Some more news on Krakatau and Etna, plus Stromboli.

http://www.earth-of-fire.com/2018/12/activity-of-anak-krakatau-etna-stromboli-mayon-and-merapi.html?fbclid=IwAR1CkShQhNK10eCH73KcJI8A4c5GvBo5zVdm9MI13-5GmPcRL1nDQpb8rVQ.

http://www.geologyin.com/2019/02/extratropical-volcanoes-influence.html?fbclid=IwAR0Sg7u1gmPUXNL0Q_1tlLE7K59TKA-knF8fPiQGT1j1_z_awCxLG_gha54&m=1#pjd9ohzgZtfvbRRx.99

Very interesting!

As far as the injection of sulphates into the strat of the mid lat.s it's worth considering where most of the global industry producing Sulphates is located?

 

Very interesting!

As far as the injection of sulphates into the strat of the mid lat.s it's worth considering where most of the global industry producing Sulphates is located?

Perhaps there is something in the collapse of the Soviet union,also the reduction of coal burning, and reduction of cold easterlies? 

FWIW Etna is worth a visit as I type this.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/catania/vulcano-etna-nord.html

Nick

I wasn't expecting the snow scene as well, but it sets off the eruption perfectly

FWIW Etna is worth a visit as I type this.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/catania/vulcano-etna-nord.html

Nick

What a fantastic view! 

Popocatapetl in action

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/popocatepetl-eruption-today-volcano-mexico-ash-cloud-mud-slides-a8829301.html

More on Popocatapetl. Fine picture.

Thank you DEW and Lionel

I love a good eruption as long as I am not next to the vents. Still waiting for Stromboli to begin a nighttime show again.

Nick

A lot of late deep snow on Etna this morning and active too. Well it had quite a puff of brown ashy stuff a minute ago.

Melts fast though with the strong sun I think.

A lot of late deep snow on Etna this morning and active too. Well it had quite a puff of brown ashy stuff a minute ago.

Melts fast though with the strong sun I think.

Been enjoying this clip...

Mount Etna eruptions light up night sky

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-48472188/

Roger

Channel 5 has programme on the threat that Vesuvius poses to Naples this evening at 2100. Not sure whether it has anything new, though.

Channel 5 has programme on the threat that Vesuvius poses to Naples this evening at 2100. Not sure whether it has anything new, though.

Is this new? I remember a similar programme a few years ago

 

Is this new? I remember a similar programme a few years ago

Yes I remember that one but I think this is a new programme.

Etna is putting on a show now;

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2019/05/31/mount-etna-is-erupting-right-now-and-its-putting-on-a-spectacular-show/.

 

Yes I remember that one but I think this is a new programme.

30 mins re-hash, 15 mins new, 15 mins ads. There was stuff I'd not seen before on the geology of the Campi Flegrei area and the network of monitoring stations, but the question of how to evacuate Naples prior to an eruption was left hanging. 

30 mins re-hash, 15 mins new, 15 mins ads. There was stuff I'd not seen before on the geology of the Campi Flegrei area and the network of monitoring stations, but the question of how to evacuate Naples prior to an eruption was left hanging. 

Slightly off topic but Pompeii by Robert Harris is a great read. He manages to convey the great heat of that summer and how the eruption progressed and what it would have been like to have experienced such an event.

Channel 5 has programme on the threat that Vesuvius poses to Naples this evening at 2100. Not sure whether it has anything new, though.

I was in Naples last Monday and visited Pompeii. Astonishing place.

My understanding (and I also watched a documentary a few months/a year ago) is that the whole Bay of Naples area is a giant Caldera, and the entire area has lifted 2m in the past few years as the magma chamber builds (IIRC, it had only risen 2m in the preceding 60 years)

Oh, and I was on Sicily on Wednesday, a few days before Etna cranked the pyrotechnics back up.