It doesn't look extreme yet, though voggy:
Per PAGASA, the atmosphere is active through about 6-7 hours ago anyway.
Per PAGASA, the atmosphere is active through about 6-7 hours ago anyway.
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Activity at Taal
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From PHIVOLCS today (with PAGASA still showing active weather, using the Manila and Tagaytay lines):
PHIVOLCS reported a steam-driven blast out at Volcano Island and some tremor on the seismographs.
Afterwards Marlon Abuyo did a video from shore that he uploaded about eleven hours ago -- narration is in Tagalog but the recording shows continued strong vog though not quite as intense as what GMA noted Friday.
At least there is some air movement going on.
Wonder how vegetation as well as people are doing as time goes on at these high levels, though.
Afterwards Marlon Abuyo did a video from shore that he uploaded about eleven hours ago -- narration is in Tagalog but the recording shows continued strong vog though not quite as intense as what GMA noted Friday.
At least there is some air movement going on.
Wonder how vegetation as well as people are doing as time goes on at these high levels, though.
Less than 3,000 tonnes of SO2 measured on the 10th, per PHIVOLCS, but this was uploaded eight hours ago (Tagalog):
Their written article in English (mostly).
The PAGASA page reports light to moderate easterlies, though no wind direction at all for Metro Manila (about 40 miles from Taal), and no mention of the monsoon.
Glad Taal's emission has dropped in these conditions but that atmosphere has been polluted for a while now, and perhaps there hasn't been much ventilation overall.
Their written article in English (mostly).
The PAGASA page reports light to moderate easterlies, though no wind direction at all for Metro Manila (about 40 miles from Taal), and no mention of the monsoon.
Glad Taal's emission has dropped in these conditions but that atmosphere has been polluted for a while now, and perhaps there hasn't been much ventilation overall.
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I m seeing no recent news come up in an online search, but it is apparently bad enough still for Marlon Abuyo to stay in his car when he did a livestream yesterday (the rain factored into it, too, of course, but there is also no activity along the shore and I think there would at least be some fish farmers working on the quay and out there on the water -- no matter what the weather, income is income):
PHIVOLCS still reports vog.
Taal's SO2 output in that bulletin is slightly increased from some previous lowered levels after the big emission, but it is well within four digits: huge for many dormant volcanoes (and for current atmospheric conditions
) but low for this one.
There is seismicity, too, but alert level remains at 1 out of 4 and PHIVOLCS isn't reporting any potential short-term eruption concerns.
PHIVOLCS still reports vog.
Taal's SO2 output in that bulletin is slightly increased from some previous lowered levels after the big emission, but it is well within four digits: huge for many dormant volcanoes (and for current atmospheric conditions
) but low for this one.There is seismicity, too, but alert level remains at 1 out of 4 and PHIVOLCS isn't reporting any potential short-term eruption concerns.
Well, the air is in motion, anyway, and it is Taal in full moonlight:
Low-level steam-driven phreatic eruptive activity at Taal reported today, but PHIVOLCS keeps the alert at Level 1.
There are images at the link, but not much on YouTube. I don't think this following video is of the same event but it was uploaded today and spans the caldera (the distant hills are part of the caldera rim, as is the hill this resort is on).
Taal is big, but the caldera doesn't go off very often.
That passive plume from Main Crater's lake on Taal Volcano Island (which is where all historical eruptions have occurred) happens quite often. "Phreatic" usually means some explosiveness.
Nice clear view, too.
(And some of the tilapia fish in those rectangular fish farms in the lake likely will end up in your grocery's fish section!)
There are images at the link, but not much on YouTube. I don't think this following video is of the same event but it was uploaded today and spans the caldera (the distant hills are part of the caldera rim, as is the hill this resort is on).
Taal is big, but the caldera doesn't go off very often.
That passive plume from Main Crater's lake on Taal Volcano Island (which is where all historical eruptions have occurred) happens quite often. "Phreatic" usually means some explosiveness.
Nice clear view, too.
(And some of the tilapia fish in those rectangular fish farms in the lake likely will end up in your grocery's fish section!)
