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Sluggish activity on the flow field

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This thermal image, looking west, shows the meager activity out on the flow field today, due to an ongoing deflation event at the summit. On the coastal plain, the red and orange areas depict flows that have been active over the past two weeks, but are now stalled. The small yellow and white areas represent breakouts that were active today, and these were very small and scattered. For scale, these small breakouts are a few hundred meters (yards) out from the base of the pali. Other breakouts were active higher on the pali, but these were also fairly small and weak.