The eruption of a volcano in Iceland has the skies over the UK and Europe filled with ash. Like what happened on 9/11 in the USA, planes are landing everywhere and staying out of the skies. Volcanic ash eats scours jet turbines, making in flight failure almost a certainty.
There’s a cool website called flightradar24.com which is operated by a volunteer network of aviation enthusiasts with special receivers. They describe it as:
Flightradar24.com shows live airplane traffic from different parts around the world. The technique to receive flight information from airplanes is called ADS-B. That means the Flightradar24.com can only show information about airplanes equipped with ADS-B transponders. Today about 60% of the passenger airplanes and only a small amount of military and private airplanes have an ADS-B transponder. Flightradar24.com has a network of about 100 ADS-B receivers around the world that receives the information from airplanes with ADS-B and sends this information to a server, and then displays this information on a map on Flightradar24.com. Only airplanes within the coverage area of the 100 receivers are visible.
Watch as airplanes disappear from the skies over the UK and Europe. Here’s about 8AM PST. Blue X’s are receivers.
Two hours later:
…and at the time of this posting, 2PM PST, with a wider view:
And the ash continues to spread:
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I actually watched a site similar to this after 9-11. I dunno if this was the site or not, I cant remember that far back lol. But it was intresting watching all the flights in the US land.
This ash should be named the Phil Jones Cloud of Science. It will remind us that God has a sense of humor and a sense of justice.
OT: http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sQGrEgMsKa6_R-DQO91AOkg/view.m?id=386382&tid=120787&cat=Climate_change
First it was The Blob. Now its The Cloud. Scary!!!!!
Are we likely to see any cooling over Europe over the next 2 or 3 years from this event?
I remember watching aircraft investigations on history channel or other, and one of them was the incident of the plane experiencing engine failure and St Elmo’s Fire alll round the aircraft, when travelling through vocanic ash.
A facinating programme to watch. I think the plane was practically sandblasted of its outer paint, wierd science.
More news:
The flanks of a major Coronal Mass Ejection – a massive solar explosion which blasted a whole section of the solar corona into space – is heading this way to hit Earth in Weather Action’s predicted RED WEATHER WARNING & MAJOR Solar Weather Impact Period 18-19th April. There will be important weather effects.
First images* of the dramatic event by Astronomers of Castle Point Astronomy Club (near Southend, Essex) were viewed when Piers Corbyn astrophysicist of WeatherAction long-range forecasters spoke there on 14th April about Climate & Weather forecasting {*Images to be linked soon}
Piers Corbyn said on 14 April: “This is an important solar event and very significantly the flank of this CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) is predicted by the USA NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre to hit Earth on 18th April
– http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html
http://climaterealists.com/?id=5546
You know that any cooling from now on is going to be blamed on the volcano, this is going to be the escape clause.
“Oh, we were right about the warming, but who could predict that darn volcano? THAT’S why things cooled down!!!!”
I imagine the ash doesn’t do a whole lot of good for cars and other vehicles.
Grinding compound. The air filter manufacturers will have it good.
sorry – I see my question is well discussed in the previous article….
Nothing like a little volcanic action to rein in a rampant case of hubris. Let’s hear it from the people in China, Chile, Baja, & Haiti about how all-powerful they consider mankind to be now that they’ve heard the earth speak.
AGW enthusiasts, rejoice! Here is your perfectly good excuse for continuing global cooling for next 15 years!
It’s great!
I live on the Heathrow flight path and it’s been blissfully quiet.
Prop planes don’t have a problem – time to get those DC3’s out of mothballs.
Andrew, any rejoicing they may do will be short-lived as the cooling sets in and the people realise that we can’t even hope to alter the climate in the face of nature’s efforts. They might say it’s just temporary and make a lot of noise, but a long run of cooling will simply show that the warming they claimed was “irreversible” and “unprecedented” was neither one nor the other.
See http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2010/04/jkulhlaup.php for some first hand observations and photos.
Statement on health effects of Icelandic volcanic ash plume
15 April 2010
http://www.hpa.org.uk/NewsCentre/NationalPressReleases/2010PressReleases/100415volcanicash/
The Health Protection Agency is advising that the plume of volcanic ash currently trapped in the atmosphere above the United Kingdom is not a significant risk to public health because it is at high altitude.
The HPA will continue to monitor the plume’s movement although is not expected to touch ground over the UK in the near future.
Even if the plume does drop towards the ground the concentrations of particles at ground level are not likely to cause significant effects on health.
Rainfall over the UK could cause a small amount of the ash to be deposited over the country but quantities are expected to be too small to cause health effects.
Press enquiries: Contact the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards Press Office on 01235 822876/ 822745 or email: chilton.pressoffice@hpa.org.uk
Mike J (14:31:26) :
Are we likely to see any cooling over Europe over the next 2 or 3 years from this event?
Not from this alone. Maybe if it keeps it up for a few months. Or causes the more dangerous Katla to erupt.
Andrew Suprun…. couldn’t put it better myself mate. With La Nina rapidly approaching, on top of a continuing reduction in solar intensity (UV, magnetic index etc.), the impending cool decade ahead will be put to rest by a relatively insignificant Icelandic volcano.
Mind you if this thing keeps going on, we might have effects comparable to Pinatubo in 1991.
We are very overdue for some decent volcanic activity. The planet hasnt been much fun for vulcanologists the past decade or so!
9/11 gave us a chance to see what happens to the temperatures without all the jet activity. So can we now compare those results to no jets but lots of ash?
At least this will be spectacular for true environmentalists. Lots of executives will now have to settle for teleconferencing instead of face-to-face meetings. If it goes on long enough, the executives might get used to not flying at all.
Hey, anyone here know how we can engineer a volcano to go off near Cancun, later in this year? There’s a bunch of unnecessary luxury jet travel scheduled around the one time that really should be stopped…
CRU has just published new statistical work which shows that this ash cloud caused the global cooling over the last fifteen years.
This thing may not be over- http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/04/subglacial_eruption_underway_a.php#comment-2431300 reports of
sulfur smell in Aberdeen Scotland…
If it keeps up-we are in for it in the Boreal Winter….
Two hundred metres of ice and it turns to water instantly; the warmists think that they can control the climate!
Phil Jones will write a new book called “The Volcano Ate My Global Warming!”
Very good posting, thanks. I didn’t think that the effect would be so visible in Germany. A friend of mine needs to fly tomorrow across Germany… he’ll be grounded i think.
“kadaka (15:11:35) :
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Hey, anyone here know how we can engineer a volcano to go off near Cancun, later in this year? There’s a bunch of unnecessary luxury jet travel scheduled around the one time that really should be stopped”
Just throw enough nukes at the volcano.
Come on guys, you’re all missing the point here. Obviously expansionary heat stress on the Earth’s crust generated by AGW has caused this eruption and the veritable swarm of major earthquakes of recent months. Gaia is angry and is reeking her vengeance.
But more seriously, does anyone know how high in the atmosphere these plumes are rising? The photos from the previous post seem to show the ash stream below cloud level which would suggest it will settle out before it can generate any climate effects.