The volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajokull

[legacygt]

http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID25803/images/2010-04-19_063146.jpg

Your thoughts on this? Lightning out of a volcano, thats unheard of.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/MtCleveland_ISS013-E-24184.jpg

[kburnell]

Cool photo.

[2.5guy]

Lighting photo's are almost impossible to get! Well unless you have stupid expensive weather tools yada yada yada

[legacygt]

Lighting photo's are almost impossible to get! Well unless you have stupid expensive weather tools yada yada yada


or a canon rebel like mine.

[Snowman87]

Is this that same damn eruption that is fubar-ing flights to and from Europe?

That god damn thing has made my work a nightmare, I have about 10 orders on hold with the customers screaming that they need the stuff but I can't ship any of it since we have parts stuck overseas since no airfreight is flying.

[im_so_blue]

or a canon rebel like mine.

gotta love rabid shooting!

[Bu11dogg2]

the last time a large volcano erupted the average temperature in New England in the summer of 1816 was 35 degrees at night
.

Frost was recorded EVERY day that year.

http://volcanoes.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_year_without_a_summer_1816

hope that doesn't happen again.....

[Bu11dogg2]

In New England, there was snow in early June. During the months of July, August and September, night time temperatures dipped and frost occurred on several occasions. July and August were dry so the crops started to suffer from drought. Frost in September caused additional crop failure. The lack of sunlight stunted plant growth and prevented the ripening of produce such as corn.

It is interesting to note that the crop failure in New England caused farmers to move westward. This mass migration shifted the nation’s farming industry away from the eastern part of the nation.

[Robk0000]

i like the top photo alot.

[boxer3maine]

incredible stuff.

I blog weather, etc.. helps with a bad memory.

in 2008, I spotted a northern gannett in brewer, caught it on camera...
for some odd reason, no one related to bird watching could identify. (idiots capital "I")
I thought.. "the earth is on the move"..I even typed it in the blog.
since then, I hve blogged sicnerely believing we are sliding towards the ocean. ..and bangor maine eats all rainstorms because of an earthly stress that won't let go.. I was hoping they would find a fault line.

So looking at google earth, usgs stuff for earthquakes.. the st.lawrence extends out with a faultline emerging.. guess where? just south of iceland. the st.lawrence goes active.. we get affected.

I tied the lack of identifying it with silt of flow.. so if iceland is rumbling, I know it gets us too.
..and iceland is closer to maine that the west coast usa, and 500 miles closer than ireland. It does not take too much travel to realize how puny our planet is.

the iceland event is absolutely colassal.
:unamused:

this is my strange thoughts on the subject.

[RacerX]

incredible stuff.

I blog weather, etc.. helps with a bad memory.

in 2008, I spotted a northern gannett in brewer, caught it on camera...
for some odd reason, no one related to bird watching could identify. (idiots capital "I")
I thought.. "the earth is on the move"..I even typed it in the blog.
since then, I hve blogged sicnerely believing we are sliding towards the ocean. ..and bangor maine eats all rainstorms because of an earthly stress that won't let go.. I was hoping they would find a fault line.

So looking at google earth, usgs stuff for earthquakes.. the st.lawrence extends out with a faultline emerging.. guess where? just south of iceland. the st.lawrence goes active.. we get affected.

I tied the lack of identifying it with silt of flow.. so if iceland is rumbling, I know it gets us too.
..and iceland is closer to maine that the west coast usa, and 500 miles closer than ireland. It does not take too much travel to realize how puny our planet is.

the iceland event is absolutely colassal.
:unamused:

this is my strange thoughts on the subject.
I like your thinking.....

[2.5guy]

or a canon rebel like mine.

Any camera can take the picture its getting the timing soo you actually get the lighting in the picture :spin:

[Subygirl8330]

In New England, there was snow in early June. During the months of July, August and September, night time temperatures dipped and frost occurred on several occasions. July and August were dry so the crops started to suffer from drought. Frost in September caused additional crop failure. The lack of sunlight stunted plant growth and prevented the ripening of produce such as corn.

It is interesting to note that the crop failure in New England caused farmers to move westward. This mass migration shifted the nation’s farming industry away from the eastern part of the nation.


thats creepy!

[RacerX]

Any camera can take the picture its getting the timing soo you actually get the lighting in the picture :spin:
It is lots easier when taking 15-20 pics per second though........

[drdabbles]

Your thoughts on this? Lightning out of a volcano, thats unheard of.

Lightning during volcanic eruptions is very common. In fact, ScienceNews just published a piece on why dust storms, volcanic ash, and other small particle on small particle interactions cause lightning.

[Andrew3776]

Big earthquakes = big volcanos. Slab pulls are kick ass

[98Wagoon]

Lightning during volcanic eruptions is very common. In fact, ScienceNews just published a piece on why dust storms, volcanic ash, and other small particle on small particle interactions cause lightning.


Im going to have to find that. sounds like an amazing article. Ive always been fascinated with electricity/lightning in general. as much as we think we control it, or have it harnessed, we know almost nothing about it..

[wrxtuner82]

I mean, I guess it's not that impossible, I don't know much about lightning, so I'm just winging it here, but doesn't it happen when there's a lot of humidity in the air? So you have liquid hot magma flowing into the water, causing all the steam, and I imagine humidity, so the lightning could happen I guess.

[Oscar_Meyer]

I think what dabbles said is correct... the dust and such is a great conductor of electricity and imagine the amount of static electricity being generated by the volcanic particles moving so fast and causing friction against the air...

here, someone who has a clue...
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070222_volcano_lightning.html

[Oscar_Meyer]

mo'

[Oscar_Meyer]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkyleigh/2705421056/

best one IMHO... but I cant save it...&&$*(^#$@#

[DHGurs]

^^ That pic is awesome!

[legacygt]

Is this that same damn eruption that is fubar-ing flights to and from Europe?

That god damn thing has made my work a nightmare, I have about 10 orders on hold with the customers screaming that they need the stuff but I can't ship any of it since we have parts stuck overseas since no airfreight is flying.


Yes. This is the same one.

[HoetheJoe]

incredible stuff.

I blog weather, etc.. helps with a bad memory.

in 2008, I spotted a northern gannett in brewer, caught it on camera...
for some odd reason, no one related to bird watching could identify. (idiots capital "I")
I thought.. "the earth is on the move"..I even typed it in the blog.
since then, I hve blogged sicnerely believing we are sliding towards the ocean. ..and bangor maine eats all rainstorms because of an earthly stress that won't let go.. I was hoping they would find a fault line.

So looking at google earth, usgs stuff for earthquakes.. the st.lawrence extends out with a faultline emerging.. guess where? just south of iceland. the st.lawrence goes active.. we get affected.

I tied the lack of identifying it with silt of flow.. so if iceland is rumbling, I know it gets us too.
..and iceland is closer to maine that the west coast usa, and 500 miles closer than ireland. It does not take too much travel to realize how puny our planet is.

the iceland event is absolutely colassal.
:unamused:

this is my strange thoughts on the subject.

i believe i saw u post something about a small earthquake in maine a few weeks ago

[jonny-rockets]

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/eyja_04_19/e01_23056097.jpg

[Oscar_Meyer]

that is just nuts....

[Bu11dogg2]

+1


as cool as it is to see.... it has terrible effects on the enviroment

[The Internet]

One of the Volconoligists that has been getting interviewed is name Michael Rampino (my name as well). There are only a few of us in the US. I keep getting phone calls from random people I haven't talked to in a long time. They're like, "Mike, I didn't know you where an astrophysicists?"

I can't help but play along with it. :rofl:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e308/onzrocs/volcanoligist.jpg