LadyPakal

Earth lights seems a popular guess - not uncommon when earthquakes/volcanoes etc happen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

Lots of steam & melt water coming out of that hole now (12:40ish): http://extras.vodafone.is/trailers/fimmvorduhals/mx10-4-235-80/2010/04/28/11/42.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kCOGRka45o for a vid of it. Fresh snow fall overnight - all kis white again above a certain height.

Ash is a pretty good insulator so it might be able to run over ice - for a while anyway. Eventually it would eat through, assuming the lava kept coming but a layer of cooled lava would form at the base (so it would be rock (mountain), ice, ash, rock (cooled lava), lava - then the lava would cool from the top down too). I think it makes more sense for the lava to follow the melt water channels. it could then make lava tubes below the ice - they'd keep the lava hot as it is insulated from the outside inside its tube. There's a lot of stuff in that link - I'm to tired to make heads or tails of it tonight. I shall take a look tomorrow.

That ice is very old, dense and hard a nails. Most of the lava is under it so it is melting from below & the ice either forming a roof or collapsing in. What you see may be just a crust in places. yes, just after my post here I went back and saw the one from Erik telling them to go elsewhere if they wanted to argue about GW. Excellent!

This is what the place use to look like before the eruption - you should be able to see the glacier running down into a lake that used to be there but had recently drained. http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/2010/nr/1865 The view you see from here: http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/ & the Vodaphone images show this same glacier & drained lake, where the melt water is running out. Here's another pic of how it used to look: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/13260384.jpg More pics: http://www.earthice.hi.is/page/jardvis_EYJOKULL_myndir The first one in the series was taken 7 days before the eruption started The first one in the series was taken 7 days before the eruption started. the last three were taken today.

It's getting rather tedious now and some seem incapable of controlling themselves. There are numerous blogs that cater for this sort of discussion - I wish they would just sod off to one of them! It looks like someone has swept a chimney all over it. That will start melting from the top too, once the sun gains strength. BTW, here's a pic of what all that hot stuff is doing to the ice. Note the nice channel running top to bottom & the arch feature towards the middle... http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/popup/mynd.html?imgid=529081;nid=1486390

Lava has apparently travelled 1km so far.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/04/icelands-volcano-heats-up.html 'High-resolution visible and thermal infrared images captured by a joint NASA-Japanese satellite sensor and compiled by University of Pittsburgh volcanologist Michael Ramsey provide the first clear glimpse of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull that has disrupted air travel worldwide since it began erupting April 14. Ramsey, an associate professor in Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, collected images taken by NASA's Earth-orbiting Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer (ASTER) instrument showing that although the volcano's infamous ash plume is receding, its internal temperature is rising.'

Indeed. A lot of them aren't particularly violent. Eruption of something is always going on there - they are on a part of spreading ocean plate, after all. Something has to fill the gap! http://www.eldey.de/English/geology/geology.html

Lava flowing: http://feww.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/l/ & http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre63k1ft-us-iceland-volcano/ Some odds on the next Icelandic Volcanic eruption: http://feww.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/the-next-icelandic-volcano-likely-to-erupt/

Not enough SO2 for the nice colours at sunrise/sunset. The ash cloud was partially made of such fine particulates (the bits that made it to the ground were only the coarsest bits) that it would be pretty much invisible to the naked eye, once the heavier bits had dropped out. The Swedish? jets that discovered their engine damage noticed no ash cloud - said the skies were clear. Anyway, the winds changed on Friday and blew it all away. Now the Icelandic airports are getting it.

The two different coloured streams are 2 vents - one mostly ash & the other mostly steam. Apparently lava has started to flow sub-glacially which is adding to the melt & the steam.

Lots of melt running off here (the Vodaphone cam): http://extras.vodafone.is/trailers/fimmvorduhals/mx10-4-235-80/2010/04/24/10/current.jpg and it seems another vent has opened overnight in the caldera.

Nice plume views here at the moment, the cloud has cleared away a bit: http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/ http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

FYI The owner of this seismometer said they were not earthquakes but something local (tractor or something maybe) nearby. Post #16 here: http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/04/eyjafjallajokull_flight_cancel.php#comments is trhe latest reference (there were some in the previous blog comments).

Nice big plume visible at the moment: http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8637978.stm 'Training flights on RAF Typhoons in Lincolnshire have been suspended after ash deposits were found in one aircraft's engines.'

Well, they did have fresh snow fall yesterday.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Willie-Walsh-Criticises-UK-No-fly-Zone-Planes-Flying-After-BA-Boss-Plays-Game-Of-Brinkmanship/Article/201004315611447?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_6&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15611447_Willie_Walsh_Criticises_UK_No-fly_Zone%3A_Planes_Flying_After_BA_Boss_Plays_Game_Of_Brinkmanship "The extent of the turnaround has become clear after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) revealed the new agreed safe level of ash is 20 times that detected on some test flights at the height of the crisis." Hmm...

The precedent has now been set and the next time the airlines know how to force the issue knowing the CAA/Gov will cave. I am so glad I don't live in West London anymore. Seismic picking up again: http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/tremoren.htm http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/tremoren.htm Rumblings under another volcano ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kverkfj%C3%B6ll ) as well: http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/vatnajokull/

I'm sure he has a mobile phone and/or a Blackberry.

Totally disgusted - BA have lost a customer here. NOt impressed with Gordon 'I have an election to win' Brown either as he must have had something to do with it during their 'talks' earlier.

I suspect BA will be having some tough questions asked of them very soon.

Ash, I'd say.