Dangers of “Wheel-Track Glazing” Another Snowy Near Miss on Saturday? Wednesday night’s icy fiasco may have involved “wheel-track glazing”, when traffic itself literally creates ice. Friction from your tires hitting pavement can temporarily melt snow into water, which instantly refreezes into glaze ice. Salt and sand questions aside, that may have been a factor. No travel headaches today but the next threat/opportunity for snow comes Saturday. Models disagree (nothing new there) but ECMWF (European model) now brings “plowable” amounts of snow into the Twin Cities. The metro area may pick as much as 3-6″ from Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning, although there’s still a chance we’ll be on the northern edge of any heavy snow bands. We cool off again next week (probably no white-knuckle commutes) but I still see a milder, stormier pattern evolving by mid-December, as a series of Pacific storms push inland. White Christmas anyone? 12 KM NAM model data (total snowfall by Monday morning) courtesy of NOAA and pivotalweather.com. (Updated) ECMWF Keeps Heaviest Snow Bands South of MSP. Here is the 00z Friday ECMWF run, which bring plowable snowfall amounts into the Twin Cities during the day Saturday, with a growing chance of 2-4″ for the… Read full this story
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