Iceland's 2nd Volcanic Plume Heads Towards The UK - Satellite Images

Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 11:11 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Hopes of a resumption of air services out of London were dashed today when Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull burst back into mega volcanic plume building business as pictured in the image above taken by NASA's MODIS satellite imaging system. The volcanic ash plume stretches south out across the North Sea towards Scotland.

Just a day earlier on the 18th at 2pm the skies around Iceland were relatively clear as you can see in the below image.

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Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull-Fimmvörduháls volcano erupts - image taken at 2:00PM GMT 18/4/2010

See also… Satellite Image Shows Iceland's Volcanic Plume - Friday 16 April

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