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 would drift east-northeastward in the morning and shift to a more northeastward trajectory by afternoon.

Recent observations: Intermittent views on the USFS VolcanoCam show that the mountain is blanketed in new snow. The procession of small earthquakes, punctuated occasionally by larger quakes that may be related to rockfall activity, continues. The GPS receiver on the new dome shows that new lava emerging from the vent is still plowing west-northwestward at about a meter per day. We may begin to get better views of the mountain over the next few days when the current winter storm starts moving farther east.