Many local residents were scratching their heads on Saturday morning as they looked at their cars and trucks covered in an unusual sort of dirt pattern. 
Rain fell on Friday evening and overnight, and delivered an unusual weather phenomenon called “mud rain.”
“The southwest … has been experiencing dust storms this week due to strong winds from various weather systems moving through,” the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Virginia.
Northern Virginia news outlets reported that the dust got sucked into the storm system and traveled to our area.
“As the dust wrapped up into the storm system, it made it to the ground as rain falling along areas of the East Coast, including Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina,” they reported.
Car washes were busy over the weekend as local folks decided to wash away the dust that had been misplaced in our area.
