 sj |
||
|
||
BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers
|
|
|
Subject: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:15 PM For those interested in such things, there's the USDA Forest Service's Webcam, updated every 5 minutes or so. I've been watching it, and though it was pretty quiet less than an hour ago, there is a great cloud of stuff coming out of it at the moment. More interesting than watching paint dry, but I hope everybody got out of there! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:17 PM poor helen - she gets a sniffle and the whole world watrches her blow her nose! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:36 PM That's one of the parks I'd have really enjoyed working at, but silly me, I turned it down to stay with the (now ex) boyfriend-later-hubby in Texas. The subsequent kids were worth the career detour, but that park would have been a great place to use the skills picked up all over the country. I was a mountain climbing naturalist with an earlier forestry background who had worked in caves and geologically active areas--that's the first job offer where the supervisor called back later to ask if I was really sure that I didn't want to go there to work. [sigh] SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:41 PM She's gonna blow, Jim! ~S~ |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 04 Oct 04 - 01:52 PM That's as close to it as I want to get. I was watching this news bulletin with al these rubberneckers trying to get as close to it as they could... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Ebbie Date: 04 Oct 04 - 02:36 PM When St. Helens blew in 1981, it was a remarkable thing. (There were a number of blows, by the way, but just one magor one.) I was going to school in Portland at the time and you wouldn't believe the grit- pumice on bushes, cars, walkways, window casings. It was stuck on everything. My brother's family lived just 30 miles from the mountain on a small farm, and they found themselves in their pasture at 3 o'clock in the morning to bring the cows in so they wouldn't feed on the cement-consistency slop. Later, when the ash blew, I remember the car filters, the airplane rerouteings, the news reports... I actually "saw" the top of the mountain blow off, even though I was about 70 miles away. I saw the force field in the sky, I guess. I was driving over the top of an overpass on the Sunday morning when I looked north just in time to see the sky shiver violently, you might say. When I got home, my daughter met me with the news that it said on the radio that the mountain had just blown. I think we all had visions of how it must have been at Pompei! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Deckman Date: 04 Oct 04 - 03:28 PM Once you've seen and felt and heard and tasted a mountain blow it's top, you've seen 'em all. I actually climbed to the summit of that mountain in 1960, 20 years before she blew. She's just hiccupping now and probably will for months to come. But to those of us that went through the May of 1980 explosion, we don't have to be told twice to get the heck out of there. Bob |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 04 Oct 04 - 03:30 PM so someone should tell that to the people in the helichopper buzzing by. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:07 PM They're the same ones who stand on the beach to watch a tidal wave--this is Darwin's answer to defective "common sense" genes. There was an old guy who refused to leave his home on the mountain in the first eruption--Harry Truman. One hopes his death was fast and painless. Many of the others who died in the first eruption probably weren't so lucky. Only fools intentionally get so close to something that big, hoping they live a charmed life. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Deckman Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:21 PM Maggie, My family knew Harry Truman well. At the time the mountain blew, my brother was negoiating with him to buy his famous pink cadillac. They never found hid body, but I think he died happy. Bob |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:49 PM from what I read, Mt. Ranier is best watched closely for you guys out there. There is one small town that practices evacuation on a regular basis. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Sorcha Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:50 PM Neat, Jeri...I marked it! That's as close as I want to be too! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,amergin Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:19 PM I was only 5 when it blew. I do remember going to Spokane for an air show at Fairchilds Air Force Base where my uncle was stationed. It turned black as night. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: katlaughing Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:24 PM We had a LOT of fallout ash in Wyoming when it blew last time. It was so bad, they told folks with heart and respiratory problems to stay inside and our cars were coated with it. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Don Firth Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:44 PM Mt. St. Helens popped her cork at 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18th, 1980. I was working at the telephone company as an operator at the time. In fact, I plugged into the board at 8:30, just two minutes before she blew. Bulletins went out on the radio and on television asking people to stay the hell off the telephone lines because they were needed for emergency calls. But that didn't stop them. Within half an hour after the news went out that the mountain had erupted, the phone lines were jammed. No calls could get through. There were about fifty operators in Unit 5 at the time, and our boards were inundated with people complaining that their calls wouldn't go through and asking for operator assistance. Almost all of these calls were in the nature of "How are things out your way, Aunt Martha?" Real crucial! Genuine emergency calls simply couldn't get through, and there was not a damned thing we could do. I think these people probably have about the same number of brain cells as the people who want to climb up the mountainside and peer down her throat when an eruption is imminent. Or the people who walk out and examine tidal pools when the water recedes prior to the arrival of a tsunami. Interesting to note that the mountain is behaving almost exactly the same way it did prior to the May 18, 1980 eruption. They keep saying that they're not expecting anything that big this time, but. . . . When Mt. Baker, east of Bellingham, Washington, started rumbling and venting steam somewhat prior to Mt. St. Helens stealing Baker's thunder (so to speak), an interesting bumper sticker began to