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 east-southeast in the morning and east in the later part of the day.

Recent observations: Visibility into the crater has been fairly good this morning, but the clouds are settling in. Scientists had a successful day in the crater on Friday. Instruments were set up on the lava spine in order to better monitor incremental growth. The volcano continues slow extrusion of a lava spine, and seismometers are registering very small earthquakes periodically.