My local news report says that Mt. St. Helens began spewing a significant new plume at about 17:00 PDT (20:00 EDT – 00:00 GMT)Tuesday. The realtime crater watch camera of course doesn't show anything now due to local darkness, but some Tuesday afternoon plume shots are up at the USGS Mt St Helens site.

Also spotted on the fly, an Amateur Phonecam that looks like that's what it was, probably sometime Tuesday afternoon.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of excitement about it yet, but the USGS has raised to "hazard code" to 2d level, and some roads in the vicinity have been closed. Most interior USGS hiking trials, etc., are of course closed – as of a day or two ago.

Most of the interesting stuff seems to be at the USGS site, rather than at the realtime camera.

John