Wave on your way South! We'll be leaving Arizona on Dec 26 and heading back to the Twin Cities to start the 2020 tax season. We have similar concerns in reverse. We winterize at Winstar Casino across the TX/OK line on I-35 with a stop at the Red Roof Inn in Cameron, Missouri. You only need a 2-3 day window of good weather to make the trip without any precip. I will wash our rig and store it inside upon our return to Minnesota.

One tool for staying current of weather is  the One Stop Shop for Travelers.

 It takes a bit to learn how to use all the tools on the website, however it is as current as the information of each states road conditions website.The Western half of the U.S. has a lot of live road cameras, East half, not so much.

  On 11/10/2019 at 11:59 AM, Ray,IN said:

The Western half of the U.S. has a lot of live road cameras, East half, not so much.

As far as I can tell, the data doesn't cover anything to the east of MT, WY, CO, or NM. There are many cameras east of that area that I have looked at, but none are listed. A good example of that is the site Kan Drive Roads which has dozens of cameras that you can access, yet none of them show on that program. 

Pennsylvania has a network of cameras on the pa511.com website. Just go to the web site and select cameras. It's not a real intuitive interface.

pa511.com

Pat

  On 11/10/2019 at 8:30 PM, Kirk W said:

As far as I can tell, the data doesn't cover anything to the east of MT, WY, CO, or NM. There are many cameras east of that area that I have looked at, but none are listed. A good example of that is the site Kan Drive Roads which has dozens of cameras that you can access, yet none of them show on that program. 

I investigated this a bit and found that this website is designed for the Western U.S.

A different address to the map and cameras, without the tools is here: http://oss.weathershare.org/m/?clat=38.27836&clng=-109.07804&zoom=6

I looked further to find contact information to suggest additions to the map, but found none.

Edited November 11 by Ray,IN

Minnesota has cameras.

https://lb.511mn.org/mnlb/cameras/routeselect.jsf

Our 511 is a dot org.

https://511mn.org

Linda Sand

It appears California is behind this travelers project.

California is a participant in the consortium behind the OSS webpage, but they're not "behind" it. There's a collective of western states that all feed real-time information into the other that becomes the website. 

Hey Bonnie, just a quick question or possibly a hmmmmm type of moment.  You are in Minneapolis and if they are anything like the most of the northern states they have heavy duty equipment, salt, sand etc to combat the road conditions and are accustom  to handling it. The roads will be clear when they are clear and storing your motorhome in Kansas City, you'll have to be able to get there from where you are. So you drive your 'heavy duty, 4x4' down to Kansas City just to have the storm front be going through there at the time. Or you can leave before the storm hits so that the storm comes in as you get on the road with your motorhome. I personally lived in MI and storms went through, I drove when conditions where acceptable, I never parked any vehicle a few hundred miles away in hopes that I could drive it in the middle of winter. Just me but it would not be worth it, from my thinking

Warm snow and ice not much grip.

Medium cold snow and ice purity good grip. 

Cold snow (-35) good grip, cold ice with skiff o’snow - eek!

Sometimes the “fringe areas” with snow / freezing rain

and temps hanging around freezing are the worst.