"Why did the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland create so much ash? Although the large ash plume was not unparalleled in its abundance, its location was particularly noticeable because it drifted across such well populated areas. The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland began erupting on March 20, with a second eruption starting under the center of small glacier on April 14. Neither eruption was unusually powerful. The second eruption, however, melted a large amount of glacial ice which then cooled and fragmented lava into gritty glass particles that were carried up with the rising volcanic plume. Pictured above two days ago, lightning bolts illuminate ash pouring out of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano." - AJCann from Bookmarklet

My beef with Iceland: this thing has gone up before, and you knew it would do it again, so that all the world would have to talk about it. Why then did you have to give it such an unspellable jawcracker of a name?! - Bill Hooker

Agreed, Bill. Eyjafjallajokul is one hellova jawcracker. Full deck:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... That aside, this one is the wordl's first to have it's own twitter account:- http://twitter.com/Eyjafja... - Graham Steel

I can't believe it has its own Twitter account, although "I'm a lava, not a fighter" had me rolling with laughter - Benjamin Tseng