Bárðarbunga: Smashing The Pollution Record Yet Again (update x2)
The first post-eruption SO2 measurements of 600 µg/m³ at Egilsstaðir were 2 1/2 times the previous Icelandic (pre-eruption) pollution record. Then that was crushed when Reyðarfjörður hit 2600 µg/m³ -...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Getting To Know The Neighborhood
English groups many different concepts together into the word "know", while Icelandic has many different words for each kind of knowledge.People vita facts. People kunna a skill. Your acquaintances...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Putting The Squeeze On The River
A river of lava at night, and steam by day. That's what we see on the live cameras, when the view isn't blocked by a storm. It's tantalizingly close to being able to tell what's going on without...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Okay, Wind, You Can Change Direction Any Time Now.
There's not many places in the world that you can watch the northern lights dancing over you through a haze of sulfur dioxide, but that was the scene that met me this evening.It was a beautiful day...
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Bárðarbunga: And Thus The Sky Is Blue.
A strange title, but I promise we'll get back to that.We've been getting bright red sunrises / sunsets from the residual Mist(Credit: Árni Sæberg)... though it's mainly blowing to the south now,...
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Bárðarbunga: Who's Watching The Watchers? A Fox Named "Gosi"
Meet Gosi.(Credit: Veðurstofa Íslands)While there have been many reports of dead birds around the eruption site, Gosi ("Jack" - also sounds like the word for "eruption") seems to be taking his new...
View ArticleNot Bárðarbunga: Building An Earth Home in Hvalfjörður, Part II
(((So, I had a hard drive failure tonight, so rather than write a full volcano diary tonight, I'm resurrecting and updating something I wrote before to save time. Hope it suffices until...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Lava Flow Expanding Near The Vents; Small Quakes Increasing In...
Sæl og blessuð. Sorry for the delay! My new hard drive is up and restored, replacing the old one that crashed; I simply missed a bit of Míla recording time.Black. Those tuning into Míla right now,...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: I Am An Idiot
So, yesterday I went out to my land and did some touchups on my crate. Then having another hour or two of light, I decided to do some long-overdue repairs on my windbreak.Mist - 400-500 µg/m³ at the...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: One's Benefit, Another's Loss (little update)
Winter has arrived in Reykjavík. The weather is cold and crisp. Snow lies on the ground and winter winds from the last storm are dying down; many drivers got caught unawares and there were a number of...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Mist Back In Reykjavík, Mass Evacuations Near Cerro Negro,...
Busy times. Today I was runninng around from place to place - trying to chase the shadow of my no-show architect, checking on pricing on roof waterproofing, hunting for parts for a 30 year old Swedish...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Pollution Levels In Höfn Blow Away Records; Plus, A Seismic Tour...
Let's recap our SO2-level readings.600 µg/m³: Highest of the first post-eruption recordings in Iceland; they blew away Iceland's previous SO2 record by 2 1/2 times over. Also the levels which, when I...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: Ice Cauldrons Ring The Caldera
People have been asking me for a long time for pictures of the caldera. They see the graphs of the great levels of subsidence and often expect to see a giant bowl. But while there've been dozens of...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: "Capital of the North" Hits 4000 µg/m³; Hospital Forced To Shut...
Happy Halloween to you all. Up here, trick-or-treating doesn't generally exist; the holiday is mainly just used as an excuse for teenagers and young adults to throw costume parties. ;) But nature is...
View ArticleNot-Bárðarbunga: Politics Isn't A Bunch of Puffins and Happy Elves
We're going to take a little bit of a break from Bárðarbunga and Hraun-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named tonight. Over on your side of the pond, you're all getting ready for the good fight in midterm battles. And...
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Bárðarbunga: Asphyxiating Policemen, Acid Snow, Fields of Dead Mice and Wow...
I'm never surprised by the ability of random events to completely derail what I planned to write about. I had a full article written up about all of the major news from the current eruption that...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: The Aftermath of a Volcano
So, this diary probably comes out of the blue. After posting regularly during the buildup to the eruption and the eruption during itself, I eventually got burned out; it took an awful lot of work to...
View ArticleAbout Those "4000 ISIS Terrorists Smuggled Into Europe As Refugees" Story...
Is Islamic State, as manyright-wingnewsarticles have suggested, trying to encourage as many refugees as possible to sneak into Europe so that they can hide 4000 fighters among them as secret terror...
View ArticleI hereby proclaim Barack Obama Day to honor Iceland's relationship with Kenya
And Hillary Clinton Day to honor our relationship with England and Wales. And John Kerry Day to honor our relationship with Austria, Hungary and France.Because all of these things would make as much or...
View ArticlePoll:0.0% of 0-25 year old Icelanders believe God created the universe;49.1%...
Normally I wouldn’t have taken the time to write up such a quick, trivial diary — but the “0.0%” figure was just too good not to share with you all in the US. Some background: Unlike the US, Iceland...
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