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The Iceland Volcano Thread

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  • #902
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    owenc wrote: »
    NO! scottish airspace!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8630455.stm listen to bbc news sky news are false sometimes.. i have told this tons of times already.
    UK airspace to start reopening on Tuesday

    (Reuters) - British airspace will start to reopen to flights from 0600 GMT on Tuesday after levels of volcanic ash from Iceland declined, UK air traffic controllers said on Monday.

    The volcanic eruption in southern Iceland has reduced and is not emitting ash to altitudes that would affect Britain, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), which controls UK airspace, said in a statement.

    Airspace in Scotland and northern England will open first and restrictions in the rest of England and Wales may be lifted later on Tuesday, the national air traffic control body said.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63I3SQ20100419


  • #903
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    maquiladora wrote: »
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63I3SQ20100419

    Thats an american site. shows what they know.. read nats though does it say london will open?


  • #904
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    http://www.nats.co.uk/


  • #905
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    owenc wrote: »
    Thats an american site.

    * Reuters Group Limited is a United Kingdom-based news service ....
    owenc wrote: »
    shows what they know..

    * "British airspace will start to reopen to flights from 0600 GMT on Tuesday after levels of volcanic ash from Iceland declined, UK air traffic controllers said on Monday"
    owenc wrote: »
    read nats though does it say london will open?

    * "The latest Met Office advice is that the contaminated area will continue to move south with the possibility that restrictions to airspace above England and Wales, including the London area, may be lifted later tomorrow (Tuesday). - http://www.nats.co.uk/


  • #906
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Excellent, my flight to Heathrow is at 18:05 so looking good.....ish! And with pretty much all of Europe clear above 20,000ft it should be ok for the onward to Dubai. :D

    That's all assuming Enya doesn't throw another fit in the meantime. :rolleyes:


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  • #907
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Manchester Airport re-opens from 9am tomorrow.


  • #908
    dave_connolly3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭dave_connolly3


    From BBC

    1623 The Met office has warned that the volcano's activity has started to increase.


    A Met spokesman told the BBC that whereas eruptions had subsided this morning to between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, they had increased within the past two hours back to a height of 10,000 ft.

    Although this is not back to the initial maximum height of 30,000 ft, the spokesman said the unpredictable nature of the volcano's activity meant that there was still cause for concern.


  • #909
    acquiescefc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭acquiescefc


    From rte live disaster thing


    17:07 A statement on the Irish Aviation Authority's website says that the current meeting of EU transport ministers is expected to approve an interim, European-wide response to the airspace restrictions arising from the volcanic ash cloud.

    The response will ease restrictions, and this will facilitate the commencement of limited operations from 5am tomorrow, based on ash proliferation assessments.
    IAA expects to reinstate some air traffic services on a phased basis from this time. It stressed that this is not a return to full service.


  • #910
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Hard to find a working live stream of Eyjafjallajökull at the moment, but the tremors are still pretty strong in the vicinity & here is a picture of it about an hour ago : http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html


  • #911
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Magma batches ejected
    No lava flow detected yet

    19.4.2010

    At 04 o'clock this morning, seismic tremors indicated that lava flow might have begun in Eyjafjallajökull.

    At 08:50 the ash cloud reached a hight of 4 km, which is less than in recent days. This would suggest that water inflow at the crater is decreasing and that the ash producing phase of this eruption is giving way to a phase of lava flow.

    Two of IMO's specialists flew with the Icelandic Coast Guard this morning (19 April) and observed, at 10:30, magma batches thrown 1.5 - 3 km into the air by explosions in the crater.

    Magma batches have have accumulated on the crater's rim. Lumps and batches of magma have also fallen on the ice around the crater and this gives rise to steam plumes.

    In spite of the ejected batches of liquid magma, no lava flow from the craters was detected. South of the eruptive site, the ash clouds reached 5-6 km hight.

    http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/2010/nr/1883


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  • #912
    DOCARCH
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Hard to find a working live stream of Eyjafjallajökull at the moment, but the tremors are still pretty strong in the vicinity & here is a picture of it about an hour ago : http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html


    Pretty good live view on Sat24, updates every few minutes. http://www.sat24.com/Eyjafjallajokull-volcano.aspx (scroll down the page).


