More snow is expected tonight into Friday morning, and the timing of the snow can put it through the region at a poor time of the day -the morning peak.
Another round of light snow tonight. Most locales near 1 inch – some spots in the 1-2 in. range. #stlwx #mowx #ilwx pic.twitter.com/c18M29PPxJ
— NWS St. Louis (@NWSStLouis) February 11, 2016
The snow hit at the poor time Wednesday but this section of 270 did not see the problems that plagued Tuesday morning. However, it did not go incident free:
Someone just spun out EB 270 trying to use the ramp from Riverview. pic.twitter.com/0rJr0RuO8v
— Chain of Rocks/I-270 (@chainofrocks270) February 11, 2016
Ax WBi270 @ 367 R lane blocked plus off ramp to 367. #KSDK pic.twitter.com/BKihk7rrYj
— Garry P Seith (@gpseith) February 10, 2016
Unlike the I-70 drive, however, the incidents happened at the tail end of the evening peak. The evening peak was much slower than normal, however.
#stltraffic at this time: Red everywhere. The latest Google traffic map of the region. #stlwx #mowx #ilwx pic.twitter.com/l0rHTjCYMK
— Michael K (@w0px) February 10, 2016
However, if that one traffic reporter still did his “Good Hands” route of the day plug, this would be a good candidate:
wow! Things look really good over the #ChainOfRocks Bridge! No slowdowns to report on 270E @kmov #TrafficSTL pic.twitter.com/QI1VULFyJD
— Laura Hettiger (@LauraKHettiger) February 10, 2016
In weather like last night, however, usually the hills of North County rear their ugly heads. After the horrible Tuesday morning peak, the people that usually use 270 were thinking twice.
There is more snow expected later this weekend but there will not be a discussion before Saturday about that.