Air inversion trapping emissions and fog over the valley creates a unique situation over Nampa, with snow isolated over industrial areas in the city.
- Winter is setting in on the Treasure Valley, but so far it only looks like it in Nampa.
- Driving from Meridian into Nampa, a clear border is apparent where the snow globe begins.
- Nampa Streets Division crews adjusted their salt reserve stocking after using 60,000 gallons of road brine around this time last year.
( Below is the transcript from the broadcast story)
“We’ve been at condition one, which is slight freezing or frost on the roadways,” explains Nampa Streets Department Assistant Superintendent Steve Overweg.
Winter is setting in on the Treasure Valley, but so far it only looks like it in Nampa.
“With that, we’ve put down in the last eight days eight thousand gallons of brine so far and we’ve had crews coming in early throughout the last eight days to prepare for that, to help de-ice bridges and intersections as needed,” he adds.