Back in September we wrote about that Aussie Dust Storm that blasted across New South Wales and southeast Queensland.
This dust storm was the biggest in 70 years. But only now are scientists giving us the staggering facts behind the storm.
Get this: at its peak the storm carried 140,000 tons of soil per hour from central Australia.
Hard to grasp that, isn’t it?
The scientists also say that 4000 tons of dust settled on Sydney, while another 3 million tons landed in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand.
To put that in perspective, 3 million tons of dust is equal to 7,894 dump truck loads, if you used the world’s largest dump truck, the Caterpillar 797.
That’s moving some dirt.
