BiscottiGelato

I've been driving in fresh powder and not so fresh powder recently in the Midwest USA. It was a very cold very dry place and I was driving a rental car with all season tires...

Surprisingly, it was very easy. I don't feel that traction degraded very significantly even tho it was like -15C and there's powder on the ground. It think it is because very very dry and frozen snow is not as bad as slippery wet snow + black-ice conditions.

Compared ot Vancouver, holy crap even if it's only -1C -2C with thin fresh powder can send your car all over the place.

People say Vancouver people sucks in driving in the snow, I'll say otherwise. I think Vancouver has some of the most difficult conditions to navigate when it's snowing. The snows are much more slippery because it partly melts upon contact. We also frequently get black ice conditions which doesn't exist in places that are drier and places that stays below 0. To add to the toll, we have a lot more hills than those other places where the flatness of the land contributes to why they get so cold in the first place. Our rate of snowfall (snow dump) is also much more rapid as Vancouver has a lot more precipitation than MidWest, Eastern USA/Canada.

This only reinforces that we should even more so get Winter tires even if we don't get snow frequent and that our snow don't stay. Snow that stays IMO is actually safer than getting snow that comes and go away.

[ 本帖最後由 BiscottiGelato 於 2008-12-12 14:13 編輯 ]