Something new changing the landscape; a few days ago we witnessed something different to what has gone before; something unexpected and utterly amazing: no, not Nick Clegg, although the Lib Dems have been dormant for a while it seems - until now - but not for 200 years, unlike the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland which woke up last month with a light and lava show before dozing again until a few days ago. Now, the continuing eruptions of ash is causing massive disruption and travel chaos throughout Europe (and a knock-on effect globally) on a scale I've never seen in my lifetime; there's enough on the news so suffice for me to just post the incredible image below (click to enlarge); it is "lightning caused by electrical discharge within the ash column". Taken from the Stromboli Online of the Swiss Education website. More, equally impressive pictures HERE.
For those really interested there is a chemical composition of the ash and the gas composition and flux report from the Institute of Earth Sciences HERE.Mother Nature - just letting us know who's boss.
4 comments:
Fantastic photograph. I like the fact that air travel has been brought to its knees by mother nature - although that doesn't help somebody like you who depends on it.
Yes, I like that fact too! Big show in Utrecht that I won't be at, not because I couldn't have made it but we others there/going who went by tarin and car...oh I say, moi?
...and guess what: today in several papers (online and print) I see similar pictures to this one (before they've just been the normal "cloud" pics) Now, not saying they copied me but I beat them by two days (arf arf) but nice to know that I move at the same speed as the global press....jejeje.
I made that comment as well but it didn't show up!
I didn't see it so it wasn't like the deleted ones that the blog owner sees as well. So ot sure why it wouldn't/didn't show.
(sure you were posting here? It could have been the red haze and rage blinding you after the Barca game!)
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