3 Climate Guide for 3M Stamark Pavement Marking Tapes TM
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Introduction: The 3M Climate Guide is one of a series of resources that provide recommendations for use of 3M™ Stamark™ Pavement Marking Tapes based on adhesion factors. The guide establishes start and end dates for the recommended application season based on the specific climate data in the location of the road to be marked. The following maps provide an “application window” that when followed, will help ensure a successful application. The 3M Climate Guide and 3M Road Surface Guide supplement the 3M Adhesion Guide, eliminating certain applications from the window based on more clearly defined road surface and climate conditions.
Road Characteristics / Application Technique
The Adhesion Guide defines conditions and guidelines to ensure proper adhesion of pavement marking tapes. By rank ordering conditions within an acceptable 3 Adhesion Guide “application window”, the guide 3Road Surface Guide differentiates the most reliable applications from those nearing the Product Family acceptability limit. It also defines Application Window conditions that are unacceptable for proper adhesion, in which case the 3M pavement marking tapes should not be applied. Im
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The Road Surface Guide describes common surface distresses for pavements, provides guidelines for determining the suitability of surfaces for application of 3M tapes and includes application recommendations on roads with these conditions.
Season
For information about application procedures, consult Information Folder 5.7 (Stamark products) or 3.2 (Scotch-Lane products). For further information, contact 3M Traffic Control Materials Division at 1-800553-1380. Follow the instructions to reach Technical Service for Pavement Markings. In Canada call 1-519-452-6201.
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Included in this guide are two maps that define the start and end dates for application of 3M™ Stamark™ Tapes. The following instructions explain how to use the maps. 1) From the “start date map”, locate the area where the tape application will occur. Find the appropriate start date based on the color of the area and the matching color legend with the date at the bottom of the map. 2) From the “end date map”, locate the area where the tape application will occur. Find the appropriate end date based on the color of the area and the matching color legend with the date at the bottom of the map. IMPORTANT: The dates represent the “application window” for overlay applications with Stamark tape. 3M will not be held accountable for applications made outside of these recommendations 3) If your state appears to be divided between one or more start or end dates, refer to the list of counties in this booklet for more detailed information. As shown in the example below, start dates are green and end dates are red.
STATE NAME No Cutoff No Cutoff Great Howe
May 1 October 15 Albert Colfax Curry Deblue Dona Eddy Grant
Harding Leah Lincoln
May 15 Caltron Ciola Lumac McKinley Rio Sandal Trent
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4) If the application you are referencing in the Adhesion Guide shows the Climate Guide symbol " C " next to it, then application is not recommended in areas with an end date prior to October 1 (see 3M Climate Guide End Dates map). This includes applications made on ACC 0-3 days old and applications over existing 3M tape. Longline Adhesion Chart
Climate Guide Symbol
C
Road Characteristics / Application Technique
3M™ Stamark™ Tape Series 5730, 340, and 380 1. ACC/New/Inlay
no SPA
no SPA
no SPA
2. PCC/New/No Existing Markings/Overlay*
SP-44T
SP-44T
SP-44T
3. PCC/Aged/Grooved (ground depression)/Overlay*
SP-44T
SP-44T
SP-44T
4. ACC/New/4-10 Days Old/Overlay*
SP-44T
SP-44T
SP-44T SP-44T
5. PCC/Aged/Existing Markings Removed/Overlay*
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SP-44T
SP-44T
6. ACC/Aged/Existing Markings Removed/Overlay*
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SP-44T
SP-44T
SP-44T
7. ACC/New/0-3 Days Old/Closed to Traffic/Overlay*
C
no SPA
no SPA
SP-44T
8. ACC/New/0-3 Days Old/Open to Traffic/Overlay*
C
SP-44T
no SPA
SP-44T
9. ACC or PCC/Aged/Over Existing 3M Tape/Overlay* C
SP-44T
SP-44T
SP-44T
10. ACC or PCC/Aged/Poor Road Condition
Not Recommended
11. ACC or PCC/Aged/Over Existing Markings
Late Spring or Summer
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Improved Adhesion Application Not Recommended Performance
Early Spring
Fall/Winter
Dates
Season
If one of these caution symbols appears next to your road characteristics/application technique in the chart above, refer to either the 3M Road Surface Guide R , or the 3M Climate Guide C for more detailed information. Application might NOT be recommended.
