EU, how does your garden grow? Gray covered in ash?

[airhead]

You guys in the fall out plume of ash all ok?

Covered in that wonderful grayness yet?

How far away is the fallout?

How deep?

Pics?

Inquireing minds want to know..

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When Mt. St. Helens blew her stack, we had icky grayness for days and we were in Dallas (1600 miles away).

 

[BPI]

Clear blue skies here! Without ugly plane exhaust trails littering the view

Some suggestion here that the flight restrictions had far more to do with caution than science...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/20/mystic_met_volcano_model/
...caution being a good thing of course but typical of current UK Government to ignore science in favour of knee-jerk reaction for perceived (short-term) political gain. At least it's given our media a break from the incessant Election build-up coverage.

After St. Helens did you have to clean up your property or did the rain just wash it all away?

Cheers, B.

 

[airhead]

The rain pretty much took care of it. But the ash ingested in autos, etc. surely shortened their lives.

Lots of filter changes both in vehicles and home A/C units.

I wish the swifter duster had been around back then.....

 

[doyme]

I don't think I ever remember clearer skies during April in Britain than the last week or so.

 

[Jazz is for losers]

I go running several times a week. On the morning after the first day of plane groundings I had to take a puff on my inhaler, which I don't normally do. I put this down to the fact that I had gone for a long run the night before. However it's not happened since, so maybe it was just some random event and had nothing to do with the glass-infused ash.

At least it's given our media a break from the incessant Election build-up coverage.

I much prefer election coverage to 24/7 "Travel Chaos!" stories We've had our fill of travel Chaos! stories this year with the winter snow.

 

[Ocelot]

The flight ban was the best all round. 30 years ago ash stopped all 4 engines on a BA passenger jet. I doubt people would have enjoyed having to glide down to the nearest airport

 

[EArkham]

http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2010/04/what-an-ash.html

Kep

 

[Dragonsreach]

Some suggestion here that the flight restrictions had far more to do with caution than science...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/20/mystic_met_volcano_model/
...caution being a good thing of course but typical of current UK Government to ignore science in favour of knee-jerk reaction for perceived (short-term) political gain.

Try the E.U. regulations forcing their hands.

As for the Ash Fallout, well yes thin coverings are to be seen on a lot of dark coloured cars, like mine.
Some people I know with hayfever getting itchy noses, but not heard anything concrete. (ouch!)

 

[freakinacage]

outside my house today:

slight browny dust on my car but thats all, clear blue sky

 

[Niall]

Most of it was up at flying level not down here but this is an interesting website showing all the passenger planes flying now the cloud has passed.

http://www.flightradar24.com/

I think most people who were interviewed on TV had no idea what it was and were somehow thinking the airports would be covered in ash instead of the ash superheating inside engines then solidifying and ruining them whilst at 30,000 feet!
But hey it must have been the governments fault for closing airtravel like the rest of Europe, it would also have been the governments fault if they had let planes fly and if one had crashed. People like to spew their problems as the governments fault at everything though.

I am pretty jealous I wasn't in Spain to be picked up by Ark Royal

 

[Torn blue sky]

Same as Tim. Slight dust on the car, that's about it, clear blue skies for a good few days now.