March 31, 2009
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How much is Redoubt Volcano affecting your weather?
A few days ago, Doug and I were listening to somebody on the radio talking about ashfall from Redoubt. The topic was how long an ash cloud of a given height took to fall to earth. The higher the initial eruption rises, the farther it will travel before reaching the ground, and above a certain height, the speaker said, “It doesn’t come down.”
We exclaimed in unison, “Then where does it go?!?” Today, I found out.
Five day animated tracking of ash clouds across Canada, U.S., and Atlantic Ocean.
Comments (6)
Well that’s interesting. So it could spread across the world eventually.
We need something to thin out the aluminum and barium they keep dumping on us anyway…weather here in MI has been cold and rain/snow mix for the past few days, leading the entire staff at Fox News to believe Global Freezing is happening, right in the nick-of-time…Here anymore, if we get an inch of snow, you’d think we were under attack, as the local weather warns us to stay off the roads except for emergencies…wimps…Michigan is supposed to have snow measured in feet, not centimeters…I guess the answer to how it might be affecting our weather is, who could tell? : )
that’s new’s to me. I thought that it would eventually fall back to earth even if it took an extended time.
Have you ever researched the Volcano sometime in the 1800′s in the south pacific. It caused such extreme weather changes that it was responsible for thousands of deaths all over the world. There was snow falling in July and no ones crops would grow. I’m going to try and look it up again because it was very interesting.
I will be interested to watch Mount Redoubt and see if it causes simliar weather issues. Here is the info about that Volcano:
Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano,
Tambora erupted in 1815 with a rating of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, making it the largest eruption since the Lake Taupo eruption in AD 181.[4]
The eruption created global climate anomalies; 1816 became known as the Year Without a Summer because of the effect on North American and European weather. Agricultural crops failed and livestock died in much of the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in the worst famine of the 19th century.[4] _ From Wikipedia
@KarlaandSuperMedic - Krakatoa is another historic volcano that affected weather — for five years after the 1887 eruption. Volcanic activity is one of the favored explanations for the extreme weather change around 535-536, which caused crop failures, famine, and the abandonment of several cities. It’s also thought by many people to be the basis for the Norse legend of Gotterdammerung and the Fimbulvinter, the winter that lasted three years.