A massive volcano erupted early Tuesday in the Kamchatka Peninsula located in Russia's far east, spewing a column of ash 65,000 feet into the sky.
According to Reuters, the eruption of Shiveluch, one of the most active volcanoes in Kamchatka, is one of the biggest in sixty years.
"The ash reached 20 kilometers high, the ash cloud moved westwards, and there was a very strong fall of ash on nearby villages," said Danila Chebrov, director of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey.
The ash cloud measured more than 300 miles long and triggered an aviation warning in the region.
"The volcano was preparing for this for at least a year... and the process is continuing though it has calmed a little now," Chebrov said.
Located about 30 miles from the volcano, the village of Klyuchi was covered in more than 3 inches of ash.
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is home to 300,000 residents. The region is about 4,000 miles east of Moscow.
Poster Comment:
The ash will block sunlight making food even more scarce and expensive. As I said previously, this will make food very expensive in Chicago (and elsewhere) during the Chicago Democrat convention 2024.
The 2024 Democratic convention will be in Chicago Aug. 19-22 which is the hottest part of the summer.
Not ash, but sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, which can then spread via the Brewer Dobson circulation and disrupt oceanic circulation patterns across the world, oxidising to form sulphate aerosols. These volcanic aerosols reduce net shortwave radiation causing widespread, long lasting surface cooling.