Icelandic volcano = interesting sunsets ?

[Luddite Frank]

With the recent eruption of a volcano in Iceland, apparently significant enough to disrupt air-travel to Western Europe and the North Sea countries, can we count on some "more colorful than average" sunsets over the coming days / weeks ?


Luddite Frank

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

With the recent eruption of a volcano in Iceland, apparently significant enough to disrupt air-travel to Western Europe and the North Sea countries, can we count on some "more colorful than average" sunsets over the coming days / weeks ?


Luddite Frank

I hope not!...it's my vacation soon - if the planes can fly again! 😱

 

[stefan_dinu]

We have very quiet skies theese days! Thank you Iceland, thank you mother nature.
As for sunsets, do not really care.

 

[M4cr0s]

I've noticed the color of the light being slightly "off" at certain times of the day compared to what I'm used to (I live in Norway, just across the pond from Iceland) in the last few days. Sunsets have been rather normal (bland) though so far, but that might change.

Mac

 

[rolleistef]

If you want to see the effects of a volcano on the colours, the best way is to go the National Gallery and have a look at Turner's painting :the unique aspect of this pre-impressionist painter is due to the eruption of the Tambora in 1815 that resulterd in "a year without summer", remembered in France for example because the grape wasn't mature in December of that year and the wine was icing...

 

[Stelios]

I thought the atmosphere yesterday afternoon was a bit weird but then I had just come out of a long day in the darkroom so my eyes were a bit funny.

stupid volcanic ashes!

 

[Renzsu]

Nothing special here in the Netherlands.. whatever ashes are here I'm sure they're too little to cause any visual effect. Even though our national airport is closed, we can't see anything..

 

[robbeiflex]

I've noticed the color of the light being slightly "off" at certain times of the day compared to what I'm used to (I live in Norway, just across the pond from Iceland) in the last few days. Sunsets have been rather normal (bland) though so far, but that might change.

Mac

I thought so too while I was out biking yesterday, but was under the impression it was my new sunglasses. If I experience the same today then I'll have to stop, get off my bike, and take them off for a while and see. Specifically I thought the blue was deeper higher up in the sky while near the ground the sky was more white, but since it's been so long since I've seen a fully cloudless sky in Luxembourg it's hard for me to tell.

 

[M4cr0s]

I thought so too while I was out biking yesterday, but was under the impression it was my new sunglasses. If I experience the same today then I'll have to stop, get off my bike, and take them off for a while and see. Specifically I thought the blue was deeper higher up in the sky while near the ground the sky was more white, but since it's been so long since I've seen a fully cloudless sky in Luxembourg it's hard for me to tell.

IF there are changes in the light they are bound to be subtle, so we might just be imagining it. My impression is that there's a hint of warmer color in the normally very bright and sharp, white spring light. All very subjective 😉

Mac

 

[Nikon Bob]

I would think that in Europe there would be reddish sunsets caused by the ash cloud from Iceland. When Mt St Helens blew her top in 1980 we had coloured sunsets to the east half a continent away, very similar to what happens from large forest fires. Maybe the ash is different from the volcano in Iceland?

Bob

 

[Stelios]

Second time out today, i think i was imagining stuff yesterday. It's just that the sky is surprisingly clear, no clouds, no jetstreams! That's a first for england

 

[robbeiflex]

I'm back from my bike ride, and I agree with the posts above. The deeper blue I noticed is definitely the new sunglasses (I see the world through rose-coloured glasses now!). The real change is the lack of clouds, wind, and machines in the sky!

 

[rolleistef]

What may change is little is the consequence of having a reduction of 10 000 planes a day... It was noticed that after september 11th the global temperature cooled a little, and the same effect is observed in many country on week ends : since people don't use their car, there's less greenhouse gas emited and therefore a diminution of temperature. It would be interesting to see the effect on European climate.

 

[scottwallick]

Iceland volcano = Delayed return of serviced M9 from Solms.

And nice photos too, I suppose.

 

[Nettar]

These things are hard to predict. My experience in eastern Australia, after the the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and when the ash cloud had spread to the southern hemisphere, was that proper sunrises and sunsets were not visible for quite a while. Bear in mind that at sunrise and sunset the atmosphere between you and the sun is at its thickest. Far from giving spectacular effects, the ash in the atmosphere can simply bar the sun altogether.

My first experience of this came when I set up my camera in an abandoned rural churchyard on a gloriously sunny afternoon. I spent a lot of time getting the lens rise just right, and decided to wait until the light was lower before taking the photograph. That was a mistake! As the sun sank it quickly disappeared behind a cloud of atmospheric ash pollution, even though I was many miles from habitation.

 

[robert blu]

No colours in north italy: it's a gray day ! Not sure if just "normal" clouds or something "extra" .
robert

 

[robbeiflex]

Once again, this evening was notable for its bland boring sunset rather than any special colours. Interesting, but nothing special to take pictures of.