Please anyone: what's the current situation as of May 3d in, not only Norway, but Sweden, Denmark and Finland so far as the volcanic ash in the air goes?
Are these countries still being inundated?
I am both concerned about flying, and also about breathing bad air!
I'm looking also for a website that surveys the ash cloud situation for Europe on a daily basis. I'm supposed to go there in early June.
Forget finding updates on the ash by searching google.
Thanks for any help~~~~~~~~
No need to worry. Flights are flying as usual.
Air quality for breathing was never a problem.
...and the "ash" was never visible in Scandinavia/Finland - if it really reached Scandinavia. Pls. check the distances. Nobody can smell anything 1000 kms away - not even most of Iceland cound smell anything AFAIK.
Ireland and Faroe Islands are having/has had air-traffic potential problems with "ash" that maybe is there 10-12 km up guring the last days.
Thanks for the reassurances--it's not an issue of smell: ash is composed of no-smell microscopic glass particles--a particulate that I would not want to inhale. If it stays up there in the stratosphere then OK--
Dear lady005,
currently Norway seems to be touched by the ashes only once in a while up in the far north. After the big cloud in April, there was ash dust on the cars in Oslo. But currently, the air space is free to fly :-)
In case you get landlocked - preferably in Iceland - you can get some ideas about killing time here:
http://abc4trip.eu/volcano-fun-in-iceland-while-air-traffic-is-shut-down/
Enjoy your flight!
Jk