Kīlauea Update, Monday, July 16, 2018, Lulled, but not complacent

OK.  Gotta be quick.  Lots of erranding in town today...

Shaking?  No so much.  Slept all night.  This is merely an observation.  We take what we can get when we get it, with gratitude, always.  Or at least we try.

Deformation?

My eyes may deceive, but the deflation line doesnʻt seem quite as precipitous as it has been.  This too is merely an observation:

And another tool is available to us.  I kept forgetting to tell you about the new cam.

LIVE from Volcano House!

Itʻs also a cool way to look at the weathers up here.

At Keahialaka this morning.  I think I figured out that overflows of the stream build the banks or levees higher, so it probably shouldnʻt have been surprising yesterday to think that the stream was lower, though...  

good thing the volcanologists are there (MAHALO PIHA!!!),

being outside and paying attention

We will continue to observe, and observe attentively.  Like when I mentioned, a few times ago, the contrast (was hard to discern in the photo I posted) between windward and leeward.  Here then, very clearly, trades blow from NE (right) to SW (left).  Green to brown.  Verdant to sere.  And all that steam ma uka, likely from ka ua loku (drenching downpours) of pyrocumulus.

Overflows provide great contrast.  Fresh silvery pele, and the slightly older but already weathered blackish grey.  That pointy puʻu to the left is Kaliʻu.  Please see chants for mention of it.

And at the Pacific.  Amazing.  Note steams rising off the skin of the sea, and a pele-caused upwelling at the lower left.  The first bay to the left has been innundated because of coastal subsidence during big ʻōlaʻi years ago.

And just beyond, the little bay at Pohoiki.  A half mile or so from the entry.

Time will tell.

Gotta run.

Till tomorrow, as always, with aloha,

BobbyC