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Mount St. Helens belches steam

Plume is visible in Portland, Ore., 50 miles away




A steaming Mount St. Helens is seen from the roof of the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash. Cold weather combined with the ongoing release of water vapor generated an impressive steam plume Tuesday at Mount St. Helens, which has been undergoing a low-key eruption since September 2004.


“You look at your industrial stacks around town and they’re putting out nice vapor plumes today, as well,” said volcanologist Willie Scott at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, about 160 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles from the mountain.

The white plume emitting from the snowy peak could be seen clearly against a blue sky.
The vapor temperature was near the boiling point of water — 212 degrees — while temperatures at the mountain were around or below freezing, Scott said.

“The water vapor’s condensing rapidly, and it’s making a very attractive plume,” said seismologist Bill Steele at a University of Washington lab that has been monitoring the peak with the observatory.
Vapor has been rising from the volcano since before it rumbled back to life more than two years ago, extruding lava into the crater created when the mountaintop blew off in May 1980, flattening forests for miles and killing 57 people.

( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16286649/?GT1=8816 )

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Thats got to be quite a sight to see in person with all the steam and everything.

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For those of you in that area, did things get messy in '80 when it blew?

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Things were messy all the way in Denver. We had to brush off the cars every morning.

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Are you serious?!?!?! Holy crap!!!

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Pompeii - Vesuvius

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Serious. There was a layer of dust on everything every morning.

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I want to see it erupt again! It's not really very close to an eruption right now though from what I've heard.... :( Me want BIG BOOM! haha

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I was going to the university in Bozeman, MT when it blew the first time.
Yep, I remember the ash on the car and having to take it to the car wash.
Then that summer when we went to the cabin by West Glacier, there was ash all over the place still.

Fun times.

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:yawn:
It's doing something? Alert me when you see molten magma.

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Seems like yesterday when that beotch blew. We saw the plume all the way up here too. We even got dusted with the ash for days.

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Dusted with ash for days from a volcano!? Now I'm really contacting CNN about their best city in the world nonsense. Are you sure that article wasn't posted on opposite day? :confused:

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He's talking about 1981.

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At the time, I lived in Wisconsin, and we got dusted...

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I was 2 and in Virginia Beach, it was crazy.;):D

I was looking at the map the other day and the ashes went pretty far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1...ens_ashmap.png

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This is always a scary map:



Not exactly the one I wanted because it doesn't show ashfall depths, but the extent and resulting impact of the ashfall would be very, very bad if it happened today.

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:iagree: "Mount St. Helens has been undergoing a low-key eruption since September 2004"

Basically its been venting like this for a couple years.

I remember the last time though. I was in 1st or 2nd grade and someone got me a t-shirt. :clapping:

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I vent a few times a day and it's not a big deal.:jump:

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X2

Seems like yesterday that happened.