Breaking news!!! Mt. St. Helens erupting

[djf]

Ash clouds to about 25,000 feet!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

I'd think we would have noticed him being there!

[rdl6989]

Negative... the ash plume is headed NW, not S.

There seem to be conflicting reports of direction of the ash cloud.

per MSNBC.com "KING-TV in Seattle said the plume was preceded by an earthquake of about 2.0 magnitude. The station's meteorologist Jeff Renner reported that wind patterns were forecast to take the ash to the east over the Cascade Range, not over population centers." MSNBC.COM link

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Me thinks you're right :)

[tubebender]

Is that the remote control in your right hand that you use to turn the mountain on and off...

[Libertina]

LOL Hey you two - keep safe ;)

[Libertina]

LOL Hey you two - keep safe ;)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

No fibbing. We know that's not you -- you're a lot better looking. :O)

[scars]

Put a cap on that thing, last time this happened it wreaked havoc on our weather in Chicago. Keep your volcanos to yourselves, please...And turn that lamp off!

[Incorrigible]

There should be one more asterisk on each side and it should be red!

And close your tags!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

ROFLMAO!

[HairOfTheDog]

Is that the remote control in your right hand that you use to turn the mountain on and off...

I'm the "she" type person... The one on the left is my husband, and yes... he's got the remote, of course ;~D

[diamond6]

I pray that Vesuvius never erupts; there are so many people living at it's base. Shiver....

[hoot2]

Nope.
This is hugh:

And this is seris:

[Strategerist]

Best to go right to the source, which for Mt. St. Helens is the Washington (DC) VAAC, which does the ash advisories for aircraft. The ash is moving east-northeast.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/messages.html

FVXX20 KNES 090241 CCA
VOLCANIC ASH ADVISORY -CORRECTION
ISSUED: 2005MAR09/0241Z VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: ST. HELENS 1201-05
LOCATION: N4612W12211 AREA: US-WASHINGTON

SUMMIT ELEVATION: 8363 FT (2549 M)

ADVISORY NUMBER: 2005/004

INFORMATION SOURCE: GOES-12. GFS MODEL WINDS.
PILOT REPORT. CASCADES OBSERVATORY

ERUPTION DETAILS: EXHALATION AT 09/0125Z

OBS ASH DATE/TIME: 09/0200Z

OBS ASH CLOUD: SFC/FL360 N4626W12143 - N4625W12138
- N4621W12137 - N4614W12140 - N4613W12150 -
N4613W12200 - N4618W12154 - N4620W12152 -
N4623W12147 - N4626W12143 MOVING E 40 KNOTS.

FCST ASH CLOUD +6H: 09/0600Z SFC/FL360 N4640W11831
- N4639W11819 - N4635W11813 - N4632W11815 -
N4626W11834 - N4628W11847 - N4634W11843 -
N4638W11837 - N4640W11831

FCST ASH CLOUD +12H: NOT AVBL

FCST ASH CLOUD +18H: NOT AVBL

REMARKS: CVO REPORTED ERUPTION AT 0125Z TO BETWEEN
FL310 AND FL360 WITH PLUME MOVING TO THE ENE. THE
ERUPTION LASTED 30 MINUTES AND WAS NOT ASH LADEN.
0200Z IMAGERY SHOWS LEADING EDGE OF THE PUFF 26
NMI TO THE ENE OF THE SUMMIT. SINCE THE ERUPTION
IS OVER ATTM...WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND
ISSUES INTERMEDIARY UPDATES IF SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
OCCUR. ...BALDWIN

NEXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 2005MAR09/0845Z

[Pajama Blogger Reader]

you wrote...

You really shouldn't masticate at a time like this, after all you realize that doing that will make you go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands......
...

I searched google... the only thing about excessive mastication i could find was a story about some man who couldn't get his mandible up after too much of it...and there was some woman whose uvula got a bit sore... but blindness and hairy palms... couldn't find anything about that

[thecabal]

Thanks for the ping on TM, Oorang. Glad I still have some friends here that remember me. :)

I could not see it from Keizer, but I imagine it was pretty impressive close up.

[glock rocks]

LOL, you're right. Three astirisks, red.

You're incorribible.

[Not A Snowbird]

LOL! Sorry. We'll try to keep our ashes out of your air...

[Senator Pardek]

Thanks, Sharon!

[pollywog]

Thanks. I will go there. I wish we could talk " Mt. St.Helens " only on these threads.Sigh........