Snow Profile - Southern Cairngorms 19/01/2018 11:15:00

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 19/01/2018 Time: 11:15 Area: Southern Cairngorms Obs: SN
Grid: 127780 Alt: 800m Aspect: 354° Incline: 30°
Location: Coire Direach

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: -3.5° Wind Dir: 220° Wind Speed: 10mph Cloud 100%
Precip Code: 2 - Trace Drift(Y/N): Y Total Snow Depth: 150cm
Foot Pen: 20cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): N

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -5.1° Summit Wind Dir: 247° Summit Wind Speed: 13mph

Avalanche Data

Observed aval. hazard: Considerable - Forecast aval. hazard: Considerable - Avalanche Code: 4400
Comments: Localised aspect. Profile not to ground. Failure on isolation at 6cm, touchy at 16cm.

Profile Data

Max temp gradient: 1.4 °C/10cm
Max hardness diff. of adjacent layers: 2

Depth Comments F F2 E R e
6 Failed on isolation@6cm * * 2.00 * *
16 Touchy fail @ 16cm * * 2.00 * *
35 * * 0.50 * *
69 * * 0.50 * *
80 * * 2.00 * N/A

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