RED RAIN FROM AUSTRALIA
METEOROLOGIST’S OPINION Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Dr. E. Kidson, Government Meterologist, considers the red rain reported from Nelson and Blenheim to have been caused by dust from Australia. The prevailing winds this week were from that direction, and a similar occurrence last year was directly traced to it. The idea that it was caused by a thunderbolt is impossible, but it is well known that if dust is suspended in the atmosphere in large quantities is does cause bad thunderstorms. He says he estimates that at least 100,000 tons of Australian soil found its way to New Zealand last year, but the only previous instance record was as far back as 1902.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 5
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116RED RAIN FROM AUSTRALIA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 5
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