ironically sometimes warmer winters are worse

like if a typical winter is slightly but consistently below 0C then a warmer winter would have

- more black ice

- more ice rain

- more snow melting and refreezing (so ice on roofs, ground or trees etc.)

- wetter snow (so heavier)

etc.

Through where I live it is/was the opposite this year. Normally we have mostly above 0C degrees and rarely ice rain/black ice or similar. Also some way colder days (-10C and below) too cold to have much ice issues. This year for ~a month the temperature did non stop bounce between enough above 0 during the day to slightly melt things (but not fully) and below 0 at evening + cold ground to fully freeze any water produced by melting. So non stop icy walkways, streets etc. for nearly a month. During the last days before it got warmer some unmaintained walk way I passed by had 4cm of solid ice on it. At the same time it wasn't cold enough to do ice skating on lakes. It really wasn't a nice winter.