FFS.. my flights are cancelled this weekend and so are my sisters..

Stupid Iceland and its stupid volcano's..

Stupid planes.. they can chew through birds no problem but a little ash is dangerous..

Health officials are saying the ash may only pose a risk to those with lung conditions or health conditions like asthma.

I can only assume that those people who don't have lung conditons must have lungs which are magically immune to tiny particles of rock and glass .

Hi ThraexX,

LOL yes I realised it works now. Just puzzled why it has than fuzzy appearance, but my other thread didn't have that.

So are you saying the contrails are all gone in the sky over where you are? It's actually quite a magic moment isn't it? I think I might go outside (beautiful evening here) and have a glass of wine and toast the peaceful, beautiful sky. Once in a life time moment ;-)

So, wow, you're seeing a thin layer of ash smog?!

Take care and keep us updated,

Aelf

Originally posted by ThraexX
No worries mate, S&F it!

Weirdest thing, haven't seen a blue sky for years it seems. Contrails are visible here all the time. i can see a thin layer of ash smog here since two hours or so.
bizar situation.


ps. haven't been here long enough to understand that this is a USA dominated site the way you stated. thought ATS was quite international.

cheers,

Well here is a Traffic Sign, just south of Aberdeen today. My parents told me they could smell 'rotten eggs' today and heard on the news that the smell was the volcano.

This isnt a sign often seen in the UK

That's very true with air travel suspended there's probably tons of people stranded, that alone has to make things hectic. My thoughts are definitely with y'all I'm around 40 miles from Mt Rainier so Volcanoes and ash clouds definitely peaks my interest.

Originally posted by Aelfrede
Hi Silverado292,

thanks for your response. I like your attitude :-) Great to have you participating in this thread. And I agree, it certainly is news, no matter where it is. Especially considering the impact, all this air space closing, never known anything like it.

Cheers,

Aelf

Originally posted by Silverado292
I'm American and I'm reading this thread. I'm sure many others are also reading, I mean volcanic ash clouds over population zones is news no matter what country it is.

How is volcano ash a hoax?
I learned from news that tonight's flights in Riga, Latvia (RIX) airport are canceled and they say that there could be more cancellations tomorrow.
Also the air smelled kind of funny when I was outside, like smoke but I cannot be sure if it's indeed volcanic ash or just smoke as I'm no expert and as Latvian people loves to burn last years grass in spring.

*UPDATE*
Haha - I learned that ash will get to Latvia only in 3 at night - it's four years from now on. So what I smelled was just smoke from Latvians burning last years grass. I am excited to see sky tomorrow and smell "volcanic" air.

[edit on 15/4/2010 by archasama]

Just to see if anyone else has the same idea, I'm in Liverpool, UK. not sure how far along the cloud is, but we're on the west coast of mainland uk. The weather for the past week or so has been really good, very little cloud cover, broken cloudy nights, but tonight there seems to be a great deal of cloud emanating from Northwest. don't know if that's why or not, but it'd be interesting to find out?

Oh, not sure if anyone else mentioned it but all flights in/out of uk are grounded today, some think it could be all tomorrow too

EDIT

volcanic ash is a very abrasive substance, in large quantities it can cause engine failure, don't know if any of you have seen the videos yet, but it's a pretty damn thick cloud. Not a small volcano!
Planes MAY be able to fly through it, but would you want to take that chance?

[edit on 15/4/10 by Longy4eva]

I live in Gdansk. The airspace was closed in all northern Poland to all flights but I didn't saw any clouds on the sky today. In fact it was one of the most sunny days this spring.

i dont know how, but im in california and it smells like some kind of ash/burning. Its pretty nasty.

Hopefully theres nothing going on here as well....

I also couldn't see that ash, but the seemingly invisible ash particles could destroy a combustion engine taking away the oxygen..