Snow Profile - Northern Cairngorms 11/02/2018 12:15:00

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 11/02/2018 Time: 12:15 Area: Northern Cairngorms Obs: KG
Grid: 988039 Alt: 915m Aspect: 50° Incline: 33°
Location: Fiacaill Sneachda

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: -5.5° Wind Dir: 280° Wind Speed: 15mph Cloud 60%
Precip Code: 4 - Light Showers Drift(Y/N): Y Total Snow Depth: 60cm
Foot Pen: 20cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): N

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -7.9° Summit Wind Dir: 281° Summit Wind Speed: 35mph

Avalanche Data

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

Profile Data

Max temp gradient: 2.4 °C/10cm
Max hardness diff. of adjacent layers: 3

Depth Comments F F2 E R e
4 * * 1.00 * *
5 * * 0.00 * *
11 touchy fail @ 5cm * * 1.00 * *
38 Reactive fail @ 20cm * * 1.00 * *
50 * * 2.00 * *
60 * * 1.00 * *

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