Brown skies over Canberra

Well that’s all washed away now. Pretty substantial rainfall last night. Now we’ll have several days of high winds to dry everything out to a crisp again.
Talk about extremes…

Checking on my garden today and I noticed that my plants have red spots all over them.

And this would explain it.

I took a shot of the dusty sky over the BBP at lunch time http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff119/sheepgroper/100_1372.jpg weird pink sky contrasting with the blank white of the building panels.

glad i decided to get the bus today!

And this 721 colour sat image from today.

Washed on sunday now covered in mud… fantastic!

And here they are predicting what could be the dump of the season up in the hills over Saturday and Sunday. At least it will cover up all the brown snow.
Monday might be a good day off for a little bus trip to Perisher…

Pommy bastard said :

Hands up all those who washed their cars this weekend.

waves

Guilty as charged. Washed and polished both the cars on Sunday

Dust storm factsheet from NSW Dept. of Health

We might want a hazzard rating for dust storms right next to the UV Alter rating on the BOM site.

Bottom line: stay indoors while you can see the dust outside as prolong exposure can be harmful.

I have the weather for Canberra on my igoogle and it has a picture for the dust!

They list the current conditions as:

20°C
Current: Dust
Wind: NW at 24 km/h
Humidity: 60%

Just thought it was interesting as I’ve never seen a picture for dust before

Hands up all those who washed their cars this weekend.

waves

Here’s a couple of pics taken around 1pm. It’s surprisingly dificult to get a good focussed picture of dust 🙂

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll156/snarky_in_act/Brown%20skies%20over%20Canberra/

to see the progression of the dust across canberra, check out http://www.actewagl.com.au/webcam.aspx

great, and I’m riding up to Sydney after work tonight too. Hopefully it’ll rain and freshen the air up a bit for me. It wasn’t very nice out at lunchtime 🙁

eerie….

From the BOM weather warning page: “Strong to gale force westerly winds, averaging over 65 km/h with gusts in excess of 100 km/h, are expected near and following the front. The strong winds will generate widespread raised dust.”

either that or from north east SA.. my car was mud this morning along with every second or third car on the way to work this morning lol
carlovers would be loving this

I watched this monster storm sweep in from adelaide yesterday, growing in intensity until it was a big band of lightning heading our way.

The lightning tracker was a good show, but as it had picked up speed over mildura, mates in wagga were reporting dust much earlier than we got it, and they had warned me to get all windows closed and the cars undercover – it was going to be a big one.

The storm last night was meh, could have been bigger. But the dust started rolling in at about 9.00pm, turning the sky an eerie yellow, which intensified this morning. The lightning was just big flashes, so i couldn’t get any decent shots of it. The dust will be the thousands of hectares out towards mildura that are bone dry. it has just shifted it here to us. It is definitely dust, if it was snmoke, you would be able to smell it long before it got here…