The Iceland Volcano Thread

irish1967 · 20-04-2010 08:55PM

sunbabe08 wrote: »

just checked the radar. the flights are clogging up around london again waiting to land.

i betcha the first flight to land will be on sky news

They had it live!!

irish1967 · 20-04-2010 08:57PM

Anyone wanna take bets Irish airspace will now open within the next few hours?

sunbabe08 · 20-04-2010 08:57PM

darn it, i missed it

Hogzy · 20-04-2010 08:58PM

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Did Willie Walsh know that the UK airspace would be open?? Very risky thing to do, flights coming from North America and Africa according to radarvirtuel, just spotted a Thomas Cook plane from Greece up around Holland bound for Gatwick.

The airlines must have known that the airspace was gonna be open???

TBH id say there was some negotiating and BA told their flights to come in and if needs be can be diverted to Shannon and other EURO airports. Not a bad decision if you ask me, im sure passengers would prefer to be stuck closer to home!

Mr Benevolent · 20-04-2010 09:01PM

irish1967 wrote: »

Anyone wanna take bets Irish airspace will now open within the next few hours?

http://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=93&n=96&a=875

maquiladora · 20-04-2010 09:02PM

Confab wrote: »

Katla had a strange spike in tremor activity about two hours ago, activity suddenly shot up by 20%. Odd.

That wasnt a tremor at Katla, it was a small 1.4 earthquake right under the erupting volcano, the first earthquake that close to the area of eruption for several days.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/

snow ghost · 20-04-2010 09:04PM

Looks like Wille faced them off and they backed down - they have changed their analysis of engine tolerance levels to the ash clouds - what a farce.

sunbabe08 · 20-04-2010 09:06PM

and we're back to normal again. sky news is showing planes land. thank god

sunbabe08 · 20-04-2010 09:09PM

guy on sky news sounds to me they made a boo boo

rebel girl 15 · 20-04-2010 09:14PM

sunbabe08 wrote: »

guy on sky news sounds to me they made a boo boo

I don't have sky?? What did he say??

Min · 20-04-2010 09:17PM

Pangea wrote: »

Well has anyone seen any spectactular sunsets because of the ash ?
Its been going on a week now the eruptions ,I wonder will the weather start to be affected?

Last Saturday there was a spectacular sunset, it looked like the sun was going to go behind a cloud as it set, it didn't as it was thick haze and it went a strange red colour.

have2flushtwice · 20-04-2010 09:21PM

big and all as he airspace is, they still have to get good and close to each other! i cant post the image now...duhh!

yogidc26 · 20-04-2010 09:28PM

TNT airway has just left Dublin a few mins ago

have2flushtwice · 20-04-2010 09:31PM

how can you see the tnt aircraft? theres nothing on my screen.

RockPaper · 20-04-2010 09:52PM

You can see it on http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

RonMexico · 20-04-2010 09:58PM

4 flights passed over my house in the past hour or so. Near Shannon Airport.

peasant · 20-04-2010 09:58PM

Pretty cool vid of Enya strutting her stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOh1ahOAAI

yogidc26 · 20-04-2010 09:59PM

www.flightradar24. didn't have it

maquiladora · 20-04-2010 10:26PM

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html

Fairly dramatic drop in tremors at the "esk" and "god" stations in the last hour.

kakee · 20-04-2010 10:32PM

Hello folks,

I saw an aeroplane flying over Tipperary town at exactly 10pm tonight. The news reports say Aer lingus and Ryanair have cancelled schedules until tomorrow at least. I reckon this plane was flying from Shannon to Dublin. Test flight maybe?

H2UMrsRobinson · 20-04-2010 10:34PM

DHL plane over ireland now, been waiting for a package from UK so hopefully it'll be on board...

Nope it's going to cincinatti...lol

Rougies · 20-04-2010 10:40PM

maquiladora wrote: »

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html

Fairly dramatic drop in tremors at the "esk" and "god" stations in the last hour.

Interesting alright. Probably fairly insignificant on the grander scale though judging by this graph for ESK

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/esk.gif

maquiladora · 20-04-2010 10:43PM

Rougies wrote: »

Interesting alright. Probably fairly insignificant on the grander scale though judging by this graph for ESK

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/esk.gif

Yeah probably nothing, I just thought it looked similar to the sudden drop in tremors right before the April 14th eruption http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html

Rougies · 20-04-2010 10:51PM

maquiladora wrote: »

Yeah probably nothing, I just thought it looked similar to the sudden drop in tremors right before the April 14th eruption http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html

It does look similar alright. I'm trying to figure out what the different scales (amplitude) on those graphs are all about. Are they dynamic or different reading or what

Rougies · 20-04-2010 11:01PM

Rougies wrote: »

It does look similar alright. I'm trying to figure out what the different scales (amplitude) on those graphs are all about. Are they dynamic or different reading or what

Also confusing on the time scale if you look at the spikes for the 14th on these two graphs..

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/eyja_trem_eruption.png
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/esk.gif

What was the actual time of the eruption?

EDIT ... it was 01:15 UTC obviously .... says it on the graph

Graces7 · 21-04-2010 05:38AM

snow ghost wrote: »

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.

Well on that we will have to agree to differ; the rudeness I mean. He bites! If he were a puppy he would be muzzled!!!!

But yes of course, compared to the hoodies.....

But the standard of literacy at that age appalls.

Graces7 · 21-04-2010 05:53AM

owenc wrote: »

what grub are you talking about now..:rolleyes: you only come on to complain.
oh i see you are a teacher!

Bye owenc; my ignore list is growing.

Not nice comments not accepted here.

Sponge Bob · 21-04-2010 07:06AM

The plume is now blowing N/NW from Enya and at low altitude. Ironically this brings the plume from Enya across HEKLA and the Hekla webcam is now picking it up which coulld cause yet another rumour today.

maquiladora · 21-04-2010 08:56AM

09.46 The emission of ash from Iceland's erupting Eyjafjjoell volcano has fallen to 'insignificant' levels, one of the country's leading seismologists said.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0421/travelupdates.html

Nice view on the wecam this morning. Still putting out some ash but it looks nothing like it's former self : http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

John mac · 21-04-2010 09:09AM

Photos of BAW 284. as promised .

(last one is my Fav)

The Iceland Volcano Thread

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