Within a month or so, +17F will be a distant memory. Hell, +anything will be history for several months.
+1 on the 294's. If you don't need them, don't bother with them. Get as little as you need. Riding on dry road with the 294's is noisy and slow. They are what I use because from Nov. through March our roads are pretty much a sheet of ice at least half the time and sometimes that is a very literal sheet of ice and those Nokia 294's are just about the only safe bet on glare ice. My wife's bike won't take them and she uses Schwalbe Winter tires that are studded and they work well, but they are not nearly as aggressive and a good deal more care has to be taken. We're both over 60yrs so a bad fall on ice would be a more serious thing than it would have been 40 years ago. Off to Denali Park for a ride back into the Park before the snow flies. Second Denali ride this week...
. What a hoot.