Mt. Fitzherbert

Potential ash hazards: Wind forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), coupled with eruption models, show that any ash clouds rising above the crater rim today would drift mostly southward to southeastward.

Recent observations: This morning a cloud bank shrouds the upper Toutle River Valley but the crater is clear and the growing lava dome visible from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. No earthquakes larger than magnitude 3 occurred yesterday and only small rockfalls are evident in the seismic record from the past 24 hours. The small ÒdrumbeatÓ earthquake that have occurred with great regularity during much of the eruption are barely evident in the seismic record.