Weather Are all of the following requirements true? If any are false, then the overlay application technique is not recommended.
SPA = Surface Preparation Adhesive
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• Air Temperature: 60˚ F minimum and rising • Surface Temperature: 70˚ F minimum and rising • Overnight Air Temperature: 40˚ F minimum • No rainfall for 24 hours prior to application
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No Cutoff
Mar. 1
Apr. 1
Apr. 15
May 1
May 15
3M Climate Guide Start Dates
June 1
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C
C
Sept. 1
C
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Sept. 15
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Oct. 1
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Oct. 15
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Nov. 1
C
C
C
Nov. 15
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3M Climate Guide End Dates
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C
C
No Cutoff
If a " C " is present in the adhesion chart for the Road Characteristics/Application Technique that you are considering (in the 3M Adhesion Guide), and is also present on this map for your climate, then application is NOT recommended no matter what the date is.
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ALABAMA
CALIFORNIA
March 1
April 1
No Cutoff No Cutoff
November 15 Montgomery Pike Russell Washington Wilcox
Baldwin Barbour Bullock Butler Choctaw Clarke Coffee Conecuh Covington Crenshaw Dale Dallas Escambia Geneva Henry Houston Lowndes Macon Marengo Mobile Monroe
Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Lee Limestone Madison Marion Marshall Morgan Perry Pickens Randolf Shelby St. Clair Sumter Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa Walker Winston
Autauga Bibb Blount Calhoun Celburne Chambers Cherokee Chilton Clay Colbert Coosa Cullman De Kalb Elmore Etowah Fayette Franklin Greene Hale Jackson Jefferson
Imperial Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Diego Ventura
ALASKA June 1 September 1
ARIZONA No Cutoff No Cutoff Cochise Gila Graham Greenlee La Paz
Maricopa Pima Pinal Santa Cruz Yuma
March 1 November 15 Mohave
May 15 October 1 Apache Coconino Navajo Yavapai
March 1 November 1 Alameda Butte Colusa Contra Costa Del Norte Fresno Glenn Humboldt Kern Kings Lake Madera Marin Mendocino Merced Monterey Napa Sacramento San Benito San Bernardino San Fransico San Joaquin San Luis Obispo San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Cruz Solano Sonoma Stanislaus Sutter Tehama Trinity Yolo Yuba
May 1 October 1 Alpine Amador Calaveras El Dorado Inyo Mariposa Mono Tulare Tuolumne
June 1 September 1 Lassen Modoc Nevada Placer Plumas Shasta Sierra Siskiyou
COLORADO ARKANSAS April 1 November 15 Arkansas Ashley Bradley Calhoun Chicot Clark Cleveland Columbia Craighead Crittenden Cross Dallas Desha Drew Garland Grant Hempstead Hot Spring Howard Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Lee Lincon
Little River Logan Lonoke Miller Mississippi Monroe Montgomery Nevada Ouachita Perry Phillips Pike Poinsett Polk Prairie Pulaski Sabastian Saline Scott Sevier St. Francis Union Woodruff Yell
May 1 October 1
April 15 October 15 Baxter Benton Boone Carroll Clay Cleburne Conway Crawford Faulkner Franklin Fulton Greene Independence Izard Johnson Lawrence Madison Marion Newton Pope Randolf Searcy Sharp Stone
Adams Arapahoe Baca Bent Boulder Chyenne Crowley Denver Douglas El Paso Elbert Huerfano Jefferson Kiowa Kit Carson Las Animas Lincoln Logan
Van Buren Washington White
June 1 September 1
Morgan Otero Phillips Prowers Pueblo Sedwick Washington Weld Yuma
Alamosa Archuleta Chaffee Conejos Costilla Custer Delta Dolores Eagle Fremont Garfield Gilpin Grand Gunnison Hinsdale Jackson La Plata Lake
CONNECTICUT May 15 September 15 8
Larimer Mesa Mineral Moffat Montezuma Montrose Ouray Park Pitkin Rio Blanco Rio Grande Routt Saguache San Juan San Miguel Summit Teller Clear Creek
