Volcanic ash empties the UK's skies of planes

The volcanic eruption in Iceland has disrupted aviation over UK and most of Europe.   After The Guardian UK wrote about this  – the www.flightradar24.com site has been overwhelmed.

Here is the screen grab of flightradar at 1420 IST (0850 GMT)



And the UK Met Office satellite imagery of the Volcanic ash plume / cloud at 0830 GMT.  The brown spread is the actual volcanic ash.

 

And a stunning photo of the ash cloud from Scandinavia referred to in the guardian article.

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