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vog (VAWG) - n., air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano.
Blend of volcano and smog, or perhaps better thought of as a compression of volcanic smog. The word is in common use in Hawai'i, where weather reports routinely include vog conditions due to the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island. I found examples via Google going back to the early 1970s, though into the early '90s it was usually defined in context, as if the writer wasn't expecting the audience knew it.
---L.
Blend of volcano and smog, or perhaps better thought of as a compression of volcanic smog. The word is in common use in Hawai'i, where weather reports routinely include vog conditions due to the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island. I found examples via Google going back to the early 1970s, though into the early '90s it was usually defined in context, as if the writer wasn't expecting the audience knew it.
---L.
