Puyehue-Cordón Caulle ash makes it to Buenos Aires and Paraguay

The eruption that started Saturday at Puyehue-Cordón Caulle along the Chilean-Argentine border is still going - and still causing problems for people living in the zone where ash and pumice (see below) is falling. The plume itself is spreading to the north and east of the volcano as you can see in an image posted on the NASA Earth Observatory In fact, cities as far afield as Buenos Aires are feeling the effects of the ash, with flight delays and diversions in and out of the major international airport in that city, along with some flights in and out of Paraguay. The ash may even reach Brazil later in the week. These problems may not be short-lived as SERNAGEOMIN geologists say the eruption could last days to weeks. The mayor of Bariloche, one of the cities along the border most hit by the ash, has been telling residents that it ...