Eruption update:

Kilauea – specifically Halema’uma’u – has been erupting for several weeks now, spewing out a steady seeming stream of sulphur dioxide.

If you go around dusk, you will see that this plume is glowing red. After dark the red is very clear, and best seen from the Jagger Museum.

The road down the mountain is closed. Apparently an earthquake caused the road to rupture.

There is periodic lava viewing off highway 130.

About the vog. Vog is the product of the sulphur plume. It is somewhat prevalent around and about most of the islands part of the time. When the trade winds are going, it blows off island. Otherwise, it has a tendency to settle in the areas around Glenwood if not blanketing most of the island, sparing perhaps the northern tip at Hawi. It travels across to Honolulu as well. When it is bad, you can taste it. We had one bad morning of it at Volcano itself – otherwise, the plume tends to blow over to Kona or off island altogether. We used surgical masks when working outside when it was bad, and then someone brought us over charcoal filter masks, which did not prove to be necessary.