Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Quoting ncstorm:
If this eruption is related to tropical hurricanes, I should expect to see the NHC talk about this in their next discussion??

Unlikely, because we still do not know what kind of impact it COULD have on our hurricane season.

I think the impacts would be small, if any.

Quoting weathermanwannabe:
Good Morning..........Given the late hour and still no post from Dr. M, I would imagine he will be addressing the volcano issue and putting together lots of charts and analog comparisons....

He is actually having a virus problem this morning.

Quoting ncstorm:
If this eruption is related to tropical hurricanes, I should expect to see the NHC talk about this in their next discussion??

If the ash was moving westerly i might expect them to maybe mention it, but since it's not i wouldn't.

Quoting AussieStorm:

Not to mention the hostile environment, both environmentally and politically.

That may in fact be a bigger issue. That is one of the most dangerous areas of the world.

Quoting aquak9:
aussie- same old same old...hand waltenater some of your YellowDrank- he needs it!

Yeah, I would hand him the bottle.

I hope at least the plume will stop the ongoing bombing on the border between North and South Sudan. Reuters is covering this, but doesen't pay any attention to the volcano yet.

http://af.reuters.com/news/country/?type=sudanNew s

Quoting PcolaDan:


That may in fact be a bigger issue. That is one of the most dangerous areas of the world.

I work with a guy from Eritrea. He has told me things i can't repeat or want to remember. I think if you google Eritrea and Ethiopia war, you'll get what I mean.

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:


He is actually having a virus problem this morning.

Thanks for the info...........On the volcano issue, a possible effect on h-season is pretty speculative and depends on a lot of factors related to duration of eruption, how much ash, steering currents, effect on SSTs in the MDR; almost similar to SAL issues; it might have a great impact or it might not.

It's always amusing when someone comes into a forum (or into a RW room) just to complain about the current topic(s), and when you ask them what they'd like to discuss, they only stomp their feet and say, "I don't know! Just not what you guys are talking about!"

Ah, human nature. Always entertaining... ;-)

Far more entertaining, however--and interesting--would be if the volcano were, as suggested here, neither Nabro nor Dubbi. Parhaps a new fissure vent? Paricutin in Eritrea?

Quoting Bitmap7:


Yeah, in fact this is the first time I am hearing of a country named Eritrea.

It was part of Ethiopia for a while. The bold below is what we mostly heard about on the news, if anything.

...which in turn led to Eritrea's annexation as Ethiopia's 14th province in 1952. This was the culmination of a gradual process of takeover by the Ethiopian authorities, a process which included a 1959 edict establishing the compulsory teaching of Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia, in all Eritrean schools. The lack of regard for the Eritrean population led to the formation of an independence movement in the early 1960s (1961), which erupted into a 30-year war against successive Ethiopian governments that ended in 1991. Following a UN-supervised referendum in Eritrea (dubbed UNOVER) in which the Eritrean people overwhelmingly voted for independence, Eritrea declared its independence and gained international recognition in 1993.

Quoting Cotillion:


No, no, no.

Completely exclusive from one another.

Just to point out that supervolcanoes are capable of mass extinction from a separate comment. It's probably Mother Earth's most dangerous weapon. Siberian Traps eruption was an extremely long time ago - 250 million years ago or so, Permian/Triassic boundary. As the name suggests, it was in Siberia, Russia.

You can sleep soundly :)

Umm, I should of reread, must of had some kind of brain thing going on sorry and thanks

The Wallow Fire is now up to 407 square miles, a bit smaller than 2002's Rodeo-Chediski fire, which consumed a little over 732 square miles. Inciweb lists the blaze as 10% contained, so they're making progress...

Link says they know the volcano that erupted.
Link

Quoting barbamz:
I hope at least the plume will stop the ongoing bombing on the border between North and South Sudan. Reuters is covering this, but doesen't pay any attention to the volcano yet.

http://af.reuters.com/news/country/?type=sudanNew s

Hi Barb. Unfortunately I don't know if anything can stop the violence in that area. Since the vote for the south to become their own country the violence has gotten worse because of........ OIL. If they can't fly aircraft then they will just throw in more ground forces.

Quoting hurricanehunter27:
Link says they know the volcano that erupted.
Link

Would have been nice if they spelled it correctly.

Well gentlemen, I have done my research on Eritrea and found it to be a new country. More interestingly though, is that it seems to have some of the most beautiful African women in the world.

Quoting PcolaDan:


Hi Barb. Unfortunately I don't know if anything can stop the violence in that area. Since the vote for the south to become their own country the violence has gotten worse because of........ OIL. If they can't fly aircraft then they will just throw in more ground forces.

Hi Dan, sadly you may be right. A volcanic fissure should open along the border between all these countries to protect them from each other ...

Gro- still spewing? not letting up yet?

trying to catch as much as I can here in as little as time as possible

Quoting Grothar:

Looks like the ash clouds getting worse in that pic

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:


It seems as if the ash is being blown more northwesterly than westerly.

At this time. As we've seen from other recent volcanic eruptions, the "cloud" may drift as the prevailing winds change. There's still a chance that some garbage may wind up in the MDR, possibly supressing hurricane development.

Too soon to say.

Hey, Waltanater: NEW BLOG ENTRY.

;-)

Quoting hcubed:


At this time. As we've seen from other recent volcanic eruptions, the "cloud" may drift as the prevailing winds change. There's still a chance that some garbage may wind up in the MDR, possibly supressing hurricane development.

Too soon to say.

This is where the Chile ash has gone.

Wouldn't be surprised this could be the same but take a little longer.

Quoting hurricanehunter27:
Link says they know the volcano that erupted.
Link

It is really a moot point, which one it is. This whole region (Afar Triangle) is one big active area, the continuation of the Red Sea and part of the Great Rift, where Africa is breaking apart.

Quoting hcubed:


At this time. As we've seen from other recent volcanic eruptions, the "cloud" may drift as the prevailing winds change. There's still a chance that some garbage may wind up in the MDR, possibly supressing hurricane development.

Too soon to say.

I'v got to assume it's going to effect the carib. weather some kind of way might take a while though.

Hang out at the NEW BLOG

Isn't the composition of Ash and "African Dust" Different? (shape size weight) I thought is was the micro in nature of the dust (micro in size) from the Sahara is what attached itself to water molecules that weighted the water molecule down that "potentially" affected (suppress) tropical development.

2164 hurricanehunter27 "Link says they know the volcano that erupted."

Thanks. Up 'til now, it's pretty much been bloggers reporting what other bloggers were saying, and satellite views without landmarks.