As we wrap up the winter season and start enjoying the warmer weather, let’s take a look back at this winter and how it lived up to expectations.
Looking Back At Winter 2020

As we wrap up the winter season and start enjoying the warmer weather, let’s take a look back at this winter and how it lived up to expectations.
Winter road maintenance is all about balancing traffic safety and operational efficiency. Mild winters can create even more uncertainty due to the inconsistent temperatures on any stretch of the road. Treating roads too late can lead to accidents and traffic jams. Unnecessary treatment of roads will result in high costs and potential environmental damage because of chemicals being used during road treatments.
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As part of offshore tender responses, bidding companies will typically analyze what they can expect the weather to be throughout the year. Based on this data, they’ll establish when in the year they can reasonably expect to do the work.
Even though this winter didn’t bring the traditional arctic weather, there are still several weeks left for potential hazardous road conditions. In fact, roads in a mild winter can be just as, or even more dangerous.
Real time traffic data suggests travel in America’s largest cities is down over 50% from their historical seasonal norms, which could lead gasoline demand to drop to its lowest in over 20 years.
As part of our commitment to ensuring users of Iteris’ web-based maintenance decision support systems (MDSS) are in a position to leverage the systems to their fullest potential, we are pleased to provide several methods of delivering education tools and resources.
Having spoken with dozens of road maintenance practitioners from across the country, one of the most intriguing features of ClearPath Weather, our web-based maintenance decision support system (MDSS), is its ability to display current, observed road temperatures.
For most airline passengers, when the seatbelt light goes off its time to unbuckle. The plane has successfully taken off and is cruising smoothly to its destination. But cruising in clear skies doesn’t necessarily mean smooth flying.
“When is going to start snowing?” and “How much will we get?” are two of the most often asked winter questions for meteorologists. But a better question is “What type of precipitation are we going to get?”