It’s too bad we can’t simulate the wintry blast occurring in a good part of the US Midwest right now, as a defense. Nothing like having to go up on one’s roof while being pelted by sleet with 45 mph wind gusts behind it. (I know that’s tame compared to “real winter weather” in Northern US States, but for the mid-south in November, it was all I cared to face tonight!)
Cold would definitely be a deterrent