Heavy vog on Oahu

by billso on Saturday, 26 April 2008

The vog (haze or vol­canic fog) has been very heavy here on Oahu for the last two days.

This morning’s Hon­olulu Adver­tiser has a good arti­cle about where the vog came from, and how the haze is affect­ing local residents.

I was on the North Shore yes­ter­day, installing a VoIP phone sys­tem for a client. I took these pic­tures from their site, which has an excel­lent view of the North Shore and the Pacific Ocean. The hori­zon is almost com­pletely obscured, which is very unusual.

I have larger ver­sions of each image on my Flickr gallery.

Vog 2

Vog 3

Vog 1

This is what the view usu­ally looks like. I took this pic­ture on 24 August 2007.

no-vog

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Tagged as: environment, Hawaii, images, kilauea, north-shore, Oahu, vog, volcano

  • Aimee Blom

    My boyfriend and I are suf­fer­ing from this Vog, I thought I left So. Cal. and its smog behind, I have to say that the vog effects me more then the smog.

  • http://billso.com billso

    You’re so right — I’ve only seen smog like this in L.A. and Phoenix.

    The vog is really get­ting to me. I’m lucky we have a very good air fil­ter in our home.

  • http://billso.com billso

    Two arti­cles from the Hon­olulu Adver­tiser: the first is a front page story about how the vog is affected big island residents.

    The sec­ond arti­cle is the usual list of safety tips: stay indoors, drink plenty of water, don’t exer­cise out­side. I haven’t gone for a run since Thurs­day morning.

  • http://billso.com billso

    The vog has blown away this morn­ing. The Star-Bulletin has a brief arti­cle about the weather conditions.

  • http://www.thehawaiianlife.com Jeremy

    So vog is actu­ally smoke? Crazy, I always thought it was just fog…

  • http://billso.com billso

    Accord­ing to this Wikipedia arti­cle, vog is fog with some soot, ash, sul­fur diox­ide and other mate­ri­als. Bake in the sun and serve. :)

  • http://billso.com billso

    The AP has a good follow-up arti­cle today about the vog’s effect on Big Island agriculture.

    One rea­son the vog is worse is that the new vent is far­ther inland than the older Puu Oo vent on the mountain’s sea­side slope. While gas from the Puu Oo vent often blows out to sea, the new plume is more likely to hit farms and com­mu­ni­ties in con­cen­trated form.

    There’s a Google map linked to the arti­cle, too.

  • http://billso.com billso

    The vog is back. Can­not see the moun­tains from down­town Honolulu.

  • http://billso.com billso

    Our most recent vog out­break has left Hon­olulu at last.

  • malu

    How is it now bill?

  • http://billso.com/ Bill Sode­man

    It’s been fine for the last 4 weeks. We get vog from time to time, and the last bru­tal batch floated through dur­ing Octo­ber 2009.

  • http://billso.com/ Bill Sode­man

    It’s been fine for the last 4 weeks. We get vog from time to time, and the last bru­tal batch floated through dur­ing Octo­ber 2009.

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