Red Dust Storm Overtaking Australia’s Coast

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We’ve showed you the heartbreaking pictures of a family hunkered down in the water under a dock as they escaped raging wildfires in Australia earlier this week. And although the record temperatures dropped slightly, temporarily reducing the wildfire risks, a Category 3 cyclone is headed toward the country now.
Sandwiched between these two extreme weather events, Western Australia was also exposed to a haboob — a large dust storm — earlier this week, which resulted in stunning images of a massive, red wall of dust as it approached Onslow.
Perth Weather Live collected images of the event in an album on Facebook.








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SLM

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petros said:
We used get storms like that on the Prairie, not as much since cultivating fields is going by the wayside thanks to air seeders.
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Maybe it's just not being used to seeing them but those dust storms always have an 'apocalyptic' look to them I think.
 
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SLM said:
Maybe it's just not being used to seeing them but those dust storms always have an 'apocalyptic' look to them I think.
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Not even as close to terrifying as a hail laden funnel cloud.

We get those walls of doom as snow too.

Definetly freaky looking in red though.

 
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petros said:
Not even as close to terrifying as a hail laden funnel cloud.

We get those walls of doom as snow too.

Definetly freaky looking in red though.

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Up close and in person, I have no doubt it's all very frightening! I'm no where near as brave as I portray myself to be on the internet, lol.

All weather phenomenon can be very scary and yes the red makes it ominous but with photos I find it's the scale that really makes it freaky. It's like those satellite storm photos, when you see the size as compared to the land mass it's impressive. A photo of lightening striking in the distance or a massive tornado, again usually from a distance, I guess it downplays it somewhat. But that red wall, I don't even know how many stories high, with the people in the foreground....there is just no getting around how massive that is.
 
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It's just the big bad wolf trying to blow your house down. You get used to it when it's sometimes every second evening for a month.
 
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