This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet, about five miles from the volcano. You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley.
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Weather Note - October 06, 2004 at 9:00 am PDT - There is nothing wrong with the above image. You are viewing rain and clouds at Mount St. Helens right now as a weather front moves through the Pacific Northwest.
here you can see live what is going on
normally its looking so
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06668
Sir Ulli