Oh, yeah, it gets cold. Or at least it used to. New York's a northern city; we regularly had snow. Except last year it snowed only once, and that was 26 inches in 24 hours. There's never enough lasting snow to get studded tires. Too many cars; there's not a road in the city that stays snowy more than a day after it snows.
I was going to make a joke about how we should all be enjoying global warming while we can — those jokes aren't real funny after Katrina.