Photo via The Reykjavik Grapevine
People in the far northern reaches of the earth, look out! Not only must you brace for a big solar storm, but now you have have plumes of hot volcanic ash to worry about. From the NY Times:The ash is coming from an eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, located near a glacier of the same name (which, for those not fluent in Icelandic, is pronounced, AYA-feeyapla-yurkul) in southern Iceland, which began erupting last month for the first time in nearly 200 years.The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites has some great satellite imagery of the cloud of ash drifting east and disrupting air travel in northern Europe:
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