OT: why Icelandic eruption could matter internationally.

[pqrst]

Ash right in a major route to Europe.
https://simpleflying.com/klm-flight-867-...T1mviCWHwg&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

[ztirffritz]

Just a few years ago a volcano in Iceland shut down air traffic from/to Europe from the west. No one can pronounce the name of the volcano or spell it for that matter so it’s just omitted from history. I’m just joking. There are many funny videos on YouTube of meteorologists trying to pronounce it an failing horribly.

https://youtu.be/n5q8ukAqGF0?si=sQSTCrtOttATfSsD

[d4]

A few months ago, smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted over to here on the East Coast. The sky was greyish for a couple of days. The air faintly smelled like a BBQ smoker. For a week, the media made it seem like it was an apocalyptic nuclear fallout.

[macphanatic]

Smoke isn't great to fly through, but volcanic ash is bad. Among other things, it destroys the engines.

[gabester]

d4 wrote:
A few months ago, smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted over to here on the East Coast. The sky was greyish for a couple of days. The air faintly smelled like a BBQ smoker. For a week, the media made it seem like it was an apocalyptic nuclear fallout.

Not to sidejack this thread but if you think about the ash from Canadian wildfires drifting instead north across the ice caps with some fraction of the soot depositing on the ice, absorbing the summer sun's heat instead of reflecting it back into space, it well might be an apocalyptic precursor.

[Ken Sp.]

Very interesting video about this incidenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwN1R8hVsI&t=11s

[NewtonMP2100]

….hope they don’t come at night…..no one wants nocturnal emmisions…..

[steve...]

Ken Sp. wrote:
Very interesting video about this incidenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwN1R8hVsI&t=11s

That was interesting - thanks.