"The ice storm on the Big Island of Hawaii occurred on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa above 12,000 feet (3,660 m). It was caused by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano on the south-central part of the island.
---Lava from this volcano flowed down to the sea and poured into the ocean, producing a huge
amount of steam.
---The steam rose rapidly and was carried by winds flowing from the south and southeast over the two big volcanoes.
---It caused freezing rain and fog that collected on the mountains, making the road to the top of Mauna Kea, 72 miles (115 km) north of Kilauea, hazardous to drive. The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Hawaii at Honolulu issued a winter weather advisory from 8:23 p.m. June 7 to 8 a.m. on June 8. It was expected that the diffuse sunlight shining through the clouds would quickly melt the ice in the morning.
The tops of the volcanoes on the Big Island (Mauna Kea is 13,803 ft [4,207 m] and Mauna Loa is 13,679 [4,169 m]) do get snow at times in winter, but the precipitation in this June summer event was ice and not snow. This was because the water in the steam rapidly rose, caused by the heat of the lava and latent heat of condensation, but it cooled as it rose. As the water vapor rose past the freezing level, it remained liquid drops, which often happens in cumulus and stratiform clouds. Thus, freezing fog (by being in the cloud) and the liquid rain froze upon hitting the terrain of the mountain tops.
The eruptions of Kilauea, as well as Mauna Loa, also produced harmful air pollution over the rest of the Hawaiian Islands at times. This air pollution, called vog, is a combination of volcanic smog and fog.
We know there was much volcanism during the flood. We often see volcanic rocks between, and volcanic ash within, sedimentary rocks; large areas of volcanic rocks from huge eruptions; and some of the sedimentary rocks themselves that originated from volcanism that were reworked by the waters of the flood. Such volcanism would heat up the water in its vicinity and create instant steam that would rise rapidly in the atmosphere and contribute to the rain on the surface. There were also other mechanisms to produce rain in such a global catastrophe.
But this example shows that rain can be easily produced by hot lava interacting with the sea water in the same way as Kilauea.
We do not need a vapor canopy, as some have suggested in the past, to produce 40 days and nights of rain. Besides, a vapor canopy with an appreciable amount of water vapor, enough for the 40 days and nights of rain, would end up heating the earth too hot for human life before the flood (Vardiman, 2001).
So if we multiply this rare event on Hawaii several thousand times, we can get a glimpse into another mechanism for how further rain could have been produced for the 40 days and nights of torrential rainfall worldwide during the early flood." AIG
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;
Genesis 7:4
---Lava from this volcano flowed down to the sea and poured into the ocean, producing a huge
---The steam rose rapidly and was carried by winds flowing from the south and southeast over the two big volcanoes.
---It caused freezing rain and fog that collected on the mountains, making the road to the top of Mauna Kea, 72 miles (115 km) north of Kilauea, hazardous to drive. The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Hawaii at Honolulu issued a winter weather advisory from 8:23 p.m. June 7 to 8 a.m. on June 8. It was expected that the diffuse sunlight shining through the clouds would quickly melt the ice in the morning.
The tops of the volcanoes on the Big Island (Mauna Kea is 13,803 ft [4,207 m] and Mauna Loa is 13,679 [4,169 m]) do get snow at times in winter, but the precipitation in this June summer event was ice and not snow. This was because the water in the steam rapidly rose, caused by the heat of the lava and latent heat of condensation, but it cooled as it rose. As the water vapor rose past the freezing level, it remained liquid drops, which often happens in cumulus and stratiform clouds. Thus, freezing fog (by being in the cloud) and the liquid rain froze upon hitting the terrain of the mountain tops.
The eruptions of Kilauea, as well as Mauna Loa, also produced harmful air pollution over the rest of the Hawaiian Islands at times. This air pollution, called vog, is a combination of volcanic smog and fog.
We know there was much volcanism during the flood. We often see volcanic rocks between, and volcanic ash within, sedimentary rocks; large areas of volcanic rocks from huge eruptions; and some of the sedimentary rocks themselves that originated from volcanism that were reworked by the waters of the flood. Such volcanism would heat up the water in its vicinity and create instant steam that would rise rapidly in the atmosphere and contribute to the rain on the surface. There were also other mechanisms to produce rain in such a global catastrophe.
But this example shows that rain can be easily produced by hot lava interacting with the sea water in the same way as Kilauea.
We do not need a vapor canopy, as some have suggested in the past, to produce 40 days and nights of rain. Besides, a vapor canopy with an appreciable amount of water vapor, enough for the 40 days and nights of rain, would end up heating the earth too hot for human life before the flood (Vardiman, 2001).
So if we multiply this rare event on Hawaii several thousand times, we can get a glimpse into another mechanism for how further rain could have been produced for the 40 days and nights of torrential rainfall worldwide during the early flood." AIG
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;
Genesis 7:4