Visible from space: The wall of dust marching across the Australian outback

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Visible from space: The wall of dust marching across the Australian outback to turn the skies over Sydney blood red

By Richard Shears
Last updated at 3:20 PM on 24th September 2009




It is a city that usually wakes to brilliant blue skies. But dawn broke with a dramatic difference in Sydney yesterday.

Pulling back their blinds, residents were greeted with an eerie reddish-orange cloud cloaking all around them.

Early-morning commuters stared in disbelief at the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, whose normally striking outlines were rendered ghostly by the shroud of dust.

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In Pictures: 'Australia Dust Storm Satellite Imagery'

By James Wray Sep 24, 2009, 15:42 GMT

A supplied photo of satellite imagery from the MODIS instrument on NASAs Terra satellite, received and processed by the Bureau of Meteorology of the dust storm which blanketed much of NSW and Qld the previous day, shows the dust clouds heading to New Zealand at 0907 (EST), 24 September 2009. Dry and windy conditions across NSW are likely to create dusty, hazy days in Sydney over the next two to three months, the Bureau of Meteorology says. EPA/METEOROLOGY BUREAU / HANDOUT

A supplied photo of satellite imagery from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, received and processed by the Bureau of Meteorology of the dust storm which blanketed much of NSW and Qld the previous day, shows the dust clouds heading to New Zealand at 0907 (EST), 24 September 2009. Dry and windy conditions across NSW are likely to create dusty, hazy days in Sydney over the next two to three months, the Bureau of Meteorology says. EPA/METEOROLOGY BUREAU / HANDOUT