My sister, who lives on the island of Hawaii (aka the "Big Island"), just posted this on Facebook. (Embedding anywhere else is disabled)
The volcano on her island is now active again, and the crater at Volcanoes Nat'l Park collapsed.


Somebody must've REALLY pissed off Pele.  

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

 

 

 katzendogs wrote: 
I hope oil doesn't gush out of the volcano. That would suck. 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
now if we could have an oil gusher stop in the gulf.

 rosedraws wrote: 
yep. it's stopped erupting and there is a crater lake in the new crater. There is a possibility of a renewed outburst but it is much lower than in recent months . Seismic activity is low which suggests that there is no new magma rising to the surface.

Did the volcano settle down?  I'm having trouble finding up to date information...

bumping the ash cloud forecast map

 rosedraws wrote: 
Sounds like a type of bowel movement.

 rosedraws wrote: 
 

 
 
 

 hobiejoe wrote: 
Best band name of the year!  
 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Fabulous picture. Mad as hatters.
 
Apparently, the trick is to keep looking up and if a chunk of ejecta is moving across the sky, you're OK. If it appears to be stationary, you move. Quickly.

ok, before I sign off, I just have to bump this photo again for its sheer awesomeness.

 geordiezimmerman wrote: 
Thanks!

 rosedraws wrote: 
It's like the other airports affected, sometime open, sometimes closed. It all depends on where the ash cloud is and which way the wind is blowing. Lucking this time of the year the winds blow in from the south meaning the ash cloud disappears northwards and away from most airspace. There is still some disruption, namely Spain last week and some Irish flights but generally things have improved with little delay in flights. 5 weeks time we will supposed to be in the height of summer here meaning those southerly winds are much more frequest so therefore increasing your chances of travel. Good luck.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
W   O   W

some very classy filmwork on the eruption.

 hippiechick wrote: 
The only trouble with this statement is that the last eruption bears virtually no correlation to the current one (true for most volcanoes except those that go off like clockwork).

Apart from a brief hiatus between the Fimmvorduhals vent closing and the crater vent opening, it has been erupting non-stop for three months now and there is no sign of it stopping yet.
It might stop tomorrow, it might go on for another 2000 years.

 rosedraws wrote: 
I think I read that the last time this happened, it was on and off for 30 months.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Yeah.  Amsterdam via Reykjavik.  We actually booked the trip the day the volcano started.  We were like, "hey, did you hear about the volcano?" "yeah, that's really something, eh?"    I figured it was something that happened there all the time, like in Hawaii.

It's good to know the airport's at least sometimes open.  Hope eternal springing and all that,

 rosedraws wrote: 
Reykjavik has been open, yes, and closed, and open

five weeks? no need to worry yet. We are flying down to Italy next Saturday (I hope) otherwise we have really long car trip in front of us.
Are you stopping over in Reykjavik?