Seeing the behavior of volcanic ash clouds (this from #Ruang) on satellite is always really neat. The warmer center of it is actually higher up, in the stratosphere, and the updraft weakening can be seen by the cooling off plume's center as it sinks back towards the tropopause

Mount #Ruang in Indonesia erupts again 🌋

Infrared images from 気象庁 #Himawari9 revealed impressive cloud-top gravity waves associated with an eruption of #Ruang in Indonesia - coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures reached -90ºC (yellow pixels) immediately after eruption onset: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

Let’s congratulate Dr. Dan Chavas, the recipient of the 2024 STAC Outstanding Early Career Award! Pictured: Dan Chavas (awardee) with Naoko Sakaeda and Pablo Santos (conference co-chairs).

Kilauea has erupted. Hard to find a webcam with a good vantage, but apparently fissures opened about 1 mile south of the summit caldera near the location of the intrusion earlier this year: volcanoes.usgs.gov/cams/KPcam/ima…

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Post ERC bomb-out commence...

Raw Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) numbers up to 7.6, suggesting ~ 910 mb and 145-150 kt sustained winds. Source: tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/adt/…

Sups finding the Bermuda triangle off the eastern FL coast