weeds just sent me this link: http://www.koin.com/.
Does anyone remember how it affected our weather when it first erupted?
Mount St. Helens
We had ash in the sky for quite a while and then I think we blamed everything on it for the next year LOL
We went deaf here. It sounded like an oil refinery blowing up. Like it was next door.
I never realized that you could hear it there Liz. Did Vancouver have a quake at that time?
I remember hearing it too.....it was a sunday morning around 8:30 a.m. if i remember it correctly.....it was a very loud boom......the scary thing is, it doesn't seem that long ago but it was....
No I don't remember a quake. You're right Sandy, it was a nice sunny morning. And it doesn't seem that long ago.
With all the hoopla about St Helen's Sandy, how do you feel about living right next door to Mt Rainier?
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Yes your right Liz, it was a very sunny day .....I dont remember a quake either, maybe because it was too far away to feel it......i am dating myself, i was only 14 then!......I don't really know how far Mt. Rainier is away from Abbotsford but i sure do see Mt. Baker quite nicely from here.....funny you should ask that as I was looking up about Mount St. Helens on here and how one site was mentioning that Mt. Rainier is very due to erupt also in the near future...I am not sure I am liking the idea of Mt. Baker deciding to wake up either...lol....they can lay peacefully asleep for another 50 years or so.......what about you? any thoughts on either of them erupting?.....your further away into Vancouver so that is a good thing!...
Sandy
LOL, I'm at the base of Mt Seymour, on the water in Deep Cove. My house could slide down into Burrard Inlet. For this we have earthquake insurance. Then again we could talk tsunami. lol, and they say the living is easy here.
Oh that is a nice area you live in......your right, living here is definately NOT an easy thing!!.....between floods, earthquakes and volcanoes, who can choose the lesser of these evils! but that scenery makes up for it all....lol
We still lived in Saskatchewan when she blew the first time, and I remember the sky being grey with ash for awhile. I remember saying to hubby that the car sure was dusty, but it was volcanic ash mixed with good old prairie dust!!!
Glenda
I remember that too Glenda.
The weather channel made reference to how it affected the weather then but didn't go into any detail. With the ring of fire acting up this year........ winter on the prairies doesn't seem quite so bad.
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Funny, I don't remember ash here or even darkened skies.
I think it blew more across the prairies rather than staying here i think.....my hubby remembers ash in Winnipeg as that is where he was living at the time.....they were just showing on tv tonight how there was ash covering the cars this morning from Mount St. Helens..can't be good for people with asthma and such...
Sandy Mt Baker is in my lap and every winter from my view I can see the steam it discharges I sleep sound at night knowing if it blows it will run down the river valley and be diverted towards everson and BC just past Demming due to graviety. Ernie
Hi Ernie,
That doesnt make me feel good knowing it will flow on in to BC and abbotsford if it erupted....lol....now i am going to have nightmares tonight!...j/k but I bet the view you have of Mt. Baker is spectacular i am sure......especially on a crisp, clear day.....
Sandy
we had the weirdest sort of rain cloudy warm then cold not fall not anything kind of day yesterday so I'm blaming it on St Helen.
I wouldnt be surprised, I am sure that ash creates weird weather patterns!....it has to float somewhere.....maybe your in for some nicer weather for the thanksgiving weekend there :)
The lava has started to flow!
I have watched the volcanoe cam. many times the last few days. It's exciting, and I'm glad I don't live too close. http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ Once when we were on the big idlans of Hawai'i, we went up the active volcanoe there, (kiluaea sp?) I remember standing above a stream vent, and the stream, hot and damp, billowing around me. What an experience. I find volcanoes, and earthquakes really interesting. Actually, most forces of Mother Nature I find really intriguing.
Linda
I think it's really cool that a volcano is active on our continent.....and like you Linda I'm glad there is some distance.
When the original blast happened, I was competing in Victoria's highland games, right down at Beacon Hill park. Washington State is visible across the Juan de Fuca strait on a clear day. You'd think we would've heard it, but we didn't - then again, the bagpipes may have drowned it out! lol......
lol ;)
For the record I love pipe music and am a piper myself...and well-used to bagpipe jokes (a little pre-emptive strike there!) :-)
Here's a link to a live web-cam of the peak:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Edit: ...which was included in the link you already sent, Pam....never mind. Quite a view today though, eh?
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Today's view is a keeper.
I'll leave it alone....gots some Highland blood in me. Though one Grandpa was from the lowland and I know what he'd have to say! ;)
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It's lovely today as well, bright and clear, with steam going straight up.
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Linda
:D
Very purdy...and peaceful. Praise God.
Mount St Helens is at it again!!!!
Glenda
Great idea to find this thread and bump it back up, Glenda. We've been hearing about this too. Amazing that the 25th anniversary is coming up.
She appears to be taking a nap at the moment...
We drove up Mount St. Helens in Sept. 2003. It was very strange. I didn't like it much. Too desolate, also they were experiencing earthquakes the day we were there. The VW Westfaila made it up, slowly but it survived. My dh was very enamoured with all of it. I just wanted to get off of the mountain. Guess no one will be going up there for a while.
That must have been eerie, Jeanne. I would have been spooked too.
I still keep thinking of Harry Truman, who refused to leave and died along with his dozens of cats when the mountain blew. No way would I go up there. Except maybe to look at the vegetation...lol - there was an interesting graph somewhere of the plant regrowth after a volcanic eruption. I think ferns are the first to come back, and conifers can take hundreds of years.
If it wasn't for the KUTV site I wouldn't see hardly any pictures. The bigger networks gave it a blip. The WC had some last night. I figure as long as it vents it won't blow its top????????? anybody have the stats on that?
What if it just started outflowing like in Hawaii.?
It sure would be one heck of a tourist attraction.......at a distance! ;) No idea about the stats tho.
Kind of eerie isn't it...got this in an e-mail this morning from a friend in Vancouver. Thought I'd share with you.
Mount St. Helen continues to spew ash, while it is forming a lava dome in the crater and still having minor tremors. In this sunrise shot, she appears to be blowing smoke rings (and anything so benign is welcomed, given recent history.)
What forms the "smoke rings" is the air flowing over the mountain getting pushed up higher as it goes up and over the top. The moisture content and initial temperature are just right so that the moisture condenses from a vapor to small particles at the higher altitude. When the moving air moves past the peak and comes down again, the particles evaporate back to an invisible vapor. The two "pancakes" describe that there are two layers of air for which this is happening, thus making this awesome picture possible.
Picture by Claude Cornevin
that's pretty and amazing. wow!
Awesome. Thanks for passing along this great pic.
Wow - fabulous pic! Thanks, Donna. Boy, if the Forums Pic of the Day were chosen by vote, this one would be it for me.
That's a neat picture Donna. It looks surrealistic.
Yeah, kind of Dali-esque. Very cool. Thanks for posting it, Donna!