No ash cloud here: Deep blue skies over London April 16. So, if planes weren't grounded for 6 days because of the "ash cloud"...
Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas and costing airlines hundreds of millions of pounds.
Estimates put the number of Britons still stuck abroad at 35,000.
However, new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.
The satellite images demonstrate that the skies were largely clear, which will not surprise the millions who enjoyed the fine, hot weather during the flight ban.
Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority's head of airworthiness, strategy and policy, admitted: 'It's obvious that at the start of this crisis there was a lack of definitive data.
'It's also true that for some of the time, the density of ash above the UK was close to undetectable.'
Comment: It is hard to be 100% sure about the direct casual effect between the vulcano eruption and the French Revolution, but such a link is surely interesting to consider in the light of current events.
Are we to expect local climate disruption followed by crop failure and food riots and finally some sort of revolution? If so, this time it is likely to be lead by the psychopaths in power, not the common people.