Organic Smog

What you are looking at here is pure, unadulterated, all natural smog (mostly SO2, I think) obscuring Mauna Kea. (You can see it better if you blow up the pic.) Madam Pele has been producing the stuff in enormous quantities of late, inundating Kona and even impacting Waimea. Makes the eyes burn on bad days. Don't know how it compares with the man-made stuff that haunts the LA basin and Salt Lake Valley during inversions, but I do hope it doesn't last too long!