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Thousands of air passengers face delays and cancellations as another volcanic ash cloud threatens travel chaos for those flying to and from Scotland, despite hopes there would not be a repeat of last year's mass groundings across Europe.
Although airports remained open on Tuesday, airlines halted hundreds of flights amid safety concerns at the high density of ash caused by the eruption of the Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland. British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair, Aer Lingus, Loganair, Flybe and KLM were among carriers cancelling flights.
However, BMI was still operating out of Edinburgh and Glasgow, saying the ash remained further north than forecast earlier. The airline was constantly reviewing the situation, it said.
There were concerns the cloud would later spread south, affecting flights to northern England and Northern Ireland. Services to and from Derry, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Prestwick, Newcastle, Carlisle, Durham Tees Valley and Cumbernauld airports may be affected by volcanic ash between 1pm and 7pm on Tuesday, air traffic services company Nats said.
Philip Hammond, the English transport secretary, who has promised there will be no blanket airspace closures similar to last year, suggested on BBC's Newsnight on Monday that "we have got to learn to live" with disruption, while insisting there were now "much more robust systems to minimise the disruptive effect".
Since last year's eruption, the authorities had gained a "much better understanding" of the risk from ash clouds, he said. "Most importantly, the basic situation now is that the threshold for most aircraft is 20 times where it was last year. We have got from 200 micrograms (mcg) per cubic metre to 4,000mcg per cubic metre as the threshold up to which most aircraft can fly.
"What we can't promise is that there won't be disruption when there is a major natural event like this."
Hammond will chair a meeting of the government's Cobra committee on the ash cloud later on Tuesday. A government source said the situation remained variable, with the possibility that dense ash will drift over Glasgow and Edinburgh between 1pm and 7pm before clearing. The source added: "These things change from hour to hour."
Mass cancellations at airports on Tuesday by airlines including easyJet and British Airways are viewed as an operational decision as those companies try to ensure their schedules operate more smoothly once the ash clouds clear. According to the latest forecasts, high density ash could begin to affect southern England by Friday.
Under a change in UK-wide policies, airlines can request licences to fly through high ash concentrations providing they make a sufficient safety case.
Under previous guidelines, aircraft were summarily grounded if there was any volcanic ash in the air. Airlines can now fly through ash plumes if they can demonstrate their fleets can handle medium- or high-level densities of ash.
Hammond told BBC's Today programme on Tuesday: "There is some early indication that the scale and power of the eruption might be subsiding.
"Perhaps it's a little bit too early to be absolutely sure about that, but clearly that's the most important thing – if the ash stops belching out of the volcano then, after a few days, the problem will have cleared, so that's one of the factors.
"The other is the wind speed and direction. At the moment the weatherpatterns are very volatile which is what is making it quite difficult, unlike last year, to predict where the ash will go."
Meanwhile, passengers at Glasgow airport were preparing for long delays in reaching some destinations. Elizabeth Flaherty from East Kilbride was hoping to travel to Majorca at 8.30am. She arrived at the airport just before 6am to be told her flight would not be leaving. She said she had been told a coach would take her to Manchester at 12.45pm for a flight at around 5pm.
She said: "It's going to be a long day. I'm trying to stay cheerful. There's nothing else I can do."
Pat Gribbon from Renfrew was due on the same flight for a holiday with his wife, Rita. He said: "Everyone has been very helpful. It's just a question of waiting.
"I suppose it's just one of those things. No one can help it, but it is frustrating. I feel sorry for people with kids."
The Met Office's volcanic ash advisory centre is tracking the cloud, aided by satellite images, weather balloons and a radar installed in Iceland last year. Once information is relayed to airlines, they will need to prove they can fly through them by producing "safety cases" that will include information from aircraft and engine manufacturers on the airline's tolerance to volcanic ash.
Ryanair was seeking an urgent meeting with Irish aviation authorities on Tuesday, saying it had been told late on Monday that it could not operate flights to Scottish destinations until at least Tuesday afternoon. "Ryanair believe that there is no safety risk to aircraft on fights operating to and from Scotland," the company said.
Richard Lloyd, the executive director of Which? magazine, advised passengers to check their insurance as well as flight times. "If you do have a flight booked over the next few days, contact your airline before you go to the airport, and make sure they have your up-to-date contact details."
He added: "If your flight is cancelled or delayed for over five hours, you should be offered a choice of a full refund or transfer to an alternative flight. However, the airlines don't have to compensate passengers for loss of any additional elements to holidays, such as accommodation and car hire.
"It may be possible to claim for these losses on travel insurance, but passengers will need to check their individual policies, many of which may now have specific exclusions built in.
The Grimsvötn volcano began erupting at the weekend, causing flight cancellations at Keflavik airport after it sent a plume of ash 12 miles into the air.Severe weather and tornadoes killed six people in Oklahoma and Kansas Tuesday night, though Joplin, Missouri, was spared another hit. See photos.
