Snow Profile - Northern Cairngorms 29/03/2015 10:40:00

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 29/03/2015 Time: 10:40 Area: Northern Cairngorms Obs: KG/AG
Grid: 002042 Alt: 1080m Aspect: 280° Incline: 30°
Location: Chais Headwall

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: -1.7° Wind Dir: 240° Wind Speed: 15mph Cloud 100%
Precip Code: 2 - Trace Drift(Y/N): Y Total Snow Depth: 55cm
Foot Pen: 6cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): N

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -2.0° Summit Wind Dir: -1° Summit Wind Speed: -1mph

Avalanche Data

Observed aval. hazard: Moderate Forecast aval. hazard: Considerable - Avalanche Code: 0
Comments: fail @ 5cm. Graupel and small facceted grains

Profile Data

Max temp gradient: 0.2 °C/10cm
Max hardness diff. of adjacent layers: 4

Depth Comments F F2 E R e
1 * * 0.00 * *
4 * * 1.00 * *
10 * * 1.00 * *
28 * * 1.00 * *
35 * * 0.00 * N/A
55 * * 1.00 * *

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