Red Dawn (NOT the movie...)

[gllitz]

Neat! (kinda freaky though...you'd wonder if it was the end of the world if you woke up to that!!)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/ ... s-red-dawn

[Storm Struck]

Yes i wonder if we will get the mixed dust particles here in the next few days, it seemed to travel across the Tasman well the other week.
Cricket ball sized hail yesterday too by reading that report, geeze and we thought our 10-20mm hail yesterday would have been nasty.

[NZstorm]

Metar from Sydney airport this morning.

YSSY 222000Z 30028KT 0400 DS VV/// 20/M03 Q0995 FM2030

says WNW 28kts, visibility 400m in Duststorm. I have never seen an ob like that before!

[spwill]

I lived in Sydney for 5 years and never saw a dust storm.

[Dale]

Its over Brisbane now.. YBBN is more or less closed with visibility 500m in blowing dust. Not quite as red as Sydney (was waiting for one of the 'machines' from War of the Worlds to go walking past )
From Brisbanes SouthBank complex, you cannot see the highrises from across the river.

[Michael]

Be interesting for the dust to come to Auckland,it seems to go across the SI instead.Remember as a kid seeing yellow haze on still NE days in W(h)anganui.

[jamie]

could this dust trigger heavy rain on us at all? ive learned about how thick dust in rain will make the rain extra heavy. But now that i think about it, it will all occur out in the tasman well before it gets to us.

Sure does look awesome

[Storm Struck]

My goodness watch this video it went from orange sky to dark red and then black night time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlD22Hw ... player_emb
The dust particles could be mixed in with the rain, could make for interesting viewing of roads on the west coast of both islands.
Just depends where the flow drags the thick dust.

[gllitz]

Metar from Sydney airport this morning.

YSSY 222000Z 30028KT 0400 DS VV/// 20/M03 Q0995 FM2030

says WNW 28kts, visibility 400m in Duststorm. I have never seen an ob like that before!

Indeed!!...I imagine, though, you would have these kinds of metars in the Middle East? Places like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, etc...would probably be more common, but still...impressive, nonetheless!!

[jamie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlD22Hw ... player_emb

holy crap amazing!

[Dale]

Was joking with a friend earlier who works out at Brisbane AP.. the daily Emirates flights.. leaving Dubai in nice clear wx then arriving in that!

[Willoughby]

^That's an awesome YT video.

Here's a good selection of images:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... ralia.html

[DT-NZ]

Amazing... I have not been following any news or doing anything here at the computer these last couple of days... have just needed to go quiet and still, anyway... unbelieveable images... thank's Foggy... take care.

[Nev]

Not sure why we're posting comments about the ex-Aussie dust that's currently affecting NZ in the 'Weather Abroad' section? Anyway I've moved them again to the 'Unsettled Period Late September 2009' thread to tie in with all the other posts about the dust affecting NZ.

[Richard]

Easy to see a line of dust heading S E this morningover east NSW

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml

[Dale]

Yes the VIS Sat images are also showing it up quite well.. this is not a static link so will roll throughout the day.
http://realtime2.bsch.au.com/vis_sat.ht ... region=qld

[DT-NZ]

Another duststorm in Australia with reports on local TV news there that the dust maybe radioactive dust from a uraniam mine...

[DT-NZ]

Are the dust storms radioactive? Australian scientists study Aussie dust from New Zealand

read full article
By Greg Roberts and AFP
September 25, 2009 11:30pm

[Nev]

Are the dust storms radioactive? Australian scientists study Aussie dust from New Zealand

read full article
By Greg Roberts and AFP
September 25, 2009 11:30pm

Wow... so our intrepid weather reporter is a fully-fledged 'Meteorologist' now!