DULL, YELLOW LIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 20

DULL, YELLOW LIGHT.

ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON. ATTRIBUTED TO DUST STORM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON', Monday. Wellington was treated to-day to meteorological conditions of a distinctly uncanny character. After a faight of howling wind, with gusts that shook the houses and tested the fences, the day broke grey, drear and tempestuous.' The cable messages reported Sydney as being under a pall of "suspended dust," and that its general direction was - toward New Zealand. Whether this dust could travel as far as New Zealand in the time or not has not been established, but the fact remained that between 9.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. the light from above hardly corresponded with that which usually prevails in grey, murky weather. It was a dull, sickly, yellow light, not unlike the effect gained when one looks at the world through amber-tinted glasses, and the only likely explanation for this effect offered was that it might be due to the action of the sun's rays ooming through a-pall of the suspended dust referred to in the cable message. Curiously enough, as soon as rain fell the yellow tinge faded from the colour scheme.