As someone who lives in the midwest, I can confirm that people sometimes leave it on purpose for the extra weight, especially in vehicles like pickups and vans. Also you kinda just want to see what happens at that point.
Quick Googling puts snow at 1-20 pounds per cubic foot, depending on moisture content. Using conservative numbers of one foot of snow, 7 feet wide, and 15 feet long that could be 105-2100 pounds. On the low end, I can’t see that being enough weight to matter, and on the high end, that might seriously strain some vehicles suspensions.
Also as someone in the Midwest that got hit by snow flying off the top of an uncleaned car this morning from several hundred feet away, I don’t care how much weight it is. Clean off your car.
The warming of the vehicle’s interior is enough to make the snow easily slide off. Braking too, it’ll cover the windshield when your pulling upto a stop sign or whatever.
Zero reason to not clean it off, and it’s usually illegal to not do it too. Depending on where you are obviously.
As someone who lives in the midwest, I can confirm that people sometimes leave it on purpose for the extra weight, especially in vehicles like pickups and vans. Also you kinda just want to see what happens at that point.
The people behind you are also interested in seeing
what happens.Quick Googling puts snow at 1-20 pounds per cubic foot, depending on moisture content. Using conservative numbers of one foot of snow, 7 feet wide, and 15 feet long that could be 105-2100 pounds. On the low end, I can’t see that being enough weight to matter, and on the high end, that might seriously strain some vehicles suspensions.
Also as someone in the Midwest that got hit by snow flying off the top of an uncleaned car this morning from several hundred feet away, I don’t care how much weight it is. Clean off your car.
If you’re going fast enough for it to fly off, yeah leaving it on is a dick move.
The warming of the vehicle’s interior is enough to make the snow easily slide off. Braking too, it’ll cover the windshield when your pulling upto a stop sign or whatever.
Zero reason to not clean it off, and it’s usually illegal to not do it too. Depending on where you are obviously.
Is that supposed to be 210 pounds?
No. Snow can vary in weight a lot.
Snow hit you from a braking vehicle from several hundred feet away?
Were they traveling at supersonic speeds?
They weren’t braking; they were driving highway speeds in front of me.
as someone living in the north west clean off the roof of your car so it doesn’t get on your windshield.