..as the erupting volcano in Iceland spreads clouds of ash kilometres into the air all over Europe. Flights across much of Europe are being cancelled on a second day of massive disruption caused by drifting ash ejected from a volcano in Iceland. Hundreds of thousands of passengers are affected and severe disruption could extend into the weekend, including on flights to North America and Asia.
So I went out very early to take some photos of a cloud? moving in over Gotland. Or? Maybe the ash cloud cannot be photographed. This is just standard April weather in this part of the world - we just had a minor horizontal snow blizzard here! Anyway, a great opportunity to spend the day indoors attending to cosy matters like filling in the IRS tax papers..
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Swedish TV channels are full of interviews with people stranded at airports. And abroad.
Now: The masses of snow causing the worst snow chaos in modern times in Sweden - at times bringing the country to a standstill - has hardly melted, and now this. But people are -according to interviews - taking this "setback" with some humor! After all, our thoughts are going to all the people in Iceland who are now being evacuated in the areas close to the eruption. The glaciers are melting causing flooding.
(where I found this photo!)
"We can actually smell sulphur in the air here now from the volcano cloud" according to reports from Norway on Friday
