The string of One Burst Grand eruptions continued today.
First it was the one before dawn, which consisted of a series of short Turban eruption intervals before a short One Burst Grand eruption.
2025-Sep-05 : 05:47:55 T1C 05:47:04 Turban -0m51s 05:47:55 B1 --- d=09m26s 05:50:17 Vent 2m22s 05:57:21 P1 9m26s Vent & Turban continue ΣD=09m26s * * * * * 03:44:40 04:01:42 Int: 17m02s d=03m49s 04:20:59 Int: 19m17s d=03m20s 04:38:37 Int: 17m38s d=03m35s 04:56:05 Int: 17m28s d=03m09s 05:12:07 Int: 16m02s d=02m58s 05:29:16 Int: 17m09s d=03m34s Turban: 17m48s
Then there was the One Burst Grand eruption that had a shorter series, but also had short Turban eruption intervals. This time Turban initiated the eruption, and it lasted over 11-1/2 minutes. West Triplet also started erupting just over a minute after Grand started. And once again, there was some large afterplay from Grand starting about five minutes after the restart. Disappointed that we didn't get the Rift eruption over with.
2025-Sep-05 : 14:02:22 G1Q 14:02:17 Boop -0m05s 14:02:22 B1 --- d=11m35s 14:02:26 Vent Ovfl 0m04s 14:02:43 Turban 0m21s 14:05:28 Vent 3m06s 14:13:57 P1 11m35s 14:14:39 V&T Quit 12m17s 14:22:07 V&T Restart 19m45s ΣD=11m35s * * * * * 12:54:50 13:08:50 Int: 14m00s d=04m25s 13:27:33 Int: 18m43s d=03m37s 13:45:14 Int: 17m41s d=03m58s 14:03:32 West Triplet d=35m33s Grand: 17m08s
Just after dinner came the call for Beehive. During the walk over, also heard that Depression was starting to erupt, so I managed to capture that to video.
At the seven hour mark, Rift was in eruption, and had been so for quite a while. Only 45 minutes into the wait, Castle started to erupt, and it quickly became obvious that it was going to be a major eruption. A number of those waiting were going to go over there to look for moonbows, with Rift still in eruption. But on the next Turban eruption opportunity, it also became obvious that Grand was going to start, based on the strong Turban eruption.
There was a nice, short first burst, a fairly lot pause, and a short second burst. It was dead calm, and the jets of water rose above the building steam cloud. But once again, we got a two burst eruption lasting less than ten minutes, with Vent & Turban then quitting.
2025-Sep-05 : 22:13:24 T2Q 22:12:40 Turban -0m44s 22:13:24 B1 --- d=08m15s 22:15:53 Vent 2m29s 22:21:39 P1 8m15s d=45s 22:22:24 B2 9m00s d=33s 22:22:57 P2 9m33s 22:24:08 V&T Quit 10m44s ΣB=08m48s ΣD=09m33s * * * * * 21:17:05 d=03m46s 21:36:51 Int: 19m46s d=03m35s 21:55:05 Int: 18m14s d=03m26s Turban: 17m35s
Castle was still in eruption, and had pretty much made the transition to steam, but was still impressive seen from the boardwalk, and there was enough spray to see a nice moonbow.