Posted on 05/09/2010 6:29:24 AM PDT by blam
The Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Ash Is Back With A Vengeance, Will It Ruin Cannes?
Joe Weisenthal
May. 9, 2010, 9:17 AM
Just when you thought this story was long over, the ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano is iceland is back, and flights are being cancelled left and right across Europe.
Of course, this is exactly what Europe doesn't need right now, particularly Portugal, caught in the middle of a debt storm and now caught in the middle of this as well.
Times Online UK:
Today Ryanair announced the cancellation of 178 European flights while easyJet warned of further disruption on routes to and from Switzerland, Southern and Central France, Northern Italy and Northern Portugal.
At London Stansted Airport, 25 Ryanair flights were cancelled yesterday to destinations including Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands.
The airline announced this morning that it would be cancelling a further eight flights from the airport, with three more from Edinburgh, two from Liverpool, and another from Bristol. Several flights from Italy were also cancelled. The airline said that it expected to announce further cancellations later today.
Meanwhile, the organizers of the Cannes film festival are freaking out, as ABC News observes. Their annual shindig starts this Wednesday. Perhaps attendees will be forced to arrive by yacht.
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God will not be mocked.
Eye-Yaf-Yalla-Yerkel.
Say it three times as fast as you can!
Same thing 200 years ago.
“Solar activity, which is supposed to be on an upswing, is fizzling right now.”
I laughed when the solar scientists were doing their best Chicken Little impression by say the Sun was going to be even more active than during Cycle 19 (mid 1950s) because there is a 110 year cycle the Sun also has. If you look back at the early 1900s the Sun was very quiet so no surprise for me!
I am going to call it A-eh-FLEC-ya because the announcer sounded like he had a bit of a foreign accent and he may be from Iceland. I heard him say it several times and I wrote it down at the time.
I can’t say it fast LOL! Are you the one who gave me that prounciation?
Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla
“and the Dark Ages ensued in the Northern Hemisphere.”
Did some one say ‘Dark Ages’?
A couple of years ago this Doctor Who fourth season mid-season trailer was shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z3CvRyKyUU
I think so! Start slow and work your way up.
Eye
Yaff
Yalla
Yerkel!
The official models currently have solar activity being at their lowest since the Dalton Minimum in the early 1800's (when we had The Year Without a Summer). And they seem to be optimistic. Notice the fizzle below(tail end of black line versus predicted red line): 
The sun is currently bare of any sunspot activity today.
Will it ruin Cannes?
Only if we are lucky!
But that is not the way the announcer pronounced it on the documentary about the volcano. Are you from Iceland or just a regular Viking?
ROTFLMBO! Thanks that was NOT helpful at all! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Neither. I know some German so I am applying a German pronunciation to it.
Here is a YT video showing the proper pronunciation plus newsreporters getting it wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jq-sMZtSww
I have watched that at least ten times and I couldn’t say it properly if my life depended on it! I think it is one of those things that can only be truly properly pronounced by a native speaker. I will be seeing one of my Iceland friends in about a month and will hear and watch him pronounce it - maybe he can teach me, LOL!
"CAAAAAAAAAAANES!"
When you see your friend write it down phonetically and try and remember to let me know. I have a Dutch friend who also speaks German, I am going to ask her.
Don’t worry. Cannes are recyclable.
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