Gasping for clean air.

[demorier]

Large areas of eastern Australia and adjacent inland copped a big dust storm today (including where I live). Red dust from inland blown towards the coast.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/09/23/2693741.htm

[FlyTexas]

Wow! That looks very surreal. I hope it blows through quickly.

Brian

[Snuffy]

Wow! That looks very surreal. I hope it blows through quickly.

Brian

Ditto, but it sure does make for some very "pretty" (should say interesting) pictures.

[Navy Chief]

All the dust not withstanding........that is a beautiful place! Someday I want to visit.

NC

[Matt Wynn]

reminds me of dome of the dust storms out in Iraq/Kuwait, surreal yet theres a beauty to it ...

[crashaz]

Reminds me of Arizona monsoons. Those in AZ for any length of time will know what I am talking about. In the 70's we had dust storms last hours.

[Curtis P40]

reminds me of dome of the dust storms out in Iraq/Kuwait, surreal yet theres a beauty to it ...
Ditto on that Smoothie. Used to get in/on everything, no matter how good you had things button-up. Could not imagine having to deal with it in your own house and car.
Curt

but.. it sure does make for some neat pictures.

[Wing_Z]

It's blown out over the Tasman and caused a bit of hurried rescheduling of flights - nobody wants to fly an airliner through that stuff.
We should get a spectacular sunset in Auckland, unless it rains out along the way.

[Trans_23]

Those pictures and videos are wild. Have fun cleaning up afterwards.

[demorier]

I could see it beginning to move in about mid morning up our way, so I closed every window and external door and ran the air-con all day and into the evening. All clear this morning (thank heavens). There's some very dirty cars running around the place today.

[Cactuskid]

Wow! That looks like the fly-over scenes from the end of "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome"! I live in southern Arizona, so dust storms are nothing new to me, but I've never seen anything that looks like that! Pretty awesome!