Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)]

Dear Marianne,



> However, the cloud seems to have stopped at Melos, an island only sixty 
> miles 
> to the west of Thera.  But ashes were deposited hundreds of miles to the 
> east.  That means the headwinds from the west must have been very strong at 
> the 
> time, these squalls being a September through November occurrence on the 
> Aegean.

This the wrong reasoning. Of course that for the Theran outbursts not having 
reachead higher strata  would the direction of the wind at the time of the 
outburst be important and would redirect them. These "low" outbursts would 
also according to the laws of ballistic be also the shortest in the reach of 
the volcano. Such ones under the correct angle and powerfull enough to reach 
higher strata would be completely independent of the winds and reach more 
remote regions.

So what happened on Melos is typical for a "low" shot. The rest depends om 
the volcano itself.

Best regards,

Bányai Michael
Stuttgart