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My first thought was Indianapolis and that latitude of the midwest. Seems like there are a lot of times where it's rain to the south, snow to the north, and they're that unlucky spot that gets mix or freezing rain. Atlanta is too far south, we usually just get cold rain, just like snow isn't common, neither is FR/mix precip.................
That may be true but when you guys get freezing rain or snow you're good for a ten minute highlight reel showing cars turning into skidding tons of metal.
Last edited by North Beach Person; 01-01-2021 at 09:24 AM..
That may be true but when you guys get freezing rain or snow you're good for a ten minute highlight reel showing cars turning into skidding tons of metal.
Its interesting because my first experience with freezing rain was this October in Oklahoma. We went from 90 degree weather on the 22nd to an ice storm starting the 26th. Leaves were still on the trees. However perhaps because the ground was still warm the roads did not ice up. Just the trees and power lines which fell en masse.
That may be true but when you guys get freezing rain or snow you're good for a ten minute highlight reel showing cars turning into skidding tons of metal.
Literally any place that gets freezing rain will have a mess on the roads.
Literally any place that gets freezing rain will have a mess on the roads.
Yes. But the South doesn't have the equipment, or the institutional knowledge, to deal with it. My cousin in Austin used to be a body guy and he loved ice storms.
Here in the DC area people are just morons when it comes to driving in any type of weather including dry and sunny.
Northern New England gets freezing rain, mostly in late fall and early spring. Regarding the roads, they are frequently "brined," meaning sprayed down with a salt solution, preemptively. We're supposed to get a storm tonight of snow, "wintry mix," or freezing rain, depending on latitude and elevation.
Northern New England gets freezing rain, mostly in late fall and early spring. Regarding the roads, they are frequently "brined," meaning sprayed down with a salt solution, preemptively.
That works if you don't have rain prior to the changeover. The liquid rain washes that brine right off, a lesson painfully learned here in Maryland.
Actually the brine sticks longer than dry salt, that's one reason it's applied before weather events. It takes much longer for spring rains to clear the brine residue off the pavement in the spring compared to traditional salt.
Its interesting because my first experience with freezing rain was this October in Oklahoma. We went from 90 degree weather on the 22nd to an ice storm starting the 26th. Leaves were still on the trees. However perhaps because the ground was still warm the roads did not ice up. Just the trees and power lines which fell en masse.
I experienced this ice storm too in northwest Texas and southwest Oklahoma while on a roadtrip and it was no fun, more difficult driving conditions than most blizzards in Colorado and apparently very unusual for late October there. The temperature stayed just a little under 32F and the roads were covered in a sheet of ice much of the trip.
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