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Good day, beachy...((HUGS))...spring is trying to come, but it is still dropping below freezing at night. You have a good couple days off.

And Mt Redoubt blew again this morning....this from the Anchorage Daily News.

A small explosion occurred at Redoubt volcano at 05:12 a.m., the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported.

The height of the ash cloud was estimated to be about 15,000 feet, but it appears to have dissipated over the volcano, the National Weather Service reported.

"It was such a minor eruption, we almost didn't see it on the radar," Weather Service meteorologist Christian Cassell said.

The event lasted about 10 minutes. It marked the seventh explosion at Redoubt since the volcano began erupting Sunday evening.

"This is in a different class compared to the other six -- it's quite a bit smaller," Alaska Volcano Observatory geophysicist Peter Cervelli said.

Seismometers positioned around the volcano began sending a stronger signal about 10 minutes before the eruption, he said.

Darkness and bad weather precluded visual observation of the explosion through the AVO webcam, but radar detected the ash cloud, Cervelli said.

"Our best guess is we're extruding a lava dome and we may have had a piece of that dome break off and tumble along and produce an ash cloud," he said.

The plume was visible on the radar for only five minutes and didn't drift away from the volcano, Cassell said.