At least two tornados hit Oklahoma Tuesday, killing at least four people. The storms struck during rush hour, injuring motorists along Interstate 40 and U.S. 81, Canadian County Sheriff Randall Edwards said, while destroying houses and causing a gas leak in the nearby city of El Reno. Officials said the storm system was moving north toward Oklahoma City. Two people were also killed in Kansas when fierce winds threw a tree onto their van. More twisters were also expected to hit Joplin, Missouri, the city devastated Sunday by a tornado that claimed at least 122 lives, the single deadliest tornado since records started being kept in 1960, but the warning was lifted late Tuesday.
Roughly 1,500 people have been reported missing in Joplin, MO following Sunday’s deadly tornado, a fire department official said on Tuesday. The city of Joplin has about 49,000 inhabitants. While the number of missing is alarming, it is possible that some of them survived or fled ahead of the tornado, but have been unable to notify authorities. On Monday, rescuers pulled seven people out of buildings that had collapsed, but no additional survivors had been found on Tuesday. The tornado, which cut a three-quarter mile wide path through the town, also injured 500 people and damaged 30 percent of the town’s buildings.
The twister had winds of 190 to 198 miles per hour, and it has been given a rating of EF4, the second highest rating assigned to twisters based on damage they cause. It is the deadliest single tornado since 1925 when a tornado in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana killed 695 people.
2011 is already the deadliest tornado season since 1953 and more big storms may be on the way. What’s going on? One possible answer is La Niña, the cyclical drop in Pacific temperatures that alters prevailing winds and causes more thunderstorm “super cells.” (The Daily Beast ranks the most-tornado prone states.)
The Essential Rosanne Cash
Pala by Friendly Fires
I Love You: A Dedication to My Fans by Jadakiss
Joseph Arthur's Graduation Ceremony
Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life by Stephen Marley
Maybach Music Group Presents Self Made, Vol. 1
David Bazan's Strange Negotiations
Neal Morse's Testimony 2
Vengeance by The Rods
Heavy Rocks by Boris as well as Attenion Please
She Wants Revenge's Valleyheart
Translucent Blues by Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers
Thurston Moore's Demolished Thoughts
Gnomeo & Juliet, I Am Number Four, The Great Dictator: The Criterion Collection, Lemonade Mouth, The Royal Wedding: William and Katherine, The Big Bang, Children's Hospital: The Complete First and Second Seasons, Transformers: The Complete Series, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Great Outdoors, Transcendent Man, Phish Live in Utica 2010. Johnny, Fertile Ground and The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes To Town
(Blu-Ray) Soul Eater: The Meister Collection, Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series, Grand Prix, Le Mans, Papillon, Burning Palms,
Kung Fu Panda 2 for DS, Kinect, PS3 and uDraw for uDraw Game Tablet, Dirt 3 for XBOX 360 and PS3, Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, NASCAR The Game 2011, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Emily the Strange -- Strangerous, Paws & Claws: Pampered Pets 2, Top Gun Hybrid, Naughty Bear Gold Edition XBOX 360, Kapital Brawe, Days of Thunder and thinkSMART Labyrinth.
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
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The Warlock by Michael Scott
Growing Up in Heaven: The Eternal Connection Between Parent and Child by James Van Praagh
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
Frankenstein: The Dead Town: A Novel by Dean Koontz
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction by Aaron Allston
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods Politics and Conspiracies--How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
Silver Sparrow: A Novel by Tayari Jones
Transformers Vault: Showcasing Rare Collectibles and Memorabilia by Pablo Hidalgo
Scandal in Scotland by Karen Hawkins
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Supernatural: One Year Gone by Rebecca Dessertine
One Day by David Nicholls
Fancy Nancy: Stellar Stargazer by Jane O'Connor as well as Fancy Nancy and the Mean Girl
Judy Moody and the Not-Bummer Summer by Megan McDonald
Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination and Survival by Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman
Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultous Years by Frank Bailey with Ken Morris & Jeanne Devon
It's National Hug Your Cat Day
Thousands of air passengers face delays and cancellations as another volcanic ash cloud threatens travel chaos for those flying to and from Scotland, despite hopes there would not be a repeat of last year's mass groundings across Europe.
Although airports remained open on Tuesday, airlines halted hundreds of flights amid safety concerns at the high density of ash caused by the eruption of the Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland. British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair, Aer Lingus, Loganair, Flybe and KLM were among carriers cancelling flights.
However, BMI was still operating out of Edinburgh and Glasgow, saying the ash remained further north than forecast earlier. The airline was constantly reviewing the situation, it said.
There were concerns the cloud would later spread south, affecting flights to northern England and Northern Ireland. Services to and from Derry, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Prestwick, Newcastle, Carlisle, Durham Tees Valley and Cumbernauld airports may be affected by volcanic ash between 1pm and 7pm on Tuesday, air traffic services company Nats said.
Philip Hammond, the English transport secretary, who has promised there will be no blanket airspace closures similar to last year, suggested on BBC's Newsnight on Monday that "we have got to learn to live" with disruption, while insisting there were now "much more robust systems to minimise the disruptive effect".
Since last year's eruption, the authorities had gained a "much better understanding" of the risk from ash clouds, he said. "Most importantly, the basic situation now is that the threshold for most aircraft is 20 times where it was last year. We have got from 200 micrograms (mcg) per cubic metre to 4,000mcg per cubic metre as the threshold up to which most aircraft can fly.
