Sunshine! But bitterly Cold
5th January 2025
A beautiful day, with plenty of sun, light to moderate winds and good snow cover. Although it clouded over in the afternoon from the south. It was very cold in the glens – minus 7.4C at the carpark at 270m this morning and the moderate Easterly breeze at summit levels gave a significant windchill.
Little change in the snowpack from yesterday – generally shallow, unconsolidated and stable. However, isolated areas of moderately bonded windslab persist at higher elevations.
The current areas of windslab will largely persist through tomorrow and fresh winslab will build in steep wind sheltered locations through the day, but amounts will be small.
Below are some mountain panoramas from this morning, mainly of the northern Fannaichs and the Great Wilderness.
(Above) An Teallach on the right and the Great Winderness mountains of….? Name them yourselves before checking up at the end.
(Above) The northern Fannaich mountains. L to R; Beinn Liath Mhor Fannaich, Sgurr Mor (the highest mountain in the Torridon forecast area at 1110m), Sgurr nan Clach Geala peeking above Carn na Criche, Meall a’ Chrasgaidh and finally, the north ridge of A’ Chailleach.
(Above) The western Fannaich mountains. L to R; Sgurr Breac, Toman Coinnich (the location for yesterday’s snowpack obs) and A’ Chailleach
(Above) Looking east. L to R; the Munro of Am Faocagach far left, Ben Wyvis on the right with fog lingering over a the relatively ‘warm’ water of Loch Glascarnoch. Minus 11C recorded by the Glascarnoch SAWS at 5am this morning.
(Above). OK, a closer view of the Great Wilderness mountains of… L to R; north ridge of A’ Chailleach, Slioch, Sgurr Dubh, Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair, Sgurr Ban and Ruadh Stac Mor way behind on the right.
(Above) L to R; Beinn a’ Chlaidheimh, Beinn Bearg Mor, Beinn Dearg Bheag and An Teallach.
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