Hunga Tonga
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is an underwater volcano in the South Pacific. It was 450 feet
underwater when it started to erupt December 8, 2021. It built a cinder cone that reared up over
the waves. January 15,
2022, it blew its top 450 feet under water.
It scattered the cinders as it threw 150 million
tons of seawater up through the troposphere; the stratosphere, and punched
the mesosphere, touching space and leaving a visible hump that is on the NASA
website. Search NASA, Hunga Tonga.
That water in the stratosphere has been slowly falling into the air where
weather is made, which was first noticed on our West Coast in September of
2022, causing flooding and mudslides in California, according to the Los Angeles Times. December 31, 2022 is when Wikipedia says it started
flooding California. It continued
through spring 2023.
Wikipedia blames it all on climate change, though it mentions some unnamed
scientists saying it could have other causes.
It doesn’t mention the underwater volcano that sent 150,000,000 tons of
seawater into the stratosphere, a nameless one-day wonder on the evening news,
a bit of video showing the blast expanding as it neared the satellite directly
above it. It will be affecting our
weather for a several more years.
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"Dramatic Changes at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai"
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a good photo for this 2-minute Commentary, and read the brief about the history of this volcano. I hadn't realized that it is a dual island. Now the full name makes sense.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149367/dramatic-changes-at-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai
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