Street Division Winter Weather Updates

An archive of updates about Street Division efforts to mitigate snow and ice on the roads.

  • 1/29/26:
    • Today crews are continuing to clear snow piles in Downtown and plow trouble spots throughout the city.
  • 1/28/26:
    • Last evening crews focused on removing snow piles from Downtown parking lots and lanes, and will return to plowing residential streets today.
  • 1/26/26:
    • 9:30 p.m. Crews are again working overnight to clear arterials, secondaries & hill routes. Additional residential streets will see plows in the morning.
    • 10:15 a.m. Crews continued to clear streets overnight. With today’s sunshine combined with applied salt, our crews expect great progress in clearing snow routes and many residential streets.
  • 1/25/26:
    • 8:15 p.m. Our crews and contractors are working overnight to clear arterials, secondaries, and hill routes. Once snow routes are in good condition, teams will move to residential streets.
    • 6:45 p.m. - About 50 contractors were brought in earlier today to support City snow removal effort. We remain focused on primaries, secondaries and hill routes and will move to residential streets once those are in good condition.
    • 2:30 p.m. – With the snow out of the area, crews are tandem and tri-plowing and dropping salt on all arterials.
    • 11 a.m. The QA/QC team has been out since early morning, supporting plow efforts by surveying & assessing road conditions.
    • 5:45 a.m. - Crews have continued plowing arterials as well as secondary routes. In addition, most hill routes have received at least one pass through.
    • As of 2:30 a.m., with heavy snow falling, crews have returned their focus to arterials, tandem plowing to keep two lanes open in each direction. Later, they will move to secondary routes.
  • 1/24/26:
    • 9:35 p.m. - Our crews have plowed arterials multiple times and the majority of secondary routes have also been plowed. Heavy snow is expected overnight. When possible, avoid travel to give crews the space they need to keep streets passable.
    • See a map of all City of St. Louis snow routes, including arterials, secondaries and hill routes.
    • Snowplow crews expect to have the majority of arterials passable around 6 or 7 p.m. today and will then move their main focus to secondary snow routes.
    • 11:00 a.m.: Street Department snowplows have rolled out and are tackling arterial and secondary snow routes first.
  • 1/23/26:
    • The Street Department has deployed about 60,000 gallons of brine on city snow routes ahead of the incoming snow storm and stands ready to plow once snow begins accumulating.
  • 1/21/26:
    • In anticipation of snow this weekend, the Street Department is pretreating snow routes Wednesday and Thursday.
  • 1/17/26:
    • The Street Department pretreated arterial, secondary and hill routes in advance of today's snow. Crews are out today working to keep road conditions as safe as possible.
  • 1/14/26:
    • The Street Department will begin pretreating arterial snow routes in the morning on Thursday, Jan. 15.
  • 12/13/25:
    • Crews are on standby this evening in the event of snow accumulation and our team is monitoring all snow routes.
  • 12/12/25:
    • Crews have continued pretreating snow routes throughout the day.
  • 12/11/25:
    • In anticipation of snow on Saturday, the Street Department will begin pre-treating snow routes on Friday morning.

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