Activity at Iceland’s erupting volcano has slowed and its flight-halting ash plume had overnight dropped from its peak of 20 kilometres (12 miles) to between three and five kilometres in altitude, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said Tuesday.
“The activity has reduced. It’s much less strong than on the first day,” on Saturday, Olof Baldursdottir, a spokeswoman for the agency, told AFP.
“The plume is lower than it has been. It was seven to eight kilometres last evening, but during the night it went down to three to five kilometres,” she said, stressing though that the decline could probably be partially attributed to “strong winds that affect the plume.”
Harsh weather conditions had made observations of the the volcano and the plume impossibe early Tuesday, but a scientific flight was expected to go out at noon (1200 GMT), Baldursdottir said.
