How often you get smokey days in Honolulu from other island’s Volcano?
Country pumpkin asked:
I’m planning to move to Honolulu area and have mild asthma. Someone told me there are smokey days from Volcano smoke from other island. I’d appreciate if anyone could tell me this is very rare ,like once a year or every few month?? Thank you.
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I’m planning to move to Honolulu area and have mild asthma. Someone told me there are smokey days from Volcano smoke from other island. I’d appreciate if anyone could tell me this is very rare ,like once a year or every few month?? Thank you.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
I actually live on Oahu and I have to say, that the smoke only happens sometimes but very lightly …. it is quite rare for heavy “vog” … although a very heavy vog was on Oahu today …
i also have light asthma.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Unfortunately we cant predict when mr.volcano wants to erupt.
sometimes it happens alot or not at all.
bring an inhaler.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:01 am
We’ve had more voggy days this year than any I can remember. In the spring, we had maybe 10 days to two weeks of some of the worst vog I can remember. Then no problems till last week. It’s getting better today. There’s just no way of knowing when it will come, or ow long it will last.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
If you added up all the voggy days this year, it would be maybe a week or two on Maui and Oahu (Honolulu). Actually, Kilauea has been pumping out increased levels of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants all summer, it’s just a matter of the wind patterns.
This weekend was pretty nasty on Oahu and Maui because there was no wind to blow the vog out to sea, but it did clear up this morning when the trade winds returned (whew!). On Maui, the smoke from burning sugar cane and the dust stirred up by the harvesters added to the haze during the morning commute. And now I seriously need to wash my windshield.
This year has been unusual compared to recent years. Kilauea has been erupting out of the big Halema’uma’u Crater, and there seems to be more sulfur dioxide created there than at Pu’u O’o, where the action has been going on for the past 25 years. Pu’u O’o is still erupting, too, so sometimes you have two plumes of smoke at Kilauea.
We don’t know exactly what the eruption patterns will be in the future, or what the long term effects on our health will be. It’s not exactly like the pollution from factories or automobiles. The particles are bigger, and may never work their way out of our lungs.
Another problem for you will be the fireworks in Honolulu at July 4 and especially New Years. You think you’ve seen fireworks before, but if most families here only had one string of 10,000 firecrackers to set off, they would consider themselves to have a poor New Year’s indeed. Aerials are illegal for regular folks to set off, but each city block seems to have enough to rival the Independence Day displays of small towns where I come from.