People descending on the Nevada desert for this year's Burning Man event are being met with dust and wind, which could continue over the next few days.

The event started Sunday in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno, Nev. It is "not a festival," but a "global cultural movement where people come together to create, innovate, and share stories," according to the Burning Man Project , the nonprofit responsible for the affair. The organization did not respond to requests for comment.

From Monday to Wednesday, there is between a 30% and 60% chance of precipitation in the Reno area, but the storms haven't started pushing toward Black Rock yet, GiGi Giralte, a National Weather Service meteorologist, told NPR.

Burning Man organizers say about 80,000 people show up to their ev

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