Weatherlawyer wrote:

I have been remarkably free from muscle spasms or joint pain this year.

I wonder how things are faring for others with arthitic and rheumatic
type pains. Ay of my many fans out there know anyone with such
illnesses?

Emma has gone the way of all flesh, Carina is looking to turn tricks
unremarked to times indefinite, off the ends of the earth
http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Trop...wld.latest.gif and over in
PNG:

MANAM offshore New Guinea, Papua New Guinea 4.10°S, 145.06°E; summit
elev. 1,807 m; All times are local (= UTC + 10 hours)

A large eruption began at Manam on 27 February around 1733 from the
volcano's Southern Crater. Satellite imagery showed an umbrella cloud
above the volcano and a strong hot spot.

The edges of the ash cloud were ice rich and the eruption height
appeared to be about 19 km (~62,300 ft) a.s.l. based on a warm
temperature anomaly in the middle of the cloud indicating a
stratospheric intrusion.

RVO reported that the strong phase of the eruption declined on 28
February around 00:30. During the height of the activity, incandescent
lava fragments were thrown 700-800 m high; ejection heights later
decreased to 200-300 m. A large amount of ash was deposited on the E
part of the island and lava flowed down the SW valley.

By 1 March, only gas was emitted from Southern Crater.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/