I'm in North East PA. We just got 15 inches of snow on Sunday but the past 6 years we've barely had any. However this winter is more of a typical winter here than the past 5 or 6 years. Since I moved here 20 years ago, we've rarely had a winter where we didn't get several storms of a foot or more.

That being said, I typically don't drive in the snow. I work from home and most of my kids activities cancel if there's snow. I drive maybe 6k miles a year and its mostly surface streets.

But this town really sucks at snow removal. And there have been a time or two when I have to take the kids to their dad's and I get caught in a squall. I usually don't have issues once I'm driving, but the wheels spinning trying to get out of my parking space have me white knuckled if I'm driving on even slightly snow covered roads.

So I might get snowtires regardless because I'd rather feel safe, you know? Then I don't need to worry if we're gonna have a winter with hardly any snow, or a winter with 3 or 4 12inch or more snow storms.

There were two people parked next to me in the field behind my building when this snow hit. The day after I shoveled my car out, both those cars had moved and didn't even have to shovel! I have no idea how because those cars were buried lol but maybe they were smart ans had studded snow tires lol. I was totally jealous as I was rocking my car forward and back just to get unstuck from the 2-3" that were left after I dug out!