Sunday, August 31, 2008

Colorful Sunrises/Sunsets

I get up most mornings around the sunrise. So today I was outside ahead of the the sun rising and I noticed the sky was more colorful than usual. Very intense orangey/magenta. Nice.

But I didn't think that much more about it until I got an email from spaceweather.com/ and it turns out that people all over the US and Europe have been seeing more colorful Sunrises/Sunsets because of the August 7th eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in Alaska.

The volcano hurled a massive cloud of ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere; high winds have since carried the aerosols over parts of the USA and Europe.

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