appear on Bellingham. It said, "Vote No on Mt. Baker Eruption!" Shortly thereafter, the rumbling and venting subsided. Whoa! As I sit here at the computer listening to my marvelous Tom Swift electric radio, I hear that they have just recorded an earthquake under Mt. St. Helens' close neighbor, Mt. Hood. The geologists are saying that there is no relation, but hey! Both mountains are in the Cascade chain, and they're part of the so-called "Ring of Fire" that encircles the Pacific rim. How can they NOT be related? Fasten your seat belts. Don Firth |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Benjamin Date: 04 Oct 04 - 06:03 PM Mt. Saint Helens has been pretty active since it's eruption. You can see inside the crator that it has been building up a new peak. Interestingly enough, that peak contained the only glacier in the world that was growing, instead of receding. It looks like the new peak to the Moutain won't last too long. Don, if you haven't yet seen the IMAX film on the Ring of Fire, I highly recomend it. Benjamin |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Don Firth Date: 04 Oct 04 - 06:35 PM I haven't seen that particular one, but a couple of years ago, Nova ran a series of programs on the Ring of Fire. I guess terra firma ain't so firma after all! Don Firth |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Sorcha Date: 04 Oct 04 - 06:37 PM I've been watching the cam Jeri posted.....not much activity for the last hour....maybe she has decided to calm down? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: mg Date: 04 Oct 04 - 07:58 PM oh shoot. I was going to Mount Hood in a couple of weeks. Of course they are all related.....mg |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 04 Oct 04 - 08:13 PM Sorcha, it seems like she's calm most of the time, but the pressure builds and she lets loose. I just picked the right time to watch earlier today. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Oct 04 - 10:55 PM When Baker was threatening to erupt they closed the Baker River side of things all the way down the mountain. I wonder if I still have any of those old Forest Service maps with the red zone? They might be collector's items. Baker had a warm lake at the top for a while. It's kind of flat up there on Sherman Peak, and it melted in the middle of it. They were afraid all of that warm water would melt glaciers and bring a wall of mud and rock and water down on the Skagit Valley. At the time it was a serious threat. How soon we forget! SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: dianavan Date: 04 Oct 04 - 11:51 PM I know Mt. St. Helens well. I was born in Kelso. She was 'our' mountain. She was also called 'Fire Mountain'. Spirit lake was a favorite place and my aunt had a horse ranch on the Toutle River. When she blew, I was sleeping in my peaceful, B.C. island home. I jumped out of bed and screamed, "What was that?" I ran to the radio and turned it on. When I heard that Spirit Lake had filled with lava and was no more, my knees went out from under me. I had no idea that I was so connected to that mountain until then. I still wonder at the impact it had on me from so far away. I guess you tend to think that something that big has some kind of permanence. Was I ever wrong! It actually felt like my world was slipping away. d |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 05 Oct 04 - 02:01 AM on npr all things considered today there was a radio report with details of a USGS project (Geological Service) telling about a GPS and siesmic weather station that got blown away by a steam venting incident, and a team of sepcialists landed a helicopter, ever so briefly on the rim of the volcano to replace it with a new weather station....how would you like to be on that team?? radio story here...audio link i think that 5-10 years ago a couple of vulcanologists perished while studying a volcano..it seems as if it might have been in the southern hemisphere...i donot remember their names but they routinely wore asbestos suits in order to go into areas that were much too hot to stand without protection and places with deadly vapors also. any one remember this couple's names? they might have been French. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 05 Oct 04 - 02:24 AM i live a couple of hours away from Lassen Natl Park Volcanic Area. which erupted in 1914 Lassen National Park Volcano..northern California and on the other side of me is a plateau which was formed by a lava flow....Table Mountain. http://www.calphoto.com/clpc/table.pdf http://www.dfg.ca.gov/lands/articles/notablemt00.html In Oregon there is a huge lave flow -- an Obsidian deposit. which the natives used for arrow heads... http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/newberrynvm/index.shtml http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Newberry/Locale/framework.html |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: HuwG Date: 05 Oct 04 - 09:57 AM open mike, the French volcanologist couple you may be thinking of were Maurice and Katya Krafft. They were killed by a pyroclastic flow on Mt. Unzen in Japan in 1991. (As they had done before, they had positioned themselves on the flank of the predicted path of the flow, but they were taken unawares by an unexpected collapse of the lava dome and a change in the wind direction.) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,Skarpi Iceland. Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:55 AM Halló , i had to go away from my home 1973 becouse of an Eruption In Vestmannaisland, and i have not a happy memory about that event. So people watch out this is a danger, go away from it as far as you can mother nature does not give any change. All the best Skarpi Iceland. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:17 PM There seems to be something happening now. Just more steam, probably. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:19 PM yup - a wee bit different then this morning! Much thicker cloud then when I watched yesterday too... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:24 PM It also appears there's more pressure behind it, and the base of the cloud's bigger. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:33 PM The redness is possibly due to weather conditions and lighting, but it sure looks ominous. By the way, I saved yesterdays images, and I'm saving today's. Yes, I know I'm weird. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:37 PM Looking quite exciting now. Starting to boil over... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:49 PM cloud almost gone at this point. I wonder if there is any relation to the position of the moon? I know I've only had a two day sample - but it almost seems to be a tidal pattern. