Ash Haze

It's been windy a lot lately.  Strong winds out of the West that have been stirring up old volcanic ash on the Alaska Peninsula and blowing it across the Shelikof Strait to Kodiak.  Here on Kodiak the ash appears as a haze in the air - almost like smoke from a forest fire.  What's cool is that this ash is from the biggest volcanic eruption in the 20th century - Katmai Volcano in June 1912.  It buried the city of Kodiak almost 100 miles away and created deep and widespread deposits on the Alaska Peninsula at its origin.  These deposits still have not totally grown over with vegetation and stabilized and when it gets super windy the ash gets thrown airborne once again.  Sometimes the ash in the air is so bad that planes are grounded.

It also makes for atmospheric pictures!
 Patrick