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[Siquo]

Apparently, an erupting volcano in Iceland is blowing its ashes towards Western Europe. Airports are already closing down, and there's no definite answer as to what the ashes are going to do to our health.

Magma strikes again!
Live preview:
http://www.sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=eu&sat=ir&type=loop

Also: Awesome magma lightning.

[Ampersand]

It's just a little volcanic ash. What could possibly be the harm?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/3575/gallery/pompeii.jpg
Oh...

[Cthulhu]

Pyroclastic Flow != high-altitude ash-clouds.

And ha!  America wins again!  We're not in Europe, and won't be getting any of your ash.

[Siquo]

It's still America's fault. If your banks hadn't failed, Icesave would still be in business, we wouldn't have to sue the Icelandic people for everything including their kitchen sinks to get our money back, and they wouldn't have had to blow up a volcano to get revenge on the UK and NL!!

There! 

[Nether]

Jup, Europe's going down....

[fenrif]

So grey skies, smoke and smog, and a horrible smell in the air?

Speaking as someone who lives in the UK i doubt I'll be able to tell the differnece

[Jude]

Hopefully Europe works again in 2 weeks when I have to fly there

[Rashilul]

Eyjafjallajokull volcano? That name is more dorfy than (English) words can describe.

Seriously though, how do you even pronounce that.

[olemars]

The translation is even dorfier, lit. "Islandmountainglacier".

[fenrif]

The translation is even dorfier, lit. "Islandmountainglacier".

To get there you have to go through townvillagehouses, up the pathroadtrack and past the lakewaterpond.

[Mikko]

The translation is even dorfier, lit. "Islandmountainglacier".

To get there you have to go through townvillagehouses, up the pathroadtrack and past the lakewaterpond.

Not to forget the woodlandforestwoods, nor the great swampmurkmarshes.

[fenrif]

Luckily I've got my mapatalasguide safe and sound in my packbagsack, and enough foodrationsnourishment to last me the journey

[olemars]

All air traffic suspended in Ireland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and northern Russia. Finland and France have closed down most of their airspace. Germany is open - for now. Unless the wind turns, europeans are stuck on the ground at least over the weekend.

I'm a bit disappointed though, I half expected some Dark Cloud of Doom to be over my house by now, but it's actually blue skies and sunny. Air smells a bit funny, is all. Apparently the ash is too dispersed to be very visible at all, but the hazard to airplanes is very serious. Volcanic ash is basically tiny little obsidian razorblades, and flying through even a thin haze is like getting the plane sandblasted.

[fenrif]

All air traffic suspended in Ireland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and northern Russia. Finland and France have closed down most of their airspace. Germany is open - for now. Unless the wind turns, europeans are stuck on the ground at least over the weekend.

I'm a bit disappointed though, I half expected some Dark Cloud of Doom to be over my house by now, but it's actually blue skies and sunny. Air smells a bit funny, is all. Apparently the ash is too dispersed to be very visible at all, but the hazard to airplanes is very serious. Volcanic ash is basically tiny little obsidian razorblades, and flying through even a thin haze is like getting the plane sandblasted.

I think you just wrote a syfy original movie. Throw in some D-list actors and about 20 quids worth of SFX and you're made in the shade.

[Akigagak]

All air traffic suspended in Ireland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and northern Russia. Finland and France have closed down most of their airspace. Germany is open - for now. Unless the wind turns, europeans are stuck on the ground at least over the weekend.

Not quite!

Lands End airport (Er, one runway) is still running.