Grímsvötn Galore: Now with 100x more ash. AKA The Icelandic eruption, part Deux

[Legbiter]

As the more diligent readers will have surmised from the end of the world thread, a ginormous volcanic eruption is taking place in Iceland right now. No, it's not the start of the Rapture, no avenging Jesus has been spotted punishing unbelievers in any way, shape or form. However, a good portion of the south has been inundated with massive ashfall with all the usual hardships that that entails, etc. The good news is that the ash is much heavier and less glassy, and so probably unable to shut down continental flight entirely like the last one. Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber in days instead of weeks. Usually.

The bad news is that even if the ash is generally coarser than the previous outing it seems to be compensating with a metric fuckton more in terms of volume. Right now it's down to 2000 tonnes of ejecta per second reaching up to 10 kilometers which is 1/10's less than on Saturday. On the plus side the winds had been blowing the higher athmospheric gunk towards the Artic, but apparently a huge ash cloud is descending on Scotland. So Britain and Ireland could potentially see some air travel disruptions.

So yeah, um, sorry 'bout that.




 

[Admiral Yi]

Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber

Is that what you're calling it now.

What's with the gigantic marshmallows?

[jimmy olsen]

Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber

Is that what you're calling it now.

What's with the gigantic marshmallows?

Has to be hay or something.

They use the exact same casing here for bundles of rice. They're everywhere in the country.

[Neil]

Everyone be on the lookout for media stories asking if climate change is to blame.

[Legbiter]

Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber

What's with the gigantic marshmallows?

It's hay bales.   

[Neil]

Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber

What's with the gigantic marshmallows?

It's hay bales.   

So are the Icelandic hillbillies doomed?

I guess Jesus didn't appreciate their election of Martinus as their leader.

[Legbiter]

So are the Icelandic hillbillies doomed?

Livestock has already started dying where farmers are unable to quickly house them. The pitch black ash storm renders visibility to zero and all the usual water & grazing resources have of course been knocked out. One farmer was in tears because of how many of his lambs were dying on the evening news here.

Here in Reykjavik, 250 miles away you'd hardly notice anything was amiss except for the thin grey film that coats everything outside. Which will be gone in a week once the eruption is over.

[Fate]

Jeez. Looks like Doomsday...

[Legbiter]

It's pretty rough for the folks immediately downwind, yes.



That's good visibility btw.

[ulmont]

It's pretty rough for the folks immediately downwind, yes.



That's good visibility btw.

I never knew Morrowind was a documentary.

[Maximus]

So is ash Iceland's primary export now?

[Josquius]

Love the pictures. The little dinky Scandinavian style houses (thought you didn't have trees in Iceland?) with the end of the world calmly happening behind them.

[Norgy]

I never knew Morrowind was a documentary.

Icelanders, Ashlanders, sounds almost the same to me.
Then again, I was at a concert last night.

[Viking]

Love the pictures. The little dinky Scandinavian style houses (thought you didn't have trees in Iceland?) with the end of the world calmly happening behind them.

Not wild trees, two trees in the farmyard.

BTW, Grímsvötn is a real volcano, not a pisspot piece of shit like Eyafjallajökull. This also seems to be a real eruption, usually they just happen under the volcano and melt ice, so this one is bigger than the eruption in the 1990's in the same volcano.

I can't say this clearly enough, you Euroscum need to forgive our national debt or this will keep happening. I'd like to get back to normal eruptions.

[Tamas]

Ok, could you be kind enough to be done with it and sink that island already?

kthxbye