Observations for 2025 August 24


Went out before dawn to Grand to confirm that it had erupted. I estimated that it was about one to 1-1/2 hours since the eruption based on the sound of boiling down deep in Grand's vent.

After a late morning Beehive eruption, went out to Grand around the 7-1/2 hour mark. An hour and a half later we got a West Triplet eruption. I expected that this would trigger a Rift eruption, but it turned out instead that after West Triplet quit, we got a Turban Delay interval. The durations of both Turban's intervals and its eruption durations immediately shortened. One of the Turban eruptions lasted just under 2-1/2 minutes.

Grand erupted on a Turban interval of less than 13 minutes, which is about as short as I've ever seen. The One Burst Grand lasted less than nine minutes, and Grand made no attempt at even trying to have a second burst. At least Vent & Turban continued.

2025-Aug-24 : 15:18:52 D4/T1C

 15:18:26	Turban	-0m26s
 15:18:46	Boop	-0m06s
 15:18:52	B1	--- d=08m36s
 15:19:28	Vent Ovfl	0m36s
 15:20:53	Vent	2m01s
 15:27:28	P1	8m36s
Vent & Turban continue

				     	ΣD=08m36s
	* * * * *
 12:11:44			
 12:29:17	Int: 17m33s	d=03m57s 	
 12:47:54	Int: 18m37s	d=03m40s 	
 13:06:44	Int: 18m50s	d=03m28s 	
 13:23:58	Int: 17m14s	d=03m18s 	
 13:29:40	West Triplet d=31m51s 
 13:44:07	Int: 20m09s	d=03m19s 	
 14:16:21	Int: 32m14s	d=03m09s  D0	
 14:32:54	Int: 16m33s	d=02m28s  D1	
 14:48:21	Int: 15m27s	d=03m26s  D2	
 15:05:46	Int: 17m25s	d=02m49s  D3	
		     Turban: 12m40s

After that long wait, went to the Lower Basin to catch an eruption of Fountain, and possibly Great Fountain. Morning's Thief boiled up a few minutes before Fountain started. The last visible water in the Thief about ten minutes into Fountain's eruption, which lasted over 33 minutes.

Great Fountain began to erupt as we were walking back to the parking lot, so make no attempt to bike into there.