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The 1983 Melbourne dust storm was a meteorological phenomenon that occurred during the afternoon of 8 February 1983, throughout much of Victoria, Australia and affected the capital, Melbourne. Red soil, dust and sand from Central and Southeastern Australia was swept up in high winds and carried southeast through Victoria.
On 8 February, Melbourne was enveloped by a giant dust storm. The dust cloud was over 300 metres (980 ft) high, 500 kilometres (310 mi) long and was composed of an estimated 50,000 tonnes (49,000 long tons; 55,000 short tons) of topsoil from the drought-ravaged Wimmera and Mallee areas of north-west Victoria. Leading a dry cool change and ...
8 February 1983 – The city is enveloped by a massive dust storm that "turned day into night". 16 February 1983 – Melbourne is encircled by an arc of fire as the Ash Wednesday fires encroach on the city. 18 September 1984 – Storm causes flooding of 100 homes in the eastern suburbs. [23] December 1990 – Heatwave causes 4 deaths. [24]
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February saw a turn back towards very hot weather, with Melbourne having three days over 40 °C (104 °F) for only the second time on record. A huge dust storm carried away 50 million tonnes of the topsoil from the Mallee and Wimmera, [12] and then the Ash Wednesday bushfires ravaged the tinder-dry forests of southeastern Australia. More than ...
8 February – A severe dust storm sweeps through Melbourne and deposits an estimated 1,000 tonnes of topsoil on the city. 16 February – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 72 people and destroys over 2,000 homes in one of Australia's worst ever fires.
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