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Turkey9

Sat Apr 17 2010, 05:54AM

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I'm taking a trip to the UK this summer with a few of my friends for one last hurrah before college. Hope it won't be cancelled! It's the end of may so I guess we'll see.

Conundrum

Sat Apr 17 2010, 06:53AM

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Guernsey airport is partially closed, inter island flights now running but not UK/France/etc ones.
Needless to say those without cancellation insurance are going to have a bad day

On the flip side, great sunsets

Maybe now would have been a good time to launch my weather balloon, with a miniature onboard microscope a la "Beagle 2" to examine the dust particles...

-A

IntraWinding

Sun Apr 18 2010, 12:42AM

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I got my wish for a blue sky today! Not a cloud, not a single vapour trail anywhere in the sky! Brilliant. I hope this volcano keeps going for months!!!

Dr. Slack

Sun Apr 18 2010, 07:45AM

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Steve McConner wrote:
Andri wrote ...

EyjafjallajÃ¶kull

I wondered why nobody on the news has mentioned the name of the volcano. I guess they can't pronounce it!

Sandi Toksvig got a round of applause for saying it on the "News Quiz", but then I guess being Danish she didn't have to reach too far.

Living just north of London, normally an otherwise blue anti-cyclonic sky is criss-crossed all day with con-trails. We've just had three days of clear blue, marvellous.

It's a different sort of natural experiment to that which was done following 9/11, "what happens if you suddenly remove aircraft emmissions from the environment?". At least suddenly removing them from Northern Europe is sort of orthogonal to the previous worldwide removal, so it might yield some further results. Except the results might be confused by a large cloud of volcanic ash that happens to there as well.

I'm due at a conference in Canada in a couple of weeks, and I'm not really looking forward to the disruption of going. I wonder if my company will cancel, if not for the being unable to get there, then at least for the doubt about being able to get back. Keep spewing, damn you, spew!

If it keeps going for 2 years like last time it erupted in the 1800s, then whadaya gunna do, if you are an aero company? It's going to take 2 years to package a light, flght-qualified, ash-seeing radar or lidar in the same size as the existing weather radars that are currently flown.

Bjørn

Sun Apr 18 2010, 10:32AM

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If it keeps going for 2 years like last time it erupted in the 1800s, then whadaya gunna do, if you are an aero company? It's going to take 2 years to package a light, flght-qualified, ash-seeing radar or lidar in the same size as the existing weather radars that are currently flown.

It should not take long until the limits are redefined to make it safe to fly again. After the Chernobyl accident they upped the safe radiation limits by 10x on some types of food to reduce the economic impact.

Steve Conner

Sun Apr 18 2010, 11:40AM

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Dr. Slack wrote ...

If it keeps going for 2 years like last time it erupted in the 1800s, then whadaya gunna do, if you are an aero company? It's going to take 2 years to package a light, flght-qualified, ash-seeing radar or lidar in the same size as the existing weather radars that are currently flown.

It had better not, it'll ruin my summer holiday in Canada! :P

Andri

Sun Apr 18 2010, 07:02PM

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Dr. Slack wrote ...

Steve McConner wrote:
Andri wrote ...

EyjafjallajÃ¶kull

I wondered why nobody on the news has mentioned the name of the volcano. I guess they can't pronounce it!

Sandi Toksvig got a round of applause for saying it on the "News Quiz", but then I guess being Danish she didn't have to reach too far.

Having learnt English, Danish, Norwegian and some German I'd be surprised if any of them got it right. Although most Norwegians and Danes manage to utter it without injecting nonsense or leaving out important bits, they cannot pronounce the double-L (ll) correctly for the given context. The 'Ey' is also, usually mispronounced too. It should be pronounced as the 'ay' in 'say' but not as the affirmative 'aye'.

If you wish to know how the 'll' is pronounced, check out

Nicko

Sun Apr 18 2010, 07:54PM

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Just spent the day at a rugby match west of London - clear blue skies with no contrails...

HUGE PLUS! 5 Red Kites

circling over the rugby club (Henley), only about 150 feet up when at their lowest. Magnificent sight... never seen more than a couple at a time before, never that near London, and never that close up...

...but not quite as good as our club getting to the national U17 finals at Northampton in May...

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