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

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SAIS - Snow Profile - Location Details

Date: 11/02/2018 Time: 12:15 Area: Southern Cairngorms Obs: PN/SN
Grid: 135773 Alt: 915m Aspect: 140° Incline: 30°
Location: The Cairnwell

SAIS - Snow Profile Data

Air Temp: -4.8° Wind Dir: 290° Wind Speed: 25mph Cloud 10%
Precip Code: 0 - None Drift(Y/N): Y Total Snow Depth: 115cm
Foot Pen: 20cm Ski Pen: N/A Rain at 900(Y/N): N

Summit Station Data

Summit Air Temp: -5.8° Summit Wind Dir: 290° Summit Wind Speed: 48mph

Avalanche Data

Observed aval. hazard: Considerable - 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
7 * * 0.50 * *
23 Reactive @23cm * * 0.50 * *
30 * * 0.50 * *
52 * * 0.50 * *
74 * * 0.50 * *
78 * * 2.00 * N/A

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