| Author | Message | ||
     Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 258 Registered: 05-2005 |
Huge duststorm blew into Sydney overnight. Woke up to a red dawn. Visibility down to about 50 meters. Red dust over everything - cars, roofs and roads all covered in it. Airport closed, ferries cancelled. Never seen anything like it. Will be like this for most of the day apparently. Caused by gale force north westerlies blowing in from the rural NSW picking up the dust after 12 years of drought. So looks like climate change is partly to blame... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 488 Registered: 04-2005 |
When I was picking grapes near Mildura in the 1980s ('working holiday') we had a dust storm which lasted for a day. It was quite an incredible sight; we were stuck inside our (metal) farm buildings with the noise of the storm being amplified. If you went outside it was like having your skin being sandpapered. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3341 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hope it cleears for you and everyone else Mark, looks very scary, aas you say MARS, another world! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very weird alright. Almost certainly a once in a lifetime thing. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1612 Registered: 01-2005 |
If it rains will you get red rain? I never heard this version of Red Rain with PG, Natalie Merchant and Michael Stipe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cdP14Id yw&feature=related | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 560 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well it sort of did already Michael. We'd had a bit of a downpour after sunset before the Mars morning, but on getting up that morning, there were definite splotches that indicated that it indeed had rained red. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 970 Registered: 08-2004 |
That looks amazing & a bit scary. |