Of all the sunrises and sunsets I’ve seen, this was the most fully irreproducible: A nearly 1,000-foot volcanic fountain aglow, sending lava across the caldera floor, below a deep-convective column 20 times its height. The plume thrust upward then downwind with purpose, well into the rays of both the rising sun and the south Hawaii Island radar. A peculiar spike at right, made of the combination of noxious fumes, dust and water-cloud condensation, marked the top of an inversion layer that the convective column tilted upward with inward extent. In this wide-angle view, the eruption looks farther than it was, and I clearly heard its tornado-like roar.
3 W Volcano HI (19 Sep 25) Looking SW
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