This morning the UK was flooded with news that Scotland’s Airport, and soon after all UK airports, were closed due to an Volcanic ash blowing across the Atlantic from Iceland. The resulting cloud, which planes can’t fly through without clogging engines, has forced many flights to be grounded for the majority of the day. This morning I had the idea to look at the Meteosat images to see wither the cloud was picked up from Space.
The resulting time lapse is taken from 21:00 UTC (14/4) to 08:00UTC (15/4) and shows the ash cloud drifting across the Atlantic. Meteosat is a series of satellites that are in a geostationary orbit which provide meteorological data operated by EUMETSAT.
I will update this map throughout the day to track the cloud around the UK, so keep checking back to see if this page has updated.
(Updated: 09:00 BST 16/4 – Up to 08:00 UTC 16/4 )
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