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.
We don’t have the cold but the length of the seasons doesn’t vary much and it has snowed in July in NYS in the past.
And as far as which is worse, cold or snow, I’d say it’s a toss up. Cold can kill quicker, but shoveling out several times a week from either a nor’easter or lake effect event is no picnic.
It can make you wish for cold without snow very quickly.