By Glenn Hicks

Plummeting temperatures cause slick roads

Nov 5, 2018 | 11:00 AM

Blame the heavy rain Sunday followed by a sudden downturn in temperatures around 7 a.m. Monday morning for the challenging driving conditions on the morning commute.

The roads in the city were already saturated from the weekend rainfall, and then came the double whammy of snowfall and the decline in temperature from around zero into the minuses. That resulted in at least a couple of spin-outs on the city’s main hills.

“It cooled off past seven o’clock this morning and that’s when the roads [became icy],” roadways manager Brent Kennedy told paNOW. “I came up Second Ave. at 6:30 a.m. and it was just wet, and then with the weather cooling off it turned into ice.”

Kennedy said he had the city sanding trucks out since this morning to attend to the main routes and hills. However, there were still a couple of high-profile issues.

A truck and trailer spun out on the hill up Second Ave. and blocked the road for a while, and another truck slid on Sixth Ave., which slowed things down.

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“The rain and then the snow and colder weather [caused issues] but we have the sanders out,” Kennedy said.

The temperature was expected to fall further Monday along with up to 5 cm of snow, coupled with winds of up to 50 kilometres per hour and a wind chill of minus 16.

glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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