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Tegan Clark, PhD Candidate, College of Systems and Society, Australian National University

Raining one week, dusty the next – how did a dust storm make it all the way to rainy Sydney?

A false-colour satellite showing dust as a pink cloud Himawari-9 satellite, CC BY-SA

Much to the surprise of Sydney-siders, a dusty haze settled over the city on Tuesday morning after a week of heavy rain.

Satellite images reveal the dust storm formed in the Mid-North region of South Australia, east of Spencer Gulf, at around 11am on Monday. It then travelled through western Victoria into New South Wales, reaching Sydney approximately 18 hours later.

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