The Iceland Volcano Thread

Victor Meldrew · 20-04-2010 12:48PM

John mac wrote: »

from RTE

There was ash on my car in Dublin yesterday. Black stuff in the raindrops. Nice to see RTE ahead of the events as they arise...

emfifty · 20-04-2010 12:55PM

Confab wrote: »

Eh? What's Cowen going to do? Mobilise the air force? The navy? Our amazing trawler fleet? The government can't do anything to help this situation. Wait and see is the best approach at the moment. The Irish aren't stupid enough that they have to ask for help to get a train back from Madrid.

The fighters use different engines to airliners. In a fighter all the air is burned in the engine, guaranteeing that volcanic dust will destroy it very quickly. In a civilian airliner only 25% of the air is burned and the rest isn't touched. Makes a big difference in terms of ruggedness.

One word 'LEADERSHIP' - this country has none at the moment. still people stranded and cowen still doing f**k all!:mad:

maquiladora · 20-04-2010 12:57PM

View of the plume now being lost in cloud/mist/rain....

Webmonkey · 20-04-2010 12:58PM

Will the rain bring it down?

alibabba · 20-04-2010 01:04PM

John mac wrote: »

from RTE

Woke up this morning with a sceptic throat.

Mr Benevolent · 20-04-2010 01:06PM

emfifty wrote: »

One word 'LEADERSHIP' - this country has none at the moment. still people stranded and cowen still doing f**k all!:mad:

And what can Cowen do? Send the air force or the navy?

unkel · 20-04-2010 01:07PM

Flights are back to normal over most of Europe so it seems:

Webmonkey · 20-04-2010 01:08PM

unkel wrote: »

Flights are back to normal over most of Europe so it seems:

Excellent. Lets hope none fall off the radar now.

Nothing around Ireland though...except that one. Is that a test flight

Edit: Ok its a Lufthansa plane. I thought Irish airspace closed though :-/

unkel · 20-04-2010 01:09PM

Webmonkey wrote: »

Nothing around Ireland though...except that one. Is that a test flight

Nope - scheduled Lufthansa flight from Germany to Canada

Su Campu · 20-04-2010 01:14PM

Irish airspace is open above 20,000ft so they're allowing overflights.

Webmonkey · 20-04-2010 01:18PM

Su Campu wrote: »

Irish airspace is open above 20,000ft so they're allowing overflights.

Ah I see cheers

Speak Now · 20-04-2010 01:34PM

Confab wrote: »

And what can Cowen do? Send the air force or the navy?

I just read that as what can Owenc do :eek: :eek: never noticed until now his name was an anagram of our leader

P.S only regular weather forum readers will know Owenc, the rest of you don't know what you're missing

jambofc · 20-04-2010 02:14PM

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

I just read that as what can Owenc do :eek: :eek: never noticed until now his name was an anagram of our leader

P.S only regular weather forum readers will know Owenc, the rest of you don't know what you're missing

sure he's only a young lad that gets easily excited,we were all young once,some longer ago than other's

he brightens the place up at time's
wonder is it snowing or slashing in Coleraine :P

cherryghost · 20-04-2010 02:32PM

14.14 Yesterday our boss, who had been stuck in the south of France since last Thursday, informed us that she had departed France by boat. She has been in touch again to say she has departed Holyhead (see pic below) and will be home this evening. We reckon that after all the stress and uncertainty she should take a few days off (hint, hint). We'll be fine, boss; we'll be fine!

