# 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:** 9
**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 26, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/161 "2025-02-26T11:32:40Z")
01:30 Hawaiian time… still going strong ! ---
**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:** [February 26, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/162 "2025-02-26T11:47:16Z")
Nice. I scrolled back in time; there were some periods overnight when the fountain was much higher. I went all the way back to around the time of local sunset to see when it really got going. As it gets dark, you can see it glowing inside the fissure, but then suddenly in the lower left the actual outward flow of lava starts to be visible, at about 18:25 local time. Here’s the link again so you don’t have to hunt for it. > **[Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii (Halemaʻumaʻu crater)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5zz9Sjw3E?_A_Brand_New_Flow)** > > Live view of the eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the northwest rim of the caldera, looking east \[V1cam\] . The V1cam is an autofocusing pan-tilt-zoom model. Th... ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/163 "2025-02-26T15:01:34Z")
There is still a nice fountain and flow. I like watching while it’s still dark. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/164 "2025-03-05T05:27:44Z")
Annnd it’s going again. Flow started to march fourth at around 14:00 local time. ETA That’s when it escaped from the fissure in front, but if you look close you can see the fissure behind it had flow escaping for around an hour before then. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/165 "2025-03-05T15:05:22Z")
I was coming in here to post that. I just checked the live cam. I love watching the nighttime eruptions. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/166 "2025-03-11T21:02:42Z")
Still going strong ! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/167 "2025-03-11T21:28:59Z")
It had stopped for a while at some point after my last post; I see it got going again in the wee hours (Hawaii time) this morning. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/168 "2025-03-11T22:10:04Z")
yeah. Between later on Mar 5 and now it had quit for a few days. Was steaming & maybe bubbling, but not fountaining. At least not at the several times I checked in that almost-week. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/169 "2025-03-11T22:52:28Z")
I ALMOST saw it start this time - I woke up and looked at the webcam around 3:30am, and it started around 3. Oh well. One of these days I’ll see it start live. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/170 "2025-03-25T20:22:15Z")
I was coming in to say that she had started again, but it seems to have slowed down in the time it took me to find the thread. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 25, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/171 "2025-03-25T23:18:51Z")
It’s been on again, off again two or three times in the last few hours. Pele is indeed a tease. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/172 "2025-03-26T02:15:25Z")
Going like gangbusters right this second, and they’ve moved or switched cameras, a different angle on the pair of vents. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/173 "2025-03-26T04:47:09Z")
As I write - March 25, 2026 at 6:46 pm Hawaii Standard Time, so later for you mainland folks, [the v2 cam](https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live) is awesome. But it could stop at any moment. 😬 So don’t blame me if you look and nothing is happening. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/174 "2025-03-26T12:13:24Z")
Now a few hours later at 2am Hawaii time, 8am eastern on Wed 3/26 it’s smoking/steaming nicely and slowly oozing pretty glowing lava. No fountains at the moment. Go Pele!! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/175 "2025-03-26T15:05:59Z")
There is some spitting right now. The [V1 cam](https://www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9Sjw3E?si=_qyGz0NBXTZA3C9z) has the better view. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/176 "2025-03-26T21:13:43Z")
Look NOW if you can! 600 feet fountaining. I have never seen it so high before. ETA: v2 best view right now > **[\[V2cam\] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater)](https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live)** > > Live view from Halemaʻumaʻu crater from the eastern rim of the caldera. =====❓ FAQs about Kīlauea eruptions: ❓https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/frequent... ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/177 "2025-03-26T21:35:27Z")
Wow. It almost looks like it goes up and evaporates; I can’t see the part coming back down. That’s real impressive for that kind of volcano & lava. ETA: Whether you see the descending stuff sorta depends on the wind. It looks like the lava is cooling to below incandescent on the way up, so is dark while falling. That’d be a real show after dark if it lasts that long. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/178 "2025-03-26T21:49:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > ETA: Whether you see the descending stuff sorta depends on the wind Also the camera, I think. I now have tabs for both v1 and v2 and am looking at both. One of them, I think v1, shows much more clearly the ash/Pele’s hair/whatever all the falling stuff is. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/179 "2025-03-26T21:56:49Z")
The lower fountain was the one sort of simmering overnight, just oozing goo over it’s crater lip. Right now it’s not fountaining very high, but wow, that lava output rate is impressive. Lots of new rock per second. Thanks for the reminder to look at v1 too. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/180 "2025-03-26T22:14:29Z")
And here ~20 minutes later the lower high flow rate vent I mentioned has stopped completely. A very dynamic situation overall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=10)