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 to the northeast.

Recent observations: This mornings remote camera views of Mount St. Helens activity are completely obscured by inclement weather which is expected to persist throughout the day, with rain and strong winds (snow level is at ~8000 ft. elevation). Persistent patterns of low-level seismicity indicate that dacite extrusion and dome-building within the crater continues in a relatively quiescent fashion.