ILLINOIS
DELAWARE
April 15
May 15 September 15
1-70 South Alexander Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Cumberland Edwards Effingham Fayette Franklin Jackson Jasper Jefferson Johnson Lawrence Madison Marion Mason Massac Monroe Perry Pope Pulaski Randolph Richland Saline St. Clair Union Wabash Washington Wayne White Williamson
FLORIDA No Cutoff No Cutoff
GEORGIA March 1
April 1 November 15
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Calhoun Camden Candler Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Clay Clinch Coffee Colquitt Cook Crawford Crisp Decatur Dodge Dooly Dougherty Early Echols Effingham Emanuel Evans Glynn Grady Houston Irwin Jeff Davis Jenkins
Johnson Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Long Lowndes Macon Marion McIntosh Miller Mitchell Montgomery Muscogee Peach Pierce Pulaski Quitman Randolf Schley Screven Seminole Stewart Sumter Tattnal Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Treutlen Turner Twiggs Ware Wayne Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Worth
Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Butts Carroll Catoosa Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clayton Cobb Columbia Coweta Dade Dawson De Kalb Douglas Elbert Fannin Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Gordon Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jones
May 1 September 15
October 1
Lamar Lincoln Lumpkin Madison McDuffie Meriwether Monroe Morgan Murray Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Pickens Pike Polk Putnam Rabun Richmond Rockdale Spalding Stephens Talbot Taliaferro Towns Troup Union Upson Walker Walton Warren Washington White Whitfield Wilkes
Adams Bond Brown Bureau Calhoun Cass Champaign Christian Coles De Witt Douglas Edgar Fayette Ford Fulton Greene Grundy Hancock Henderson Henry Iroquois Jersey Jersey Kankakee Knox La Salle Livingston Logan Macon Macoupin Macoupin Marshall Mason
I-80 to I-70 McDonough McLean Menard Mercer Montgomery Morgan Moultrie Peoria Piatt Pike Putnam Rock Island Sangamon Schuyler Scott Shelby Stark Tazwell Vermilion Warren Will Woodford
May 15 I-80 North Boone Carroll Cook De Kalb DuPage Gallatin Hamilton Hardin Jo Daviess Kane Kendall Lake Lee McHenry Ogle Stephenson Whiteside Winnebago
INDIANA April 15 October 15 Bartholomew Brown Clark Clay Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur Dubois Fayette Floyd Franklin Gibson Greene Hancock Harrison Hendricks Henry Jackson Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Lawrence Marion
HAWAII No Cutoff No Cutoff
IDAHO June September 1 9
Martin Monroe Morgan Ohio Orange Owen Perry Pike Posey Putnam Ripley Rush Scott Shelby Spencer Sullivan Switzerland Union Vanderburgh Vigo Warrick Washington Wayne
May 1 September 15 Adams Allen Benton Blackford Boone Carroll Cass Clinton DeKalb Delaware Elkhart Fountain Fulton Grant Hamilton Howard Huntington Jasper Jay Kosciusko La Porte Lagrange Lake Madison Marshall
Miami Montgomery Newton Noble Parke Porter Pulaski Randolph St. Joseph Starke Steuben Tippecanoe Tipton Vermillion Wabash Warren Wells White Whitley
IOWA
MINNESOTA May 15 September 15
June 1 September 1
MISSISSIPPI
KANSAS
March 1
May 1 October 1
November 15 Adams Amite Claiborne Clarke Copiah Covington Forrest Franklin George Greene Hancock Harrison Hinds Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Lincoln Marion
KENTUCKY April 15 October 1
LOUISIANA No Cutoff No Cutoff Acadia Allen Ascension Assumption Beauregard Calcasieu Cameron E. Baton Rouge E. Feliciana Evangeline Iberia Iberville Jefferson Jefferson Davis Lafourche Layfayette Livingston Orleans
March 1 November 15
Plaquemines Pointe Coupee St. Bernard St. Charles St. Helena St. John the Baptist St. Landry St. Martin St. Mary St. Tammany St.James Tangipahoa Terrebonne Vermillion W. Baton Rouge W. Feliciana Washington
April 1
Avoyelles Bienville Bossier Caddo Caldwell Catahoula Claiborne Concordia De Soto E. Carroll Franklin Grant Jackson La Salle Lincon Madison Morehouse Natchitoches
