That's part of why things can be so dangerous around here in winter. It doesn't snow very often, but it doesn't stay cold enough for the snow to stick around. It melts and refreezes for a week or so (leaving the roads basically impassible), then melts completely all at once. We usually get one or two small snowstorms each year, and they melt off without much incident. But when it dumps a ton, like it did recently, and then warms up back to our usual temperatures, the sudden volume of water being added to our systems is just too much for them to handle.
It doesn't snow very often, but it doesn't stay cold enough for the snow to stick around. It melts and refreezes for a week or so (leaving the roads basically impassible)
Ugh! In very early and very late winter (say, to mid-December and in April), we often get snow turning to rain then freezing, with the result that the sidewalks especially turn into ice rinks, really dangerous and horrible. The roads are generally a little better maintained, but when you're talking about 3 million people trying to get around in those conditions, it's pretty hairy!
then melts completely all at once
Luckily we don't get that! Hope the flooding is easing off by now....
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Ugh! In very early and very late winter (say, to mid-December and in April), we often get snow turning to rain then freezing, with the result that the sidewalks especially turn into ice rinks, really dangerous and horrible. The roads are generally a little better maintained, but when you're talking about 3 million people trying to get around in those conditions, it's pretty hairy!
Luckily we don't get that! Hope the flooding is easing off by now....