Everything austere and northerly, black-and-white under the high dome of clouds.
Visual observations show the 300m- (1, 000ft) high lava dome within the crater has lifted by about 45m (150ft) and it is continuing to rise.
BBC: Mount St Helens spews out steam and ash on 5 October 2004
The overall effect is epic and graceful, with wings radiating from the 105-foot-high central dome, and features plenty of grace notes, from musicians serenading at breakfast to peacocks strolling the manicured lawns.
Set in the remote, post-apocalyptic desert landscape that is Landers, California, the 38-foot high white dome was built in the 1950s as a research facility by George Van Tassel, a test pilot and aeronautical engineer for Howard Hughes.
As July arrived, the high-pressure dome weakened slightly and the returning rain, though modest, provided relief.
Behind the record temperatures was a dome of high pressure over the center of the country, which combined with a powerful drought to create the scorching temperatures, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.
It was all thanks to a large dome of persistent high pressure, clear blue skies and strong sunshine.
The East Coast is enjoying a ridge of high pressure that has provided a dome of warm air, said Atlanta NWS forecaster Keith Stellman.
Ware, a sophomore from the Bronx who averages 4.6 points per game as a reserve for the top-seeded Cardinals, played high-school basketball 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four.
The time-warp feeling ends when a gigantic space-age dome, 360 metres long and 107 metres high, comes into view.
An hour and a half later the group reaches "the dome, " a 60-foot-high semicylinder of rock, one half of the face a deep blue manganese, the other bridal-white calcite.
He played high-school basketball about 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four, where Louisville travels this week for the NCAA tournament's national semifinals.
Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.
Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.
Standing 38ft-high and constructed entirely of old-growth Douglas fir, the acoustically perfect dome rises out of the dusty Mojave Desert like a UFO, embodying the extra-terrestrial elements that inspired its construction.
The sophomore, who played his high school ball in suburban Atlanta, urged his teammates to complete the trip to the Georgia Dome.
It is true that the grant to the Dome is a large sum of money, and the aim of attracting 12m visitors was too high.
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