Why does a dusty storm make the sky white, and is dust's light different?

Research question: Why does a dust storm turn a blue midday sky into a bright white glare, and how do dust particles differ from air molecules in the colors they send to the eye?

The records show that Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere is the main reason the sky appears blue ³. This works because Rayleigh scattering strongly depends on wavelength, so short blue and violet light is scattered much more than longer yellow and red light ². Dust grains differ because Rayleigh scattering only applies to particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light they scatter, and dust grains are larger, so they fall outside this mechanism ¹. The facts provided do not explain the bright white glare or the colors dust particles send to the eye, and they carry no dates, so their recency cannot be stated ¹²³.

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