Back in January 2022, a volcano erupted from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean pretty darn near the island nation of Tonga. Yes sir the Tongan people felt that eruption for real. That eruption turned out to be one of the single most gigantic volcanic eruptions in quite some time. The Tongan people aptly named their new volcano "Hunga Tonga" which translated from the Tongan language means 'that's a damn large volcano'. Volcanologists have confirmed that the Tongan eruption was one for the books. The books on volcanology. So...the ash cloud produced by Hunga Tonga was seen from space and there are space pictures to prove the point. Additionally, the Hunga Tonga volcano had one enormous lightning storm with that ash cloud and the ash cloud produced almost 200,000 bolts of lightning. Yup, that is a lot of lightning. Here is photographic proof of the number of lightning bolts coming up right about now -
The tiny blue dots are markers that indicate where the lightning struck. If a reader has ever had the privilege of seeing a lightning storm in or around Darwin, Australia then the size of the Tongan eruptive event with lightning pretty much says all that needs be said. Or written as the case may require. The lightning storm was a beauty. No worries, eh? Turns out I didn't even need to book passage to Tonga to see the geophysical beauty of a birthing volcano. Still, being up close and personal would have been a bucket list top of that list thing to behold. Oh yes. Now for Wednesday machine art. Sorry, no volcanos today.
emmylou -
nothing -
serengeti -
gargolean -
arise was heard to be said -
there are any number of volcanos scattered about the Mojave. not a one of those volcanos is active. dang if'n that doesn't about figure. 😏
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