I was just checking it out and the plume was shooting completely out of the picture on both V1 and V2. So cool!
A summary of recent activity over the last day or so, with views and angles not seen in the live webcams.
Currently the vents have calmed down, the recent flow is still glowing in the dark.
V2 seems to have disappeared. Just redirects to V1.
(Must’ve been hit by a piece of lava.)
Cool ! Spewtastic.
(They were both just showing V1 when i last checked.)
Kewl!! April Fools! Actually, that’s pretty hot.
When I checked last night before bed here on the east coast = late afternoon Hawaii time there was no spew or flow, just a bit of steaming from what looked like a very fresh lava surface.
Now at early morning here = the wee hours in Hawaii we’re spewing forth vigorously!!
Thank you Pele for a good start to the month.
Really going at it with high fountaining April 1 at 11:37am Hawaii time. Not an April Fool’s Joke - look now if you can!
Yowza. That’s the tallest fountain I’ve ever seen at Kilaeua. Better even than ~10 days ago.
Thafor the heads-up.
I know a guy who has spent a couple of years building his dream home in Costa Rica. This is happening about 10 miles from him.
Yawn, wake me up when Kilauea starts really going.
Just kidding about the yawn. I’m on Oahu with realtives on the Big Island. I follow all the perturbations with Pele.
I am reminded of this guy:
Great pic!
A long-time coworker pilot friend of mine had been a C-141 pilot for USAF back in the 1980s/1990s. He had the dubious distinction of being the last plane out of Clark AB Philippines as Mount Pinatubo was going wild a mere 14 miles away. He’s got a treasured photo taken by one of the other crew looking out the side of the plane with ash falling on the field and that gigantic volcanic plume blotting out most of the sky, far too close for comfort.
Looks a lot like your golfers.
Episode 17 is going gangbusters right now, so we got up at 3:30am to go see it. Well worth the effort! It takes about 90 minutes door-to-door from our place (where the “door” at the volcano is the best viewing area you can hike to) so we arrived before dawn and got to see high levels of fountaining.
It’s an eerie experience, even if you’ve done it before, that engages many senses. About 20 miles out from the park entrance, you start to see a foreboding glow in the sky (if it’s nighttime). When you start walking along the path to the viewing area on the other side of the crater, you can smell the rock. As you get closer, you can hear the roar - it sounds like very rough surf. And you can feel the volcano’s warmth - it’s cold at night in the park (around 48F according to the car thermometer), but as you approach the volcano, it’s not as chilly.
Standing there watching the eruption is mesmerizing. What’s interesting to me is that nobody says a word - there are maybe two or three dozen people viewing at any given moment, and everyone is speechless. It feels as though it would be irreverent to talk.
As dawn lightened the sky we went around to the top of Kilauea Iki and then the (now abandoned) Jaeger Museum, so we saw the eruption in a variety of lightings and from different angles. Here’s a daytime photo from near Jaeger.
Thanks for the first person account, fascinating!
Brian
Had a family trip to Hawaii last month, went to Volcano hopefully. Were there on Saturday/Sunday. It erupted the Wednesday before and the Tuesday after. Oh well.
Still, even days after the eruption many spots on the crater floor were still visibly glowing after dark. The scale of it all doesn’t come across in photos. Watching the live video feed right now even knowing how huge it is it still looks smaller than I know it to be.
Worth the trip, even if you miss the eruption.
And both vents appear to have stopped now. The V2 cam is zoomed in a lot closer at the moment. Lots of smoke, but no visible glowing lava flowing.
When night falls, maybe there will be some glow - I guess we’ll see.
I have family visiting starting tomorrow for 6 days on island. I hope Pele gives them something spectacular, but we’ll just have to wait and see what her plans are.
Backing up a little, this is a photo from yesterday’s trip, before the sun rose:
Annnd it’s active again. Started around 10 hours ago as I type this. You can currently back up that far to see it gradually getting brighter in the dark. The limit you can scroll back is 12 hours.