Never heard of either of those things.
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We bought a house with a metal roof. It seems impervious to anything short of a direct nuclear strike. Snow slides right off, and we have no gutters to worry about. Despite the never-ending repairs on nearly everything in and around this 50-year-old house, the metal roof is great.
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I bet you have a house with a roof pitched suitably for snow. 
For some bizarre reason there are a lot of one-level, low ranch-style houses here with roofs totally unsuitable for snow shed. I live in one. It does have a metal roof and usually the snow does slide off, but this was so light and fluffy itās still up there and the insulation in the attic (or lack of enough of it) is causing the ice dams. Happens every once in awhile.
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Yes, our roofs are steeply pitched to shed snow. However, this winter weāve gotten about 1 inch of snow at our house so far, which has melted within hours. Further down in the valley, there has not even been a snowflake. In a normal winter, we would have a pile of snow near the foot of our driveway that is a bit taller than me.
Utah depends on mountain snowmelt for summer water because it rarely rains here after the first of June. Nearly all our precipitation occurs during the winter and early spring. This year, the pattern looks very ominous. Iām anticipating lots of dead lawns and barren agricultural fields this summer.
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Egads, thatās cold. We finally got a break from the arctic air. Itās been pretty pleasant around here ā¦ relatively speaking.
It said on the radio the other day that itās been raining in England for 37 days. Itās still raining.
In Toronto weāre hovering on either side of freezing.
Thatās the high, mind you. Itāll be like that in the foreseeable future.
Snow? Havenāt seen the road surface (at least for residential streets) for a while.
Here in Sheffield (UK) it has been raining at least once a day (and sometimes all day) since early January. Today looks dull and overcast, looks like it might rain! 
If it rains, it means itās not cold enough. I envy you.
You live close to the equator?
Normally I donāt let the cold weather stop the BBQ. But I kinda draw the line at a -20 wind chill factor. Havenāt had BBQ for weeks. Itās also under 2ā of snow.
Midwestern U.S. Our winter temps are dependent on the jet stream. A few weeks ago, we were getting arctic air from you guys. Now, weāre getting milder air from the south.
Yer welcome!
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Our cooking is definitely seasonal. More soups, stews, roasts, and casseroles in the winter and more smoking, BBQ, grilling in the summer; but, tomorrow, weāll take advantage of the weather and smoke a couple of chickens.
There were winters where Iād start the grill, put the meat on, and quickly retreat inside, drink beer inside, and when the timer chimed, Iād quickly hop outside, flip the meat, and retreat the hell inside, drink more beer, quickly hop outside a second time when the timer chimed again, quickly retrieve the cooked food, and retreat inside for the final time. We werenāt called the anti-Aussie for nothing.
Smoking is a whole different animal. I do mine with charcoal. Canāt keep the smoker hot enough in the winter to do a low and slow. In winter, mostly itās just the gas grill, but occasionally the charcoal grill. There was one winter, the charcoal grill was more like a firepit. The bottom of the lid was level with the stomped down snow I was standing on.
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An earthquake isnāt weather, but we had a small 3.6 tremor here yesterday evening. It was just a small, sudden jolt with a short, low, sub-sonic rumble. We get them every once in a while.
Three or four years ago, there was a slightly larger one that didnāt damage anything in the house except to crack a cast-iron sewer pipe in one of the walls, which cost us a couple of thousand dollars to fix. Arguably, the most solid and indestructible thing in the house, and it split it lengthwise. Weird.
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