Avalanche forecast

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Highlights

12.01 for TO. The snowpack will continue to be well bonded and stable. Avalanche Hazard Low.

Avalanche Activity

12.01 for TO. The snowpack will continue to be well bonded and stable. Avalanche Hazard Low.

Forecast Snow Stability: Little change is expected. The remaining snowpack will continue to be well bonded and generally stable. Good snow cover on most aspects above 750 meters. The avalanche hazard will be Low.

Snowpack Structure

Forecast Weather Influences: Light Easterly winds strengthening and veering to strong West-South-Westerlies. Summit sleet/snow possible late afternoon. Freezing at all levels overnight, some warming during the day. Observed Weather Influences: Light Easterly Winds. Clear dry day. Temperature inversion. Frozen in the glens and lower/mid level slopes. Plus 3 degrees at summit level. ObservedSnowStability: The snowpack is generally well consolidated and stable with a shallow covering of softer snow above around 750 meters. Isolated pockets of windslab are present on West and North-West aspects above 850 meters, these continue to consolidate and are easily avoidable. The avalanche hazard is Low.

Bulletin data: Scottish Avalanche Information Service (via EAWS / avalanche.report)

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