Snow Profile - Glencoe 08/02/2016 11:52:00

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 08/02/2016 Time: 11:52 Area: Glencoe Obs: SA
Grid: 242500 Alt: 939m Aspect: 360° Incline: 24°
Location: Meall a Bhuiridh

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: -0.6° Wind Dir: 30° Wind Speed: 10mph Cloud 90%
Precip Code: 4 - Light Showers Drift(Y/N): N Total Snow Depth: 51cm
Foot Pen: 12cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): N

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -3.0° Summit Wind Dir: 270° Summit Wind Speed: 16mph

Avalanche Data

Observed aval. hazard: Considerable - Forecast aval. hazard: Considerable - Avalanche Code: 0
Comments:

Profile Data

Max temp gradient: 1.6 °C/10cm
Max hardness diff. of adjacent layers: 2

Depth Comments F F2 E R e
8 * * 1.00 * *
30 Mod shear at 23cms on gr * * 1.00 * *
42 * * 1.00 * *
44 * * 2.00 * *
50 * * 2.00 * *
52 * * 2.00 * *

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