He rolled like a giant wave over the Australian city of Mildura: A sand-storm made in the state of Victoria to night the day.
Mildura/Australia – It took only 15 minutes and already the day has turned to night. The sky was colored within this quarter of an hour until grey, then orange, and finally, pitch black, told eyewitness Brando Smith (28), the newspaper The Age. 20 minutes later the worst was over. The sight slowly clear. But even after an hour, dust was still above the town.
the sandstorm, the airport is shutting down: machines had to stay on the ground, the Terminal evacuated
The weather service “Bureau of Meteorology” States that the sand storm was taken on Tuesday at 17 am local time with a wind speed of 57 km/h on the Mildura airport. To 20: 30, the aircraft had to stay on the ground and a Terminal to be evacuated because of the sandy storm.
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forecaster Dean Stewart, the “bizarre” weather explained with the lack of rain during the summer months in the South-East of Australia. This weather phenomenon is very rare. In the last year, a similar roller on the city of Sydney is pulled with more than four million inhabitants. According to the weather services the storm spread over a distance of 500 kilometers..
in India, Too, have moved in the last year violent sandstorms across the country and killed at least 98 people .