Posted on 01/17/2022 5:37:39 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
100 lightning bolts per SECOND. Wow, that must be something to see.
“Once the volcano is de-gassed, it will settle down.” — cue the burrito jokes! Who wants to go first?
Strange when the Japanese quake hit we were roused from our homes early in the morning with tsunami sirens and sheriffs knocking on doors.
This one? Nothing at all. I wonder if anyone is even manning the stations since no other country did much. The water came about thirty feet from our home, Like a King high tide. No one up and down the street even knew a thing.
Just Damn.
You took the words right out of my mouth! Dang!
There may not be anybody to rescue if this goes on much longer. I have been to Tonga. It is a low lying island. It would not take much or a tsunami to completely inundate the island.
Guess I’m not too old to learn something. How does volcanic eruption cause lightning?
What state are you in?
That is insane to hear that nobody knew.
Where are you?
Static.
Silly writer appears to associate lightning with coming eruption.
Not a good comparison with Pinatubo. Not only were their volcanologists crawling all over it until the last minute, but the US base commander (Col. Jeffrey R. Grime, commander of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Clark Air Force Base) next door thoroughly had his stuff together and did everything right and in a timely manner.
A good indicator is taking video of a pyroclastic flow closing in on your location at high speed. This means you waited a tad too long.
How lightning forms in general is still debated among scientists, and volcanic lightning is even less well understood. What is mostly agreed upon is that the process starts when particles separate, either after a collision or when a larger particle breaks in two. Then some difference in the aerodynamics of these particles causes the positively charged particles to be systematically separated from the negatively charged particles. Lightning is the electrical flow that results when this charge separation becomes too great for air to resist the flow of electricity. Some of the lighting strokes in these photos are at least 2 miles long, so the separation of charged particles must occur on this scale.
Here is an idealized sequence of events that leads to lightning:
These photos are of the Redoubt Volcano in Alaska and were taken by Bretwood Higman. He set his camera up to take 30 second exposures every two minutes.
I remember a few years ago there were some absolutely astonishing photos of lightning in a Chilean volcano. Here's one...
Ring Of Fire...you’ve gotta expect bumpy times.
The “experts “ didn’t see this coming. What makes people think they know what’s going to happen from now on?
Looks like a big nuclear explosion.
“A second major eruption has been detected at the Hunga Tonga volcano on Monday”
So it aint done. We may get to see a real Jim dandy. Maybe a VEI 7. Pinatubo was a 6. Tambora a 7.
If its still giving it hell, meaning vast amounts of sulphur gases are being released.
This WILL effect the southern hemisphere weather.
Man..them thar are some really amazing photos you found.
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