A white haze blanket has covered Sydney today and, while the sun still shone through in strength this morning, the sky appeared ominous and eery.
The Bureau of Meteorology explained the peculiar sky was caused by "raised dust" which had been carried from Central Australia.
The BOM said conditions were expected to lift in the afternoon, but the NSW Department of Environment discouraged people with breathing difficulties from going outside.
This dust situation was not so different from the dust storm that hit Sydney in mid-September, 2009.
As residents awoke in Sydney, they were confronted with fiery orange skies that resembled armageddon.
Below is an image I took on that morning of September 23.
What I found most interesting was how Sydney residents responded to such a scenario.
According to the ABC, the NSW Fire Service received over 500 calls which were false alarms, with many residents believing a bushfire had attacked Sydney city.
Talkback radio and television, as well as new media such as Facebook and Twitter, allowed individuals to discover for themselves what was going on, and to upload their own photos of their experiences in the dust storms.
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