The New SE crater produced two short-lived weak lava fountaining episodes today, one in the morning during around 9:30-10:30 am local time and one in the afternoon / early evening that started around 17:40 and is in progress at the time of this update.
In both cases, the activity and its evolution followed the same pattern as observed in the past days: after being more or less silent at the end of the previous episode, strombolian activity picks up along with rapidly increasing volcanic tremor signal (internal vibrations corresponding to rising magma). It rapidly increases, typically within an hour or two after beginning, reaching a short phase of sustained lava fountaining from the summit vent at the crater, known as the Saddle vent.
However, these recent episodes, if they can be called paroxysms, seem to only generate lava fountains of modest intensity when compared to paroxysms observed earlier in May and during Feb-March this year. This might explain the current frequency of several events occurred per day now, vs typically one paroxysm at intervals of at least 36-40 hours or longer (but much stronger).