Kilauea on the big island of Hawaii is renowned for its new-continuous eruptions. However, the output of the volcano isn’t consistent, with some periods featuring slower lava flows with other times having pronounced, notable lava fountains. On 10 March 2026, the lava fountains were particularly intense. Local media reported fountain... Read More
A combination of 10-minute Full Disk scan and 5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) False Color RGB images from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the signature of a volcanic cloud following the eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai`i — which became apparent after 1831 UTC on 12 January... Read More
5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared images (above) displayed the pronounced thermal signature associated with an eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai`i on 06 December 2025. According to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, this Episode 38 of the ongoing Halema`uma`u eruption (Episode 1 started on 23 December 2024) began at 1845 UTC... Read More
A EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 False Color RGB product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the signature of a large volcanic cloud following the explosive eruption of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia, which began around 0830 UTC on 23 November 2025. Since this False Color RGB product uses the 8.7 µm spectral band (which... Read More
