LadyPakal

The sad thing is, I read a conspiracy forum for giggles and they seem to drag up the Daily Mail every day for something or other and think it is the font of all knowledge. Anyone who questions this paragon of reporting is immediately called a government shill, or a disinfo agent. Anyway according to them, tomorrow we will be enshrouded in cyanide and meteor debris from Elenins tail. *shrug* and then next week YU55 will hit us. Busy week coming...

The Daily Mail is full of hooey! All I'm concerned about it getting home when I am supposed to (on Friday as it happens) - mostly because I am trying out PetPals (who visit & feed) instead of using the cattery... and the pain involved in getting them there. :/ Hmm, Camping has got awfully big ears, hasn't he... I think he's banking on third time the charm with this rapture thing. He had a stroke after the spring debacle - I think he hears his maker calling him home.

Of course snow is forecast - I'm going to Norway next week. Late last November I was in Norway and the plane was turned back to Bergen due to thundersnow here in Aberdeen.

Flights have restarted in Aberdeen - both planes and helecopters.

Possible at the Belfast end - he'd best check with his airline tomorrow morning.

Grabbed from comments in a blog, here http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/?p=969: http://www.ruv.is/frett/ekkert-akvedid-um-folksflutninga According to the article, 2000 tons are being ejected every second. That’s approximately 700 cu m per second, 2,500,000 per hour and 60,000,000 per day. A guesstimate based on this would be a total of about 150,000,000 – 200,000,000 cu m (0,15 – 0,20 cu km), a comfortable VEI 4 and more than the entire output of Eyjafjallajökull in a little over 48 hours.

http://www.pressan.is/Assets/Ingolfur_KPS_samsetning7.gif Animation of the start of the eruption.

Eastern Airways cancelling all their flights in Scotland tomorrow due to the volcanic ash.

Aberdeen Airport tweets: We remain open just now, and in the longer term we are taking advice from the experts. The decision to fly will rest with airlines. Airlines and helicopter operators will take those decision based on their own risk assesments - a change from the way we operated last year. We will play our part in helping them get all the data they need to make an informed decision.

The blogs are discussing this - small earthquakes are happening but the harmonic tremor seems to be drowning them out, apparently. Pretty much all of the helicorders on the island seem to be showing the harmonic tremor signal, from what I can make out: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/allarsort.html

It's been fluctuating between really active and not so active. It's in a not so active spell but the ground is still inflated to the east, so it ain't over yet. New cam image, not live - pics every 15mins: http://www.vedur.is/vedur/athuganir/vefmyndavelar/reykjavik/#teg=sa Looming in the distance may be the ash cloud - just appeared in the last half hour or so.

The volcano is out of frame to the left in the http://live.mila.is/jokulsarlon/ webcam. They're trying to get some more online (I mentioned them in a post this morning) but they're not working yet. The three at the bottom here: http://live.mila.is/hvannadalshnjukur/ You can see the ash cloud here: http://www.vegagerdin.is/umferd-og-faerd/vefmyndavelar/lyngdalsheidi_3 As big as a camper van, I'd say! Edited - bummer - bunny is gone. Washed away by the tide.

Who can see the bunny in the http://live.mila.is/jokulsarlon/ webcam image? Here's a clue - it's laid down with ears sticking up. Lightning occurrence in the ash plume is 1000x more frequent than at Eyjafjallajokull: http://t.co/YXuEuHb

Yes, that would be fun, but not many daylight hours to see anything at that time of year.Maybe a little earlier in Spring when the daylight hours are drawing out as a compromise. Could get scary interesting quite quickly... I've heard the minerals in the hot spring waters are good for psoriasis, so it would be worth it just for that.

Yes, biggest eruption of this volcano in 100 years and bigger than the Katla eruption in '47. They are saying 10x bigger than the one last year. Oh, wow. Just found this webcam - guess where I want to be at the moment... http://live.mila.is/lonid/