Time for an aerial tour of Mount St. Helens! Summer has arrived, and that means field work in the Cascades. On Wednesday, June 24, teams from the Cascades Volcano Observatory were at Mount St. Helens to swap batteries, upgrade GPS sites, solidify solar power systems, remove legacy equipment, and survey river channels for changes. Along the way, one of the field crews captured this aerial video of the crater of Mount St. Helens. The helicopter flies up the western arm of the Crater Glacier, past the 1980-86 lava dome, and then swings to the left around the still-steaming 2004-08 lava dome to get a view to the north out of the crater at Johnston Ridge, Spirit Lake, and Mount Rainier in the distance. Cascades Volcano Observatory update for Friday, June 19, 2026: All volcanoes in the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washington were at normal background levels of activity for the last week. Small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens. usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcan… 📽️: USGS video from helicopter flight into Mount St. Helens Crater by Marco Bagnardi, June 24, 2026.

Michael Bianculli from Walpole was strolling along Castle Island today and spotted these in the water Likely wake vortices from a landing aircraft flying low above of the water on approach to Logan. They come down off the tips of the planes wings

Given higher than usual confidence of rapid intensification (RI) from analyses of an exceptionally favorable environment & with the aid of newer hurricane models (HAFS) & Google DeepMind, NHC was able to skillfully predict Melissa's RI days in advance.