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Oct 04 - 02:16 PM I have difficulty in getting the photo to reload. Just hitting the refresh button doesn't work. I have to open a new browser window. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 05 Oct 04 - 03:08 PM yes that was it..the Kraffts. here is what a search for them finds: "Saw a TV documentary on volcanoes and pyroclastic flows a few months ago. Part of the program referred to a scientist who was killed when trying to photograph a pyroclastic flow as it was rushing down towards him...Maurice and Katya Krafft. They, and about 20 others were killed by a pyroclastic flow on Mt. Unzen in Japan." I did not realize that 20 other people lwere involved in teh same incident, too! from a promo script for Nat'l Geographic Mountains fo fire: http://www.jeffreyleehollis.com/mountains2copy.html "The documentary National Geographic's Volcano was an hour-long National Geographic documentary relating the story of volcanologists Katya and Maurice Krafft as they pursue the study of active volcanic eruptions at numerous sites worldwide. ' interview with vulcanologist couple the Kraffts--published posthumously Pele Dancing photo by Katya Krafft...for sale memorial benefit the Kraffts produced an educational video about volcano risks.. anhd this stunning photo is for sale..the proceeds benefit educational efforts...at least copoies were available at one time... http://www.swvrc.org/updates.htm latest report says mt. st. helens had erupted.. see hereA: http://www.swvrc.org/cerupt.htm |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Oct 04 - 06:55 PM Really smoking now! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:04 PM Yes, it is! The photo seems to load better now. But let's hope the mountain behaves with restraint--I'm flying up there in a couple of days and don't want to be rerouted via Hawaii. (That is, unless I have to get out and spend several days in Hawaii. . . ) The trip is last minute and spontaneous. I found a round trip ticket from Dallas to Seattle for $122. Wow! Someone down here has suggested that maybe the price indicates the dearth of flying passengers now that St. Helens has taken up smoking again. :) I figure that I can keep an eye on it up until the time to depart, and check again before I fly to Denver before Seattle. In the two hours from Denver to Seattle, what are the odds that the mountain will do something catastrophic (don't answer that!) SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:21 PM so... SRS... do I finally get to take you out to dinner? Or are you all booked up while you're up here in the misty moist? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:13 AM seems to be clouds in the picture right now rather then steam or "smoke" |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:46 AM The cloud I'm looking at now seems to be IN the crater. Not that that couldn't happen. It sorta would be nice to be able to zoom out a bit, or find another webcam a wider shot, but I already spend too much time watching the earth fart. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JenEllen Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:08 AM It's chilly and supposed to be rainy (off'n'on) all day here today. Weather service is thinking maybe it will chase some of the bozos off the mountain. I doubt it. These are the same people who brought both their kids AND their gas masks. Smarts ain't what they's known fer. ~JE |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:13 AM nice cloud/fog/something. grey. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Amos Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:16 AM Stand in the path of a volcano, but run from a rainfall?? LOL!! Hmmmm.... A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:50 AM Totally grey screen. It's either a whole lot of smoke, or maybe it's just a heavy mist. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: katlaughing Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:55 AM That's what I saw, too, McGrath. Wondering if it spewed some more? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JenEllen Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:57 AM Rain, people. It's cloudy and rainy today. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 06 Oct 04 - 12:19 PM So the Earth may be farting in woolen underwear? It was a bad analogy, anyway. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:38 PM when i saw the grey screen i thought there was an eruption in progress |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Mr Red Date: 07 Oct 04 - 07:47 AM it was 4=39am when I looked and far from watching paint dry it looks more like a carpet right now |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 07 Oct 04 - 08:44 AM it a bit before the sun comes up there still |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Amos Date: 07 Oct 04 - 08:53 AM "Webmaster Notice - October 06, 2004 at 12:40 pm PDT - There is an apparent network failure between the VolcanoCam and the Forest Service national web server. We've traced the failure to an area outside of the Forest Service network. We are working to get the link restored as soon as possible." A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 07 Oct 04 - 09:34 AM it's almost dawn - you can see the silhouette (spelling?) of the mountain |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:06 AM It'd be great to see this all put together as a speeded up film clip. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:15 AM just a wee plume in the crater at the moment |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:57 AM the light of dawn is illuminating the steam/smoke now...gorgeous! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:59 AM Amos, that problem was fixed long before you posted that. I got in last night (or last evening, Pacific Time). The notice had been on the photograph, which remained the same for several hours. It's updating now. MMario, it's hard for me to tell if a wee plume is a wee plume, or a bit of atmospheric fluff. It does look like a nicer day there than it was yesterday. The alert level has been decreased, but they say it's not uncommon for it to fluctuate, and it could erupt with out much warning. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 07 Oct 04 - 11:30 AM what I've been finding fascinating is the changes in the landscape as the light angle and levels change. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JenEllen Date: 07 Oct 04 - 11:35 AM Y'oughta get your butt out here and see it in person. *bg* Beautiful doesn't even begin to cover it. You ever want a tour, lemme know. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 07 Oct 04 - 11:43 AM It's gorgeous at the moment. Like it's shining from the inside out. