Dust and ash storms in Iceland today

Sediments from pro-glacial lakes near Langjökull, and ash from the Eyjafjalljökull and Grímsvötn eruptions (most likely mixture of those) were blowing around today !

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MODIS image taken 2011-09-09 at 11:30 (NASA/Rapidfire).

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MODIS image taken 2011-09-09 at 13:25.

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MODIS image 2011-09-09 at 15:05.

Made for very bad air quality, for instance at Raufarfell.

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