Originally Posted by
tjspiel
Terminology overload.
What I grew up thinking of as black ice is formed under different conditions. Black ice to me is when it's so cold that the water vapor from car exhaust freezes on the pavement while the cars are stopped at lights. It's especially treacherous because it's at intersections where people are trying to stop. It's also too cold for salt to have any effect.
I was thinking the exact same thing! In this thread, black ice is any ice on the road surface; but I've always thought of black ice as the ice at stop light from exhaust in sub-zero weather. Maybe it's a Minnesota thing, dontcha know, like hautdish.