It gets cold here in Alaska and a lot of snow also, we had our first semi big snow on Sunday/Monday, (big being the driveway needed plowing). One of the nice things though where I live in Alaska is that we don't generally get a lot of wind during the snowfall, so very little drifting of the snow. The winds come after the Snow in Jan and Feb, then we can get some drifting, but generally not much at all. I think we are fortunate in that we very rarely have both snow and wind at the same time.