Bali news and views editor's comments :
Looking at the two satellite photos below provide by Nasa for Nov. 27 Th. and 28 Th. it is difficult to understand why the Bali Airport was closed yesterday and today . Maybe the authorities know something we don't know.
What I do know is that yesterday morning when I viewed Agung from ly balcony at Bali Paradise Estates it appeared that the ash flow was 360 degrees opposite from normal during this time the year.
I questioned what was going on? Later last night I discovered that a cyclone off of Java was drawing the ash plume to West and Southwest Bali which of course includes the airport.
From what I've read there is a strong possibility that tomorrow we may be back to normal Tradewinds where the winds will flow from S/E to N/E carrying the ash plume out over the Badung straits towards Lembongan and Lombok away from southern Bali and the airport .
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pend a few more days in Paradise.
In fact, you may be here long enough to see the volcano fully erupt, which is a once-in-a-lifetime event. I lived in Hawaii for 18 years and never saw one of their multiple volcanoes explode in a full eruption.
This is something you can tell your grandchildren in the future.
I would not offer this if I didn't feel safe.
I live 10 km closer than our villas with my children and I have no fear all of being caught up in any lava or dangerous clouds.
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| My Family and I taken yesterday |
The last time Agung erupted the maximum it extended was 12 km in 1963.
I'm sure you're boss will understand that you can't get a flight out and therefore you have to stay in Bali. LOL
Below is information from Nasa
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acquired November 27, 2017download large image (284 KB, PNG, 1217x811)
acquired November 28, 2017download large image (282 KB, PNG, 1217x811)
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Since August 2017, residents of the Indonesian island of Bali have been living with a heightened sense of the uncertainty that comes with living near a volcano. Mount Agung has been rumbling with increasing unrest for more than three months. Activity ramped up with a small ash eruption on November 21, 2017, followed by an explosive phreatic eruption on November 25.
Clouds have so far prevented satellites from capturing visible images of the volcanic plume, but that does not mean the eruption has gone unobserved. Even on a cloudy day, some satellites excel at detecting components in the atmosphere that are invisible to human eyes, such as the sulfur dioxide (SO2) in a volcano’s plume. The gas can affect both human health and climate.
These maps show concentrations of SO2 detected over Mount Agung on November 27 (top) and November 28 (bottom) by the Ozone Mapper Profiler Suite (OMPS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite. Turn on the image comparison tool to see changes in the SO2 plume’s magnitude and location.
Simon Carn, a volcanologist at Michigan Tech, noted that the westward motion of the plume is due to the pull of Tropical Cyclone Cempaka south of Java.
Also notice that by November 28, the SO2 plume directly over the volcano appears to have decreased. “It is definitely normal that it should fluctuate a bit,” said Janine Krippner, a volcanologist at the University of Pittsburgh. “But the volcano is definitely not winding down at this point.”
She also notes that the concern now is that there is a clear pathway through which lava can travel to the surface. An “open system” like this one led to deadly lava flows during the volcano’s last major eruption in 1963.
According to a report by the Jarkata Globe, about 100,000 people live on the volcano’s slopes but less than half have evacuated. The eruption has also led to airport closures and the cancelation of hundreds of flights.
References
In the Company of Volcanoes (2017, November 17) Agung Volcano Unrest Information. Accessed November 28, 2017.
ReliefWeb (2017, November) Indonesia: Mt Agung Volcano - Sep 2017. Accessed November 28, 2017.
Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program (2017, November 21) Agung. Accessed November 28, 2017.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using OMPS data from the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). Story by Kathryn Hansen.Instrument(s): Suomi NPP - OMPS
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