This has been happening for a while now on a fairly regular schedule. Geology hub covered a previous eruptive episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkMz4b5Ogd8
Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level
I've always thought that it seems like a silly way to measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor, technically.
Then you’d be calling a whole continent a single mountain and it wouldn’t be a continuous slope in one direction.
I agree though that it’s a bit silly to measure Mauna Kea to the ocean floor.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level
I've always thought that it seems like a silly way to measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor, technically.
Shout out to Chimborazo, where the summit is (likely) furthest from the center of the Earth. (I understand Huascarán is in contention, and don't know the latest details.)
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#14Can’t predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow paths and it’s clear the massive volume that occasionally flows out.
Kilauea has been erupting every week or two since Christmas Eve and fountaining every week or two for two months now.
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#15Re: Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]
#16Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…
How does the rain avoid the desert areas?
Re: Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level
I've always thought that it seems like a silly way to measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor, technically.
Everything is silly, and consensus reality on these kind of things is just a glorified Reddit thread IRL. There's at least four plausible metrics. Everest is tallest from the local mean sea level (the smoothed gravitational equipotential—what a stationary water surface hugs); McKinley-Denali from its local terrain base; Mauna Kea from the local terrain base inclusive of underwater terrain; and Chimborazo, in equatorial Ecuador (it's Ecuador because it's equatorial), as measured from this planet's center-of-mass (the planet bulges out approaching the equator because of its spinning—"oblateness").
Like a Reddit thread, it's best not to argue too much with what the hive-mind decides. People literally died climbing what they believed to be the correct answer. Let them have their thing. :)
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#18The VOG lately on Oahu has been really bad, desperately hoping we keep tradewinds around. A few weeks ago we had Kona winds and it was nauseating.
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#19Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…
How does the rain avoid the desert areas?
It checks the biome type like in Minecraft!
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#20Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…
How does the rain avoid the desert areas?
It's a "rain shadow"[0]
The predominant wind is from the east, and the air cools aid forms rainclouds as it tries to rise over the mountains in the center of the island. Then warms again as it descends down the eastern slopes.
So the eastern (Hilo) side is pretty lush jungle, and the west(Kona) is desert. With snowy mountains in between.
[0]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/rain-s...