Because of the forecast that came from the British aviation authority, all local and international flights from and to Iceland have been grounded today. The Keflavik airport closed this morning at 09:30am.
The ash plume raising from the Grímsvötn volcano reached a maximum height of 20Km yesterday, but since then the eruption seems to have decreased in strength – the plume went down to about 10Km today, then up again to 15Km. Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, geophysicist at the University of Iceland, said this was Grimsvotn’s largest eruption in the last 100 years, much bigger and stronger than the one at Eyjafjallajokull.
