Weather our way...the way I see it from living here the past ten years, there is no point in worrying about it at all, as it will always come, and sometimes with a vengeance! I don't mind the snow (coming from la belle Province de Quebec I am used to snow). It's the wind that blows me literally away as on those days I walk about with a ski pole in hand. I am a small person after all!
If we have a mild spell in the winter as we are in now, it is upsetting to our bones and I am sure that the animals, especially the horses, get frustrated. Personally I would rather have a consistent temperature instead of the fluctuating temperatures.
Also, the Prairies need the moisture of the winter months, for the crops. We are always ready for the winter in the Prairies: clothes, gear-wise, piles of horse blankets, etc., to say nothing of the humongous thousand-pound hay bales that are piled up!