Good update there. I think they should go crazy and post apocalyptic stuff

vrhunski · 20-04-2010 03:00PM

looks like everything is clear now. No more smoke, ash etc
http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html

maquiladora · 20-04-2010 03:06PM

vrhunski wrote: »

looks like everything is clear now. No more smoke, ash etc
http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndeyjafjalmulaen.html

I can still see the plume there, its half hidden in the cloud/mist. Looks to be lower and smaller than earlier though.

vrhunski · 20-04-2010 03:11PM

it was clear for the moment

Graces7 · 20-04-2010 03:13PM

jambofc wrote: »

sure he's only a young lad that gets easily excited,we were all young once,some longer ago than other's
he brightens the place up at time's
wonder is it snowing or slashing in Coleraine :P

It is the aggression and rudeness, and lack of any sense of humour; will leave him to you men, but if he had been in any of my classes in my teaching days and spoken as he does...;)

maquiladora · 20-04-2010 03:15PM

Is it just me or does it look more active now on this view? http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/

Deep Easterly · 20-04-2010 03:18PM

Can anyone see any visual evidence of the ash cloud over us at the mo? Here we just have the standard fair weather looking sky with some flattened cumulus although the blue in between does look a bit milky, although that in itself is not out of the norm.

alibabba · 20-04-2010 03:22PM

maquiladora wrote: »

Is it just me or does it look more active now on this view? http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/

live image here , looks like its picking up again for the evening
me reckon she's in for the long haul
all that will save europe now is a change in wind direction

Deep Easterly · 20-04-2010 03:22PM

Graces7 wrote: »

It is the aggression and rudeness, and lack of any sense of humour; will leave him to you men, but if he had been in any of my classes in my teaching days and spoken as he does...;)

I think he is about 14 or something. Ok, he is a little patriotic about his homeland and can be a bit rude in a harmless way but he will grow out of that. He does display a good degree of interest in all things geographical and meteorological though so which is unusual for his age. He's not the worst.

irish1967 · 20-04-2010 03:26PM

If you get bored not being able to track planes.. well maybe you might like to track the ships/ferries instead

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

RockPaper · 20-04-2010 03:27PM

Deep Easterly wrote: »

I think he is about 14 or something. Ok, he is a little patriotic about his homeland and can be a bit rude in a harmless way but he will grow out of that. He does display a good degree of interest in all things geographical and meteorological though so which is unusual for his age. He's not the worst.

sshh he'll be home from school any minute now...

irish1967 · 20-04-2010 03:38PM

Heres the link to tracking the Celebrity Eclipse liner that is 'supposed' to going to Spain on a taxi run
:rolleyes:

http://www.shipais.com/showship.php?mmsi=249666000

Speak Now · 20-04-2010 03:38PM

Deep Easterly wrote: »

I think he is about 14 or something. Ok, he is a little patriotic about his homeland and can be a bit rude in a harmless way but he will grow out of that. He does display a good degree of interest in all things geographical and meteorological though so which is unusual for his age. He's not the worst.

I bet all the weather nuts in here were weather fanatics at 14, i know i was. BTW who is the worst....is it me

:eek: :pac:

Sponge Bob · 20-04-2010 03:39PM

RockPaper wrote: »

sshh he'll be home from school any minute now...

Mammy obviously drives him everywhere (when he wants) and that is why he still loves snow!

snow ghost · 20-04-2010 03:48PM

Graces7 wrote: »

It is the aggression and rudeness, and lack of any sense of humour;)

Can't agree with that Graces - he comes across as a perfectly normal and intelligent young lad for his age.

I'd be more concerned about the ones in hoods sneaking around at night after a visit to the local head shop up to no good, rather than the ones on here interested in Meterology.

LookingFor · 20-04-2010 03:49PM

Wilson on Sky had a bit of 'numbers' about the ash...unless I misheard him he said there was an ash layer over scotland at the moment that's 1000ft thick, and that if a plane were to fly through it it would be ingesting 6 billion particles per minute.

So there you go.

snow ghost · 20-04-2010 03:58PM

The BBC was reporting earlier that Iranian clerics blamed women wearing short skirts, etc for earthquakes there! :eek: Wonder if is why this Volcano erupted in Iceland - all those icelandic chicks bathing in those hot springs?

All we get here when we see chicks in little clothing is car crashes.

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