"Skies may look weird and funny ...." :::: Ethiopian volcano ash reaches Delhi, safety alert for airlines as flights hit ::::: Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted after nearly 10,000 years !!

Ethiopian volcano ash reaches Delhi, safety alert for airlines as flights hit

Ethiopia's Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted after nearly 10,000 years, sending ash clouds towards India. The ash reaching Delhi may affect air quality and weather conditions in the region.

Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman

In Ethiopia while no human lives and livestock have been lost .... reportedly, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat. 

Weather trackers said the plume first entered India over western Rajasthan !!

A volcano in Ethiopia’s north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to 9 miles (14km) into the sky, and across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia’s Afar region about 500 miles north-east of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted for several hours.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, dormant for almost 10,000 years, erupted on Sunday and sent a thick column of ash and sulphur dioxide high into the atmosphere. 

A plume of volcanic ash from Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano eruption drifted over to Delhi, though the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the cloud is expected to move out of Indian skies by Tuesday evening.

IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the ash clouds are “drifting towards China” and will clear from northern India by 7:30 pm.

The plume reached the capital around 11 pm on Monday after forecasters tracked it for nearly a day as it crossed the Red Sea and raced toward northwest India at nearly 130 kmph.  

Weather trackers said the ash first entered India through western Rajasthan. "The ash cloud has now entered the Indian subcontinent from the Jodhpur-Jaisalmer region and is moving northeast at 120-130 kmph," the India Met Sky Weather alert said. 

"Skies may look weird and funny for a while, but there is less to worry about as the ash lies between 25,000 and 45,000 feet," the alert added.  

Simon Carn, a volcanologist and professor at the Michigan Technological University, confirmed on Bluesky that Hayli Gubbi “has no record of Holocene eruptions”.

By late evening, the plume stretched over parts of Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi, with a trailing segment expected to brush Gujarat. Forecasters also warned that Punjab, the foothills of western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Himachal Pradesh could see impacts overnight.

Experts said most of the ash is too high to pose health risks on the ground, but some light precipitation of ash particles is possible. Sunrise on Tuesday may bring unusual colours, while noting that air quality would remain awful as usual, regardless of the volcanic intrusion.