[Geysers] "Improbable" June 18, 2015

[Stephen Eide]

Sigh... well, thanks for checking.  Back when it first woke up I thought it
might be erupting in series, but not enough eruptions were seen before it
went quiet to be sure.
Stephen Eide

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:50 PM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Steve:
>
> I went through the entire day's capture.  At 0845 "Improbable" looked
> normal when the camera was zoomed in to it.  It was steaming and
> occasional splashes of water were visible above the rime.  At 0908 is
> had a couple nice domed episodes but nothing too out of the ordinary.
>  I didn't see any activity from Improbable from about 1000 until the
> time of the eruption.  There are a few possible reasons for the lack of
> activity being seen: 1) nothing was seen after 1000 because Improbable
> was quiet or low, 2) nothing was seen because the day warmed up and
> steam clouds diminished, 3) nothing was seen because steam from Old
> Faithful which started drifting across the view of improbable in the
> late morning, was blocking the view at the times that Improbable did
> anything, 4) the camera was turned to other parts of the basin, which
> it was about 20% of the time, so Improbable wasn't visible at at those
> times.
>
> Dave
>
>
>  On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 00:37 -0600, Stephen Eide wrote:
> > Dave, did you check earlier for a prior eruption?  I wonder, since it
> > erupted with no visible water if there may have been a previous
> > eruption?
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Pat Snyder <riozafiro at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Thank you, Dave! Even if I had been watching the cam, I might not
> > > have noticed it due to Old Faithful's steam. Glad it was pointed
> > > out. Much appreciated.
> > > Pat Snyder
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:12 PM, David Monteith <
> > > dmonteit at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > Will called and said that "Improbable" erupted today, June 18
> > > > 2015, to
> > > > 25 feet.  I've place the webcam capture onto the GOSA youtube
> > > > site.
> > > >  The link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq_LoIhVdrw
> > > >
> > > > The eruption appears to be 20-25 feet tall with a duration of
> > > > about 90
> > > > seconds.  It was seen at close range.  Apparently the pool was
> > > > "empty"
> > > > before the eruption.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully we'll get more news from someone that was there.
> > > >
> > > > Dave
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