So as everyone knows, the east coast of Australia was covered with a massive dust-storm.

The fiery haze was the result of the sun hitting the blanket of dust, Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Jane Golding said.

"The reason for the dust is we had some really strong winds in the inland areas of NSW and in South Australia for a sustained period yesterday," she said.

"That’s lifted a whole lot of dust off the ground because it’s quite dry out there. Many of those areas are still drought affected."

The lifted dust had been carried by the winds into Sydney.

"I’ve not seen anything like this before," Ms Golding said.

My wife has some photos from our house this morning showing what it looked like when we woke up:

Weatherzone has some satellite imagery showing the dust, but it’s mixed up with cloud cover too. The Japanese MTSAT satellite has a good wide shot of Australia showing the dust cloud stretching all the way up to Queensland.

But by far the best footage is this video from Broken Hill in western NSW. (For those who don’t know this is where Broken Hill is)