I'm an air traffic controller at HCF Center (the airspace that has this aviation red warning). I wish I was working there right now to see this firsthand, but I'm currently in Oklahoma City at the FAA center. If anyone has any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.<p>The summary says the ash cloud is drifting southwest which would put it on the south end of the Big Island. Almost no one flies that way so it shouldn't have a big impact on aviation traffic.
What happens when you don't avoid clouds of volcanic ash:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM_Flight_867" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM_Flight_867</a>
Ah volcanoes, the 3d printer of nature.<p>Some interesting fact I found the other day: Hawaii was created by one (edit) volcanic hotspot, while the tectonic plate moved above it. And there's a line of underwater islands all the way to Siberia.
How do the telescopes on Mt Kea protect themselves from the ash? I know that they are on another island some distance from this volcano (I visited a decade or so ago) but does the ash cloud risk transporting damaging particulates to the special glass?
First time I've ever seen the term "vog" (volcanic air pollution) <a href="https://vog.ivhhn.org/" rel="nofollow">https://vog.ivhhn.org/</a>