Video of the sixth eruption, from the Alaska Volcano observatory webcam system. (h/t to Ron De Haan)
There is sound in this video.
As first noticed by WUWT commenter Crosspatch last night, from seismic data, it appears Mt. Redoubt has erupted:
Crossptach at 9:41pm
Looking at this Redoubt webicorder it looks like an eruption of some sort might have started at around 2045UTC. It’s dark there now, so we won’t know until morning.
Image above h/t to The Volcansim Blog
Because the eruptions happened at night, so far we don’t have any current photography. Hopefully soon. The radar image above shows the plume clearly though. Here is a 40 frame loop showing the eruptions. (h/t Tom Woods) – Anthony
Noon Update: The most recent volcanic ash advisory from Anchorage VAAC, issued at 17:25 GMT (09:25 local time) gives the plume altitude as FL600, which is 60000 feet ot 18 kilometers (h/t to The Volcansim Blog )
FoxNews: Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt volcano erupted late [Sunday and early Monday] in “four large explosions,” sending an ash plume an estimated 9 miles into the air, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported.
“The ash cloud went to 50,000 feet, and it’s currently drifting toward the north, northeast,” said Janet Schaefer, a geologist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Geologists at the observatory say the volcano, located 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted four times, from 10:30 p.m. to 1:40 a.m. local time.
“This is a fairly large eruption, close to the larger cities in Alaska,” Geophysicist John Power said.
The current wind patterns are taking the ash cloud away from Anchorage and instead heading toward Willow and Talkneetna, two communities near Mount McKinley, North America’s largest mountain in Denali National Park.
Alaka AVO is twittering for those that might want regular updates as they are released. The webcam is dark, though. The RSO webicorder is apparently knocked out but station REF is still available.
“What is the point in continuing to pay for something that we already know has not worked and will never work? ”
Good point, time to kiss it goodbye.
Fortunately for my cousin and family, who did, they are safely to the west of Redoubt at San Pedro Bay.
Reply to: Derek Walton.
When was the last (first) time AWG folks were bound by the facts??
BBC says 50,000 ft (15km)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7959261.stm
Michael Finn (06:52:51) :
Your radar trace appears to have been taken without acknowledgement from this Volcanism Blog post:
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/redoubt-eruption-update/
The caption comes from there too. That would be why it says ‘click for latest radar image’: that works on the original post, but not on your post.
The volcanism link (which btw is a great site) to that graphic is http://radar.weather.gov – no need for an attribution.
REPLY: the image was emailed to me with a description, and since it was NOAA/NWS radar (obviously) I didn’t even consider the source to be elsewhere. But now that it has been pointed out to me I gave The Vulcanism Blog a h/t and link. Thanks for pointing this out! – Anthony
Ted Annonson: You wrote, “Gives the AGW team a perfect excuse for any cooling in the future.”
It’s too far north to have any effect globally.
humm.. Ot, sorry, don’t know if that has been noticed before:
during that time, at Copenhagen:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5921/1546
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News of the Week
GLOBAL WARMING:
Projections of Climate Change Go From Bad to Worse, Scientists Report
COPENHAGEN–Meeting 2 years after the most recent report of the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some 2000 scientists delivered a consistent if not unequivocal message here last week on the state of Earth’s warming climate. “The worst-case IPCC projections, or even worse, are being realized,” said the event’s co-chair, University of Copenhagen biological oceanographer Katherine Richardson. Emissions are soaring, projections of sea level rise are higher than expected, and climate impacts around the world are appearing with increasing frequency, she told delegates in the opening session of the 3-day meeting.
etc (if you need it all because of no access, I could copy it entirely if allowed)
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so apparently IPCC projection were bad, because the climate is going worse.
But where do they find the warming? thankfully, they’ll release a report in june.. ouf!
and btw I didn’t know Amazon forest was disappearing due to AGW, I thought it was due to deforestation!
Ron de Haan (06:18:11) : and I both know where to go for volcano updates. Alan Sullivan at http://www.seablogger.com/?cat=22 is a man with his head very well screwed on and is to be applauded.
“A single blast like this is not a climate-altering event. It’s far more significant that the sun remains spotless. It would take twenty-four hours of non-stop explosion for Redoubt to get me worried. That is unlikely.”
There are blogs like here and there, where the real information about the AGW scam continues to be placed before an unsympathetic media. Slowly, infinitesimally slowly it may seem, the blinkers are falling from the eyes of the voters and we shall yet see the politicos dashed by their own forms of hubris. Of course, a swift kick in the goolies would also speed thing up.
While this eruption may be too far north to have a global temperature impact (not an average?) I wonder what impact it will have on the Arctic. It is the start of spring and sunny days are returning to the Arctic. What happens if this warming is reduced by atmospheric dust for a couple of months? Please standby.
