Assessment - 05 May 2010 20:50
Increased seismicity suggests that new material is intruding from deep below
Eyjafjallajökull and latest GPS-observations suggest inflation. So far,
GPS-signals are not large.

Plume at 5.5-6.5 km height (a.s.l.) according to IMO's weather radar.

Due to mild weather and snowmelt, increase in discharge was noticed in
Markarfljót peaking at midnight. Discharge from Gígjökull seems to be
decreasing and oscillations in water temperature at the old Markarfljóts
bridge relate to air temperature. Pulses of mel****er from Gígjökull are
unnoticeable.

Lava flows to the north and spreads at 500 m a.s.l. The lava tongue is about
200 m wide and lava channels that join at the tongue are about 30-60 m wide.
The lava channels gets wider every day.

There are no signs that the eruption is about to end.

"Bernard Burton" wrote in message
...
Here are some images of the Iceland volcanic ash plume as seen by this
morning's noaa19 overpass at 0448z. The activity seems to have increased
considerably.
http://www.woksat.info/etcse06/indexse06.html

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Weather satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html