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smoke and steam rises from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, which erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air
Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010

Open quoteIt is showing up on imagery at the moment, extending down as far as the Faroes, but it looks as though the wind will drag it a good deal further south.Close quote

  • PHILIP AVERY
  • of the U.K.'s National Weather Service, on the mushroom cloud of ash that was released by Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which led to the cancellation of hundreds of European flights
Photo: Icelandic Coastguard / AP | Source: Times (of London)