dust mist orange in australia

Seorang perempuan berjalan dengan anjingnya di bawah Sydney Harbour Bridge, Rabu (23/9) di Sydney, Australia, saat kabut berwarna oranye menyelimuti kota pelabuhan tersebut.5juta ton debu selimuti australia.

A woman walking her dog in the Sydney Harbor Bridge, Wednesday (23 / 9) in Sydney, Australia, orange-colored fog blanketed the port city.
5 Million Tons of Dust covered Australia

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KABUT DEBU BERWARNA ORANYE

Sydney, Rabu - Badai debu terburuk dalam 70 tahun terakhir menerpa bagian timur Australia. Kota Sydney terselimuti kabut debu berwarna oranye. Bencana alam itu membuat transportasi terganggu dan memaksa orang tinggal dalam ruangan.

Badai pada Rabu (23/9) itu terjadi akibat tiupan angin kencang yang menerbangkan berton-ton lapisan permukaan tanah di dua negara bagian, Queensland dan New South Wales, hingga sejauh ratusan kilometer.

Debu membuat gelap kota Broken Hill di pedalaman New South Wales sejak Selasa. Badai debu itu terbang melayang hingga sejauh 1.167 km ke timur Australia dan menyelubungi Sydney.

Menjelang Rabu tengah hari, badai yang membawa sekitar 5 juta ton debu itu juga menyebar ke bagian selatan Negara Bagian Queensland.

Tak ada yang cedera dalam peristiwa itu. Namun, layanan ambulans melaporkan, ada 200 panggilan darurat dari warga yang kesulitan bernapas. Polisi memperingatkan para pengemudi agar berhati-hati di jalan.

Seperti kiamat

Para ilmuwan enggan mengaitkan badai debu itu dengan pemanasan global. Namun, para pencinta lingkungan hidup tak ragu mengatakan bahwa badai debu itu akibat pemanasan global.

Kualitas udara di New South Wales buruk hingga setinggi 4.164 di Sydney. Level di atas angka 200 berbahaya bagi kesehatan manusia. ”Warga yang berisiko terkena penyakit adalah wanita, anak-anak, lansia, dan orang yang menderita penyakit jantung,” kata Wayne Smith dari Departemen Kesehatan New South Wales.

Biro Meteorologi mengatakan, suhu dingin yang tidak biasanya di New South Wales menyebabkan badai dengan tiupan angin kencang. Tiupan angin hingga 100 km per jam juga menyebabkan kebakaran di New South Wales.

”Ini tak pernah terjadi. Kami melihat debu, angin, dan api sekaligus,” kata Dick Whitaker dari The Weather Channel.

Karen, warga Dulwich Hill, pinggiran barat Sydney, mengatakan, ”Rasanya seperti kiamat datang. Ketika berada di dapur, saya melihat langit dengan gulungan demi gulungan debu datang.”

”Kami telah silih berganti mengalami banjir, kekeringan, dan angin kencang dalam 10 bulan terakhir,” kata Craig Strong dari DustWatch di Universitas Griffith, Queensland.

Badai debu di Australia bukan hal aneh, tetapi biasanya terbatas di wilayah pedalaman. (AP/Reuters/AFP/DI)

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Dust mist COLOR ORANGE

Sydney, Wednesday - the worst dust storm in the last 70 years hit the eastern part of Australia. Sydney dust enveloped in an orange mist. Natural disasters that make transportation disrupted and forced people to stay in the room.

The storm on Wednesday (23 / 9) that occurs due to wind that flew tons of soil surface layer in the two states, Queensland and New South Wales, so far as hundreds of kilometers.

Dust to darken the city of Broken Hill in outback New South Wales since Tuesday. Dust storm was flying as far as 1167 km to the east of Australia and surrounding Sydney.

Toward the middle of the day Wednesday, the storm that brought about 5 million tons of dust was also spread to the southern part of the State of Queensland.

No one was injured in the incident. However, the ambulance service reporting, there are 200 emergency calls from residents who have difficulty breathing. Police warned drivers to be careful on the road.

Like Resurrection

Scientists are reluctant to associate it with the dust storm of global warming. However, environmental lovers do not hesitate to say that the dust storm was due to global warming.

Air quality in New South Wales up to as high bad in Sydney 4164. Level above the 200 hazardous to human health. "People at risk of the disease are women, children, elderly, and people who suffer from heart disease," said Wayne Smith of the Ministry of Health of New South Wales.

Bureau of Meteorology said the cold temperatures that are not usually in New South Wales, causing a storm with wind. Wind gust to 100 km per hour also caused fires in New South Wales.

"This had never happened. We saw dust, wind, and fire as well, "said Dick Whitaker from The Weather Channel.

Karen, citizens Dulwich Hill, a suburb west of Sydney, said, "It feels like the end came. When he was in the kitchen, I saw the sky with a roll after roll of dust coming. "

"We have experienced successive floods, drought, and high winds in the last 10 months," said Craig Strong from Griffith University DustWatch, Queensland.

Dust storms in Australia is not uncommon, but usually limited in rural areas. (AP / Reuters / AFP / DI)