The Iceland Volcano Thread

Sponge Bob

This morning parts of UK Airspace were closed as the ash erupted from the Eyjafjol volcano (starting yesterday) drifted across it. Ths stuff is pretty deadly if it gets into aircraft engine intakes.

The airspace closure so far affects Scotland and NI so far but the cloud is drifting south.

Current visible imagery shows strong drifting ash plumes north of scotland.

Eyjafjallajokull could bang on for years...or stop tomorrow. Its neigbour Ole Dirty Bastard could possibly erupt too. I thought it was time to open a thread to monitor this ash cloud and the volume and force of the eruption because Icelandic volcanos can have a profound effect on weather and always have done.

Sponge Bob

http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/#eyjafjol

At 2300 on 13 April, a seismic swarm was detected below the central part of Eyjafjöll, W of the previous eruption fissures. About an hour later, the onset of seismic tremor heralded an eruption from a new vent on the S rim of the central caldera, capped by Eyjafjallajökull glacier. The eruption was visually confirmed early in the morning on 14 April; an eruption plume rose at least 8 km above the glacier. Meltwater flowed to the N and S. News outlets reported that a circular ice-free area about 200 m in diameter was seen near the summit. Scientists conducting an overflight saw a new 2-km-long, N-S-trending fissure, and ashfall to the E. About 700 people were ordered to evacuate the area, and certain flights were banned from flying N and E of the eruption area. Flooding increased throughout the day, causing road closures and some structural damage.



Geologic Summary. Eyjafjöll (also known as Eyjafjallajökull) is located immediately west of Katla volcano. Eyjafjöll consists of an E-W-trending, elongated ice-covered basaltic-andesite stratovolcano with a 2.5-km-wide summit caldera. Fissure-fed lava flows occur on both the eastern and western flanks of the volcano, but are more prominent on the western side. Although the 1666-m-high volcano has erupted during historical time, it has been less active than other volcanoes of Iceland's eastern volcanic zone, and relatively few Holocene lava flows are known. The sole historical eruption of Eyjafjöll, prior to an eruption in 2010, produced intermediate-to-silicic tephra from the central caldera during December 1821 to January 1823.

Sponge Bob

The Excellent Icelandic Weather site is monitoring progress of the volcano. Keep an eye on that as your primary source. There was a recent plan to install a weather radar in Eastern Iceland ( they only have one in the west) PRIMARILY to detect Ash from icelandic Volcanoes but it has not been installed yet.

http://en.vedur.is/

mike65

Pity this is drfiting south east cos we could have had a nice sunset this evening.

irish1967

The effect of this eruption on air traffic can be clearly seen here

http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

At time of posting there are no planes north of Dublin for the British Isles :eek:

Sponge Bob

Looks like ALL Norwegian Airports are closed

http://www.avinor.no/en/avinor/airports

Oslo hs just been closed completely/

All air traffic to and from Oslo Airport are cancelled from 10:00 a.m. due to the ash from the volcanic eruption in Iceland. All passengers are encouraged to check with their airline for further information. We'll be back with more information as the situation develops.

Copenhagen is still open as I write

http://www.cph.dk/CPH/UK/MAIN/

Brian

In Dublin airport now, all flights to the UK are cancelled... Got a concert in London to get to this evening...

irish1967

Baza210 wrote: »

In Dublin airport now, all flights to the UK are cancelled... Got a concert in London to get to this evening...

Even if the airports re-open in the next few hours the backlog is going to be horrendous.

Sponge Bob

We can escape south right now but the plume will be over us by tomorrow night latest. Aer Arann is yer only man after that

Victor Meldrew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pb_56KqVs8&feature=player_embedded#!

DOCARCH

mike65 wrote: »

Pity this is drfiting south east cos we could have had a nice sunset this evening.

Evelyn on the radio said that plume should spread into the south east by evening, so you might get your nice sunset.

crazyderk

that website http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ is class!

mike65

Move it north of the default view!.

Big Nasty

Will we get any ash fallout from this?

maquiladora

All London airports will be closing within 3 hours.

jambofc

irish1967 wrote: »

The effect of this eruption on air traffic can be clearly seen here

http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

At time of posting there are no planes north of Dublin for the British Isles :eek:

that is mad looking,nothing north of dublin here or uk :eek:

irish1967

Any news on Dublin Airport?? Surely it cant last long.

Ash fallout..:eek: dam just polished the car last night !

maquiladora

No flights permitted into any UK airspace from 12.

rameire

just wondering if anybody would be able to attach a pic of the website showing no planes north of dublin.
As i cannot access the website or view pics that are embedded on the thread while in work.

thanks in advance.

viclemronny

Is it likely that flights from london to dublin tomorrow morning will be cancelled. How long can we expect there to be no air travel between dublin and london.

irish1967

maquiladora

'The Irish Aviation Authority has said Irish airspace is to close at midday and will remain closed until 8pm tonight causing major disruption for thousands of people.'

http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-airspace-to-close-and-leave-thousands-stranded-453995.html

irish1967

Is this going to be visible from the ground?

