Skies in Western Australia turned red on Friday ahead of the arrival of a tropical cyclone that tracked across much of the country.
Footage shows the red hue stretching across Shark Bay Caravan Park in Denham, which is located 831km north of Perth.
The holiday park owner described it as "incredibly eerie outside" and said everything was covered in dust.
"Not a lot of wind yet. Let's hope we get enough rain to wash it all off. It’s an inside day for us, that’s for sure," they said at the time.
Residents reported that the thick, dust-filled air darkened the daylight and reduced visibility to near zero.
Authorities explained that powerful winds from Tropical Cyclone Narelle lifted iron-rich red soil into the atmosphere, scattering sunlight and creating the deep crimson glow.
Narelle crossed Australia's Queensland state in the north east and then its Northern Territory after making landfall as a category four tropical cyclone on 20 March and hit Western Australia on Thursday as it tracked further south.
The cyclone had travelled more than 5,700km before reaching Western Australia.
It formed as a system near the Solomon Islands, located 2,000km to the northeast of Australia, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
It is relatively rare for an individual tropical cyclone to affect Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
At its height, the damaging winds from Narelle extended 200-260km from the centre.
Numerous studies show that globally, tropical cyclones are becoming more intense and delivering higher short-term and daily rainfall than in the past.
In the Australian region, there has been a decline in overall cyclone frequency in recent decades, but the ones it is getting now are more intense and producing more rainfall.
This trend is expected to continue under future global heating.
