is what you should do if there’s a haboob coming towards you,” Consuelos advised.

Ripa asked, “Is that it?

That’s the only advice?

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos attend the 2024 Time100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2024 in New York City.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

Surrender to the haboob!”

“Why do they call them haboobs?

It’s way funnier in my head right now than it is for anybody else.”

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Watch Ripa and Consuelos grapple with an interruptive cell phone in the video at the top of this post.