There was a prediction during the week that a dust cloud could extend from the inland as far as Townsville on the Queensland coast . That would have a been a change from the smoke cloud which swept over the city on Monday afternoon from a Defence training incendiary drop.
On Friday afternoon the city appeared to be under haze of some kind when viewed from Magnetic island . On Sunday morning this blog received photographs of changing conditions experienced driving from Townsville towards Mount Isa .
Out of Townsville there was extensive mist ; later on , 40kms from Richmond, deep in dinosaur country , the landscape below looked dry .
Approaching the Mount Isa mining area, the terrain changes .
