Vog Index?

[Amrita]

Choking, can taste it, but the current levels are and have been "unavailable" for Mountain View and Puna East. Seems to happen a lot. What gives?

http://hiso2index.info/

[Mr nice guy]

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Originally posted by Amrita

Choking, can taste it, but the current levels are and have been "unavailable" for Mountain View and Puna East. Seems to happen a lot. What gives?

http://hiso2index.info/

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After several emails over several days I have been told that the Mountain View station is offline and is expected to be back online this month.

[Mr nice guy]

quote:

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Originally posted by Amrita

Choking, can taste it, but the current levels are and have been "unavailable" for Mountain View and Puna East. Seems to happen a lot. What gives?

http://hiso2index.info/

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After several emails over several days I have been told that the Mountain View station is offline and is expected to be back online this month.

[KUIU]

Two more resources...

University of Hawaii vog website: http://weather.hawaii.edu/vmap/index.cgi .

Graphic for Hawaii Island: http://weather.hawaii.edu/vmap/hysplit/bigisso2.cgi .

[Lee M-S]

Microclimates can make sensors kind of irrelevant.

Different spots in the same general area get varying amounts of VOG (and rain, clouds, etc).
There are natural channels, low spots between lava flows, where "stuff" tends to form a river to flow down the mountain.

I live at the back of Hawaiian Acres, and notice several spots that are almost always wetter or hazier than others. Hwy 11, especially, gets more rain, etc.--it seems to be a major channel. We lucked out and bought in a high spot (didn't notice the pattern until we'd lived here a while). The VOG never seems as bad here; this week, I had a bit of a sore throat, but nothing more.

edited to fix typo