Ash Fall - Soufriere Volcano

Woke up this morning to a layer of fine volcanic ash on the boat. The Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat had a major dome collapse yesterday and ash was reported to have gone to over 50,000 feet. We noticed that planes were landing from the East to the West yesterday and didn't see any weather related reason for this. Now we know why. We are on the East Side of Antigua so sundowns are not nearly as spectacular as they are on the West side but will see what sundown looks like this evening. The wind has gone light and variable and there is a lot of haze in the area - suspect that some of that may be atmospheric dust.

The sundown was partially obscured by clouds so I was not able to get a decent picture showing the effects of the volcanic dust.

I wasn't able to get a decent picture of the sunset but I did notice the ash had covered our solar panel!