"I’m glad I live 5000 miles away" Topic

Major hurricane to collide with erupting volcano.
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That should help moisturize the smaller particles and make them come down in the rain. Great way to clear the air.

Dan

Or create one of the true horrors of AGW – A sharknado!!!

Just make sure not to swim for a few weeks after a hurricane. That's usually when fishermen (in the Caribbean at least) catch the big man-eating sharks that come in* for the dead livestock that the flooded rivers and streams take out to sea.

Dan
* I mean the swimming type of sharks. Not the flying kind. :)

Will SyFy be able to get the movie out in time?

Volcanic Shark Hurricane sounds like a good title.

Dan

The early line has Kilauea over Hector at 5 to 3.

Hmmm…might have to take a piece of that action…

Well, there's already at least ten minutes of volcano footage to loop, so SyFy should be able to squeeze five movies out of that by next weekend.

LOL. Good one, Etotheipi!

Dan

When a volcano and hurricane meet, they'll make a baby called vulchurr, this unholy monstrosity will be the most powerful creature on the planet, every one will fight to control it's awesome power, the UN the EU, CIA, Muslim brotherhood and pizza hut. Everyone wants it.

Except Bob, Bob know the horror the vulchurr will bring, so Bob, his seeing eye dog Daisy, and George the next door neighbor kid with ADD will set out on quest to destroy the Vulchurr before it's too late.

While interesting, I wonder how much synergy there will actually be between the two.

I also wonder how many people will travel there just for the event. People are weird.

Maybe there will be some good video.

Here on the other end of the chain, we hope Hector passes by to the south. And we are happy not to live on the big island, with its lava fountains and ash clouds and vog.

'Vog' ?? Is that a weather phenomenon associated
with volcano fumes/smoke/discharge and fog ?

Weird. I would have combined "rain" and "ash" instead.

Either way, the result might be the same … rash. :)

Or "rain" and "lava"? Or "gusts" and "lava"?

Dan
PS. A "sharkane" might actually happen, if the conditions are right and these guys stick around the volcano:
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You are mostly correct, EM, it is volcano smog, carrying the fumes and tiny particulates downwind to make surprisingly (for an island with little heavy industry sitting 2000 miles from shore) hazy days and respiratory attacks…

Hawaii is special in that we've had hydrogen sulfide gas venting continuously since 1983, so the Big island often has vog and depending on wind conditions, you see it as far west as Oahu (rarely seen on Kauai and Niihau, because the wind doesn't often carry it that way long enough).

Like CC said, above, rain will wash a lot of particulates out of the air, so hoping it will do so this time.

We don't swim in/after hurricane because of (1) raging surf that isn't safe for swimming (2) brown water from runoff is a health hazard plus sharks like to hunt in murky water.

Most times a shark that sees you will pass you by (most sharks like fish, you ain't a fish), but in murky water they might bite you before figuring that out. They might bite and decide they don't want you, but why take the chance?

Same here after a US East Coast hurricane, SP.

IDK why but sharks will be numerous inshore after
a hurricane passes by. Perhaps shoals of fish
feeding on smaller creatures stirred up by the
heavy surf.

Odds are that Kilauea will still be erupting long after Hector is no longer a hurricane.

Odds are that Kilauea will still be erupting long after Hector is no longer a hurricane.

Well that's common knowledge I think. Volcanic activity lasts for an average of 7 weeks. Storms surely don't, at least on this planet.

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press,Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.

However the granddad of them all, Stomboli (off of Sicily) has been active for 2,400 years. Talk about an outlier.

What did you expect, it is Sicilian.