An Extreme Weather Pattern May Have Triggered The Dramatic Kīlauea Eruption in Hawaii

By Peter Dockrill Kīlauea was taking its time. In 1983, the volcano on the island of Hawaii began to erupt, and it didn’t stop for 35 years, culminating in the longest-running eruption of its kind in centuries. In 2018, when this decades-long outpouring finally quit, Kīlauea ended things with a bang. A series of new eruptive fissures tore …