Dust storms may make it across the Tasman to New Zealand. Sydney flights cancelled.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/866 ... ed-in-dust
katkinkate wrote:Freaked out, coughing, sneezing and sweating. I closed up the flat and I could still smell it. The light was golden, the sky orange except for a small circle of blue around the sun, which looked blue/white. It was hot and humid, but I couldn't open a window (no air conditioning ). The handiman mowing the lawn outside was orange from all the dust sticking to his sweaty skin. I'm glad I didn't have to go out in it.
Here in Brisbane, there was a fine haze when I woke up yesterday morning. Just enough to blur the edges of the buildings I could see across the valley, make the sky look pale dirty-blue and to start me sneezing 'n wheezing. Then around midday I was reading and I suddenly noticed the light was fading and changing colour and I pulled open the curtain and the sky was orange/brown and I couldn't see more than a hundred metres or so into the valley (I'm on the side of a hill). It gradually cleared as the afternoon went on and was almost totally gone by the next morning. The sky's nice and clear now with just a hint of dust on the horizon.americandream wrote:How long did it last for? Is there more on the way or was this a brief episode?
katkinkate wrote:Here in Brisbane, there was a fine haze when I woke up yesterday morning. --snip-- In another few months it will have dried out totally and all that fresh dust will be available, but by then the weather systems that generate these storms should have moved too far south to bother us, until next winter/spring.americandream wrote:How long did it last for? Is there more on the way or was this a brief episode?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:The good news, meager as it might be, is that the dust that makes it far out to sea will act as fertilizer for the plankton and help build up the fish population in area's not fished.
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