The Iceland Volcano Thread

morticia2

Deleted User wrote: »

In comparison with the recent events in Japan, it's nothing more than a few tremors!

But, who knows when it'll "wake up!"

All quiet on the Northern Front, huh??

Guess Katla still has six months before disproving the historical record.

Grimsvotn Volcano has started erupting today. Reports also on Twitter


http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Iceland+Eruption

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=198805

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/05/21/iceland-volcano-erupting/#ixzz1N1EQVUe6


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

drymartini

Multitude of earthquakes across Iceland right now.
I've attached a screen shot showing locations

drymartini

drymartini wrote: »

Multitude of earthquakes across Iceland right now.
I've attached a screen shot showing locations

Just in time for rapture day

BreakingNews Breaking News
More on Iceland volcano: White plume up to 18,000 feet seen; officials don't expect a repeat of last year's ash cloud problems - NBC

thetonynator

Likely to be a problem with ash???

edit: saw above post.

je55ie

That's some amount of earthquakes, hope this doesn't wake Katla

its already spurred 50 quakes. :eek:

je55ie

Jake1 wrote: »

its already spurred 50 quakes. :eek:

OMG, :eek::eek::eek::eek:

J6P

Check out the ash cloud on satellite

http://sat24.com/

Be interesting to see what the next few days bring.
edit: at least with the current weather patterns, the plume will stay well north of here.

TimTim

Seems like they may be expecting some ash...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk.html

I have a flight tomorrow morning and last time this happened I got stuck in Paris for a few days. Good timing on my part it seems.

TimTim

TimTim wrote: »

Seems like they may be expecting some ash...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk.html

I have a flight tomorrow morning and last time this happened I got stuck in Paris for a few days. Good timing on my part it seems.

You're OK (at the moment) that is only for the Icelandic area, looking at the weather map it's going northwest.

rebel girl 15

120km no fly zone declared around it

rebel girl 15

Ash cloud is moving south and has reached an altitude of 45000ft which may affect transatlantic traffic

Sponge Bob

Winds are forecast northerly in Iceland for the next 3 days. Obama will be trapped

rebel girl 15

Copied from twitter

Icelandic Civil Defense has warned UK authorities that they may get #ash from #grimsvotn into their airspace

rebel girl 15

http://http.ruv.straumar.is/static.ruv.is/vefur/Iceland_eruption_amatur.wmv

Video of the ash cloud

up for anything

Late to the party.

Grímsvótn cam but I can't get it to work. Probably too many people trying to access it at the moment.

maquiladora

Plume reported to be reaching 20km now.

maquiladora

Jon Frimann is reporting the Icelandic media as saying the ash plume is the highest since the Hekla eruption of 1947 and the eruption itself may be larger than Eyjafjallajökull in 2010.

Pangea

Just to put things into perspective a possible volcano ash cloud heading our way and 120km plus winds for Obamas visit.

maquiladora

Holy crap, looking at the weather radar it looks like the plume is almost reaching 30km! :eek:

witzky

Great...! Flying home from Oz for three weeks on Thursday. Just what I needed... :mad::(:(

Darwin

Not really making the news yet, one report from bbc here, they don't seem to be too concerned at this stage. To my untrained eye it looks like the jetstream is right over Iceland on Thursday and snaking down over Ireland!

The Stand Side

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/volcano/public/eurasia.html

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk.html

Looking like a fairly disruptive event! I see we have northern winds forecast fot Thursday 26th

The Stand Side

up for anything

The webcam at Jokulsarlon - the ice flows have turned black/

rebel girl 15

Latest ash distribution forecast

maquiladora

Looking at Jon Frimann's helicorder, the tremors have really increased there in the past couple of hours.

http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/tremoren.htm

Stunning pic :

maquiladora

Hmmm, make of this what you will, just saw it as a comment from Frimann's blog :

From other forum, but it’s interesting: However we just had an extra news bulletin 10 minutes ago. A veteran pilot who has flown over 23 volcanic eruptions here has just said he has never seen such a big eruption. His grandparents lived through Katla and he imagines that this might be similar.

Jon himself has commented :

They did say on Rúv News that this eruption was about 10x larger the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in the year 2010.

maquiladora

Reuters :

Iceland volcano ash could reach Northern Scotland by midday Tuesday if eruption continues at same intensity - Met officials

Ash could reach other parts of UK, western France, northern Spain by Thursday/Friday if no let-up - Met officials

je55ie

Anyone got an update on this ?

muckish

Ash from the Grimsvotn Volcano is typically coarser than Eyjafjallajökull according to the BGS and shouldn't have as far a dispersal range. Saying that with the winds we are due anything's possible.

thetonynator

http://www.radarvirtuel.com/#

Volcanic ash layer is back on radar virtuel, more detailed this time showing the current height of of ash.

ronnie3585

Some interesting photos;

Stinicker

I think its time to deploy James May to Iceland to correct the situation.

sunbabe08

so ireland is gonna be spared from this?? at the same time very glad i didnt book that flight to england this week. i dont think i could handle another will i get there or not situation.

Stinicker

sunbabe08 wrote: »

so ireland is gonna be spared from this?? at the same time very glad i didnt book that flight to england this week. i dont think i could handle another will i get there or not situation.

I was in the same boat this time last year except it would see me losing out a once in a lifetime RTW trip that cost €2k for flights alone and I had a backup contingency plan with ferries and trains etc. to get me as far east as possible and fly on then, eventually though the eruption stopped and I got to go on my trip during July when it was all over.

Thing is with these eruptions they could last months and you are at the mercy of the prevailing wind, research since 2010's eruption has also proven that grounding planes was the right decision, so if it does plume over Europe it will lead to more chaos and empty airports.

witzky

Can someone please post a link to a site for the lastest and greatest info on this madness.....

Cheers..!

traco

OK - drop in here every day to get MTs forecast and see whats happening.

I could do with some advice - due to fly to Edinburgh on Friday and back Monday and a little concerned about this eruption and the current wind conditions.

Looks like the wind may be North Westerly towards the end of the week as this currrent low moves through but I am no expert.

I have just looked at ferries from Larne and wondering if I should book, fast one suits time wise but will sea conditions be rough and prohibit sailing.

Anybody have any idea of how this will develop and what my best plan would be?

Thanks

novarock

Going on honeymoon to california monday.. After rebooking from orginally going to Japan... This bleedin thing better behave itself..

maquiladora

Look at this pic, courtesy of NASA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/AnomHunter/Weather%20Extremes/Iceland%20Volcanoe/Coutesy_NASA_ISS-011.jpg

up for anything

Proper pronunciation of Grímsvötn.

The í in Grímsvötn is pronounced like the ee in green and the ö is pronounced like the ur in murder.

dirtyghettokid

this is unreal .. last year my flight to canada was delayed and then took a very long weird path because of the volcano... and now again, i'm meant to fly to canada tomorrow morning and there's another freakin volcano eruption! i hope the ash cloud stays away for at least 24hrs!!

Sundy

in terms of the graphic which bit signals no fly? Is the the red, blue or green?

can someone explain the whole graphic thing please:)

A few hundred kilos of artic char were killed as result of the ash at a fish farm.
They are warning people with respiratory illnesses to stay indoors.
Strong eruptions to continue over next few days.

Officials at the European Union now say that the the ash could enter British and Irish airspace today or tomorrow while the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said there was a “possibility” of disruption to air travel tomorrow.

maquiladora

Latest chart showing ash over Ireland by tomorrow morning at flight level 200, but I dunno if it will be enough to cause any disruption to air traffic here.