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 southeastward.

Recent observations: With the exception of the occasional M1 to M2 earthquake, Mount St. Helens is remarkably quiet this morning, continuing seismicity and deformation trends established over the past few months. Viewing is currently impossible because of cloud cover, and our instrumentation indicates that extrusion of lava continues.