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Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America
chocomilko writes "St. John's International Airport, the easternmost airport in Canada, has begun canceling flights due to worries of ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano, leaving travelers stranded after the weekend's Juno awards festival. Early reports stated that there was a 30% chance ash would reach the island by early Monday; Air Canada has issued an all-day travel advisory. A thick blanket of fog currently covering the city isn't helping matters, either."
Stopping flights, all over Europe? Pull the other one, mate. It's got bells on it. This is another dubious modeling outcome from the MET's GIGO simulations.
There was only one source that managed to stop the entire air-traffic in Europe. It was a mere computer simulation that came from the same jerks who are trying to convience the public of the CO2-scam since years.
The British MET-office took some data from the first hours(!)of the outbrak -- proceeded with their usual "gigo" (garbage in -- garbage out) -- and made one of their usual "predictions" -- that rarely turns out to be reality.
During all those next days this first data-set never got adapted, updated with actual data or even checked again.
Yesterday some European airline-managers were beginning to smell the rat and undertook first test-flights -- where they experienced no harm at all.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
What would suck more is if it arrives on Wednesday. We'd have to call it ... wait for it ... Ash Wednesday!
There's probably a Mount St. Helens Thursday joke lurking in there too.