A brutal and prolonged arctic blast bringing heavy snow, wind and ice across much of the US is threatening record-breaking low temperatures and dangerous morning commutes as another storm takes aim at the South. Here’s the latest:
Temps are relative to the local variation, so somewhere that has regular negative temps each winter will be a completely different experience than a place where it rarely dips below freezing. The massive amount of accidents that southern states have during the rare snows is because most people there have no experience driving in snow, a large portion might not even have all weather tires, and they don’t have any infrastructure for clearing and treating roads.
The same goes for temps. When people don’t have experience with very cold weather, where infrastructure not made to handle the temps is used by people who have no backup plans and often make terrible decisions when the infrastructure fail because it happens so rarely.
Temps are relative to the local variation, so somewhere that has regular negative temps each winter will be a completely different experience than a place where it rarely dips below freezing. The massive amount of accidents that southern states have during the rare snows is because most people there have no experience driving in snow, a large portion might not even have all weather tires, and they don’t have any infrastructure for clearing and treating roads.
The same goes for temps. When people don’t have experience with very cold weather, where infrastructure not made to handle the temps is used by people who have no backup plans and often make terrible decisions when the infrastructure fail because it happens so rarely.