Last week, officials said the earliest the lava could hit the road was one week.
But, as expected, the lava slowed considerably in recent days as it moved across flatter ground, leaving scientists unable to estimate a clearer timeline."I wish we could give a better answer," David Phillips, deputy scientist-in-charge at USGS’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, said Wednesday. "And so just based on its current behavior and all the variables involved, it’s very difficult to estimate a time, a place or even an if, it would intersect the highway.
Scientists were monitoring the overflow about 2.5 miles upslope from the lava front but it wasn’t currently posing any threat, Phillips said. It was unclear if it would continue to be active, but if does, it would be a while before it reached the road, he said. Thousands of motorists driving along the road to watch the lava prompted officials to open a one-way "mitigation route" last week.
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