Rustynailer

The Met office and the BBC are institutions, we grew up with them, passion for change all the time and modern austerity are removing our way of life so fast these days, glad I saw it all before they ruined the place.

I closed all the windows last night first time since spring. Not usual for here in September, but still happens from time to time.

I am just about to enter the squall zone again. Looks like it will have vicious winds as it is a thin line on the NW radar, sky going dark now...Eeeek Biblical for the third time today by the looks on said radar. August monsoon....

I have just been on to Afton Down. I could here the rumbles and see the pink tops of the storms. The sea is flat but wind blown. Back at home and I can clearly here rumbling from the South now. The wind has become blustery, here on and off.

Thunder and lightning here, big rain drops but not that heavy at all.

I like leaving this on in the background when I am going about my business, when possible... I occasionally swap between the two. I agree it looks nice at the moment, in fact I think it has got better looking since winter arrived, its not just the low light I think its the snow and cold also having their effects on the visuals. Looks bright as hell on the mobile Right hand cam

On we go... Detail since 00:01Z Iceland time...

Looks like Laki was around 10 times stronger in output over 100 days. I bet we would be feeling it now if we were back in time to the Laki eruption, the haze would be all over and everybody would be coughing like smokers on 20 a day. Looks like our fissure eruption could go on for months yet, the eruption may develop further elsewhere too, or not we will see. I wonder where we will be at in the Spring, 150km square?

There has been a 5.4 first big quake for days. Looks like the eruption down at the fissure is still going strong, not as fast as in September but still covering lots of land, 80 square kilometers up to now, that is a fair bit of lava, around 1.5 km cubed...

45 foot waves, the winter storm season has started, wonder weather it will be here till the end, or will the cold/ snow knock it out? This storm has a track from the NW that is unusual in the fact that it is so strong, just of late, like the last 20 years or so, am I right or have I a worse memory than I thought? Such cold and pppenetrating850's for a start. brrrr

The long period waves shook and are shaking Iceland currently. The length of the period X height of the wave= what equivalent in tons TNT or Atom bomb megatons anybody? The reason I ask is, just look at the borehole strain meters in Iceland, eg:- Not surprised we lost 10 meters of some cliffs extensively at/on/in the Isle of Wight in the last winter storms.....

Just about a mag 5 at around 18:00 UK LOL just look what the storm is doing to the strain meter here... This is why it is hard to detect EQ's in a storm, the storm shakes the place to bits and batters it with very high long period waves, great for weather enthusiasts and storm watchers, bad for EQ recording, arr well can't have everything.

Yes it looks like the pattern is ongoing, maybe evolving, most definitely subtle.

You are cleaver lad, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Its people like you who continue to make weather watching on the Internet, so interesting.

Not got the first bit because I was not even looking...tut The 5.2 caused a long tremor, took until 16:30 to subside. Thats how it looks, but it could also be coinciding with the calming weather, not sure.

Dear Iceland. we in Britain, that is not as great as it used to be. But we still are interested. Hope you can find a longer antenna for your caldera GPS Failing that we are all reliant on your brave flyers getting over the caldera. Please show pictures soon.

Thats it, it is just lots of very hot very liquid rock spewing out peacefully, like Hawaii. The shaking is mainly 99% off screen at the back The shaking has easily surpassed the entire output of man since the industrial revolution in Iceland and here in the UK combined.... From a sheer energy point of view. We are mouse like.

That thin hot lava is still sloshing out alright, river like, it floods its plain, until the end, or the next bit. No problems with building and planning permission on lava flood planes, not as obvious as river ones but twice as bad...fire+water... Still dumb to build on either IMO

I can see now, tsk Glasses r good Creep to the front on the valar... suggestive of what? Long difference between waveform arrival times, or receiver distortion... Thanks IMO for such interesting data.

I think the fissure is a large source of heat energy, more than all thye nuclear stations... Shame nobody is cleaver enough to use it,,,http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/ Thye LOL sounds old fashioned, slip of the fingers... still breaking rock.

Yes I think so, it erm, agitates things I have been noticing this relationship for a few years now, lots of people across the interweb disagreed in the past when people mentioned this effect. Less so these days, probably because its true. Position of the green stars since yesterday dinner.

I think you are right as it appears at the moment. This mornings 5.4 may have made the lava run, faster, thinner and hotter, possibly, not sure... Try the video above, runnier and faster than that I suppose. Being hotter is is looking brighter too. Not 100% on this but that what it looks like. Less resistance from runny lava means less EQ's also. Although IMO sometimes processes EQ's in big batches when its busy. But looking at the EQ graph it looks like a fall in overall magnitude averages since the 5.4

http://www.ruv.is/frett/nytt-myndskeid-af-umbrotunum-i-holuhrauni Video is very good, mesmerizing lava from the fissure, its like a fast flowing river...

5.4+ looking at the boreholes All the wavelengths drums and the other colorful vala one IMO have it at 5.2 already, looks bigger, they may raise that later. Position is harder algorithm has missed it I think 09:03... IMO are as near perfect as is possible at manual location, it will appear soon. Gone up to 5.4 shaky old caldera... Hekla is sensitive, the wavelength stepped down after the EQ.... The three cams Mila 1 and 2... IMO mobile

Here is an interesting comparison a picture from Eggert Norðdahl https://www.flickr.com/photos/35133216@N05/14951175976/ it shows the infamous Laki fissure, it looks like the one at Holuhraun, the lava drained away and sunk down the hole, which then later filled with water Imagine the same thing with Holuhraun and it looks the same...One big crater with a run off gulley, massive lava field. Oh god I have the big letters again, sorry... This mornings 5+ at the Hekla borehole Mila 1 Mila 2 IMO mobile close up, whats that in the background? Low cloud, mist? Mila 1 15:05 UK, looks like mist /fog over glacier behind Holuhraun