9th, lasting well into Saturday morning.
Wind speeds measuring 20 m/s and higher were recorded at half of the automatic weather stations in the lowland areas and similar speeds were recorded at 80% of automatic weather stations in the highland areas.
In the town of Heimaey in the Westman Islands, wind-speed* of 28 m/s and gusts measuring 45.8 m/s were recorded at the height of the storm, setting
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in Keflavík International Airport 220 km from the volcano, and a mobile one currently situated approx. 80 km away from the volcano. For further information, see Update.
Initially the plume reached approx. 20 km altitude but during the night it fell to 15 km, occasionally rising to 20 km. During the morning of the 22nd the plume was lower still, or at around 10 km in altitude, rising occasionally
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A great storm passed over Iceland on Friday night, October 9th, lasting well into Saturday morning.
Wind speeds measuring 20 m/s and higher were recorded at half of the automatic weather stations in the lowland areas and similar speeds were recorded at 80% of automatic weather stations in the highland areas.
In the town of Heimaey in the Westman Islands, wind-speed* of 28 m/s
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