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Ash Friday

June 5, 2010

What a strange day it’s been today. [Or, well, technically yesterday, since it is now past midnight.] No sooner had I responded to this post in the forums about the extreme rarity of ash fall in Reykjavík than the sun vanished behind a thick cloud of — you guessed it — ash. And then it [...]

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The Eyjafjallajökull crater, post-eruption

June 4, 2010

OK, I “post-eruption” might be a little premature, because no one can say definitively that the eruption is over. However, it has been inactive of late [fingers crossed], and this evening Kastljós had a segment in which they travelled up to the crater last night, in the middle of the night.* It’s a very spooky [...]

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Is the Eyjafjallajökull eruption over?

May 23, 2010

The volcanic eruption has been fairly low-key this past week, and according to reports from this morning it appears to have stopped altogether. At least for the time being. Reporter Ómar Ragnarsson flew over the crater this morning and told RÚV that there is no ash in the plume and it looks like the eruption [...]

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MY ICELAND: The Eyjafjallajökull eruption

May 21, 2010

So I finally managed to find time to upload some of the photographs we took from our excursion into the ash cloud last weekend. We set off around 6 pm and drove to Selfoss, where we grabbed some dinner. We set off again around 8 pm and drove east, towards Skógar. It was a gorgeous [...]

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The latest from our friendly neighbourhood volcano

April 26, 2010

So, Eyjafjallajökull has been behaving reasonably well for the last few days, meaning that it seems to have ejected most of its ash stockpiles for the time being and is now emitting lava like a good little volcano. The lava, I’m told, is running to the north and is melting ice which is causing a [...]

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More on the name of that pesky volcano

April 26, 2010

A cool little video in which my friend Krista takes on the Eyjafjallajökull challenge – and nails it. RESPECT!

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Ash Saturday, without the ash

April 24, 2010

So both Keflavík and Reykjavík airports are closed today due to volcanic ash. The ash fallout was predicted, and I fully expected to wake up today to find everything covered in a thin layer of gray dust. In fact I was dead curious to finally be able to see some of that insidious matter that [...]

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The beginning of the end?

April 20, 2010

So Kastljós this evening had a fascinating eyewitness report of their cameraman driving through the ash cloud and back again. It was an unusual sort of segment for Kastljós, more like a visual blog post – very personal. You can watch it here [at least for the next two weeks] — even if you don’t [...]

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Anatomy of a volcano III

April 20, 2010

Hey everyone, this just in from Mike Richards, our resident volcanologist: Hi folks, The latest on the eruption is that it seems to be settling down to a more ‘Icelandic’ style of eruption. The huge ash falls of the last few days are dwindling and most of the stuff coming out of the crater is [...]

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Latest update from Volcanoland

April 19, 2010

So I did not get off the rock this morning as intended, as both my flight to Copenhagen and the connecting flight to Brussels had been cancelled. Which is just fine — to be perfectly honest I would have been slightly nervous about flying even if it had gone ahead. Seriously, I prefer remaining here [...]

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