Potential Vog Crisis at Taal


We already have a post for eruption-related news, but now there is another type of hazard looming: sulfur emission and vog.

Basically, Taal’s SO2 emissions are back to five digits again, but this time the atmospheric winds aren’t strong enough to clear that stuff out.

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The photo at the top of this post is from this PHIVOLCS thread: on the left, a degassing Taal at one station; on the right, the view from another station 16 minutes later when vog was forming.

Hopefully, things won’t worsen much, but the potential is there and a post for it is warranted.

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