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Amos Date: 07 Oct 04 - 11:55 AM I don't think so, Jeri -- all I could get was a pixellated array of blodgy red and blue spots -- that's why I posted it. But I can be wrong, as many of my best friends know!! :) A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 07 Oct 04 - 12:12 PM during the hours of darkness (when the sun don't shine) all you see is pixilated arrays of blodgy red and blue spots. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Amos Date: 07 Oct 04 - 01:01 PM Well, ok., MM...live and learn. Sorry about the mis-timed report. A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 07 Oct 04 - 01:01 PM five more volcano cams from New zealand |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JennyO Date: 07 Oct 04 - 01:09 PM It looks quite pretty at the moment, and is that a bird I see flying past? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Don Firth Date: 07 Oct 04 - 02:05 PM The cam updated just a few minutes ago. 10:49:01 PDT. There is a visible jet of smoke or steam rising from the dome. Don Firth |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 08 Oct 04 - 11:08 AM rain makes for an interesting image. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 08 Oct 04 - 03:22 PM rain drops keep falling on my thread....... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,heric Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:30 PM OH, I'm pining for the Northwest! EXACTLY as I remember it! Washington from a child's eyes. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Janie Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:35 PM Looks like raindrops on the camera lens. Janie |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Peace Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:45 PM Maybe something under a microscope? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Alice Date: 10 Oct 04 - 01:29 PM Cool photo right now on the link posted in the first link! Straight column of steam shooting up like a geyser, clear blue sky. (I took a screen shot of it if you go there too late. Let me know, I'll email it.) Alice |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Alice Date: 10 Oct 04 - 02:02 PM That should read, the link posted in the FIRST MESSAGE of this thread. alice |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:52 PM 300 foot uplift on the lava cone inside the crater? WOW! saw some great live shots yesterday on the news - but all looks peacful in Helen's crater at the moment. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Alice Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:23 PM This is what it looked like on the 10th when I refreshed the thread. http://my.montana.net/aliceflynn/helens.jpg |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Ebbie Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:40 PM MMario, keep in mind that the mountain does not have a female name. She/it was named for English Baron St. Helens. ;^) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:19 PM Lovely clear day over there. That definitely looks like smoke or steam coming out of the crater? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,heric Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:33 PM USGS has set up a new camera to the left of this one, for an even better view (hard to imagine). I haven't found a link to it yet. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:29 PM Well, darn! I should have logged on and read Mudcat while I was in Seattle! (I did post a couple to the MOAB just to keep her from sinking). I missed the opportunity to meet another Mudcatter! Sorry, Thomas--I was slogging around Seattle and Everett and Marysville and Sumas and Darrington and didn't check in often. Next time! I had a very clear view of Mt. St. Helens on the Oct. 6 flight in--it was dark and large, but not visibly smoking (we were considerably north, so unless it had sent a large plume we wouldn't have seen it anyway). I was on the wrong side of the plane and it was too dark this morning to see anything. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 13 Oct 04 - 12:40 AM Oh the sadness, SRS... ;^( We had some good weather while you were here! I hope it made you homesick...;^) Maybe next time... ttr |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Alice Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:01 AM Dark at Mt St Helens this time in the morning, but the web cam screen shows a red glowing spot where lava has surfaced in the dome. Alice |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 13 Oct 04 - 09:58 AM pink smoke - I am assuming reflection from something below? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:42 AM Sunrise, filtering through a bit of emission. The camera faces SSE, so I think sunrise would be at about your 9:00-10:00. Purty, ain't it? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:44 AM faded to white - but now ORANGE |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:59 AM Should have said 10:00-11:00. Sunsets are lovely too, as the light reflects off the river and the side of the mountain that's visible. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:59 AM I see a little smoke rising from it. The photo is considerably backlit at this point in time, but the white smoke is clearly rising. Yes, Thomas, there was some beautiful weather. I drove from Sumas to Darrington on back roads (Hwy 9) on Sunday, and it was breath-taking. The fields are still so green, but the deciduous trees that dot the edges of fields (mixed in with mostly evergreens) were bright yellows and oranges and reds. If the roads had been wide enough to have shoulders I'd have pulled over a few times for photos, but since it wasn't safe to stop, I've committed the views to memory! We also had a very wet Friday, a continual downpour. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 13 Oct 04 - 03:33 PM there's a bright shining haze in the crater! There's a bright shining haxe in the crater; the plume is as high as the camara's eye! And it looks like it's gonna blow up in the sky! Oh what an active volcano! What a geological event! Oh what an active volcano! Who cares what the scientists say? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JohnInKansas Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:50 AM Nice rosey glow at the top. Current picture shows some "red spots" in foreground, but can't tell if they're real or just reflections off something. (07:34:01 PDT image) Refresh anyhow. John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:00 AM That's the sun coming up, the photo is backlit. