If you happened to find yourself on a hotel balcony in Sydney this morning, you would have seen something like this.

In what experts swear has nothing to do with global warming, the entire city was engulfed with a storm of red dust, grounding flights and resulting in some of the more spectacular Flickr shots we’ve ever seen. It’s being described as a once in a lifetime event, so superstition aside, we salute anyone who was lucky enough to be in town for it.