Mt. Fitzherbert

Potential ash hazards: Wind forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), coupled with eruption models, show that any ash clouds that rise above the crater rim today would drift north-northeastward to northeastward early in the day and northeastward later.

Recent observations: Poor weather conditions foiled yesterday's attempt to conduct a field experiment that involves comparing our traditional airborne techniques and a newly developed ground-based technique to measure gas emissions from the growing lava dome. A scientist from USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, who is an expert in the new technique, and our CVO gas specialists will hopefully get a chance in the coming week to perform the experiment.