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MAIN RANGE NSW: 
RECENT OBSERVATIONS
UPDATED: 30th / JULY /2018

REPORT CONFIDENCE: STRONG
CURRENT UNTIL: 2nd / Aug / 2018


OBSERVATION SUMMARY

TREND: IMPROVING / ONGOING / DETERIORATING

RECENT OBSERVATION

Sunday

Lots of rain from from Saturday. Conditions on Sunday morning we very wet. Strong winds and warm conditions ment the snow surface was very wet. The snowpack feeling the effects of this recent rain. The strong temperature gradient seen over the past few weeks has disappeared. Some of the facet layers have morphed to rounds so the snowpack is becoming stronger. We had medium CT test on buried surface hoar at 28 cm. Around lunchtime the rain turned to graupel and then finally snow at about 2 : 30 pm. By the time we arrived back at the car there was 5 cm of new snow on the ground  

 

Outlook

Snow continuing  through to the coming weekend,  get out and find those fresh POWDER stashes!

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PRIMARY HAZARD

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SECONDARY HAZARD

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Recent Snow Profiles

29th July 2018

Water soaked snowpack

July 27th

Dust on top of some of those layers

July 15th 2018

July 1st 2018

June 30th 2018

June 24th 2018

June 18th 2018

WEATHER MODEL