Odd weather advisory tonight for my area in North-central Kentucky.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

Don't recall seeing this one here before now: Freezing Fog Advisory (Louisville area).

Then, it hit me as to what the real hazard may be. After recalling my days in western Oregon paper mill jobs and their mornings with BLACK ICE! I remember driving on that shit and it was treacherous. Roads look perfectly normal but then oh noooooo.

So, I found out the National Weather Service does have a glossary (https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php) and this is what I found:

Quote:

Freezing Fog:
A fog the droplets of which freeze upon contact with exposed objects and form a coating of rime and/or glaze.

At 77, still learning something new every day.......

What we now have on the ground (and on our roofs) from the weekend storm:
* 4 to 6" loosely packed snow.
* a solid layer of ice, often 1-inch thick.
* another 1/2 to 1-inch of fine snow.

I'm very worried about those heavy sheets of ice falling from people's roofs and hurting folks, especially kids playing outdoors.

[Skittles]

1. fog and black ice is a VERY BAD COMBO indeed

best advice, if you're not a first responder STAY OFF THE ROADS

[state of stupid]

2. I would be worried about the roads, but I would be just as concerned about the weight on the roof as well.

[irisblue]

3. And power lines

[state of stupid]

4. Absolutely, I worked for the phone company outside for 5 years and we doubled up

to replace broken drops during snow and ice storms. I mostly did the pole work, and my
partner did the groundwork. There is nothing fun about that. If the power lines were down
we had to wait until they fixed theirs before we were allowed to fix ours. I finally got the
chance to move into the switching center and I can tell you for a fact, it is much better
being in a warm central office than outside hanging on a snow- and ice-covered pole.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Yes, indeed.

I'm now too damned old to get on my roof and push it off but in younger days, I would - perhaps with a safety harness. So, I'll just have to let Mother Nature have her way. but I can at least keep my water pipes from freezing.

We won't be substantially above freezing for quite some time. Thank goodness, I managed a hefty trip to the grocery store last week.......

[Botany]

5. Nothing cracks ice like rock salt.

Not the best for the environment or concrete but it gets the job done. Spread it on top of ice & snow and
give it 2 or 3 hours then shovel off the slush. You can then put down a thin layer of an ice melt product.