Anybody out there noticed any volcanic fallout yet?
My car seems to have had a bit of a dusting overnight (Surrey/Hants border)
Heard on the radio this morning the volcano ash output is increasing. Seems to be confirmed by this webcam:
to be confirmed by this webcam:
thankfully no dependency on long haul produce.
First saw it on my car last Tuesday. Before it was on the news, and planes were flying normally. I mistook it for Saharan sand. (I'm in Manchester)
s were flying normally.
Anyone taking bets on when flights will resume? I'm saying not before end of Thursday, but what if lasted weeks/years? According to wikipedia the last eruption in 1821 lasted two years. Would/could we survive without taking any flights around Europe for two years? This is a more interesting discussion than the general election!
Dave
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Some micro pix here posted from a local site, seems rather glassy;!..
I found his rather nifty web site shows all commercial aircraft flying across Europe in real time:
Dave Starling wrote: Would/could we
Certainly.
I really cannot think of a single example of a flight I have ever taken that was NECESSARY.
Even airfreight is only a time convenience, except on a very few cases where time is of the essence, not just of the convenience.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Vortex5" saying something like:
Been happening here since Thursday morning, but I didn't know about the volcano at the time and put it down to dust blowing off the fields, in spite of a)there being no wind and b)there has been no ploughing activity near me at all. In retrospect, it was the volcanic stuff, as it corresponded exactly to what others described later.
Some fantastic photos of the eruption here:
were flying normally.
You could be right. The problem is not the eruption itself, but the direction of the jet stream, which is carrying the dust south and east from Iceland. That general trend is expected to continue until Thursday, although the jet stream will be weakening. By Friday, the flow over Iceland should be weak but Easterly. By next Saturday, it will be strengthening again, but flowing North West, which may cause problems for Scandinavia and Russia, but should no longer affect Britain or central Europe.
Colin Bignll
were flying normally.
Anyone taking bets on when flights will resume? I'm saying not before end of Thursday, but what if lasted weeks/years? According to wikipedia the last eruption in 1821 lasted two years. Would/could we survive without taking any flights around Europe for two years? This is a more interesting discussion than the general election!
Dave
Right little Job's Comforter you are ;-)
I have a daughter currently en-route from Shanghai to Istanbul, where her onward flight to London has, of course, been cancelled.
No absolutely necessary flights, but I've made a number of personally very important flights - my wife has a large family in Ireland, when someone dies, we have had as little as four hours' notice to grab the last flight of the day, so as to get over in time for a funeral first thing the next morning. In reverse they have been called over with similarly short notice for a few last words when family here have been on the verge of death or when someone has ended up in ICU with a very poor prognosis.
Such a flight is certainly not truly necessary, but it is very important on a personal/family level.
SteveW
And before this eruption that started sometime Wednesday night IIRC...
Just think how much CO2 could be saved with a couple of web cams and tinned Guinness.
It was as long ago as Sunday 21st March.
kill the planet and attend a funeral.
Sounds pretty much the way the thinking goes these days ;-)
But that didn't shove thousands of tonnes of muck high into the atmosphere, it caused some floods the evacuation of 800 people from near by and washed out (or the Icelanders removed) a main road to relieve the floods but no great ash cloud high/big enogh to get over here.
:)
That's the beauty of Ryanair, in a nutshell. ;-)
could be so close (and presumably another helicopter with the cameraman) yet all other aircraft within a 1000 mile radius grounded.
mark
Talk hysterical bollocks and feel smug.
Sounds pretty much the way the thinking goes these days ;-)
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