Well the sky was more orange than red today, but still spectacular.

Since the volcano eruption I have not been able to access the USGS earthquake page ?
I normally look at it a couple of times a day.

Anyone got any earth observation links that you check on regularly?


Cheers

There's a mention here for today Tuesday 18/1/2022. Check the archives on the right for 15/1 and see the eruption just on nightfall.

https://spaceweather.com/

VOLCANIC SHOCKWAVE RIPPLES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA: If you have a backyard weather station, you might have detected this weekend's volcanic eruption near Tonga. The undersea blast hurled a plume of sulfurous ash all the way to the stratosphere. Satellite videos show an atmospheric shockwave expanding on all sides of the plume.

Astronomer Matt Penn and colleagues decided to investigate further. "We plotted the times of barometric pressure peaks from 150 backyard weather stations available on Weather Underground," he explains. This movie sequence shows the data they found:

Live image
Credit: Claude Plymate, Mike Conley, Geri Hall-Conley, Jonathan Mangin and Matt Penn

"White dots mark the arrival of the shock wave during the five hour interval 11:30 UT to 16:30 UT," explains Penn. "There were some very large amplitude differences! We clearly saw that the wave was severely reduced by crossing the Rockies. I think it would be very interesting to look at a smaller region, measure amplitudes, and track the reduction as the wave moves from California through the Rockies and onto the Great Plains. There is a gold mine in the Weather Underground data set."

"We looked at only 150 sites," Penn continues. "There are thousands of sites that show the pressure wave and lots of cool science projects that could be done. I hope this inspires more people to take a look!"

I'm envious Bunyip. The Featherbeds stop everything.

I was in North West WA when Pinatubo went up. Fantastic sunsets. And in Darwin a bit later still spectacular.

Been eyeing off that mass on the radar, feeling somewhat envious.
On the upside, everything is green, but I can get away with putting of the grass mowing.

A neighbour caught a smokey sunrise as well.

There's a bit of monsoon trough across the top again.

Tried to rain half an hour ago. Lol.

Fingers crossed.

Ha ha Weary, the bit of cloud & extra humidity makes it bearable out here. 😁

Looks like some activity showing on the radr out in the west, weary...

Also looks like some good rain converging on Cairns and north for you this evening....

We have just been getting fairy pee lately ..all the action to the south of us and the west and now the north...dont see us miss out like that too often...

maybe tonights our night..

LOL. For all we had rain on & off yesterday, and some heavy patches last night, there was only 6mm in the gauge this morning.
However yesterday there was 42mm not too bad a drop.

I to have been watching and wondering where our wet season has gone?
Good to see townsvile get a wash but seriously this is the second monsoon
bust for us.
Looks like it's moving north and running out of puff at the same time.

I think this happens in these La Nina years, the wet stuff goes south.
Also great to see the center and outback all get good floods, Just some
areas of out outback QLD still missing out and in drought still.


Not offen my total matches Low Isle with 54mm this morning.


Cheers