Popoutman

This is fun.
I'm in London for work, and I'm due to fly home tonight and back out on Monday to London.

It'll be a bit weird not hearing any planes in London...

The footage I've seen of the meltwater is thoroughly scary as well.

maquiladora

irish1967 wrote: »

Is this going to be visible from the ground?

Caller to BBC News from Shetland is saying they can smell it in the air there now.

Nuria_BA

For safety reasons and on the direction from Air Traffic Control Service (NATS) a decision has been made to cancel a number of flights and close all London airports.

All the latest information on British Airways flights (including refund/rebooking options) are on ba.com http://bit.ly/cSII0t

If you're travelling today (15 April), you should check your flight status on http://bit.ly/cVroIE or http://ba2go.com (on your mobile).

pauldry

Volcano Day!

I knew boards wouldnt let me down

See it on the www.sat24.com website.

It looks like falling on our cars from middle of day for a couple of hours.

:rolleyes:

abouttobebanned

"oh yeah...she was taking me over and oh yeah it was the start of the summer"

they knew. (sorry)

RockPaper

The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre latest predictions, the red line shows the area of dispersion


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271309704.png

Celtic Mech

Volcanic Ash Advisory from London - Issued graphics


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html

Sponge Bob

Advisories are issued by a global network of Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres and the UK Met Office hosts the UK and Ireland ( and Atlantic) centre.

Up to date advisories are available from here

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html

This is the 06:35 UTC plume estimate.

Brian

Any ideas what the green/red/blue lines signify?

thecretinhop

Wtf? im flying next Tuesday from Heathrow do we have any idea when flights will resume?

Celtic Mech

From looking at it i reackon each is a boundary to which Flight Level the Ash Extends to. For anyone unfamiliar to them, e.g. FL250 = 25000FT and so on.

Poster King

The Blue is for more dense ash cloud, I think the red is for less dense traces of ash.

whippet

My missus is supposed to be flying back from sweeden tonight ... d'oh !!!!

Is volcanic ash valuable ... maybe the UK government could try and gather as much as possible and take it as payment for all the lost deposits from the Islandic banks!!!

Sponge Bob

No chance anybody will fly sweden ireland tonight, tell her to look for sweden paris now if possible.

Fizman

This better be gone by Saturday. Supposed to be flying Dub-Fuerteventura at 7:20 in the morning. Fingers crossed.

Brian

http://bcpk.org/2010-04-15%2009.45.01.jpg

irish1967

AS of now.. there are NO planes over the island of Ireland. Quite a rarity i guess:)

Edit: and typical the last plane to cross Ireland was from...... Iceland !!

irish147

I was due to fly to England via Finland in jan, flight got canceled due to snow, now I'm off to the Snooker in Sheffield on Saturday, and flights could be canceled due to ASH!



Time to give up :)

whippet

Sponge Bob wrote: »

No chance anybody will fly sweden ireland tonight, tell her to look for sweden paris now if possible.

she's actually flying via Amsterdam, connecting with AerLingus .. and I see aer lingus have cancelled all flights from Amsterdam, apart from the very last one tonight .. so far.

Stockholm is now totally closed !!!

alibabba

Finally our roads will be gritted
pity it wasnt two months ago though

SQ2

regretting not ticking that volcano cover box on my travel insurance now

Su Campu

Baza210 wrote: »

Any ideas what the green/red/blue lines signify?

RED = Surface to 20,000ft.
GREEN = 20,000 - 35,000ft

average_runner

There be no ash fall though?

alibabba

And I only went and watch 2012 last night !

We're all doomed

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

John mac

So with the lack of con trails, will it mean the temp will rise?

Wierd not seeing any trails usually there are at least 1 every minute and sometimes 5 or 6.

Deep Easterly

I remember reading about the Laki volcano eruption my 1st year undergrad course. It had a profound effect on life in Europe. A dry haze that persisted for months. Summers were hot, but winters were cold. Famine and death also resulted. If I remember correctly that particular eruption occurred along side other big eruptions across the globe.

I am trying to find that particular book on the net to link. If I find it I will post later. It had a synoptic overview of the entire 1780's. Patterns became jarred with very frequent northern blocking post eruption. :eek:

rameire

John mac wrote: »

So with the lack of con trails, will it mean the temp will rise?

Wierd not seeing any trails usually there are at least 1 every minute and sometimes 5 or 6.

its a conspiracy i tells ya.

adamski8

John mac wrote: »

So with the lack of con trails, will it mean the temp will rise?

Wierd not seeing any trails usually there are at least 1 every minute and sometimes 5 or 6.

well you couldnt see them anyway in dub with all the cloud.
Hope there is a LARGE increase in temps