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Jimmyh

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  1. Is it me or has the hurricane season been extremely quiet so far this season. This normally has a bearing on weather later in august as it did a couple of years ago in august when we got the remnants of hurricanes. My feeling for autumn is that it will be wild wet and windy in october and quietening down in Nobvember and December

  2. what i will say is i am so thankful that we have removed the truly awful weather of the last week or so. I truly hate wet mild and windy days. Give me a day like today and i am as happy as a pig in.... So we dont quite no what is happening in the next couple of weeks. If we get anywhere near what happened in December then we will be buried. Why because it is true winter, witner was only a couple of days old when the last blast blew in

    Roll on more model watching with anticipation. Agreed just to wipe the smile off of ian brown would be nice.... Wonder with all this frost we will get any ice days coming up

  3. I do wish the Met Office would be brave enough to start talking about the expected change of wind direction which is expected towards Thursday. And then the media might stop being so negative, all you here is no end in sight which is total rubbish, as for the government and European response thats been totally inadequate, the models indicated at the start of all the drama that the pattern was not going to change before the end of this week.

    Why wait 5 days before putting contingency plans in place? Regarding the test flights, these cant map continually the density of ash, so for example if the airspace was opened for certain routes, what happens if an aircraft suddenly encounters a deeper density of ash than shown on the test flights. Who basically would trust flying at the moment with this level of uncertainty?

    totally agree nick. would be corporate suicide

  4. I have watched this story grow over the last couple of days, and do believe that it is far better to stay with caution than the airlines and especially willie walsh saying nothing is wrong with his plane.

    Remember that KLM nearly lost a plane in 1995 when it flew through a Volcano cloud. The best infor that is available at thew moment really seems to bve on the Met office website concerning where they found the ash.... Now i live near gatwick and was surpised to read ash detected at 5,000 feet. Now we know commercial airliners fly higher than this but the concern is that if it was detected at that level then surely it is likely to be higher as well.

    We must must side on the air of caution as we in this country are taking a direct hit from the ash cloud whether we like it or not.

    Willie walsh does concern me.....

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