Ouachita Rapides Red River Richland Sabine Tensas Union Vernon W. Carroll Webster Winn
Newton Pearl River Perry Pike Rankin Scott Simpson Smith Stone Walthall Warren Wayne Wilkinson
Alcorn Attala Benton Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Clay Coahoma DeSoto Grenada Holmes Humphreys Issaquena Itawamba Kemper Lafayette Leake Lee Leflore Lowndes Madison
Marshall Monroe Montgomery Neshoba Noxubee Okitbbeha Panola Pontotoc Prentiss Quitman Sharkey Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tishomingo Tunica Union Wshington Webster Winston Yalobusha Yazoo
MISSOURI April 15 Barry Bollinger Butler Cape Girardeau Carter Christian Dent Douglas Dunklin Howell Iron Madison McDonald Mississippi New Madrid Oregon Ozark Pemiscot Perry Reynolds Ripley St. Francois Ste. Genevieve Scott Shannon Stoddard Stone Texas Washington Wayne Wright
MAINE June 1 September 1
MARYLAND May 1 October 1
MASSACHUSETTS June 1 September 1
MICHIGAN June 1 September 1
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May 1 October 1 Adair Andrew Atchison Audrain Barton Bates Benton Boone Buchanan Caldwell Callaway Camden Carroll Cass Cedar Chariton Clark Clay Clinton Cole Cooper Crawford Dade Dallas Daviess De Kalb Franklin Gasconade Gentry Greene Grundy
Harrison Henry Hickory Holt Howard Jackson Jasper Jefferson Johnson Knox Laclede Lafayette Lawrence Lewis Lincoln Linn Livingston Macon Maries Marion Mercer Miller Moniteau Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Nodaway Osage Pettis Phelps
Pike Platte Polk Pulaski Putnam Ralls Randolph Ray St. Charles St. Clair St. Louis Saline Schuyler Scotland Shelby Sullivan Taney Vernon Warren Webster Worth
NEW YORK
MONTANA
May 15 September 15
June 1 September 1
NEBRASKA May 15 September 15
NEVADA March 1 November 15 Clark
May 15 October 1
June 1 September 1 Humboldt Elko White Pine Lincon N. Nye Churchill Pershing N. Washoe
S. Nye Esmeralda Mineral Story Lyon Douglas S. Washoe
Albany Allegany Bronx Broome Cattaraugus Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Greene Kings Livingston Nassau New York Orange
June 1 September 1
Otsego Putnam Queens Rensselaer Richmond Rockland S. Seneca Schoharie Schuyler Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Westchester Wyoming Yates
Cayuga Clinton Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Hamilton Herkmer Jefferson Lewis Madison Monroe Montgomery N. Seneca Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orleans
Oswego Saratoga Schenectady St. Lawrence Warren Washington Wayne
NORTH CAROLINA NEW HAMPSHIRE
April 1 October 15
June 1 September 1
NORTH DAKOTA June 1 September 1
NEW JERSEY May 1 October 1
OHIO May 1
NEW MEXICO No Cutoff No Cutoff Grant Hidalgo
May 1 October 15 Bernalillo Chaves Colfax Curry De Baca Dona Ana Eddy Guadalupe Harding Lea Lincon
Mora Otero Quay Roosevelt San Miguel Santa Fe Sierra Socorro Torrance Union Valencia
May 15 October 1 Catron Cibola Los Alamos Luma McKinley Rio Arriba San Juan Sandoval Taos
May 15 September 15
Adams Athens Belmont Brown Butler Clark Clermont Clinton Fairfield Fayette Franklin Gallia Greene Guernsey Hamilton Highland Hocking Jackson Lawrence Licking Madison Meigs Monroe Montgomery Morgan Muskingum
Noble Perry Pickaway Pike Preble Ross Scioto Vinton Warren Washington
Allen Ashland Ashtabula Auglaize Carroll Champaign Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Cuyahoga Darke Defiance Delaware Erie Fulton Geauga Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Holmes Huron Jefferson Knox Lake Logan
Lorain Lucas Mahoning Marion Medina Mercer Miami Morrow Ottawa Paulding Portage Putnam Richland Sandusky Seneca Shelby Stark Summit Trumbull Tuscarawas Union Van Wert Wayne Williams Wood Wyandot
TEXAS
OKLAHOMA
No Cutoff No Cutoff
