Yet another Etna eruption, inconvenience at Catania airport: several flights canceled and diverted
Summer, at Catania airport, is particularly hot: and temperatures, although high, have little to do with it. The 'problem', in this case, [...]
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Summer, at theCatania airport, is particularly hot: and temperatures, although high, have very little to do with it. The 'problem', in this case, is. Mount Etna, which during the weekend that just ended gave no small show.
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During the night of August 3 to 4, increasing activity was recorded in the Voragine crater: volcanic tremor, ash cloud about 10 km high headed southeast and lava fountains; this is the 5th paroxysmal phase recorded by INGV, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, from July 4 to the present.
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The ash rain not only created inconvenience for neighboring municipalities but, evidently, also for the Catania-Fontanarossa airport. Result: B1 sector of the airspace has been closed and incoming flights have been reduced to only 6 per hour.
Only late in the morning did the crater activity diminish and, consequently, the alert level was changed from red to orange: nevertheless, inconveniences for travelers were not few, with 7 hijacked flights (most in Comiso, the rest in Palermo) and 6 deleted.
