Snow Profile - Torridon 17/01/2018 11:10:00

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 17/01/2018 Time: 11:10 Area: Torridon Obs: SA
Grid: 992607 Alt: 600m Aspect: 100° Incline: 36°
Location: Creag Dhub, Beinn Eighe

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: -3.0° Wind Dir: 280° Wind Speed: 25mph Cloud 100%
Precip Code: 10 - Heavy Snow Drift(Y/N): Y Total Snow Depth: 79cm
Foot Pen: 23cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): N

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -5.0° Summit Wind Dir: 290° Summit Wind Speed: 42mph

Avalanche Data

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

Profile Data

Max temp gradient: 1.0 °C/10cm
Max hardness diff. of adjacent layers: 2

Depth Comments F F2 E R e
2 * * 1.00 * *
8 * * 1.00 * *
29 Mod shear on gr * * 1.00 * *
35 * * 1.00 * *
52 * * 3.00 * *
79 * * 3.00 * *

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