disperse is way along the united kingdom and back through parts of western europe. this is from the european space agency tracking the silver d dioxide and the flume back through parts of the u.k. and finland. we are trying to get this to be more westerly. we are starting to see a little bit of the shift in the weather pattern. scan d . troops in afghanistan are feeling the impact. here to talk about it is chris lawrence. he spent more than a month embedded with the u.s. marines. how are they affected, chris? john and alina, the air over afghanistan is fine. the air over europe where a lot of the cargo, supply flights