April 15 October 15 Anderson Angelina Aransas Atascosa Austin Bandera Bastrop Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Bosque Brazoria Brazos Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Cameron Chambers Cherokee Coke Coleman Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Coryell Crane Crockett De Witt Dimmit Duval Ector Edwards Falls Fayette Fort Bend Freestone Frio Galveston Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Grimes Guadalupe Hamilton Hardin Harris Hays Hidalgo Hill Houston Irion Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Karnes Kendall Kenedy Kerr Kimble Kinney Kleberg La Salle
OREGON April 15 November 1 Benton Clackamas Clatsop Columbia Coos Curry Douglas Jackson Josephine Lane
May 15 September 15
Lincoln Linn Marion Multnomah Polk Tilamook Washington Yamhill
Baker Crook Deschutes Gilliam Grant Harney Hood River Jefferson Klamath Lake
Malheur Morrow Sherman Umatilla Union Wallowa Wasco Wheeler
PENNSYLVANIA May 15 September 15
RHODE ISLAND May 15 September 15
SOUTH CAROLINA April 1 October 15
SOUTH DAKOTA June 1 September 1
TENNESSEE April 1 October 15
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Lampasas Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Live Oak Llano Madison Mason Matagorda Maverick McCulloch McLennan McMullen Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Montgomery Nacogdoches Newton Nueces Orange Plok Reagan Real Refugio Robertson Runnels Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Shelby Starr Sterling Sutton Tom Green Travis Trinity Tyler UValde Upton Val Verde Victoria Walker Waller Washington Webb Wharton Willacy Williamson Wilson Zapata
April 1 November 1 Archer Baylor Bowie Brewster Callahan Camp Cass Clay Collin Cooke Culberson Dallas Delta Denton Eastland El Paso Ellis Erath Fannin Foard Franklin Grayson Gregg Harrison Haskell Henderson Hood Hopkins Hudspeth Hunt Jack Jeff Davis Johnson Jones Kaufman Knox Lamar Loving Marion Montague Morris Navarro Palo Pinto Panola Parker Pecos Presidio Rains Red River Reeves Rockwall Rusk Shackelford Smith Somervell Stephens Tarrant Taylor Terrell Throckmorton Titus Upshur Van Zandt Ward Wichita Wilbarger Winkler Wise Wood Young
April 15 October 15 Andrews Armstrong Bailey Borden Briscoe Carson Castro Childress Cochran Collingsworth Cottle Crosby Dallam Dawson Deaf Smith Dickens Donley Fisher Floyd Gaines Garza Gray Hale Hall Hansford Hartley Hemphill Hochley Howard Hutchinson Kent King Lamb Lipscomb Lubbock Lynn Martin Mitchell Moore Motley Nolan Ochiltree Oldham Parmer Potter Randall Roberts Scurry Sherman Stonewall Swisher Terry Wheeler Yoakum
WISCONSIN
UTAH
June 1 September 1
May 1 September 15
WYOMING
VERMONT
June 1 September 1
June 1 September 1
VIRGINIA April 15 October 15 Accomack Albemarle Amelia Amherst Appomattox Bedford Brunswick Buckingham Campbell Campbell Caroline Charles City Charlotte Chesterfield Clarke Culpeper Cumberland Dinwiddie Essex Fairfax Fauquier Floyd Fluvanna Franklin Gloucester Goochland Greene Greensville Halifax
Hanover Henrico Henry Isle of Wight James City King & Queen King George King William Lancaster Loudoun Louisa Lunenburg Madison Mathews Mecklenburg Middlesex Nelson New Kent Northampton Northumberland Nottoway Orange Patrick Pittsylvania Powhatan Prince Edward Prince George Prince William Rappahannock
May 1 October 1 Richmond Southhampton Spotsylvania Stafford Surry Sussex Warren Westmoreland York
Alleghany Augusta Bath Bland Botetourt Botetourt Buchanan Carroll Craig Dickenson Frederick Giles Grayson Highland Lee Montgomery Page Pulaski Roanoke Rockbridge Rockingham Russell Scott Shenandoah Smyth Tazewell Washington Wise Wythe
WASHINGTON April 15 October 1 Clallam Clark Cowlitz Grays Harbor Island Jefferson King Kitsap Lewis Mason Pacific
Pierce San Juan Skagit Snohomish Thurston Wahkiakum Whatcom
May 15 September 15 Adams Asotin Benton Chelan Columbia Douglas Ferry Franklin Garfield Grant Kittitas
Klickitat Lincoln Okanogan Pend Oreille Skamania Spokane Stevens Walla Walla Whitman Yakima
WEST VIRGINIA May 1 October 1 13
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