The word vog comes from two words: volcano and smog. Vog itself is volcanic smog formed by sulfuric dioxide and other volcanic pollutants mixed with oxygen and moisture. Boy, do I sound smart! Not really. I had to look it up. Scott came home talking about the "vog" and I'm like, "vog? what's vog?"
Vog is most common to those lucky...er, I mean unlucky parts of the world where there is an active volcano. Kilauea, erupting on the Big Island since 1983, emits 2,000 tons of vog each day. Typically, the vog effects Western Kona, but without the trade winds to blow it out to sea the vog has drifted west over the neighboring islands to us on Oahu.
Side effects of vog may include, "headaches, difficulty in breathing, sore throat, flu-like symptoms and lethargy." Oh goody. So we stayed indoors yesterday until it was time to go for Friday night ice cream and fireworks. The air had an obvious "after the fireworks" smell but the show had not started yet and by the time we had walked 2 blocks to the ice cream parlor, I had an itchy throat. Zach came down with a headache. This morning we had a hike planned, but it still appears to be voggy out there.
In this first picture, one should be able to get a glimps of the mountains behind those tall buildings. But not yesterday. 
This is a view of the sunset from our lanai taken a few weeks ago. See the ocean there?
This shot was taken from the lanai yesterday afternoon. No ocean. Just vog!***For Today's Weather Report click here
2 comments:
Bummer! Stay in and stay healthy, it'll be gone before you know it! Do school today and take a day off during the week, after it clears off!
Wasn't that just awful? We can watch the sunset on the Waianae Mts and Saturday night it was just a blood red orb. It made me wonder if there had been a lot of volcanic activity around the time that Japanese iconography was being established.
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