Holy Dustbuster Batman
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Holy Dustbuster Batman
For those of you flying later on the east coast - pack your dustbuster - vis dramatically reduced in Bris Vegas - looks, smells, tastes like a good Mt Isa Red - dirt that is.
Looks like a sunny afternoon in Hong Kong!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Looks like a sunny afternoon in Hong Kong!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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..almost, vis down to less than half a mile in Brissie, turned around this morning south of Kingaroy when the sigmet was issued, and am very happy I did so.. wouldn't wanna be caught in this under any circumstances, together with the 40 knot winds a recipe for disaster 
Emerald seemingly looks similar, forecast as far north as Croydon!
loved the 165 knot ground speed on the way back (115 TAS) though
Unreal how different it was on the ground at YBAF even on my return at 6.30, scattered clouds at around 6500, almost no wind at the surface at all!
Where you see the crow in the pic you'd normally have the Brisbane skyline.... I can taste and smell it sitting at my desk, it's coming through the smallest cracks and forming a nice yucky layer of dust everywhere
Emerald seemingly looks similar, forecast as far north as Croydon!loved the 165 knot ground speed on the way back (115 TAS) though
Unreal how different it was on the ground at YBAF even on my return at 6.30, scattered clouds at around 6500, almost no wind at the surface at all!
Where you see the crow in the pic you'd normally have the Brisbane skyline.... I can taste and smell it sitting at my desk, it's coming through the smallest cracks and forming a nice yucky layer of dust everywhere
A Singapore Airlines spokeswoman said flight SQ221, a Boeing A380 due to fly to Sydney from Melbourne before continuing to Singapore, has been delayed indefinitely. She said Sydney Airport was likely to suffer delays all day.
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This sounds better than it really was..........
BRISBANE (YBBN)
METAR TTF SPECI YBBN 230216Z 24023KT 0200 HEAVY DUSTSTORM VV003 27/02 Q1005
RMK RF00.0/000.0 FM0216 24020G30KT 0500 BLOWING DUST NSC FM0216
MOD/SEV TURB BLW 5000FT
TAF TAF AMD YBBN 222351Z 2300/2406 32020KT 9999 SCT040 BECMG 2301/2303
27018G28KT 1500 BLOWING DUST NSC BECMG 2303/2305 25018G28KT 0500
DUST NSC BECMG 2306/2308 27018G28KT 4000 BLOWING DUST NSC FM231000
25012KT 8000 NSC RMK FM230000 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT TILL230100
FM230100 MOD/SEV TURB BLW 5000FT TILL231000 FM231000 MOD TURB BLW
5000FT TILL231500 T 27 28 25 20 Q 1006 1003 1005 1008
ATIS ATIS YBBN F 230217
APCH: EXP INSTRUMENT APCH
RWY: 19
+ OPR INFO: START CLEARANCE REQUIRED.
RWY VISIBILITY RWY 19, 600 METRES
AT TIME 0216 UTC.
BRISBANE VOR AND DME NOT AVBL DUE MAINT.
HIAL ON, LOW VISIBILITY PROCEDURES IN PROGRESS
WND: 240/20G30KTS
MAX XW 27 KTS RWY 19
CLD: SKY OBSCURED
+ TMP: 27
QNH: 1005
SIGWX: MOD TURB FCST B050
METAR TTF SPECI YBBN 230216Z 24023KT 0200 HEAVY DUSTSTORM VV003 27/02 Q1005
RMK RF00.0/000.0 FM0216 24020G30KT 0500 BLOWING DUST NSC FM0216
MOD/SEV TURB BLW 5000FT
TAF TAF AMD YBBN 222351Z 2300/2406 32020KT 9999 SCT040 BECMG 2301/2303
27018G28KT 1500 BLOWING DUST NSC BECMG 2303/2305 25018G28KT 0500
DUST NSC BECMG 2306/2308 27018G28KT 4000 BLOWING DUST NSC FM231000
25012KT 8000 NSC RMK FM230000 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT TILL230100
FM230100 MOD/SEV TURB BLW 5000FT TILL231000 FM231000 MOD TURB BLW
5000FT TILL231500 T 27 28 25 20 Q 1006 1003 1005 1008
ATIS ATIS YBBN F 230217
APCH: EXP INSTRUMENT APCH
RWY: 19
+ OPR INFO: START CLEARANCE REQUIRED.
RWY VISIBILITY RWY 19, 600 METRES
AT TIME 0216 UTC.
BRISBANE VOR AND DME NOT AVBL DUE MAINT.
HIAL ON, LOW VISIBILITY PROCEDURES IN PROGRESS
WND: 240/20G30KTS
MAX XW 27 KTS RWY 19
CLD: SKY OBSCURED
+ TMP: 27
QNH: 1005
SIGWX: MOD TURB FCST B050
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i dont think anyone will be able to top his!
goes completely black, imagine flying into this!
Broken Hill, today.
NSW Dust storm approaching
goes completely black, imagine flying into this!
Broken Hill, today.
NSW Dust storm approaching
Couldn't help laughing this morning when I saw on TV Sydney being hit by the dust storm, & all the whingeing that was going on. I've just lived through two days of that - at one stage watching several sheets of corrugated iron on my front verandah lifting up & flopping back down again & waiting for it to part company with the rest of the structure & disappear!
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Fierce dust storms became regular events in Broken Hill from the 1890s. Here you can see a dust storm in 1907.
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Ozzie - pm me your email address and I'll send them through. Photobucket, where I uploaded them, isn't much better than what you see above.
remoak - nice one! Looks like we're back in the 80s though.
But Today Tonight told me it was all because of climate change. 
remoak - nice one! Looks like we're back in the 80s though.
Fierce dust storms became regular events in Broken Hill from the 1890s. Here you can see a dust storm in 1907.
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I paxed to BNE from CNS today with QF, landing about 1240 after half an hours holding. I've never seen anything like it. Approaching 19, the sea was just visible before we crossed the coast, and rolling through on the RWY, the terminal was not visible.