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 southwesterly.

Recent observations: The weather is clear at Mount St. Helens this morning and the mountain is covered with snow. A steam plume can be seen rising from the growing lava dome in remote camera views. A magnitude 3.0 earthquake occurred at the volcano at 11:21 PM (07:21 UTC) last night. Intermittent, larger events such as this have been fairly common throughout much of the current eruption. Background seismicity continues at low levels punctuated by the occasional larger quake. There have been no significant changes in eruptive activity in the past 24 hours.