Watch Vocanic Eruption in Icelandic via Webcam!! !

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8578576.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano

Nine countries have closed their airspace due to the ash. 25% of the European flights are affected. According to the news here, this is the first time a volcano erupting has influenced air traffic on this scale. I guess that makes it a historical event.

The ash could keep coming for weeks, even months. The last time Eyjafjallajøkull was active, it kept erupting from December 1821 to June 1823.

I have always been interested in natural phenomenon like this, so I am very excited about it.

From the veranda last night I could smell the volcanic ash flying above. (I'm not kidding or exaggerating, my parents have noticed it too.) It smelled weird, kind of ashy, burned, + something I can't really put my finger on. I have never experienced this before so I was almost on a high, bursting with excitement! I watch the skies and wonder which clouds are ash and which are regular clouds!

^ That's so cool! I wish I was over there! I wish I was over there anyway, but this makes me want to be there even more!

When Mt. St. Helen blew up a good part of Washington State and some Oregon got an ash shower. They were sweeping up ashes in Seattle for over a week after everything settled down.

I imagine the volcano in Iceland produced a good load of ashes. I suspect the distance to England, France, Germany and Italy is too great for a major ash deposit.

ruveyn

Aye, volcanoes are good, albeit deadly if left unattended.

The ash cloud is up there, and it's slightly darkened the sky. The webcam is "down for maintainance".

It isn't the deposit that's causing a problem, its the nationwide ash-cloud stopping all air travel that's the problem. its under a thousand km to Iceland, so how big does an ash-cloud have to be to make a major deposit?

Well.... Let's just say northern airspace is restricted for the time being. =/ I'm not sure how the south of France, Italy or countries that share such lattitude would fare.

The ash hasn't fallen so far,it's still at 18,000 feet but that's enough to close the airspace over the UK and parts of northern Europe.If the particles got into the planes' engines they would melt and become lava again,causing the engines to stall.

I don't think I'll be able to fly to London on Tuesday.

that's pretty much what i did. then I called everyone i know to tell them about it which is like 3 people.

actually pluto, it does clog up the engine, but i doubt it goes as far as reverting back to lava. <.<

Pluto is correct. This is according to Wikipedia

Very fine volcanic ash particles (particularly glass-rich if from an eruption under ice) sucked into a jet engine melt at about 1,100 °C, fusing onto the blades and other parts of the turbine (which operates at about 1,400 °C). They can erode and destroy parts, and cause jams in rotating machinery. Ash can also "blind" pilots by sandblasting the windscreen requiring an instrument landing, damage the fuselage, and coat the plane so much as to add significant weight and change balance. In addition, the sandblasting effect can damage the landing lights, making their beams diffuse and unable to be projected in the forward direction.

Ultra fine volcanic ash can also clog up our lungs. Some of that stuff when it gets to the moist mucous tissue turns into a kind of concrete and blocks the very small diameter bronchial tubes. This produces a condition not unlike silicosis which killed many coal miners in years past.

ruveyn

LOL they are probably still stuck there too due to ground air traffic.
they will add that to the show no doubt. i cant wait to see it!! !

OOH! i hope they drive back! oh... wait...

Who knows maybe they will try to make some kind of amphibious car.