ENVR Krakatoa just erupted in Indonesia

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
Anak Krakatoa
Anak Krakatoa, is an island in a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. On 29 December 1927, Anak Krakatau, emerged from the caldera formed in 1883 by the explosive volcanic eruption which destroyed the island of Krakatoa.Wikipedia
 

nobbie

Contributing Member
In 1883 the eruptive force was equal to 13000 nukes the size of the little boy dropped on Hiroshima according to wikipedia.
 

Faroe

Un-spun
So what is the potential impact of the ash going to be on our weather?
Got wool?
IIRC, Tambora was the one that hit off The Year Without a Summer. Odds are, it's likely we'll be ok. Volcanoes fascinate me - I'll probably be up half the night chasing news on this one. Prayers for the locals - hope they have their face masks available. As I understand it, the microscopic glass shards of ash in the lungs is a hard way to go.
 

Faroe

Un-spun
Does any one know, was this eruption a complete surprise, or did it give warning signs?
I hadn't come across anything about bulging or recent seismic activity.
 

The Hammer

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Do they usually have some indication a volcano is about to blow? Or is it completely out of the blue?
 

Hermantribe

Veteran Member
We have three different volcanos go off today this one as posted above blew ash to 47,000 foot and lots lava jetting up and very high. One in another part of the world today blew out a big gob of lava that covered the whole volcano.
iceland, Krakatoa and what was the third one please?
 

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
Sent a plume 14 kilometers into the air!! This could be fun!!
Krakatoa eruption link:
Excerpt:
The Indonesian volcano Krakatoa, also known as Krakatau, has reportedly erupted.
Reports say it sent a plume of ash several kilometres into the air, with a boom that could be heard from far away.
"Please stop making that booming noise and go to bed, Anak Krakatau. It's late and we've already got plenty of other things to worry about," one person wrote on Twitter.
"Krakatau is erupting nonstop for 2 hours," wrote another. "I live in bogor and I can hear the noises as clear as everybody else hear. This feels like a nightmare."
Volcano tracking site Volcano Discovery called it a "large magmatic eruption", at least the biggest since 2018, which caused a 150m-high tsunami wave that hit an uninhabited island. That boom was so big, the Anak Krakatau lost two-thirds of its height.
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
iceland, Krakatoa and what was the third one please?

Krakatoa, Fuego and Sakurajima and it was Fuego that did a spectacular gob of lava that covered most of the volcano, I hope no one was on the side of it as they did not make off there alive. Sakurajima had a good lightening show to go with the eruption.
 

Nowski

Let's Go Brandon!
Just looked at my Davis Vantage VUE weather console,
and its 48, and high today was 65.

Low so far for April was 37, with a high so far of 87,
just the other day, and I was able to work outside.

Now just seeing an alert for hazardous weather this weekend.

It does't seem like normal Easter time weather for this area,
I don't know, probably my advanced years starting to
catch up with me.

Its Corona. It has messed everything else up,
why not the weather too.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
Oh, no on top of everything else, from Fukushima, to Iceland's volcanoes possibly erupting too. If Krakatoa has gone full bore explosion it will mean serious temp drops impacting global food production like they did with the year of no summer 1816, causing the French revolution by ruining the wheat crop. Yep, add another year without summer 2020.
 
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