By Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Special to West Hawaii Today
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Kilauea’s summit lava lake in Halemaʻumaʻu is approaching its five-month anniversary on Thursday, May 20, while the water lake that occupied the crater for the previous seventeen months seems like a distant memory.

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