There’s currently an absolutely huge ash plume extending up to 67,000 feet, which shows up on Meteoblue’s weather maps, so naturally I went hunting for the digital recreation in the simulator with live weather enabled.
For whatever reason, the data didn’t translate into any impressive vertical formations like I was hoping to see, but it was a scenic flight all the same. The co-ordinates for the erruption are 20.536°S 175.382°W for anyone else interested. Fuaʻamotu International Airport (NFTF) is the closest airport to the volcano, about 40nm south of the Hunga-Tonga island, marking the tip of the submarine volcano that only broke sea level in 2009.
heard today that at the other side of the world (here in belgium between 20.00 & 21.00u) meteorologists saw a spike in barometric pressure from this eruption… must have been a heavy one…
Thought I’d check out the area today (Realtime Weather Activated). I also checked out the area the day of the eruption. I know some YouTubers (Obsidian Ant) already covered the topic but thought I share some screen shots. Interesting stuff.
Depending on the size, some of the explosions are detected for many trips round the world … I think the 1883 Kraktoa one was 3.5 times around the world. The waves were picked up at weather monitoring stations and they built up quite a picture of the wavefront and how it propogated around the world as in this report (PDF)