Even if the aerosols and fine ash remain in the northern hemisphere, would not the ash fallout on the Arctic ice increase the melting? Decreasing reflectivity?
Well, chaps it could all be rather academic what height the plume reached, as it would have to have hit 15,000ft, before hitting 20,000ft, on its way up to 50,000ft! So all three are correct technically, just a matter of when!
Is there any possible (silly really as anything is possible) correlation between the recent volcanic eruptions, Redoubt, off Tuvalu in the south pacific, & Chile’s Cheiten, which I understand is preparing to blow a little, & the reduction in solar magnetic activity, & a possible similar correlation between any volcanic activity in, on or around 1913, & ditto the Maunder minimum? I understand that there is a tenuous link between siezmic activity on the earth & moon. Or am I reading too much into this? (Feel free, I’m no wall flower so won’t take offence! coming up thro’ the ranks I have a pretty thick skin.) Any associated cooling I understand lasts only for about 2-3 years, so we could sneak up to 2014/15, but if the climate keeps cooling, the models will need re-jigging – again.
As for tipping points, they do remind me of double-glazing salesmen, I’m only in the area this week, you only have till the end of the month, sign up now for a great deal or it’s too late, etc! It has to be the oldest ploy in the book.
OT Great video links to interviews with guest speakers at the ICCC from ICECAP. Let’s have more!
Oops that should have read Tonga I think! Just finished watching another article on Tuvalu that’s why.
AtB
Just wait, next week Al Gore will say CO2 is causing the volcano to erupt. It is equally plausible to many of his other arguments.
How is it going the statistics of recent volcanoes eruptions (from 1989 to the present) as compared from previous years ?
Actually the latest Anchorage Daily News is reporting that a 5th explosion at 4:31 this morning sent a cloud to 60,000 feet.
http://www.adn.com/volcano/story/733152.html
Is this another example of the “Gore effect?”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/14/gore-entire-north-polar-ice-cap-will-be-gone-in-5-years/
Looks like the air conditioning bill will be low again this year. Anybody want to double down on that bet about arctic ice vanishing?
Please, please, Mr. Gore, to not make any predictions about dinosaur killing asteroids.
Some information about this.
Redoubt Observations and Background: 3/16/2009
“”””At this time it does not appear that the increase in activity heralds a significant eruption in the short term, but conditions may evolve rapidly.”””””
hummm…very radidly.
“”””About twenty minutes after the initial steam and ash burst, a sediment-laden flow occurred from a small area in the ice at about 7000 feet on upper Drift glacier. This flow descended about 1500 feet and produced a distinctive seismic signature seen across the Redoubt network.””””
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php
sonicfrog:
Finally!!!!
yes
AVO Slammed
Monday, 23 Mar 09, volcanoes
“The Alaska Volcano Observatory has been slammed by heavy traffic, now that everyone knows Redoubt is blowing its top. Furthermore the eruption is starting to degrade the monitoring system. The nearest seismometer failed during the fourth explosion, probably taken out by a pyroclastic flow. It was located below the northern breach of the crater, right in the path of any collapsing eruption column. The hut webcam has also failed, probably shorted out by ashfall. It was directly downwind of the volcano. In the thick weather there would be nothing to see anyway. Wet southerly winds are bearing the plume northward over the interior of Alaska. So far it is staying safely west of Anchorage. Low level winds have turned more easterly, so the eruption might become visible from the Cook Inlet webcam, if the clouds would clear. That seems improbable today. Maybe tomorrow.
BTW, it’s a clear day with great viewing of Chaitén. That eruption continues in steady-state. Several Kamchatka volcanoes are strongly active at present. I have heard nothing new from Hunga-Tonga the last couple of days”.
Nature’s power is unbelievable. Oh, how insignificant we are… That photograph conveys it perfectly.
Respect!
How much of that ash could carry over the Arctic ice? Wouldn’t this aid the summer melt? If so, AGW will ramp up alarmist cries.
O/T to BernardP (06:17:07) : and Ken Hall (07:03:15) :
Here is some more basic energy math, being a good Canadian, I forwarded it to my Member of Parliament, not that I expect much.
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/more-simple-energy-math-5063
OT
But Artic sea ice appears to be around 750,000 squarte kilometers
above the 06 -07 minimum
http://nsidc.com/arcticseaicenews/
Does anyone knows whether this sort of eruption (plus the low pacific one) is enough for AGWr to atribute any near future down trend on Temps to it? — Thanks in advance.
Well, here’s a plug for Anthony’s Storm Predator software- I’ve put Kenai up on program, running on a casual radar page I have, for those who want to check on it from time to time. Normally I watch weather on the Great Lakes, but there isn’t any right now, and this is more fun. There was a substantial plume northwesterly about 2 hours ago, but that seems to have dissipated on the radar.
I can only guess what the NWS radar will report in terms of ash…
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