"However, since we are on the Atlantic coast, our winter weather is normally more moderate than similar inland latitudes..."

Yeah. Ed's right. I am in Moncton, NB.ca, which is 'kinda' inland (you'd have to look at a map to see what I mean). We had about 15 cm of snow today and now it's sleet and freezing rain. Wednesday was blizzard conditions. Not unusual until the 80s and later. I saw one Easter snowstorm in the early 70s that was brutal.. I am talking snowshoe my way to shovel in front of the living room window so we could see outside. Then the driveway had to be cleared and, yeah, we couldn't see out the living room window.