<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>I had but one real goal today, and that was to watch Great Fountain for refilling and first overflow. Success. And since it snowed, albeit lightly, all morning, a good day for windshield watching.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At 0620, Great Fountain was visually empty, as it was at 0855. I watched Pink Cone to its end (last water 0949) and returned to find Great Fountain still visually empty at 1000. However, upon glancing up from some reading, water was visible at 1018. Theeafter, it rose and fell on cycles of a few minutes, each rise getting a bit higher that the previous until -- first overflow at 1058.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So in comparison to the 1994 observations:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Both wild phases were preceeded by abnormally short intervals from the previous eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Both wild phases had durations of approximately 2 days (probably plus a little in both cases).</DIV> <DIV>     (Note: on Friday, 6/6/08, we visually had the effective end of the wild phase, consisting only of boiling confined to within the crater, happening around 1030. However, according to Carolyn Loren, the electronic monitor continued to show elevated temperatures until about 1450; my feeling is that this was simply some slight, continuing overflow from the formations and not a mark of any "new water" onto the platform.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>From the end of the wild phase, in 1994 it apparently took in the vicinity of 2 days for Great Fountain to fill and reach overflow, and the first overflow today was essentially 48 hours from Friday's end.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This being the case, if this recovery continues to follow the 1994 pattern, we should see frequent, perhaps episodic, "false" overflows throughout the day tomorrow and likely into (perhaps, through) Tuesday.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This is fun.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A few other things:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fountain 0608 (ns, due to the end of the steam cloud at 0635) and 1249ns.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pink Cone, as noted above, had last water at 0949, implying a start time near 0810. Yesterday, Jere had Pink Cone as 1310ie.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Narcissus 0638 (short), 1036ie, and 1231 (short).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>White Dome 1044, 1108, 1137, and 1206.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>While briefly up at Old Faithful:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume 0732 and 0840.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Aurum 0813.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beehive was said to be splashing at about 2130 last night, and it was having splashes at 0710 this morning.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oblong 0848ie as I departed the OF area.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. <A title="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002" href="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002" target="_blank">Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>