Weather Effects From Eruption

[TomK]

Thank you, Jeremy, especially for the first link. Steam and water vapor from the ocean entry is being sent up to around 10,000 feet at the moment and local winds (or lack of them) are driving that moisture over the area between Kapoho and Pahoa. It's high enough to form rain and unless there's a change in the wind or lava flow it'll continue. Nothing at all to do with the loss of rainforest.

I'd be interested to learn how acidic the rainfall is in Pahoa right now; I assume it's higher than normal.