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 early in the day, shifting to the southeast later.

Recent observations: The volcano is obscured by clouds this morning. Seismicity and ground deformation continue at low background levels. A photo from a camera station on the northeast crater rim taken during a break in the weather on Saturday, March 17, shows that the lava dome has continued to grow since the previous good image on February 6. Ice on the camera has obscured the view for most of time during that interval. Continuing dome extrusion is consistent with sequential digital elevation models of the dome, which show that the growth rate was constant from mid-April through early December 2006.