NYS winters aren’t much different in length and no different in quality.
We have had a couple of mild winters lately, but I have seen -60 (without the wind chill-wind chill was -146). Spit, and it freezes on the way to the ground.
You get more snow, but ours is a mite hard to measure, because it is on its way to Minnesota (that windy). Here I have seen a month go by with the high for the month a balmy zero degrees F.
First frost 2nd week of September, last frost second week of June.
You have winter, but not like we do.