Kilauea’s 2024–2025 eruption sequence featured numerous, cyclic, roaring fountains in the southwest part of the summit caldera’s Halemaumau crater, some of which produced the highest fountains near the summit since the 1959 eruption in the Iki crater about 2-1/2 miles away. Witnessing Episode 33 of this eruption realized a lifelong dream for me, with spectacular sights and sounds straddling dawn. Then to capture a nighttime vortex tube, made of volcanic gases and dust, extending from the fountain at least hundreds of feet into the flammagenitus plume above? An amazing bonus!
3 W Volcano HI (19 Sep 25) Looking SW
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