# For volcano watchers - maybe you'll get lucky! {Kilauea may be erupting} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665 "2023-09-05T20:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/121 "2024-12-23T17:07:10Z")
Very impressive. Thank you for arranging a festive Christmas eruption. Some years we have to settle for just a lump of cold lava rock. 😉 Kinda handy the fountain isn’t fully behind that ridge from our / the camera’s POV. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/122 "2024-12-23T17:48:03Z")
Very cool! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/123 "2024-12-23T18:20:06Z")
Nice show but its not going to displace my burning yule log on the flat screen for Christmas Eve. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/124 "2024-12-23T18:27:54Z")
Yay ! Cheers Pele, merry Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/125 "2024-12-23T18:29:49Z")
Rather the opposite, I think. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/126 "2024-12-24T00:05:35Z")
~8 hours in the size of the fountaining has shrunk ~30% but the supply of fresh lava at the base has grown a lot. Yaay! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/127 "2024-12-24T23:25:06Z")
And now, after a pause … IT’S BAAAACCK! Looking at the live feed, it’s almost as good as when it first started. Pele likes to keep us guessing. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/128 "2024-12-25T01:47:20Z")
Very impressive. I haven’t seen that kind of lava fountain from Kilauea in a while. This is Pele’s way of doing Christmas decorations I guess. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/129 "2024-12-25T01:56:53Z")
My sharp-eyed spouse noted that they moved the camera focus a little closer to the fountaining about 3 hours ago (so probably around 1pm December 24, Hawai’i Standard Time). The fountaining has indeed returned, and it is an impressive sight - but we’re also seeing it a little more up close and personal now, so direct comparisons to what the camera was showing when the eruption first started may not be valid. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/130 "2024-12-25T02:00:34Z")
Yikes. I would not want to be the guy that got the job of walking out there to move the camera. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/131 "2024-12-25T02:05:34Z")
Carol, is any of this activity visible from the viewing spots along the road in Volcanos National Park? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/132 "2024-12-25T02:14:28Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Yikes. I would not want to be the guy that got the job of walking out there to move the camera. Pretty good bet they just clicked on the [zoom in] button on the camera’s website control panel. Not so hazardous a duty as all that. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/133 "2024-12-25T04:26:50Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Carol, is any of this activity visible from the viewing spots along the road in Volcanos National Park? I am in California visiting my son, so can’t personally vouch for anything. But based on previous eruptions and visits, I’d say yes - especially at night there should be a good view from the viewing area on the opposite side of Halema’uma’u, and if you just drive/walk along Chain of Craters Road, you’ll get a good view of the glow. (This is strictly speculation, though.) ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/134 "2025-01-24T07:57:54Z")
So as all of those who obsessively watch volcanoes know, Pele has been an on-again-off-again tease recently, starting to erupt and pausing 5 times now. As I post, it is in pause, but the prediction seems to be that it will likely start fountaining again soon. Anyhow, we were too booked to go see the eruption right away, but on the first night of the fourth episode, we were free, so decided to go check it out. We were glad we did, as within hours of our visit it paused again. Here’s one of my pics: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/TSlIbVt.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/TSlIbVt) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/135 "2025-01-24T12:12:48Z")
Here’s a screen shot from 02:10 on 2025/01/24 … What are all the (stationary) dots of light all over the place ? [https://i.ibb.co/T11PFP3/VS.jpg](https://i.ibb.co/T11PFP3/VS.jpg) eta : don’t know why this image isn’t appearing in the post … ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/136 "2025-01-24T16:28:05Z")
Those dots are just cooling lava on the surface of the crater. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/137 "2025-01-24T16:54:16Z")
Ah. Thanks CC ! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/138 "2025-02-04T21:59:38Z")
Nice bit of lava spewage going on atm ! 🌋 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/139 "2025-02-04T22:10:55Z")
Nice - the camera has been fogged every time I’ve checked it. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/140 "2025-02-05T00:52:31Z")
Wow! It looks like spewing has been happening for the past 12+ hours! [https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live](https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=8)