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The Iceland Volcano Thread

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  • #92
    dak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭dak


    Link to IAA news update ... now closed till 11 am Friday

    http://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=93&n=96&a=860


  • #93
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    dak wrote: »
    Link to IAA news update ... now closed till 11 am Friday

    http://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=93&n=96&a=860

    Whats the point it isnt coming here... i am raging that it isnt coming here and going to london considering im closest to island in this island and in uk i am raging!!:mad:


  • #94
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    owenc wrote: »
    Whats the point it isnt coming here... i am raging that it isnt coming here and going to london considering im closest to island in this island and in uk i am raging!!:mad:

    I wondered how long! :D

    You mightn't get anything but there may be a couple of feet of ash on the hill behind you in the morning? ;)


  • #95
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    can someone inform the aviation authorities this is a non event, and therefore there is no need for updates and warnings, seeing as it's not effecting Coleraine:p


  • #96
    MUSEIST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭MUSEIST


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    I wondered how long! :D

    You mightn't get anything but there may be a couple of feet of ash on the hill behind;) you in the morning?

    Any chance of a few inches of ash in tipperary, any chance lads. Do any of the ash experts think it will last long:D:D


    ahhh, I'll get my coat:rolleyes:


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  • #97
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Met Eireann have this article up on their site now :


    Volcanic Ash Advisory

    15 April 2010

    A new phase of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland started during the 14th of April, where melt penetrated its way to the central crater beneath the glacier. Bad weather has been making visual observations difficult today but the plume of volcanic ash can be clearly followed on the weather satellite images.

    Volcanic_ash_15apr.jpg

    Volcanic ash has been observed in British airspace and the Aviation Services Division in Met Eireann have issued warnings of the ash penetrating Irish airspace to the east and southeast of the country this afternoon and evening.

    The meteorological situation at present is that there is an anticyclone centred to the northwest of Ireland. The airflow is anticlockwise around an anticyclone, and thus the air is being steered down from Iceland to Scotland, down across England, and back around towards the southeast of Ireland.

    Our weather models are indicating that it is going to remain dry over the next couple of days so we do not expect any significant surface deposition of ash in the short term. Ash and dust normally reach the surface through being washed out of the atmosphere by rain.

    Next week the airflow will be more directly from Iceland to Ireland and the weather forecasts indicate that there will be precipitation so, if the eruptions continue, it is possible that there will be deposition at that stage.

    http://www.met.ie/news/display.asp?ID=61


  • #98
    AndyP
    Registered Users Posts: 738 ✭✭✭AndyP


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    I wondered how long! :D

    You mightn't get anything but there may be a couple of feet of ash on the hill behind you in the morning? ;)

    Unfortunaey it will be wet ash and it won't stick. The sleet of the ash world, 'slash' is a good term for it.


  • #99
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    AndyP wrote: »
    Unfortunaey it will be wet ash and it won't stick. The sleet of the ash world, 'slash' is a good term for it.

    Very good....'slash'....was trying to think of a suitable word myself! :D


  • #100
    MUSEIST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭MUSEIST


    OwenC = priceless entertainment


  • #101
    Fizman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Would any met-heads on here like to make a bold prediction on whether or not my Dublin-Fuerteventura flight will go ahead on Saturday morning at 7:20??? :o


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  • #102
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    owenc wrote: »
    Whats the point it isnt coming here... i am raging that it isnt coming here and going to london considering im closest to island in this island and in uk i am raging!!:mad:

    It is coming here though, we pissed off Iceland more than you did :p


  • #103
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Fizman wrote: »
    Would any met-heads on here like to make a bold prediction on whether or not my Dublin-Fuerteventura flight will go ahead on Saturday morning at 7:20??? :o

    No one knows or can tell.

    If ash stops being thrown up into the upper atmosphere in the near future, then maybe you will get there (if existing ash in the atmosphere disapates). If it doesn't stop then who knows how long flight restrictions will be for.

    I'd actually say you may not be going on schedule. Even if eruption stops and airspace opens again, many planes are stuck in the wrong places so will take a little while to get back on schedule!


  • #104
    InKonspikuou2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭InKonspikuou2


    MUSEIST wrote: »
    OwenC = priceless entertainment

    Seriously this guy should do stand up or at least set up his own(c) you tube channel.


  • #105
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    i dont give a **** what you lot think i can report you. You cant get me banned this time.


  • #106
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    snowing heavily here in longford now.

    oh no, wait...


  • #107
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,574 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Sun is shining here in West Dublin,might take a run out with the camera and see if we get a good red sunset around 20.00.:)


  • #108
    spideog7
    Registered Users Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭spideog7


    http://www.flightradar24.com/ :cool:


  • #109
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Sun is shining here in West Dublin,might take a run out with the camera and see if we get a good red sunset around 20.00.:)

    aye you do that.. you should get a good one.:D


  • #110
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    so are we expecting a spectactular sunset this evening?
    how will it affect it.


  • #111
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Pangea wrote: »
    so are we expecting a spectactular sunset this evening?
    how will it affect it.

    sorry but it isnt coming to this island so i dont know why they are shutting the airports down south probably to copy the uk..


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  • #112
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    owenc wrote: »
    sorry but it isnt coming to this island so i dont know why they are shutting the airports down south probably to copy the uk..
    Gerry murphy said on the news that our wind direction is turning directly from the north over the weekend so that we will be right in the firing line of the volcano, wheres my volcanic ash proof umbrella when i need.


  • #113
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    owenc wrote: »
    sorry but it isnt coming to this island so i dont know why they are shutting the airports down south probably to copy the uk..

    Why do you keep saying this? The ash plume is due to spread into the south east during this evening and east overnight!


  • #114
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    owenc wrote: »
    sorry but it isnt coming to this island so i dont know why they are shutting the airports down south probably to copy the uk..

    Probably more due to the fact that a lot of flights are outbound into the UK and Europe.

    Some smoke haze here at the moment, there must be bog fires around some place in the locality.


  • #115
    Joe Public
    Registered Users Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    Pangea wrote: »
    so are we expecting a spectactular sunset this evening?
    how will it affect it.

    It might not affect our view of the setting sun since the ash is mostly to the east and north of us. Maybe our view of the rising sun will be affected.


  • #116
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8mEMqiNhc


  • #117
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Why do you keep saying this? The ash plume is due to spread into the south east during this evening and east overnight!

    Which is annoying considering i would be the closest person to iceland on here!:mad:


  • #118
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    owenc wrote: »
    Which is annoying considering i would be the closest person to iceland on here!:mad:

    Areas in Iceland that are west of the volcano are not getting anything either! Blame the current anticyclone which is pushing everything away for the moment, but I would expect a little to get trapped underneath the main cell in the next few days.


  • #119
    AndyP
    Registered Users Posts: 738 ✭✭✭AndyP


    You can see the coast of Iceland from Donegal on a fine day if you look hard enough.


  • #120
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Pangea wrote: »
    Gerry murphy said on the news that our wind direction is turning directly from the north over the weekend so that we will be right in the firing line of the volcano, wheres my volcanic ash proof umbrella when i need.

    Yes but by then the ash will have gone its only a small mass of cloud so it wont last to sunday it'll barely last to tomorrow afternoon.


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  • #121
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    AndyP wrote: »
    You can see the coast of Iceland from Donegal on a fine day if you look hard enough.

    And you can see the clyde bridge from knocklayde on a clear day.. which is near glasgow!!! I CAN ACTUALLY SEE THIS PLACE.. i dont think any of you can see scotland from your house can you!!


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