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The Iceland Volcano Thread

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  • #362
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/news/volcanic_ash/iceland_plume_10_5km_hires.gif

    Here's a forecast animation for the next few days... gas masks anyone?


  • #363
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Alas Fuerteventura isn't happening tomorrow thanks to Mount Buzzkill. I've just booked the same flights for next week and waiting to hear if accommodation can be rescheduled to that week as well. Flights were €50 more but that wouldn't bother me so much if I get away.


  • #364
    Deep Easterly
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    rc28 wrote: »
    That's just a plane contrail in the pic from the west.

    I'm wide, but no other clouds visible this evening, which would have enhanced the sunset. The sky is just hazy. I really doubt it has anything to do with the plume at the moment.


    New eruption looking quite serious now!:eek:


  • #365
    rc28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭rc28


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    I'm wide, but no other clouds visible this evening, which would have enhanced the sunset. The sky is just hazy. I really doubt it has anything to do with the plume at the moment.
    I know it doesn't - I was just pointing out that the 'thing' in the picture was just an aeroplane contrail.


  • #366
    Deep Easterly
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    rc28 wrote: »
    I know it doesn't - I was just pointing out that the 'thing' in the picture was just an aeroplane contrail.

    Ok ok! :D


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  • #367
    LookingFor
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Wind direction seems to have changed in the last hour. This plume seems to be going higher than before too.

    The met office in iceland was forecasting the winds to change to a northerly direction this eve. (Maybe the start of that change in airflow predicted in the models).


  • #368
    pp_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭pp_me


    http://www.daylightmap.com/index.php

    why isnt it dark there yet?


  • #369
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    thetonynator wrote: »
    Cloud maybe???

    No it's spearing now from the back of the tree


  • #370
    Pangea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Its quite funny looking at the volcanic gas trail on rtes website, its everywhere but ireland, its wrapped around the edges of ireland but not going over the island .


  • #371
    rc28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭rc28


    http://www.ruv.is/frett/bolstrar-i-30-thus-feta-haed-myndir
    I think this is reporting the fresh eruption.


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  • #372
    red menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    Google translate mangles it quite badly

    Bólstrar to 30 thousand. feet-photos

    Gosmökkurinn seen all over.
    Published over Eyjafjallajökull and now widely seen bólstrar. Coast Guard aircraft, TF-SIF was flying eftirlitsflug the fifth time today. Then observed from bólstrar gosstöðvunum which reached up to 30 thousand feet. Wind in the region was vigorous, to 19 thousand feet, he was about 85 to 90 knots, equivalent to 167 km / hr.
    About 50 cm rise in water surface at the Old Bridge was the Markarfljót sexleytið today. Gígjökli came spewing out of the third period. Farmers Fljotsdal, innermost farm in Fljótshlíð, said that vomited was small. Expected from vatnsspýjum Gígjökli during the eruption time.


  • #373
    Pangea
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    Is this latest eruption bigger than any of the previous day or is it the same?


  • #374
    LookingFor
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    Hard to say I think. I think weather was so bad earlier it made observations difficult.

    Ejections to 30000 ft would be higher than what was reported earlier today, however (seemed to suggest ejections up to the 18-24k ft range if I recall right).


  • #375
    LookingFor
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    The UK met office has a cool little google map showing dust samplings across the UK:

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/volcano/dustobs.html

    Also have a blog recording updates etc.


  • #376
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Some nice pics
    e01_23019981.jpg

    e07_23020489.jpg

    e09_22816003.jpg

    e15_22816019.jpg

    e18_23024127.jpg


  • #377
    nacho libre
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    amazing photos. thanks for posting them.


  • #378
    Popoutman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    Looks like I'm not getting home for the weekend. This sucks!
    I can't argue with the airlines' choices, but until Monday...
    Ah well, now to find a drycleaners/laundrette to prepare for the week ahead.

    Bugger!


  • #379
    Deep Easterly
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    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Some nice pics
    e01_23019981.jpg

    Great snaps!

    Is it me, or does those 3 plumes look like 3 rats springing into the sky?


  • #380
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭John mac


    LookingFor wrote: »
    Pics have been posted in After Hours of what's claimed to be the plume visible from western Ireland:

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=111051&d=1271451328

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=111053&d=1271451508

    (photos from kpatrick)

    It sure looks a bit suspect...if it's not the plume it's doing a good job of looking like one.


    that's the same con trail I posted earlier!

    (here)


  • #381
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭John mac


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Great snaps!

    Is it me, or does those 3 plumes look like 3 rats springing into the sky?

    meerkats or ferrets maybe .


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  • #382
    nacho libre
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Great snaps!

    Is it me, or does those 3 plumes look like 3 rats springing into the sky?

    i think it is just you:p this could well be to do with the fact Galway is full of vermin:p


  • #383
    [Deleted User]
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    Another live feed and images here:

    http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en


  • #384
    LookingFor
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    UK airspace closed til 7pm. Irish airspace reclosed til 6pm, no transatlantic flights even.

    Latest VAAC forecasts show a disimprovement in the situation. The ash risk area has grown thanks to the eruptions yesterday which went higher into the atmosphere.

    Also, there's a new risk area encroaching from the north as the winds turn northerly. In the latest VAAC you can see how it's closing the gap with the old one pretty quickly as winds push down from the north.

    http://metoffice.com/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271483349.png

    However it's also worth noting that this forecast isn't quite as bad as the one issued at midnight which was the basis for these new closures. But I think it's unlikely to effectively change the situation except perhaps to allow scottish airspace to reopen...but if the area to the north keeps growing, that window of opportunity could be brief.


  • #385
    LookingFor
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    Another update from UK, ban extended to 1am Sunday. Might be a window of opportunity later for NI/Scotland for coordinated flights, but they're not optimistic.
    The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland is moving around and changing shape. Based on the latest information from the Met Office, NATS advises that the restrictions currently in place across UK controlled airspace will remain in place until at least 0100 (UK time) tomorrow, Sunday 18 April.

    We are looking for opportunities when the ash cloud moves sufficiently for us to make some airspace available within Scotland and Northern Ireland, which may enable some domestic flights to operate under individual coordination with ATC; we will be coordinating this closely with airlines and airports. It is most unlikely that many flights will operate today and anyone hoping to travel should contact their airline before travelling to the airport.

    We will continue to monitor Met Office information and review our arrangements in line with that. We will advise further arrangements at approximately 1500 (UK time).


  • #386
    mickger844posts
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    hellboy99 wrote: »
    Another live feed and images here:

    http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en

    Looking at the latest live feed there is no let up in the intensity of the eruptions. Its a big dirty mess coming from the Volcano.


  • #387
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,168 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    What's that plane doing in the middle of the ash zone? :eek:

    111074.jpg

    Oh, wait :)

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #388
    blobbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭blobbie


    Not sure if this has been posted before but

    Tha'r she blows http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/


  • #389
    LookingFor
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    blobbie wrote: »
    Not sure if this has been posted before but

    Tha'r she blows http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

    Wow, that's a big cloud.


  • #390
    DWCommuter
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    unkel wrote: »
    What's that plane doing in the middle of the ash zone? :eek:

    111074.jpg

    Oh, wait :)

    Its not a jet engined plane.


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  • #391
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Clouds have cleared to give a nice view on this webcam:

    http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en


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