Status:
Yellow, Phase 3.
- Webcams de Mexico has live webcams, which are free but not embeddable
- Current CENAPRED report (Spanish).
- Hazard map (Spanish)
- Washington VAAC page.
- Puebla Civil Protection (Twitter)
- Mexico City Secretaría de Gestión Integral de Riesgos y PC (Twitter)
- GVP page.
Update, May 24, 2023, 8:27 a.m., Pacific: After about ten hours of relative quiet yesterday, Don Goyo picked up the pace again (Source), and here is the time-lapse from Webcams de México of this morning’s activity through dawn:
La actividad del #volcán #Popocatépetl esta madrugada.
Vista Altzomoni #EdoMex. Gracias #CENAPRED
Para ver en tiempo real: https://t.co/LueLmCkHFw
Video pic.twitter.com/Msd1VIkhmf
— Webcams de México (@webcamsdemexico) May 24, 2023
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Update: Per a recent official bulletin (Spanish), it is showing mostly low-amplitude tremor.
This ash advisory just went into effect a little while ago:
FVXX20 KNES 241403
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20230524/1403Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17693 FT (5393 M)
ADVISORY NR: 2023/626
INFO SOURCE: GOES-16. WEBCAM. NWP MODELS.
ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS CONT
OBS VA DTG: 24/1330Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL350 N1907 W09837 – N1907 W09649
– N1758 W09651 – N1740 W09824 – N1859 W09842 –
N1907 W09837 MOV SE 30KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 24/1930Z SFC/FL350 N1908 W09540
– N1723 W09549 – N1737 W09800 – N1859 W09843 –
N1907 W09836 – N1908 W09540
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 25/0130Z SFC/FL350 N1906
W09835 – N1802 W09436 – N1625 W09525 – N1711
W09721 – N1858 W09843 – N1906 W09835
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 25/0730Z SFC/FL350 N1907
W09837 – N1720 W09344 – N1540 W09444 – N1659
W09734 – N1858 W09843 – N1907 W09837
RMK: CONS VA EMS OBS IN WEBCAM AND STLT IMG MOV
E/SE EXT AT LEAST 120 NMI FM SUMMIT. VA EXP TO
CONT MOV E/SE. FL AND MVMT BASED ON STLT AND NWP
MODELS. …GATLING
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20230524/2000Z
In the news:
- If conditions permit, they will do an overflight of the crater tomorrow. (Huerta) Probably they will be using drones (autotranslated).
- Distribution of protection packets to residents closest to the volcano.
🌋 Debido a la caída de ceniza, trabajadores de la Secretaría de Salud reparten paquetes de protección en Santiago #Xalitzintla, la comunidad más cercana al volcán Popocatépetl. pic.twitter.com/nyXCMzpADX
— Carlos Martin Huerta (@carlosmartinh) May 24, 2023
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I wonder how the timekeeper is doing.
He and his family are mentioned in this 2014 Clío video that reviewed the eruption from its dramatic start in 1994 through the next ten years.
Note: I use Lingo Tube to translate YouTube transcripts; there are other apps, too.
That was ten years into the eruption; next year, it will be twenty years, and what will Popocatépetl be doing then?
Update: They interviewed the timekeeper earlier this week; per Lingo Tube translation, he said (among other things), “[I]t is not yet time for the Father to take me.”
- No formal evacuations have been called yet, but as I understand it, YELLOW PHASE 3 requires officials to check not only routes (autotranslated) but also the availability of shelters: reportedly, EdoMex has 109 shelters currently (Source, autotranslated) and Puebla, 35 (GDACS, May 23).
- As for ashfall today:
🌋Modelo #HYSPLIT indica que la ceniza, en caso de emisiones del volcán, podría dirigirse a:
Atlixco
Izucar de Matamoros
San Pedro Benito Juarez
San Baltazar Atlimeyaya
San Jeronimo Coyula
Tochimilco
Metepec
San Juan Tejupa
Santa Ana Coatepec
Huaquechula
Huiluco#EdoMex#Morelos pic.twitter.com/k8p5EYyooS— PC Estatal Puebla (@PC_Estatal) May 24, 2023
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Finally:
En Puebla, nos reunimos con el titular y personal de @PC_Estatal para dar seguimiento a las acciones de prevención ante la actividad del #Popocatépetl.
🤝 Trabajamos coordinados con autoridades municipales las acciones establecidas en el Plan Operativo para el volcán. pic.twitter.com/8k9gVaP1r5
— Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil (@CNPC_MX) May 23, 2023
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More on Plan Operativo Popocatépetl here, autotranslated.
Earlier posts:
Featured image Popocatépetl in early 2019, by Puebla Civil Protection (Spanish)
Flight To Wonder 