Hopefully it will be the last of the year, but here comes a Friday afternoon rush hour snowstorm. That’s never good news. When you put together the always heavy Friday rush hour volume with a forecast of 6+ inches of snow, you know it’s likely to be a nasty ride.

Not being a weather forecaster, I can’t claim to know the timing of the storm. On the EyeOpener this morning JC was talking about this being a Friday night / Saturday morning event. That means it’s likely we will have only a small amount of snow, perhaps an inch or two, during the rush hour. If that’s the case, it will be a sloppy and slow ride, but certainly not impassible.

Here’s the difficulty with rush hour snow storms. Plows and road treatment trucks can only travel as fast as traffic allows. If traffic is jammed the plows will be jammed.   If the plows are moving 3 mph in a Friday rush hour backup, then they can't clear the roads, no matter how many plows are on the streets.

So expect a tough Friday afternoon rush.