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:55 PM there is an image archived on the page below the current camera image that shows a glowing at night...the comment says this may be the light coming form the crater at night. wasn't there a second camera set up> can anyone send a link i can't find it.. and good one guest 3:33...i recognize that song form Oklahoma, the musical. th original says the corn is as high aas an elephant's eye/.. and it sings something about a haze in the meadow... \for those of you not familiar with the U.S. musical drama... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,puppy Date: 14 Oct 04 - 03:43 PM when do you think it will erupt? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:04 PM I saw that glow last night, but without more information figured it was the moon (but I see by my calendar that the moon is completely out of sight right now). SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Peace Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:12 PM The moon's in Alabamy. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Oct 04 - 06:27 PM It looks like it's raining or fogging in Southwestern Washington this afternoon. Here is a page with some answers about the most common viewing problems (such as no photo). Today I refer you to "Is the VolcanoCam Broken? Part II" SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Oct 04 - 03:06 PM Check it out today! It's glorious fall weather, they had some snow, and the mountain is putting out a beautiful puff of steam. I saved this image for my desktop. Here's the link again. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 20 Oct 04 - 03:24 PM That for me is the best image yet. It looks like a yeti is hugging the top of the mountain. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Oct 04 - 06:03 PM It's already socked in, but that earlier shot was marvelous. I'm glad someone got there in time to see it! SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 25 Oct 04 - 09:45 PM satelite photos |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: open mike Date: 25 Oct 04 - 10:18 PM another aerial view from satelite.. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JohnInKansas Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:54 PM Mt Rainier Disaster Plan might be of interest while watching the smoke rise at St. Helens. Actually a much more dangerous situation, (Not minimizing the risks from St. H., of course). John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Leadfingers Date: 26 Oct 04 - 12:18 PM Must try to remember to have a look at a different time of Day !! And thats as close as I would want to get to a volcano as well ! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Leadfingers Date: 26 Oct 04 - 12:19 PM And has Ted been in ?? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:15 AM Just now when I checked the volcano cam there was a bright glow at the top that isn't part of the background light from the rising sun. Real interesting effect. Looks like the dome is giving off some light as well as heat this morning. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 27 Oct 04 - 05:02 PM Gorgeous picture at the moment - 13.53.27 PDT. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Oct 04 - 07:55 PM 16:48:27 also has a very nice view. A nice steady column of smoke is drifting straight up then to the southwest. Lovely afternoon! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Oct 04 - 04:37 PM The top is socked in, but the mid and low reaches of the mountain are exposed. It looks like they had snow much lower down recently. (The camera was out of commission for a while, but I'm glad to see it back online). I do love looking at that snow and the seasons changing. This is a link to one of my favorite cameras, in this case, it is on the BLM office in Fairbanks, Alaska. Poke around in here and you'll find lots of great images from around the area, including a bunch of aurora borealis photos. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Nov 04 - 12:20 PM Another beautiful day on the mountain, with a nice little puff of smoke at the top. Snow has melted in the lowlands but remains on the peak. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,Darryl Date: 09 Nov 04 - 03:15 PM I have been posting enhanced images/movies of the night time glow from the mountain on my webpage - its amazing how a little image processing can remove most of the noise and clean up the view! http://www.luscombe-carter.com/mount_st_helens/index.html |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 13 Nov 04 - 05:34 PM Seems to be something happening again now with Mount St. Helens. Could be just cloud - but I don't think so this time. What news of the volcano in Iceland, and did Skarpi get to Ireland okay? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 17 Nov 04 - 11:38 AM Beautiful view at the moment - sun-gilding on clouds and plume. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Nov 04 - 12:30 PM Here is a marvelous photo that was in the Seattle P.I. this morning. The caption says "Mount St. Helens experiences a minor steam eruption as viewed from the Johnson Ridge Observatory five miles from the crater. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (November 17, 2004)" SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 20 Nov 04 - 04:00 PM Wow! That's gorgeous. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 23 Nov 04 - 11:26 AM in what contry is mout st helenas volcano in? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 23 Nov 04 - 11:30 AM Washington. Asmall country loosely associated with the Pacific West coast of North America. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Nov 04 - 12:10 PM ;-D |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 23 Dec 04 - 01:58 PM nice clear view today with a small plume. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Dec 04 - 04:31 PM I took a look earlier (no plane in my glimpse), and it is indeed beautiful. They've narrowed the focus on the camera--it has less of the area now. Consequently the mountain looks larger, but I liked seeing more of the foreground to keep an eye on the Toutle River. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 23 Dec 04 - 06:10 PM Yes, a beautiful view today - but I too miss seeing the sun reflecting off the river as it used to do in the wider angle view. Pauline. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Mar 05 - 04:30 AM 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 |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Liz the Squeak Date: 09 Mar 05 - 04:37 AM Oh dear... let's hope she's not as angry as last time... Mother Nature is a tad restless so far this year.... LTS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Micca Date: 09 Mar 05 - 06:33 AM As a (still) working Scientist, Can I thank Jeri and all others who have contributed to this fascinating thread? It has provided me with hours of interest and enjoyment!! as a now Sadly Ex- climber and life long volcano fan It has become an old friend that I visit regularly(at least every 2nd day) Many thanks to you all and the USGS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JenEllen Date: 09 Mar 05 - 11:29 AM Yeah, she erupted again about 1730 local time. It was absolutely GORGEOUS from here. They said on the local news that the ash cloud went up to about 36K feet. Against the sunset, it looked like a bird in someone's hand. Nothing but a light dusting of ash out this far. Theory around the educated water-cooler says the lava dome probably collapsed. Won't know for a while because the weather was supposed to turn crummy today and it's hard to get a look-in with clouds. At least should the worst happen, we're better prepared now for emergencies. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Mar 05 - 11:35 AM the central dome still seems to be there in the volcano-cam. there wasn't any visible activity earlier today when I looked - but a small plume now. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: goodbar Date: 09 Mar 05 - 10:42 PM my chemistry teacher said the media are pussies and all it did was burp when in the 80's it threw up everything it had. then he went on to say it wasn't even a burp, but more like crap evaporating out of a pore. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Mar 05 - 10:55 PM Hey, Micca, I climbed Mt. St. Helens back in the mid-1970s before all of this ruckus started. It was a long slow walk up a steep hill. :) SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 11 Mar 05 - 09:52 AM Is that fire or sun? Never seen it like that before. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,MMario Date: 11 Mar 05 - 09:57 AM Sun glare. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 11 Mar 05 - 11:46 AM phew. I'll stop running then. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Metchosin Date: 01 Aug 05 - 04:33 PM Mt. St. Helens has been up to some interesting stuff in the last couple of days. There's been a few earthquakes in the 3.0 range, but what I find intriguing aside from the main hotspot, is the new little glow that has showed up on the night pictures since May on the western flank. There are some movies of it at this website if you scroll down the page to the Hall of Fame. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Nancy King Date: 01 Aug 05 - 07:10 PM Interesting stuff, Metchosin -- thanks! Nancy |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: DougR Date: 01 Aug 05 - 07:26 PM Our plane flew over (not directly but near) Mt. St. Helen's a couple of weeks ago and it looked pretty dead at the time. DougR |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Metchosin Date: 01 Aug 05 - 10:59 PM Earthquakes are difficult to experience when you're in the air, DougR.*BG* Sorry, couldn't resist. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Donuel Date: 01 Aug 05 - 11:15 PM I was watching a nova show on the excavation of Herculanium. It has the only complete ancient library to be encased/preserved 90 feet down in solidified pyroclastic flow. The burned scrolls are now being read with NASA inspired digital imaging. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: EBarnacle Date: 02 Aug 05 - 11:14 AM The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] in New York City has a really great exhibit of photos of Mt.St. Helens. This a real blowout, especially those showing at or close to the time, compared with the same view 10 years later. If you can get there, go. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: DougR Date: 02 Aug 05 - 04:50 PM True, Metchosin, however, one should expect to see some smoke or steam escaping, right? DougR |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Metchosin Date: 02 Aug 05 - 05:51 PM It is intermittant DougR, she's letting off a little bit today. Although you really have to look hard to see it. I wonder if the small light on the western flank could be ignited gas escaping through a fissure? I know this happens in parts of Greece and Turkey. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Metchosin Date: 02 Aug 05 - 05:55 PM And the area is still under orange alert, which advises the following potential ash hazards to aviation: Under current eruptive conditions, small, short-lived explosions may produce ash clouds that exceed 30,000 feet in altitude. Ash from such events can travel 100 miles or more downwind. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 03 Aug 05 - 01:42 PM There seems to be quite a bit of smoke today----8/3/o5 Art |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 03 Aug 05 - 01:44 PM may be an optical illusion due to cloud - but appears to be two sources - one low on the left, one high on the right. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 11 Sep 05 - 10:39 AM I've just returned from my annual trip to Austria and clicked on the webcam in my favourites to see how she's doing - LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING. Any news anybody? Polly |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Sep 05 - 10:47 AM It looks like there's something on the camera lens. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 11 Sep 05 - 10:55 AM A definite orange blob, but it does look like a drop shaped blob on the lens to me too. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 11 Sep 05 - 11:44 AM Yes, I agree about the orange 'blob' - but now that the cloud has cleared that does look like a sizable plume also (08.36 PDT)??? Polly |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Don Firth Date: 11 Sep 05 - 03:35 PM Hard to tell from the picture I just looked at (12:32 PDT). I haven't heard anything on the news. The blob. I have a horrible feeling that it's the kind of thing that can appear on your windshield if you happen to drive under a flight of pigeons. Don Firth |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Sep 05 - 03:42 PM Polly, You seem to be looking at times where there is some visibility. I haven't had such luck. The orange blob is more defined now, the blurry area smaller, but nothing helpful regarding the top of the mountain behind it. I did find this activity report:
Different type of "SRS" there! And the chart with the most recent seismic activity can be found here to show a heating up of conditions. Unfortunately, that only shows until early August. There is obviously some lag time in filing and posting these monthly reports. If you poke around you can find some static photos taken in September. See if this works to give you more information. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 11 Sep 05 - 04:00 PM Check out the biggest fly in the world! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 11 Sep 05 - 04:09 PM Sorry he's gone to be a fly somewhere now. He had more than a passing interest in the orange blob. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Don Firth Date: 11 Sep 05 - 04:12 PM Hmm. . . . Tends to reinforce my theory about the blob. Don Firth |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Deckman Date: 11 Sep 05 - 06:15 PM Hmmm? Maybe has President bush been in the area? Bob(deckman)Nelson |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:56 PM From Webcam 12th September: "Webmaster Update @ 9:24 am PDT - We are well aware of the grime on the VolcanoCam lens. We are planning to clean the lens later this week once we have our maintenance team ready. We apologize for the messy view." Still looks like a good plume though. Polly |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:45 PM I wish they'd twist the lens to back up the view so we could see more of the mountain again. I liked being able to look at the foreground. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:06 PM Yeah, me too. There used to be some stunning shots of the sun reflecting in the stream/river in the foreground, trouble is I can't now remember whether it was as it was rising or setting. Polly |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:12 PM I think the view you have from this camera is across the Toutle River valley, correct? I'm guessing the camera is northwest of the peak, so you get the evening glow (Alpenglow) effect of the sunset. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Polly Squeezebox Date: 13 Sep 05 - 01:36 PM "looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley" - correct again SRS. I've just returned from Austria, so am more familiar with the term Alpengluhn. But whichever term you use, it's spectacular when you get a good one and the mountain (or volcano) seems to light up from inside. I guess in the case of volcanos though, it could have a more sinister outcome. Polly |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 05 - 02:26 PM Lovely clear view today. Sure looks like plumes but then again could be low wispy cloud? I miss the glittering river too, shame that . Any one know what the orangey looking large rock looking thing is just above the word VOLCANIC at the bottom of the picture? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 26 Nov 05 - 01:10 PM Are they icicles? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Nov 05 - 03:15 PM Looks like it. I haven't been able to see anything the last couple of times I checked. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: tarheel Date: 27 Nov 05 - 01:19 PM i have several of the National Geographic Magazines that featured the day the moiuntain blew it's top... to this day it's probably one of the most collected issues! we see a lot of National Geographic Magazines for sale at flea markets and yard sales... and...you woul be surprised sat the folks today still looking for copies of that particular issue! incredibile photos and story!!!! would take anything for my issues i have collected....yet!!!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 27 Nov 05 - 02:29 PM Man that looks chilly. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST Date: 18 Feb 06 - 08:25 PM Wow. For anyone who wants something beautiful in their head. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,sass Date: 18 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM Back when Mt. St. Helens blew in '04, there was a family who didn't know about it, 'til some relatives in another state saw the news and wondered if they were all right! sass |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Amos Date: 18 Feb 06 - 10:04 PM At this hour of night the webcam is all a purply black except for one small light across the valley. This page archives the last few hours of shots from the webcam. You can watch the fall of darkness (depending on what time you look at it!). A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 06 - 01:36 AM It's too late now to see anything but darkness (12:35am CST) and one bright spot on the last 180 minutes of shots. That spot must be a light on the mountain? The moon or any stars would have moved out of range after a few panels. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 06 - 10:58 AM Right now, as the sequence of photos shift from total dark to daylight I can see that the light spot must be something that turns up due to infrared camera features, because it is at the top of the mountain and the top of the dome forming in the crater. Even showed a nice little puff of smoke this morning to illustrate what it is about. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Don Firth Date: 19 Feb 06 - 01:07 PM Neat site, Amos! As of the time I post this, it looks like the mountain may have burped a bit 150 minutes back, unless it's just a small cloud drifting by. At least there is a small, bright cloud hovering there. Don Firth |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Cluin Date: 10 May 06 - 03:08 AM Mount St. Helens is slowly developing some sort of erection. Best be far away when it reaches its climax. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 May 06 - 11:40 AM I saw a small version of this image last week--thanks for linking to the large one, I hadn't thought to go to the volcano watching site for a while. This is marvelous for a desktop photo. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: MMario Date: 10 May 06 - 11:44 AM Maybe the name should be changed to Mt. Saint Hank? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 10 May 06 - 11:48 AM Thanks for posting, Cluin. A meter a day is an impressive figure! Let's hope for continued, slow growth. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Hawker Date: 11 May 06 - 06:12 AM Amazing site, for those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, I also like the earthquake site here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php anybody who is cleverer than me is welcome to make it a clicky!!! it is interesting how the volcanic and earthquake activity correlate and one can be used to predict activity in the other one! Also amazing how many 'big' earthquakes there are every day! Cheers, Lucy
