Dust can be seen as the lighter brown haze in an uneven line through New South Wales. The dust descended on Sydney overnight, carried by powerful winds that snatched up tons of topsoil from country's drought-ravaged inland and threw it high into the sky. This satellite image from 11.20am on Wednesday shows the dust cloud (in pink) stretching from south-west Queensland, through NSW and into the Tasman Sea. FIRE FEARS Canberra will see 24C on Wednesday and then the mercury will likely edge up again to the mid-30s on the weekend. Workers try to rescue kangaroo caught in pit of black indust... Daylight saving starts on Sunday but only in some states, Qld police prepare for La Nina, COVID-19 response. Satellite images have shown the dust streaming from NSW in a vast band through the state down to the South Coast. Rural Fire Service Deputy Commissioner Rob Rodgers confirmed a number of properties have been lost as crews continue to fight the fires at Tabulam and Tingha. Firefighters and aircraft have been unable to slow the fire which is burning to the east of Lake Copeton and spreading quickly towards Tingha. Wednesday is unlikely to be as cool or as windy as Tuesday in Victoria, Tasmania or South Australia with far calmer conditions. #nswrfs #nswfires pic.twitter.com/d2VlC4nlYD. A value between 34 and 66 is considered good. A dust storm/raised dust looks to extend 1300km from west of Thargomindah in Queensland to the ranges south of Bendigo in Victoria and moving rapidly east along a trough and cold front. Leading edge of the #duststorm is now reaching #Sydney, after pushing through #Canberra this afternoon & making its way up the #NSW coast. Air quality in the Albury and Wagga Wagga areas was twice the level considered to be hazardous on Wednesday morning, according to the Office of Environment and Heritage. A vivid false colour map from the Bureau of Meteorology has show the dust cloud’s advance across NSW as a bright pink swath. The meteorologist said the dust was being moved on by a strong cold front moving north and east across the south-east of Australia. Bureau of Meteorology severe weather manager Simon Louis said while the peak of the dust hit Sydney midmorning, a “second pulse” was due overnight when conditions were expected to deteriorate again. A 2300-kilometre long dust cloud could reach New Zealand after blanketing Sydney and the south-east of NSW on Wednesday morning. At noon on Tuesday it was so chilly it was the second coldest temperature recorded in Melbourne this year — the first was in the middle of the night. Sydney Dust Storm : Epic Dust Cloud Heading for Sydney, NSW coast. The dust reduced the air quality to hazardous in some areas, but by midday on Wednesday air quality was rapidly improving as the dust is blown further north, Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke said. Strong winds on Tuesday picked up the dust, blowing it over Canberra before coating Sydney in a dusty haze on Wednesday. “A strong cold front surging through the southeast is picking up dust and that could easily get into Sydney, most likely overnight.”. At 6.30pm on Tuesday it was still 34C in the Harbour City. Credit:Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch. Picture: Bureau of Meteorology.Source:Supplied. The dust cloud is visible in this map, produced with data collected on February 13, 2019, with the Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) on the NOAA-20 satellite. An out-of-control grassfire is burning west of Tabulam with authorities warning it could spread to the nearby Jubullu Aboriginal settlement on Tuesday afternoon. Of those, 19 were yet to be contained and two remain at Emergency Warning level. In Perth, expect a sunny high of 33C on Thursday, and the same in Darwin but with added storms in the Top End. Adelaide will reach 22C. The drought in Australia is making these worse, as lose topsoil from dry lands is easily whipped up by strong winds. Dust fills the air as a woman walks at Dudley Page Reserve in Dover Heights on Wednesday morning.Credit:Kate Geraghty. Sky News Weather Meteorologist Rob Sharpe has the details. Share Tweet. Eerie scenes as a heavy dust storm swallows the city of Mildura in northwest Victoria.The state's highest bushfire warning has been issued – code red. #Sydney is on 35 degrees at 6pm! A dust storm/raised dust looks to extend 1300km from west of Thargomindah in Qld to the ranges south of Bendigo in Victoria and moving rapidly east along a trough and cold front.