[Geysers] Quick Geyser Report for last week

[David Schwarz]

   Have I missed something, or is this the first known eruption of North
Goggles since September of 2004?  I suppose the electronic monitor must have
been moved off of it years ago by now?

David Schwarz

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Graham Meech <meechg at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Not much time to report on geyser activity as I have returned from a
> great week in the basin and have immediately gone on travel for work.  Here
> are the key items that might be of use to observers.
>
> Depression was going very frequently on intervals of 2h15m - 2h50m.  It is
> probably bi-modal since it comes up and tries to erupt early in the window
> (heavy overflow and big bubbles) and it either erupts or drops a few inches
> and then slowly refills and tries again 25-30 minutes later and it succeeded
> on all the second attempts.
>
> The biggest surprise for me was Aurum erupting on intervals of 3h17m -
> 3h27m - yes only a 10min window for the 5 closed intervals I observed.
> Quite remarcable given its usual eratic behavior.  The splashing steadily
> built up so it was fairly easy to figure out when to stay and watch it.
> Whenever it started near-continuous splashing above the rim it was a good
> time to stay and wait a few minutes for an eruption.
>
> Dome was active for 4 days (Tues-Fri).  Intervals increased from just over
> 20 minutes to over 40 minutes as the series progressed.
>
> I saw one North Goggle minor on Friday (I think).  It was boiling at depth
> when I walked by and I waited and it erupted on the first rise.  This was
> about 3 hours after the last Lion eruption in a series.  I watched to see if
> it had any more eruptions but it boiled up once but failed to erupt and then
> stopped boiling.
>
> All Grand eruptions observed during the week (I think it was 5) had 2
> bursts.  Not a very big sample size but its nice to come away with a 2 burst
> average after the recent lean years.
>
> More to come later but these are the most significant items I can remember
> off the top of my head now.  I will try and post some more info on Sunday.
>
> Graham.
>
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