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- News.com.au
Ferries cancelled, flights affected as thick blanket of fog descends over Sydney
Flights have been affected, ferries have been brought to a standstill and motorists are facing traffic nightmares from a thick blanket of fog which has descended over Sydney. Eerie pictures show fog blanketing the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Monday, reducing visibility to barely more than 100 metres during morning peak hour. Sydney Ferries suspended all voyages for a time. Flights have also been affected, with air traffic control spacing out arrivals and departures due to the poor visibility. Road users were being cautioned right across the metro area. 'Reduced visibility in fog will make road conditions dangerous during Monday in all suburbs,' an early morning Bureau of Meteorology alert said. However, by 8.30am the issues on the road had eased. 'The road weather alert for all suburbs has been cancelled, but the situation will continue to be monitored and further alerts will be issued if necessary,' an updated alert says. Despite conditions easing on the roads, ferries were not expected to operate. 'No Sydney ferries are running at all due to the heavy fog,' Sydney Ferries said on Monday morning. 'Make alternative travel arrangements.' However, as the fog lifted, ferries from began operating again, from about 9am, a Transport for NSW spokesman told NewsWire. Footage posted online shows the thick blanket of fog engulfing the city. While there are blue skies above the low level of fog, the mist covers city skyscrapers and landmarks. Video posted from what appears to be an apartment, at least 15 stories high, shows just the top of the Sydney Tower poking out. 'Most of the Sydney landmarks – Harbour Bridge, Opera House and even some of the Sydney Tower, are still asleep behind a blanket of fog. I think it's giving us a message for the start of the work week,' the video caption reads.
ABC News
2 hours ago
- ABC News
Erosion and topsoil loss after flooding in western Queensland
While parts of western Queensland have turned green following record flooding, other areas could take decades to recover after the top layer of soil, which is vital for pasture growth, was washed away. The sheer velocity and volume of the floodwater washed away up to 40 centimetres of topsoil, along with fencing, roads and livestock. "We've got big areas here that have just lost all the topsoil," Quilpie property owner Jon Mooring said. "There's great piles of silt that are half a metre deep." The Bulloo River cuts through the middle of Jon and Kerri Mooring's Quilpie property, and during the March floods the river and a lake on the property met for the first time in 10 years. "When the two systems got together, it (the water) was rising nearly two feet an hour and the road of that went on for nearly four nights past our house," Mr Mooring said. Four years of restoration and thousands of dollars of work were washed away in just a matter of days as a "sea of water" took over the landscape. He said it could take up to 20 years for the landscape to recover from some of the more extensive flooding damage, such as scouring and erosion. Topsoil is the top layer of soil on the ground, usually up to 20 centimetres deep, and is rich in nutrients and organic matter, making it essential for vegetation growth. Environmental damage like loss of topsoil, erosion and weed spread were often the longest lasting impacts of widespread flooding. Geoff Penton, operations manager at natural resources management group Desert Channels Queensland, said the impact of the floods varied. "In some areas, it's a great season and in other areas, it's devastating, and they can be literally feet apart," Mr Penton said. "There's many areas where the water, both the volume and the velocity, has stripped the topsoil off entirely. "Some places where that erosion is settled it's drowned pastures in a foot of mud." Mr Penton said it was likely to take "several seasons" to see pasture response, and it would be a long and expensive road to repairing the environmental damage. "What will help accelerate this is if we can secure some flood recovery investment from the state and federal government," he said. While he acknowledged the current funding options from the state and federal governments were a start, Mr Penton said attention would need to shift to recovering the environment. "The environmental recovery usually comes substantially later," Mr Penton said. "That's under consideration by both levels of government at the moment." The Queensland Reconstruction Authority said in a statement that $186.75 million in extraordinary assistance had been approved in response to the floods through joint Commonwealth-state Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA). "The Australian and Queensland governments are working together to provide all support necessary for flood recovery in western Queensland," the statement read.
ABC News
2 hours ago
- ABC News
Meteor flashes through skies in Sydney as Aurora Australis seen across southern NSW
A bright flash of light that briefly lit up the Sydney sky on Sunday night was not a rogue Vivid installation but is believed to have been a meteor. Sydney resident Tom McCallister said he was waiting at traffic lights about 6pm when he saw the light appear in the sky. "I was luckily on the ball and had my phone to hand to quickly capture the last few seconds of its flight." Australian National University astrophysicist Brad Tucker said it was definitely a meteor as it flashed a blue-green colour and was travelling faster than space debris does when it is typically seen falling towards Earth. "Meteors have lots of iron and nickel, when it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere you get to see it as burning as a blue-green colour," Dr Tucker said. "It would have been a good-sized meteor, maybe anywhere between a tennis and basketball sized," Dr Tucker said. It capped off a busy week for star-gazers, who have been treated to clear views of the Aurora Australis on the east coast. Joe Cali captured the pink glow in the night sky from a property outside Young in the NSW Riverina region. "It put on an entertaining show for south eastern Australia for 6 hours from the end of twilight until around midnight," Mr Cali told 702 ABC Radio Sydney. "At its brightest a pink glow with some vertical pillars of light were visible to the naked eye. "For other parts of the night, the brightness reduced and you could only see it as a pale grey glow with my night vision." Dr Tucker said the especially visible auroras were down to a strong solar storm ejected from the sun hitting the Earth. "The bigger the storm that leaves the Sun, the more likely the aurora is to be on Earth and the stronger the aurora is," Dr Tucker said. Dr Tucker said the Sun was in the peak of a 11-year cycle of solar activity, leading to the stronger auroras that could be seen as far north as northern New South Wales. "This year and last year have been very active periods from the sun which is quite rare."
