DETROIT – A lot of salt was applied to Metro Detroit roads Wednesday morning and it worked effectively to keep the commute smooth for many drivers. Temperatures Wednesday morning played a big role in ...

(WKYT) - Today’s Good Question is: Why doesn’t road salt work when the temperature drops? The issue isn’t that salt can’t help the ice melt when the temperature gets down into the single digits; it’s ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Living in Mid-Michigan we are no stranger to snow and ice piling up on the sidewalks and roadways, especially during winter storms and lake effect snow events. In the winter ...

DETROIT – Fun fact: salt isn’t very effective against ice in bitterly cold temperatures. Take a look at the chart above, you can see that at a temperature of 30 degrees, one pound of salt will melt 46 ...

It’s a rite of winter in the Chicago area on par with “dibs” and skating at Millennium Park, as residents pull out shovels and salt to deal with wintry weather. The Chicago area hasn’t been hammered ...

(WHTM) — All of us at one point or another have used rock salt to de-ice surfaces. But there is a point where rock salt can become ineffective, causing it not to melt snow or ice as it normally would.