[Geysers] Grand interval is changing?

[Andiy Wagner]

True.
You all have a lot more resources than I do. A LOT MORE! I actually meant
to phrase that as a question and it did not come out that way - like my
aunt and I were talking and she remembers it being shorter at this time -
not hugely so like it is now, but noticeable - is this true? Didn't come
out that way and I am sorry for that. I am curious actually as I explain
later down. Very curious.
I have hear-say and the memory (which as a trained historian you know is
never spot on - in fact can often be different). Case and point - none of
the group I was with remember others being there for Excelsior - I was
three - I remember water and rainbows. Jeannine remembers thinking it was
odd there were no others around - and as I have seen - because of the
awesome records you all have - there were others. Which is great! Still the
number was less than twenty, but more than the six I was originally told
(by Rick of all people - to start - oh the lies - which he never amended
and he knew better!). *Bows to the master keeper of knowledge*
Rick used to tell me all kinda of cool things about the park and I remember
it, but it was all random facts, nothing like that - I was a kid - short
attention span - theater.  How high the water falls were, the biggest mud
pot bubble he had seen, how many coyotes he had seen that day - random
stuff like that. Talking about times where I had to sit and wait was
boring. Mark for the intelligence of the man to not expend energy when it
was needed. I did not get an appreciation for that until twenty long after
Rick had passed sadly.
I (now this is personal and a huge project so no one go off and do this
unless you are already (seriously 100 plus years of data) - I do not have
the time and so why should you all have it! Stats was a evil class - but
since I now know all about it my brain is active on that kind of
information - standard deviation and things.) would love to see like a
chart of the averages over the years. With this year being such a huge
change I would be curious to see how many other dips there were (you know
more than a half an hour off) in time. I know you say this is unprecedented
(which makes it doubly interesting), but I am curious if we have other
outliers - just because they are far more interesting than the norm - as
you state!
My little historian brain is all excited now to hear what the masters have
in store. I find this all fascinating. I really do. History is so amazing
to me, though I study more pre-history due to my backgrounds and
friendships with tribal elders.
A
PS. On a different note -speaking of historian brains - what do you all
have on the fish trap in Yellowstone Lake? I have the native versions - I
am curious if there have been any arch studies on it or anything. Just
curious what the Tomes have to say since this forum has amazing knowledge!

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Paul Strasser <upperbasin at comcast.net>wrote:

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> I beg your pardon re your aunt’s memory, but the 5-6 hour intervals were
> indeed unprecedented.   And not just the short intervals but the
> astonishing reegularity were both unique.****
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> Paul Strasser****
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> *From:* geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:
> geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Andiy Wagner
> *Sent:* Friday, October 26, 2012 12:04 AM
> *To:* **Geyser Observation Reports**
> *Subject:* Re: [Geysers] Grand interval is changing?****
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> What is interesting is I was talking to my aunt about this. Many of you
> know her as Jeannine Wagner (****Montgomery****). She was pointing out
> that this is not unheard of for Grand, but the average has been so long at
> 7-9 hours it is what most remember. There was a couple years - around when
> I was born, that she remembers it having this happen, but it was short
> lived. We should watch to see if this lasts more than six months or is just
> a short lived thing.
> I am curious myself though. Lots of interesting things going on. Also
> welcome back Plume. It was so weird being there in September and not seeing
> it on Geyser Hill.
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> Andiy****
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> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:38 PM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net>
> wrote:****
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> Grand appears to have increased its interval
>
> Table and graph from geysertimes.org
> Date           Time     Interval
> 25 Oct 2012 @ 1451 ns wc 6h 54m
> 25 Oct 2012 @ 0757 E    8h 1m
> 24 Oct 2012 @ 2356 E    6h 52m
> 24 Oct 2012 @ 1704 E    7h 56m
> 24 Oct 2012 @ 0908      8h 13m
> 24 Oct 2012 @ 0055 E    8h 4m
> 23 Oct 2012 @ 1651 E    8h 0m
> 23 Oct 2012 @ 0851 ie wc 5h 18m
> 23 Oct 2012 @ 0333 E    5h 39m
> 22 Oct 2012 @ 2154 E    5h 14m
> 22 Oct 2012 @ 1640 ie wc 5h 33m
> 22 Oct 2012 @ 1107 ie wc 5h 40m
> 22 Oct 2012 @ 0527 E    6h 17m
> 21 Oct 2012 @ 2310 E    5h 55m
> 21 Oct 2012 @ 1715 ie wc 6h 0m
> 21 Oct 2012 @ 1115      5h 27m
> 21 Oct 2012 @ 0548 E    5h 14m
> 21 Oct 2012 @ 0034 E    5h 25m
> 20 Oct 2012 @ 1909 ns wc 5h 35m
> 20 Oct 2012 @ 1334      5h 18m
> 20 Oct 2012 @ 0816      5h 12m
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