Snow Profile - Northern Cairngorms 19/03/2017 11:15:00

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 19/03/2017 Time: 11:15 Area: Northern Cairngorms Obs: KG
Grid: 014052 Alt: 1080m Aspect: 80° Incline: 38°
Location: Cnap Coire na Spreidhe

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: 0.5° Wind Dir: 240° Wind Speed: 15mph Cloud 100%
Precip Code: 2 - Trace Drift(Y/N): N Total Snow Depth: 200cm
Foot Pen: 28cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): Y

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -0.5° Summit Wind Dir: 239° Summit Wind Speed: 38mph

Avalanche Data

Observed aval. hazard: Moderate Forecast aval. hazard: Moderate Avalanche Code: 0
Comments:

Profile Data

Max temp gradient: 0.1 °C/10cm
Max hardness diff. of adjacent layers: 3

Depth Comments F F2 E R e
12 fail @ 11cm * * 1.00 * *
32 * * 0.50 * *
38 * * 1.00 * *
45 * * 0.00 * *
80 * * 2.00 * *

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