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The following 11 states have laws specifically restricting driving with snow on your vehicle: Alaska. Connecticut. Georgia. Massachusetts. Michigan. New Hampshire. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Rhode ...
El Niño – a natural phenomenon in the tropical Pacific that influences weather around the globe – causes changes in the jet stream that can point storms directly at California. Storms can ...
Blizzard conditions continued to slam Northern California over the weekend with damaging winds and heavy snow dumping on mountain ridges down to the valleys.
A study published in Science Advances in 2022 stated that climate-caused changes in atmospheric rivers affecting California had already doubled the likelihood of megafloods since 1920—which can involve 100 inches (250 cm) of rain and/or melted snow in the mountains per month, or 25 to 34 feet (7.6 to 10.4 m) of snow in the Sierra Nevada—and ...
Frost laws are seasonal restrictions on traffic weight limits and speeds on roadways subject to thaw weakening.. In climates that experience below-freezing temperatures, damage to roads from thaw-weakening have led to many US states, Canadian provinces [1] and other jurisdictions to enact laws that restrict vehicle loads during spring months, when road structures are thawing from above in a ...
Donner Pass, a stretch of road 7,088 feet above sea level in Nevada County, California, was hit with 80 inches of snow over the weekend as the state battled one of its most historic snowstorms.
The Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) was created in 1905, and the department paid counties and townships to improve roads to state standards. On May 13, 1913, the State Reward Trunk Line Highways Act was passed, creating the State Trunkline Highway System.
A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy ...