Glass
9th January 2013, 11:31 PM
This is off the coast from a town called Oslow which is a primo lobster location on the west coast of Australia.
Storm delivers Onslow a red-dust sunset
Mother Nature put on a spectacular display off the coast of Onslow yesterday, where a menacing-looking storm was captured on camera by a tug boat worker.
Jurien Bay man Brett Martin and his colleagues were working west of False Island (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=False+Island,+Western+Australia,+Australia&hl=en&ll=-21.361013,115.444336&spn=4.332288,8.453979&sll=57.530833,-135.215&sspn=0.62445,2.113495&oq=false+island+austra&hnear=False+Island&t=m&z=8) when the thunderstorm, which had gathered dust and sand as it developed, passed over Onslow and out to the Indian Ocean.
Mr Martin said the storm built up in a matter of minutes.
“We were steaming along in the boat just before sunset and the storm was casually building in the distance, then it got faster and faster and it went from glass to about 40 knots in two minutes,” he said.
http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130110/100113genthunderstorm1_18eskng-18eskni.jpg
“It was like a big dust storm under a thunderhead, there was a lot of lightning but not a lot of rain.”
http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130110/100113genthunderstorm2_18eskle-18esklh.jpg
Link (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/15803849/storm-delivers-onslow-a-red-dust-sunset/)
Storm delivers Onslow a red-dust sunset
Mother Nature put on a spectacular display off the coast of Onslow yesterday, where a menacing-looking storm was captured on camera by a tug boat worker.
Jurien Bay man Brett Martin and his colleagues were working west of False Island (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=False+Island,+Western+Australia,+Australia&hl=en&ll=-21.361013,115.444336&spn=4.332288,8.453979&sll=57.530833,-135.215&sspn=0.62445,2.113495&oq=false+island+austra&hnear=False+Island&t=m&z=8) when the thunderstorm, which had gathered dust and sand as it developed, passed over Onslow and out to the Indian Ocean.
Mr Martin said the storm built up in a matter of minutes.
“We were steaming along in the boat just before sunset and the storm was casually building in the distance, then it got faster and faster and it went from glass to about 40 knots in two minutes,” he said.
http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130110/100113genthunderstorm1_18eskng-18eskni.jpg
“It was like a big dust storm under a thunderhead, there was a lot of lightning but not a lot of rain.”
http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130110/100113genthunderstorm2_18eskle-18esklh.jpg
Link (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/15803849/storm-delivers-onslow-a-red-dust-sunset/)