I an in the home stretch for grading exams, so just a quick update for today:
The evidence of floods from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, taken on May 1, 2010 by Dr. Joe Licciardi.
Airports now as far south as Spain, Morocco and the Canary Islands are facing closures due to the Eyjafjallajökull ash. The latest London VAAC ash advisory has the ash wrapping around western and southern Europe, which I am sure is making life interesting for routing transatlantic flights into Europe. The flights within Europe don't seem to be that effected according to Eurocontrol - and they have even dropped the "buffer zones" around the ash, saying that the models are good enough to predict exactly where the ash will be (let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence).
As for the eruption itself, there has been seismicity at depths of 18-20 km under the volcano, but the style ...