"What we can't promise is that there won't be disruption when there is a major natural event like this."
Hammond will chair a meeting of the government's Cobra committee on the ash cloud later on Tuesday. A government source said the situation remained variable, with the possibility that dense ash will drift over Glasgow and Edinburgh between 1pm and 7pm before clearing. The source added: "These things change from hour to hour."
Mass cancellations at airports on Tuesday by airlines including easyJet and British Airways are viewed as an operational decision as those companies try to ensure their schedules operate more smoothly once the ash clouds clear. According to the latest forecasts, high density ash could begin to affect southern England by Friday.
Under a change in UK-wide policies, airlines can request licences to fly through high ash concentrations providing they make a sufficient safety case.
Under previous guidelines, aircraft were summarily grounded if there was any volcanic ash in the air. Airlines can now fly through ash plumes if they can demonstrate their fleets can handle medium- or high-level densities of ash.
Hammond told BBC's Today programme on Tuesday: "There is some early indication that the scale and power of the eruption might be subsiding.
"Perhaps it's a little bit too early to be absolutely sure about that, but clearly that's the most important thing – if the ash stops belching out of the volcano then, after a few days, the problem will have cleared, so that's one of the factors.
"The other is the wind speed and direction. At the moment the weatherpatterns are very volatile which is what is making it quite difficult, unlike last year, to predict where the ash will go."
Meanwhile, passengers at Glasgow airport were preparing for long delays in reaching some destinations. Elizabeth Flaherty from East Kilbride was hoping to travel to Majorca at 8.30am. She arrived at the airport just before 6am to be told her flight would not be leaving. She said she had been told a coach would take her to Manchester at 12.45pm for a flight at around 5pm.
She said: "It's going to be a long day. I'm trying to stay cheerful. There's nothing else I can do."
Pat Gribbon from Renfrew was due on the same flight for a holiday with his wife, Rita. He said: "Everyone has been very helpful. It's just a question of waiting.
"I suppose it's just one of those things. No one can help it, but it is frustrating. I feel sorry for people with kids."
The Met Office's volcanic ash advisory centre is tracking the cloud, aided by satellite images, weather balloons and a radar installed in Iceland last year. Once information is relayed to airlines, they will need to prove they can fly through them by producing "safety cases" that will include information from aircraft and engine manufacturers on the airline's tolerance to volcanic ash.
Ryanair was seeking an urgent meeting with Irish aviation authorities on Tuesday, saying it had been told late on Monday that it could not operate flights to Scottish destinations until at least Tuesday afternoon. "Ryanair believe that there is no safety risk to aircraft on fights operating to and from Scotland," the company said.
Richard Lloyd, the executive director of Which? magazine, advised passengers to check their insurance as well as flight times. "If you do have a flight booked over the next few days, contact your airline before you go to the airport, and make sure they have your up-to-date contact details."
He added: "If your flight is cancelled or delayed for over five hours, you should be offered a choice of a full refund or transfer to an alternative flight. However, the airlines don't have to compensate passengers for loss of any additional elements to holidays, such as accommodation and car hire.
"It may be possible to claim for these losses on travel insurance, but passengers will need to check their individual policies, many of which may now have specific exclusions built in.
The Grimsvötn volcano began erupting at the weekend, causing flight cancellations at Keflavik airport after it sent a plume of ash 12 miles into the air.Severe weather and tornadoes killed six people in Oklahoma and Kansas Tuesday night, though Joplin, Missouri, was spared another hit. See photos.
At least two tornados hit Oklahoma Tuesday, killing at least four people. The storms struck during rush hour, injuring motorists along Interstate 40 and U.S. 81, Canadian County Sheriff Randall Edwards said, while destroying houses and causing a gas leak in the nearby city of El Reno. Officials said the storm system was moving north toward Oklahoma City. Two people were also killed in Kansas when fierce winds threw a tree onto their van. More twisters were also expected to hit Joplin, Missouri, the city devastated Sunday by a tornado that claimed at least 122 lives, the single deadliest tornado since records started being kept in 1960, but the warning was lifted late Tuesday.
Roughly 1,500 people have been reported missing in Joplin, MO following Sunday’s deadly tornado, a fire department official said on Tuesday. The city of Joplin has about 49,000 inhabitants. While the number of missing is alarming, it is possible that some of them survived or fled ahead of the tornado, but have been unable to notify authorities. On Monday, rescuers pulled seven people out of buildings that had collapsed, but no additional survivors had been found on Tuesday. The tornado, which cut a three-quarter mile wide path through the town, also injured 500 people and damaged 30 percent of the town’s buildings.
The twister had winds of 190 to 198 miles per hour, and it has been given a rating of EF4, the second highest rating assigned to twisters based on damage they cause. It is the deadliest single tornado since 1925 when a tornado in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana killed 695 people.
2011 is already the deadliest tornado season since 1953 and more big storms may be on the way. What’s going on? One possible answer is La Niña, the cyclical drop in Pacific temperatures that alters prevailing winds and causes more thunderstorm “super cells.” (The Daily Beast ranks the most-tornado prone states.)