Is it just wet and cold or do you get snow?
Snow and sometimes lots of it. Like in Winter of 1980 we got about 20 inches over night. The next week we got 8 inches, and I was trying to drive home - a blizzard.
Had to stop and scrape the ice off the window every 30 min. That was a rather unusual winter. The kids went back to school for about 1 or 2 days after Christmas break, and missed the next 2 months.
They missed so many days, the legislature had to pass a law to allow them some lee way on making up the days.