Was 2022 going to be a good year or bad year? Yeah 15 days in and definitely bad. Year without summer? It's southern hemisphere so it will effects will be slower. The SO2 will circle the globe north and south in 2 to 3 weeks then the, the volcanic ash will take a few months to get into the north, eventually the cooler ocean currents in the south will will flow north 6 months to over the next 3 years. It ejected material at least 63 miles high. This happened days or a day after a "once a century cosmic ray event" hits the earth. Coincidence?
No coincidence for 0bservers. Ben has been pitching this (massive increase of volcanic activity) for the last couple of months. Add this ash/SO2 to the masses released by La Palma and it gets a bit more serious. Couple that to the pole now moving toward Siberia with the accompanying 'aurora' heating and displacing the Siberian High - things will make for a 'fun' summer. This happens on Jupiter, but not Earth, which is much closer to the Sun? Man made global warming or boffins too in thrall to politically tainted grant $$$ to connect the dots?
Take heart, it all ends in Fire and Ash! That's assuming we all don't starve and freeze to death first!
An eruption then followed in the early morning of January 14, determined by NASA to be "hundreds of times more powerful" than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Having ejected a volume of around 10 cubic kilometers (more than 2 cubic miles) volcanic material, it generated an atmospheric shock wave that circled the world several times and an ash plume half the size of France. Using a newly developed algorithm, scientists were able to identify the scale of the Tonga eruption and officially confirmed it to be the largest eruption of the 21st century, according to ScienceAlert. Its strength resembled the cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines - the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. (Tonga Volcano Officially the Largest Eruption of the 21st Century, New Data Confirms | Nature World News) Volume of Mt Pinatubo - When even more highly gas charged magma reached Pinatubo's surface on June 15, the volcano exploded in a cataclysmic eruption that ejected more than 1 cubic mile (5 cubic kilometers) of material. The ash cloud from this climactic eruption rose 22 miles (35 kilometers) into the air. and Fine ash fell as far away as the Indian Ocean, and satellites tracked the ash cloud several times around the globe. (The Cataclysmic 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, Fact Sheet 113-97 (usgs.gov) Note this is from the USGS.
So 2 pinatubos. Yeah as that ever so slightly cooler southern hemisphere water moves north over the next 2 years expect some wild weather that will be blamed on "global warming". After pinatubo I was living in Virginia, we got a few inches of ice immediately followed by 2 or 3 feet of snow. Nothing remotely like that has happened since in nearly 30 years. I believe the year was 1993.
