Josh Maloney, a 17-year old student at Mildura Senior College, said he had seen Thursday’s dust storm come in during class. “I’m standing in the middle of dust storm right now,” he told Guardian Australia. 10:30am vs 12:14pm in Mildura! "It's in a remote area. Looking ahead to Thursday, the bureau is predicting further thunderstorms for Melbourne, accompanied by hot conditions: A low of 22 degrees and a high of 30 degrees. My feeling is that part of our drought is man-made through greed. Melbourne reached a top of 38.1 degrees on Wednesday afternoon. And, for many, it is not even the worst dust storm this year. — 7NEWS Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) November 21, 2019 And more than 80,000 customers were left without power in the western part of the … I asked if he had seen it like this before. The sky is now deep orange. "It is just atrocious. Then he got coronavirus, NSW, NT open borders to NZ, but Tasman border remains closed to Aussies. Picture: Steven English. A dust storm swept across the state’s north on Wednesday, bringing an orange haze over towns including Mildura. This was already Trump's roughest week of the 2020 election. DoctorOctane 9,402 views. "This rainfall has assisted firefighters in battling the fires, however, there has also been some lightning which has caused more spot fires to start," Mr Efron said. All rights reserved. The dust swept through Mildura before midday on Thursday with 40kph winds and the mercury reaching almost 40C. "The sky is literally brown, the dust in the air is just so thick. Victoria's health department says prolonged exposure to airborne dust can lead to chronic breathing and lung problems, and possibly heart disease. Residents say such storms now occur on a weekly basis, as topsoil from drought-ravaged farms is blown through the town, Thu 21 Nov 2019 05.38 GMT Melbourne’s heavy rain overnight has caused pools to close and trains stations to flood with dark brown water. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. And Mildura resident Sara White has told the ABC while the city is used to dust storms, it feels different now: "If you talk to any of the locals, everyone is saying the same thing — they've never known the frequency of dust that we're getting at the moment.". “It was like an orange hue, not dissimilar to when you have bushfire smoke everywhere. That's on top of the danger bushfire smoke can pose — even to people hundreds of kilometres away from fires — to lungs and hearts. Rain forced cars to pull over on the the Bass Highway, near Koo Wee Rup.

“You could almost see to the end of the street, then within a matter of 20 seconds you could only see 50 metres down the road,” she said. Pictures show the sky surrounding one resident's driveway with a bright orange tinge. Torrential rain forced cars to pull onto the side of the road on the Bass Highway, near Koo Wee Rup.Credit:Justin McManus.
“I’m an asthmatic so I’ve had to stay inside today. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. The rain knocked a few degrees off the temperature, but the mercury was still hovering at 27 degrees at 6.30pm. Thick red dust arrives in Sydney as winds batter the city and fires rage out of control. Mr How says we're currently experiencing a "double whammy" because of a weather pattern known as the Southern Annular Mode. A bird bath with dust tainted water is seen in Melbourne, Thursday, January 23, 2019. A dust storm swept across the state’s north on Wednesday, bringing an orange haze over towns including Mildura. "So anytime that we have had windy conditions over the past month or two they have seen dust storms, and given that today is very windy we are seeing quite a lot of dust picked up in the air," he said. The drought in this region is crippling farmers.

Melissa Cunningham is The Age's health reporter. #melbourneweather pic.twitter.com/zcWU4jA8n0, — Bandwidth Bandito (@BBandito) February 6, 2019, Keep your cars under cover if you can.

“We’re cleaning it up and will re-open it as quickly as we can, but can’t put a timeframe on it just yet,” a Facebook post read. “What is really eerie is that everything goes quiet,” she said. | Mildura Dust Storm May 2019 - Duration: 7:38. Wayne Bennett named Maroons coach ahead of 2020 State of Origin series, The two groups of people most vulnerable to dying from COVID-19, Beaches shut as authorities search for shark that killed Nick Slater on Gold Coast, Australian Caleb Ewan pipped at finish line of Stage 10 of the Tour de France, Michael Pascoe: China’s leader takes a turn for the particularly stupid… and ours is no better, The ‘highly sophisticated’ religious movement trying to brainwash Australians, Garry Linnell: Empathy is dead and it’s time for us peasants to make way for profits, Half-baked case to downplay coronavirus built on one big misunderstanding, Airlines want us on planes so badly they’re willing to pay for our funerals. When the ensuing dust storm landed it dumped 1,000 tonnes of topsoil over the city, uprooted trees and ripped roofs off houses. For context, the total average for the month of February is about 40 millimetres. Last modified on Mon 20 Jan 2020 06.21 GMT. He said he hasn’t seen anything like this since 1944-45.”. Passengers have been advised to take a tram to the city instead.

“It’s something that we are getting quite used to over here and it’s not something I would prefer we get used to.”, “The dust storms are becoming incredibly frequent. "It can be a bit hit and miss with these kinds of storms and some suburbs might not get anything but others will measure heavy local rainfall of up to 15 to millimetres in a short period of time," senior forecaster Michael Efron said. Storm damage at Tooradin in the state's south-east. Subscribe for free to get the latest breaking news and analysis sent to your inbox. Credit: Ben Gross/Sunraysia Daily She said it was one of the worst dust storms she had ever seen in Mildura, only similar in scale to one back in 2006. Despite hot temperatures and strong winds on Wednesday, emergency services managed to prevent a significant amount of new fires starting. This is probably the second worst one this year … it’s a lot to do with mismanagement, this partially man-made drought. Is this the new normal for my children that I can’t take them outside to play, that we can’t leave the house? The storm is so infamous, it has its own Wikipedia page. What happens now that Donald Trump has coronavirus? In May residents reported a storm as the town’s worst in 40 years. It is absolutely climate-induced. Massive dust storm ahead of the change at rockbank #melbweather pic.twitter.com/5Y2ydA7HAQ, — Brett Allen Photo (@BrettAllenPhoto) February 6, 2019. And the dust is likely to stay in the air and travel if there are dry conditions. Campers at Wilsons Promontory have been advised there is a bushfire in a remote area east of Yanakie, however there is no immediate threat to the community. The sun was trying to come through but it can’t, and you just get an orange glow. A huge red dust storm has enveloped Sydney with air quality plummeting. A tour boat at Tooradin in the state's south-east lost its roof when storms hit the area. Marge, the rains are here…. Dust cloud destruction, 1983. “We’ve had two or three really bad ones. Alerts were issued early by police and the bureau, warning of hailstorms and a deluge of rain. Torrential rain forced cars to pull onto the side of the road on the Bass Highway, near Koo Wee Rup. "That's just the nature of these storms. “We noticed through the windows that the sky had turned this dark, thick orange.