Weather Effects From Eruption

[MarkP]

These pictures certainly document plumes from the ocean entry and from the eruption in general blowing westward over the rest of Puna. However that is not the normal wind direction. Several other photos and simulations show clouds, ash, and SO2 being blown more directly southwards. The website showing plumes of SO2 from Halemaumau in the past often showed the plumes angling off shore at least initially. My point is that at least part of what we are experiencing now is due to winds out of the east more than they usually do.

It seems strange that an area would get the moisture from the eruption but not the SO2.