Episode 21 is threatening to start right now. For lack of a better word, the south vent is “blurping” again.
If it is like last time, it will blurp, overflow, withdraw, lather-rinse-repeat, without fountaining for quite a while. But who knows what will happen this time.
The front vent started a small fountain and eventually overflowed about 20-30 minutes ago. It’s hard to make out the subtle flow in that camera view during the day but quite apparent if you use the arrow keys to skip forward and back.
v1cam is showing a great view of some pretty significant fountaining now.
Nice, they zoomed in since I made my last post.
ETA The V2 cam shows it’s now 3 times as high as when I posted.
ETA2 no, they didn’t zoom in, it’s just that the fountain is so much bigger that was my initial assumption. Wow.
ETA3: Too bad it’s only 720p. I bet it would look glorious in 4k on a large monitor.
It is absolutely incredible what is happening right now.
Subsiding now, less than half its height at its recent peak.
I just tuned in, but it’s 2x larger than anything I’ve seen in prior eruptions. If that’s itself a reduction from what @Ponderoid saw an hour ago, then they must have seen something amazing.
I wonder if it’s resurging, or fading?
You can always scroll back up to 12 hours and line up things to see what was happening at the time of the post 
D’oh!
I just did that and now is ~70% the height and ~50% the volume of an hour ago. That was some amazing stuff back then!
A more detailed poke at the last 2 hours shows it grew abruptly to huge, then shrank to about half the max, then ebbed and flowed a few times on ~5-10 minute cycles, then now is slowly fading. But now (2035 Eastern) is still going good by comparison to any of the last couple of months’ eruptions.
Once nightfall hits I bet the crater surface will be glowing prettily from edge to edge.
What kind of Hawai’ian are you? Shouldn’t you say mauka?
No, mauka would take me inland toward the center of the island. We use mauka and makai all the time but it doesn’t apply here.
Meanwhile, the lava fountain looks huge again, high and wide.
Just left the park. View was frustrating because it was so misty you could barely see. It was astonishingly high, though.
I finally had a chance to tune in. (It’s easier during the work week - I have the cams on a tab in chrome).
Wow - just wow. Hopefully it’ll keep going in the morning.
Ah, TIL. I always thought mauka just meant towards some unspecified mountain, perhaps the nearest one. My Hawai’ian dictionary defines “uka” as “inland, upland, towards the mountain”, which isn’t very specific, but I’m sure your usage is correct. Thanks.
Not as high now but a lot wider. This is from the V2 cam, currently zoomed further out.
And around 8:30pm Hawaii time it stopped after a couple hours of slowing down. By midnight Hawaii time the glow across the crater floor had mostly subsided to nothing.
But wow did we all have a show while it lasted!