Posted on 05/22/2011 4:26:44 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Europe's air traffic control organization said on Sunday it expected no impact on European or transatlantic flights from an Icelandic volcano eruption for at least 24 hours.
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So is this the predicted rapture thingy?
I am sure they will try to save face by saying it was connected as it would be the only thing that happened on the 21st close to extraordinary...!
I am noticing the impact of the last Icelandic volcano. We are having an abnormally cool spring. The last time we had such a spring here was after Pinatubo. If this is the second Icelandic volcano then it was predicted by past eruptions. Historically the one that went up last year is followed by a second one a few onths later. In the past the second has, I believe, turned into a stronger eruption than the first one.
turned on Coast-to-Coast last night at work to find out if the world had ended but the radio wa not receiving so I still don’t know.
turned on Coast-to-Coast last night at work to find out if the world had ended but the radio wa not receiving so I still don’t know.
LOL!
You are the only person left in the world. That’s why your radio doesn’t work.
HELLO? HELLO? Can you read this or is Mars too far away for me to send it to you?
Well we certainly will have to watch the length and intensity of this eruption.
Two problems for Al Gore Hubbard's Fryentologists.
Time will tell.
I agree.
However I didn't think the ash went high enough to cause a noticable weather change globally...I could be wrong. I think the Pinatubo ash went up to 29,000 feet.
Anyway, I have been expecting the 2nd (and worse) volcano that was forecasted. I don't think this is the one. I read that this one will cease erupting in two days. (?)
We set a record low last week here on the Gulf Coast for this time of the year...I read that it was because of an El Nino.
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"The latest Icelandic volcano eruption has brought back fears that the big one may just be right around the corner."
Gulf Coast here, too. I work at night and partly outdoors. In the middle of May I was wearing a sweat shirt under my work uniform below 50 degrees.There has not been anything like that in a long time, since Pinatubo, I believe. Then we had relatively cool nights right up to the end of June.
Mt. St. Helens ash went up to what: 55,000 - 60,000 ft? Anyway, it looked pretty high to me (and made a big boom) but the spring and summer weather were quite normal after that. Helens is at a lower latitude and should affect climate more so. But even though the top third of the mountain blew off it just wasn’t enough to affect climate.
Mount St. Helens – From the 1980 Eruption to 2000
* Height Reached about 80,000 feet in less than 15 minutes
* Downwind extent Spread across US in 3 days; circled Earth in 15 days
That’s right — I now remember that some of the pre-eruption “puffs” made it to 55,000 ft and beyond.
Mt St Helens blew out a bit sideways so it didn’t go as high as it would have otherwise. Pinatubo was similar or a little stronger in force, but about 60x more SO2 went up to the stratosphere than MSH.
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