Mt. Fitzherbert

Wind forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), coupled with eruption models, show that ash clouds that rise high above the crater rim today would drift eastward to northeastward.

Incandescence from the dome was visible overnight on the U.S. Forest Service webcam. At dawn this morning, the steam plume was rising lazily from the crater floor and barely cresting the rim, where it drifts southwestward and westward a short distance before dissipating. The plume may occasionally contain minor ash, which will fall out in the crater and on the flank of the volcano, darkening the snow.