Slow Moving Showers
9th March 2018
After a bright and frosty start to the day, cloud quickly moved in from the South-West feeding in some slow moving showers, wintry above 650 metres. The relatively recent new snowpack is consolidating, but localised areas of moderately bonded windslab persist.
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Looking from the slopes Beinn Eighe to the south Torridon hills. As the cloud moved in, it became noticeably milder, freezing level rising to 750 metres by late morning.
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Plenty snow above 550 metres in Coire an Laoigh, Beinn Eighe – today’s snow profile site. Snow drifts on both sides of the burn is indicative of snow deposition from differing wind directions. Some roller ball activity visible on the sun affected slope – below the crags, top right in photo.
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A huge wind scoop round this fairly large boulder. Points for working out the wind direction to form this feature – from left or from right of photo?
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