  • #913
    Rougies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭Rougies


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Pretty good live view on Sat24, updates every few minutes. http://www.sat24.com/Eyjafjallajokull-volcano.aspx (scroll down the page).

    Archive of same cam can be found here ..... updates every 10 mins (time in GMT)
    http://picasaweb.google.com/102175391233488315229


  • #914
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Reports coming in that another volcano, Hekla, is beginning to erupt? :confused:

    http://twitter.com/AshAlerts


  • #915
    mickger844posts
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭mickger844posts


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Reports coming in that another volcano, Hekla, is beginning to erupt? :confused:

    http://twitter.com/AshAlerts

    If its true thats serious :eek: Any working links to a Hekla webcam?


  • #916
    galwaybabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭galwaybabe


    http://www.ruv.is/hekla


  • #917
    YFlyer
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    galwaybabe wrote: »
    http://www.ruv.is/hekla

    From
    http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/412103-ash-clouds-threaten-air-traffic-84.html

    Note that this camera was aimed at Hekla volcano but now it is aimed at Eyjafjallajokull glacier where the eruption is ongoing. That is what you are looking at.


  • #918
    Figuramatyi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Figuramatyi


    dave_connolly3 wrote: »
    From BBC

    1623 The Met office has warned that the volcano's activity has started to increase.


    A Met spokesman told the BBC that whereas eruptions had subsided this morning to between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, they had increased within the past two hours back to a height of 10,000 ft.

    Although this is not back to the initial maximum height of 30,000 ft, the spokesman said the unpredictable nature of the volcano's activity meant that there was still cause for concern.

    That's exactly what i had mentioned earlier. In the morning, there was almost nothing today, but it has visibly increased by a great deal in the afternoon.


  • #919
    Trogdor
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    galwaybabe wrote: »
    http://www.ruv.is/hekla

    I don't see any plume on that webcam...


  • #920
    flashforward
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭flashforward


    trogdor wrote: »
    I don't see any plume on that webcam...

    Human error supposedly. No second volcano erupting.


  • #921
    Garseys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭Garseys


    So hekla is the one that pretty much erupts every decade?:confused:


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  • #922
    Trogdor
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    trogdor wrote: »
    I don't see any plume on that webcam...

    Claims it has erupted here
    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290846


  • #923
    Webmonkey
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    trogdor wrote: »
    Claims it has erupted here
    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290846
    I think the article is an error.


  • #924
    vrhunski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭vrhunski


    it is fake.


  • #925
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    BNO says Icelandic Met Office say there is no eruption at Hekla. Just some confusion with webcams looking at the plume from Eyjafjallajökull.

    Speaking of Eyjafjallajökull, the ash plume has gotten a bit larger it seems in the last hour or so and the colour of the plume has turner much darker:

    http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html


  • #926
    DOCARCH
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    vrhunski wrote: »
    it is fake.

    Phew!

    Apparantly an Icelandic Broadcasting Service camera was pointed at Eyjafjallajökull, but it was labeled Hekla.


  • #927
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Phew!

    Apparantly an Icelandic Broadcasting Service camera was pointed at Eyjafjallajökull, but it was labeled Hekla.

    those bleedin' Icelanders and their practical jokes


  • #928
    mickger844posts
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    BNO says Icelandic Met Office say there is no eruption at Hekla. Just some confusion with webcams looking at the plume from Eyjafjallajökull.

    Speaking of Eyjafjallajökull, the ash plume has gotten a bit larger it seems in the last hour or so and the colour of the plume has turner much darker:

    http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html

    Ash plume definitely larger now and darker, nearly up to Saturday levels. Wind direction is pushing this down over us so its premature to think we are out of the woods yet.


  • #929
    kevin12345
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    mickger844posts wrote: »
    Ash plume definitely larger now and darker, nearly up to Saturday levels. Wind direction is pushing this down over us so its premature to think we are out of the woods yet.

    People were underestimating nature thinking it was "over" :rolleyes: remember this volcano lasted what? 18 months last time! not over yet :(


  • #930
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    There is more ash in the plume than earlier today but its nowhere near as bad as it was a couple of days ago! http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=65441513&postcount=338


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  • #931
    vrhunski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭vrhunski


    is there any webcam like this for Katla and Hekla?
    http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html


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