May 13, 2010
Aviation authorities have announced that European and North Atlantic flights have returned to normal after winds carried ash plumes from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano to South Europe and then to Africa.
The Iceland Volcano had more frequency on Tuesday with several small earthquakes recorded bellow the 2.0 magnitude scale, which had caused more ash plumes to be released into the air.
According to the report report from the Icelandic Meteorological Office and information gathered by the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland, ash clouds had risen to 17,000 to 20,000 feet high on Tuesday.
Winds had then carried the ash clouds to the South and South East of Europe and to North Africa, however after the thick ash clouds had dispersed, Eurocontrol, the air traffic control agency, ended the rerouting and grounding of between North America and Europe.
According Eurocontrol, meteorological forecasts conclude that the ash clouds will not affect flights in Europe for the next few days.
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Experts had suggested last month that the ash cloud which is still gushing out of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano could carry on for months, but winds are the most important factor.
Last month saw one of the worst air space closure in Europe since World War II with tens of thousands of planes grounded, dozens of airports closed and over a billion Euros of damage.
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