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Dealing with icy roads
Posted: 07 Feb 2025 05:30 AM, Views: 912
Tags: roads
The featured movie presents the combination of NWS Mosaic RADAR, Iowa DOT Winter Road Conditions, and DOT Track-a-plow locations from Wednesday into Thursday. While the most recent system did not look like much on RADAR, a layer of ice was deposited by persistent freezing drizzle. Sunshine and warmer temperatures on Thursday helped to melt most of this away after some very hard work was put in by the road crews to improve things overnight before the morning commute.
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Previous Years' Features
2024: Snow Comes & Goes
2023: February Contrast
2022: Time near High
2021: '20-'21 Winter Storm #17
2019: Last Ice Storm Warning
2018: '17-'18 Winter Storm #12
2017: Warmest Since Last Year
2014: Non-Normal Roads
2013: Mostly above freezing
2012: Snow Hole
2008: Fog to deal with
2007: A taste of the good life
2006: Days are getting longer!
2005: Oh yes, winter
2003: Man, it's cold!
2002: Melting the Snow Away
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Data from the Iowa State Soil Moisture Network is found on this website and daily soil temperature averages are used to produce the highlighted analysis.