{"id":6268,"date":"2026-03-17T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:15:15","slug":"kilauea-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2026\/03\/17\/kilauea-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilauea Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 10 March 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/eruption-mount-kilauea-volcano-lava-fountains-ashfall-warning-hawaii\">NWS WFO Honolulu, HI, issued a rare Ashfall Warning<\/a> over the big island of Hawai&#8217;i as Kilauea, an active shield volcano, had violently erupted (yet again). This time, the volcanic eruption produced a significant ash plume that led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Hawai%CA%BBi+Volcanoes+National+Park\/@19.495314,-155.5298059,93699m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x795161b6c0b9c9b1:0x3e5b7b263c84ae26!8m2!3d19.4963669!4d-155.4661859!16zL20vMDJyZ2Ix?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">Hawai&#8217;i Volcanoes National Park<\/a> to temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/news\/video\/kilauea-volcano-eruption-park-road-closures\">close parts of the park and nearby Highway 11, as copious amounts of ash and tephra fell from the sky.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ashfall Warning in effect until 5pm HST across portions of the Big Island (mainly windward and southeast portions) due to a significant eruption at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kilauea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kilauea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hiwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hiwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w8Mg64c6Go\">https:\/\/t.co\/w8Mg64c6Go<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bsi8qvo3LJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Bsi8qvo3LJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NWSHonolulu (@NWSHonolulu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSHonolulu\/status\/2031488943750000698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GOES-18 Ash RGB captured the extensive plume consisting of SO2 (bright green pixels) and a mix of ash and SO2 (yellow pixels), that traveled across the east side of the big island of Hawai&#8217;i and then traversed the Central Pacific Ocean. In the GOES animation below, the plume rapidly ejects to the southeast while shifting to the north\/northeast throughout the time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>GOES &#8211; 18 ABI Ash RGB from 1700Z, 10 March 2026 to 0300Z, 11 March 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"792\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1200 \/ 792;\" width=\"1200\" controls src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Untitled-Project-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the afternoon of 10 March 2026, two overpasses from NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 VIIRS show the ash and SO2 advecting offshore. The <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/guides\/viirs-ash-rgb\/\">VIIRS Ash RGB<\/a> comprises of the 8.6 um (M14), 10.8 um (M15), and 12.0 um (M16) spectral channels, while exhibiting a 750-m spatial resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>VIIRS Ash RGB at 2302Z and 2352Z, 10 March 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 990 \/ 1080;\" width=\"990\" controls src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Untitled-Project-viirs.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Kilauea&#8217;s hotspot could be seen by polar-orbiting satellites via the VIIRS Day Fire RGB animation, provided below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Tuesday, polar-orbiting satellites captured a prominent hotspot and ash plume from the Kilauea volcano during episode 43 of the ongoing eruption. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1RuGBk3YY9\">pic.twitter.com\/1RuGBk3YY9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CIRA (@CIRA_CSU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CIRA_CSU\/status\/2032145103427682471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 March 2026, NWS WFO Honolulu, HI, issued a rare Ashfall Warning over the big island of Hawai&#8217;i as Kilauea, an active shield volcano, had violently erupted (yet again). This time, the volcanic eruption produced a significant ash plume that led to Hawai&#8217;i Volcanoes National Park to temporarily close parts of the park and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2026\/03\/17\/kilauea-eruption\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6332,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}