clicky made; link-faery |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JohnInKansas Date: 18 Jan 08 - 07:02 PM New reports of recent changes in seismic activity have appeared. A typical report is at MSNBC. Since the report doesn't indicate an "expected major event" I'll omit posting the article; but I don't know how widely the news will be reported outside areas with "connections to Washington state." No indication of cause for concern - but "mild interest" is appropriate for some. John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jan 08 - 07:43 PM They have new camera features -- classic and HD. USFS Mt. St. Helens Cam SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JohnInKansas Date: 18 Jan 08 - 09:02 PM But do they have one with a windshield washer and wipers yet? It is WA after all. (I'd have looked for myself, but I suspect it's dark there now. Tomorrow for sure.) John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Jan 08 - 03:10 AM I watched the mountain for a few minutes this afternoon. It was spectacular. Clear sky behind it, snow-covered peak, and alpenglow just as the sun was going down. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Micca Date: 19 Jan 08 - 08:46 AM My sincere thanks to JohninKansas for putting this back up, I had lost my tag for it in a crash and rebuild and am glad to have it back!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Jan 08 - 01:29 PM It's a white out right now. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Jeri Date: 20 Jan 08 - 11:11 AM There is a beautiful rosy glow crowning the snowy lavender-tinted mountain which is behind the icicles decorating the camera. Very pretty sunrise! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: JohnInKansas Date: 20 Jan 08 - 03:35 PM I haven't caught the new camera show with a clear view of the mountain yet, but the new Hi-Def camera does have an incredibly sharp view of the icicles on the roof. Much better, although slightly fewer hangie-downs, than the view with the older camera. John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jan 08 - 02:18 AM The moon is almost full tonight, I noticed that when I took the dogs for a late walk. I just clicked on the link now (it's about 11:15pm out there) and you can see the mountain on the high def camera. You can barely detect the outline on the classic view. Interesting! And those icicles are quite clear. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: gnu Date: 21 Jan 08 - 02:43 PM Wow. That looks like a long walk up and back. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jan 08 - 05:09 PM It is. I did it years ago. Of course, it used to be longer. :) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Oct 08 - 05:52 PM My Mt. St. Helens link vanished with a desktop crash, so I'll re-up now that I've found this thread again. But I'm posting here to offer a link to other web cams: Glacier National Park, Montana My Earthlink newsletter offered several others. This has a whole bunch of camera links: EarthCam Fall Folliage Cams SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Dec 09 - 12:31 PM I was looking for something else and landed on a long page of Gifford Pinchot National Forest photos. They include, down at the bottom, color photos from the eruption. But the ones above are fascinating as well. http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/research/heritage/CentPhotos.shtml. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: katlaughing Date: 20 Dec 09 - 12:39 PM Those are incredible, SRS, esp. the older ones. I am partial to them, anyway. Thanks for the link. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 20 Dec 09 - 12:55 PM Wonderful series of pictures. Thanks for posting. Will St. Helens blow again in time for Christmas? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:59 PM I haven't heard anything about it rumbling at all lately. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Ebbie Date: 20 Dec 09 - 08:06 PM I must have subliminally seen this thread before because I just got back in from walking my dog in which I found myself thinking about Mt. St. Helens' Big Blow and thinking about Spirit Lake's Harry Truman. Truman had toured a number of Washington schools earlier that school year and assured the youngsters that "his" mountain wouldn't harm him. Then of course, when it blew it not only *harmed* him but obliterated Spirit Lake as well. I hope he went quietly and without regret. I would guess that the kids will never forget him. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Genie Date: 21 Dec 09 - 01:46 AM I believe Harry said, not long before St. Helens blew him to kingdom come, words to the effect that he'd lived there such a long time and buried his wife there, that if the mountain blew he was gonna go with 'er. I don't think that, at least in the last few days, he really expected "his" mountain not to erupt or that he would survive it. He was kind of like a captain going down with his ship. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Dec 09 - 02:01 AM From what I read, Harry sounded like a stubborn fool. I don't think he expected it to go, either, but he was so busy enjoying his 15 minutes of fame that he missed the opportunity to escape. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Genie Date: 21 Dec 09 - 08:37 PM I think he was a stubborn cuss, too. I'm just not convinced that he'd have felt like going on if he'd had to leave his beloved mountain, at his age. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 22 Dec 09 - 03:06 PM I think the Harry Truman affair was shameful, shameful behavior on the part of journalists. They publicized this old man's foolishness so much that he got to thinking he could not back down. He probably died a terrible death, and so did his animals. Media assholes! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Deckman Date: 22 Dec 09 - 06:23 PM I actually met Harry several times in my younger years. My parents used to take my brother and me to fish in Spirit lake, in the 40's and 50's. We'd camp in his campground and rent his rowboats. At the time of his death, my brother was in serious negotiations with Harry to buy his pink caddilac. My brother had offered $5,000 ... he had the money and Harry was ready. Unfortunatly, so was the mountain! I wonder what that car looks like now ... or even where it is? bob(deckman)nelson |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Dec 09 - 12:29 AM I think leeneia has a point--that 15 minutes of fame probably went to his head. But rest assured--if nothing else, death by volcano would have been fast. He probably barely knew what hit him. And that is a good thing. SRS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Donuel Date: 23 Dec 09 - 09:18 PM There is a simple honesty to freely giving back to mother earth your ashes. Harry seemed like a guy who would have planned to have his ashes on set adrift on the mountain. People who need a concrete lined grave or vault are holding back the loan of Earthly atoms. In life they probably lived in a gated community. Harry's ashes stood a good chance of making it around the world. Yellowstone may make an incredible show in the next year or two. I hope its not a full eruption but it sure needs watching. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Amergin Date: 23 Dec 09 - 11:44 PM Mount St. Helens |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:20 AM Beautiful! |
