Steam On, Steamboat: The World's Tallest Active Geyser Has Another Record Year
The world's tallest active geyser is Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park. It's been on a real eruption streak lately and 2019 saw the most recorded eruptions in a calendar year.
Steamboat Geyser, the tallest active geyser in the world, erupted more times in 2019 than in any other year, baffling scientists who are trying to understand what triggered this unusual streak of activity.
The geyser can shoot water more than 300 feet into the air, and this year it erupted more than 45 times, surpassing the 32 eruptions recorded in 2018.
In the three years before that, however, the geyser didn't erupt at all. Unlike , which is famous is an erratic giant.
