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Astronomycast Episode 188 from Monday May 3, 2010.

The future of astronomy.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of the Universe today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaea, professor with Southern Illinois University at Birdsville.

Hi Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, but summer doesn't seem to have arrived yet.

Here on the West Coast, it's just been cold and wet and rainy and we're in June.

Oh, I'll trade where we're hot and muggy without air conditioning and daily thunderstorms.

I was wondering if somehow the volcano would have had some impact by darkening the skies and causing the summer of the year without a summer.

They're saying that it was the wrong part of the atmosphere for it to have an effect.

It wasn't Krakatoa or Penetuba, I think was how you pronounced it.

You do, yeah.

No, it caught it, not caught it.

We're waiting for caught it.

The e-unpronounceable Icelandic volcano.

No, it just, it just spent on the air industry, not on the air conditioning industry.

Right.

Oh, well, I guess I can't blame it on volcanism.

Well, if Kotla goes, you can blame Kotla.

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