Southern Snow

revhead347 said:

It actually has more to do with the weather than anything down here, although the equipment and knowledge is short as well. Usually when it snows in Connecticut, it's already below freezing and stays below freezing. Here it's usually above freezing when it starts snowing, some of it melts when it hits the ground, then night falls, and it drops below freezing. Then melts again the next day, and then freezes the next night. It's that constant cycle that leaves us with perpetual sheets of black ice.

Kurt

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That happens frequently up here in the northeast as well. The winter sun is still strong enough to melt snow/ice when it's below freezing, so the snow pack melts, water flows, and then refreezes when the sun drops. That's why the roads are kept in a perpetual salted state that leaves them looking bleach white when they dry up. What's really dangerous is in the spring when it hits 35 and you get a good strong rainstorm, washing all the salt off the road, and then the temp drops to 20 degrees at night. There's been plenty of Feb/March morning's I've delayed my AM commute to work to let road crews retreat the road surfaces after such an event.