LadyPakal

That rocky area the Voda webcam is on - take a look now. The rocks have almost drowned in a sea of ash: http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en

Yes, the sun shining through the haze is giving it a lovely dirty orange colour. Like the dust on my car...

'fraid so. Could be anything - looks like a stereotypical movie 'pyroclastic flow' at times - but with all that cloud in the way it could be anything.

I've been watching - interesting ain't it! The wind is quite strong today so I think the warm/hot steam & ash is being blown almost parallel to the ground.

She's been a busy girl under her black shroud. She's certainly steaming like a good'un. It is possible that the wind is blowing from behind (as we see it) making it appear as though the plume is starting lower down the mountain. In fact, if you look at the Mulakot cam, it seems to be doing just that.

It has only 4 syllables. A humerous guide to pronunciation:

An interesting stat for you from the Eruptions blog: 'Right now, the IMO estimates the eruption rate at ~200 tonnes/second. Lets put that in a little perspective - a Ford F-150 pickup weighs about 2 tonnes, so the volcano is eruption the equivalent of 100 full size pickups a second. '

Closeup view of the black & ashy glacier here: http://gummiey.posterous.com/

There's a definite haze giving the sky its colour tonight. You can see it has streaks & 'edges' for want of a better word. Yes, for the last couple of days the ash plume has been directly over the webcams on Thoro - hence the crap viewing.

The sky here (the sun has a long way to go before it sets) has an orangy haze to it. We've had a lot of dust fallout since yesterday. Not my pics but the dust looks like this under the microscope. http://www.flickr.com/photos/interactives/4528598941/in/set-72157623876914378/ I also have pollen grains & some brownish angular stuff - looks a bit brown mica (Biotite) like - in sheets. Edited, the colour of the sky is deepening - I think it will be a good one tonight!

I've just been scraping some of this non-existant ash dust off my car and not looking at it through a microscope. My neighbour called me out to see his car - almost indignant as he had just washed it yesterday. It rained overnight & I suspect that is when most of it landed. You can see it is (sorry, is not!) in little rings - like puddle splashes.

Yep, they'll keep upping the limit until there is an accident and then back it down slightly. Find the breaking point, as it were. That's if they have the cojones to admit that the ash was a major factor in the accident, of course.

Pretty sky tonight. The clouds are pretty in pink. Saw an amazing rainbow earlier. It's the second time I've seen one like this - first time was around Easter. It was a typical doubler - on the outermost part was a rainbow, then a gap, then inside was a bright rainbow. The bit I had not seen before was a repeating spectrum from red to blue to red to blue - a total of three adjacent rainbows, the outer one being the brightest. Ha, gawd bless Wikipedia. What I saw was a supernumerary rainbow - also known as a stacker rainbow. Like this: Rainbow The bright glow in the Thoro cam - do you think it is the eruption glowing through in the hot part of the ash? No, on second throughts looking at the Mulakot cam, I think it is the sun.

No vodaphone - it's not even saving images. I think it is stuck under ash fall & they can't get in to fix it.

It's there - just massively overexposed. It's that grey billowy stuff at the top of the screen. Hvol is back - well, it just came up for me. Valley of the ash, sorry, Thoro is back too. Tiny sliver of blue sky, top right. Grey ash I think top left. One of the first things we learnt in college about volcanos. There are a few in the Lakes too. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=774 Extinct supervolcano, apparently.

Yep, it's the ash cloud - skies clearing everyone! She's still going at it like a dog at its testicles. BTW, I am finding this blog fascinating: http://gummiey.posterous.com/

So, is that dark area at the middle top of this cam image, the ash cloud or wishful thinking? http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html

There will always be someone on a street corner somewhere with a 'The End is Nigh' sign. Sorry - but it's a condition for use: Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons I think we need the Lady to emerge from her white shroud for a bit... she has lifted her skirts a bit and is showing some ankle on Thoro. I could be wrong (hard to see properly) but it loks like a bit more melt water is running today.

I think she meant Edinburgh... now that would be a sight to behold! New linkie: http://ashalerts.com/2010/05/17/latest-developments-ash-cloud-according-to-university-of-cologne/ Ash Alerts- Volcano, ash clouds and airline news

Oh noes, 2012 is really happening... all the plates are on the move & about to slip about wildly... *engage panic mode* ^ ^ ^ Totally not serious, BTW - just in one of those moods...

Quality of measurement is poor - 37 or so, see last column of table - so it is possible it is located wrongly or something. I'm sure it will more closely examined at some point and either disappear or be relocated or something.

Re: Gatwick. I smell even more bulls**t.

It's not so much the ash as the SO2 & other aerosols that gives the colourful sunsets. Ash can make a 'blue moon' if the particles are fine enough. Often tho' it will appear more of a reddish colour because of the mix of particle size. According to the meto: The latest information from the Icelandic Met Office is that the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt. It is estimated that the current height of the ash plume is generally between 23000 and 26000 ft (7 to 8 km), with extremes at 29500 feet (9 km). The latest emissions are moving southeastwards across the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and across parts of the British Isles. Issued at 1255 on Sun 16 May 2010. So, above I guess.

It was exceptionally poor yesterday - barely any colour at all.

It's been nice most of the day but we now have black clouds. No chance of seeing a sunset here... nice or otherwise.