[Geysers] Short geyser report August 13

[TSBryan at aol.com]

Has Giant erupted by now? Seems like anytime Grotto does something odd,  
Giant responds in some way. Alas real life commitments in town forced me to  leave 
early. But...
 
Grotto yesterday was in marathon, apparently for something longer than 24  
hours, and when Grotto Fountain started today at 1046, some were surprised that  
it was "so early." But the odd part is that Grotto then did not start until 
1102  -- 16 minutes after Grotto Fountain's start. And further, there was then 
a  Rocket major at 1114, yes, only 12 minutes after Grotto's start but it was 
very  strong and had a duration of 9 minutes. So...
 
As of 11:44, Fan and Mortar were up to almost 5 days 5 hours without  
erupting, and without really acting like they wanted to.
 
For the record, somebody radioed the VC that Great Fountain was "in  overflow 
or almost so" (yes, a statement a bit odd) at [I think it was]  1025. Wrong. 
As of noon exactly it had not overflowed (it was several inches  down) and had 
not erupted... Note that Lynn reported (yesterday? -- I should  have paid 
better attention) Great Fountain either had an interval of 16h 48m  (more than an 
hour longer than this year's previous long) or else that was a  double with 
two intervals very much shorter than this year's previous  short.
 
'Tis all.
 
Scott Bryan
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