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Sydney residents woke up to a blanket of red dirt and patches of “brown rain” on January 24 after dust storms plagued towns in inland New South Wales.A low-pressure system over the state’s ...
The 2009 Australian dust storm, also known as the Eastern Australian dust storm, was a dust storm that swept across the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland from 22 to 24 September 2009. The capital, Canberra, experienced the dust storm on 22 September, [1] [2] and on 23 September the storm reached Sydney and Brisbane.
Police in New South Wales said at least one person was killed and two critically injured during a storm that lashed Sydney’s Northern Beaches on December 19.Emergency services received multiple ...
Sydney airport, the country's busiest, said 130 flights had been cancelled or delayed after it was forced to close two of its three runways. 'Once-in-100-year' storm triggers Sydney chaos as heat ...
Sydney CBD during the 2009 Australian dust storm Sydney skyline in bushfire haze, October 2013. In January 1994, severe bushfires affected the Sydney basin. Homes were threatened in Turramurra by a fire in the Lane Cove River reserve, and a scrub fire had briefly cut off the holiday village of Bundeena in the Royal National Park south of Sydney.
A severe storm in the Hunter Region, Sydney and central western regions killed three and injured 50, over a 4-day period in November 2001. [19] A widespread storm across the Southern Eastern States on 1–2 February 2005, killed three and injured 12, with the damage bill estimated at $216.7 million. [20]
At least 40,000 homes were left without power and a number of properties damaged after a violent storm swept through Sydney, New South Wales, on November 26.Wind gusts of around 85 kilometres per ...
Foehn effect coinciding with the 2009 Australian dust storm (notice the cloud streets forming on the slopes). The Great Dividing foehn is primarily observed in the southeast of New South Wales, east of the Great Dividing Range, in places such as the Sydney metropolitan area ( Cumberland Plain ), the Illawarra , some areas of the Southern ...