I’m glad to hear this. Just recently, someone had their windshield cave in from a piece of icy snow that let loose of the truck in front of him. He was bloody from superficial glass/ice cuts, but due to many factors, he wasn’t seriously hurt.
I didn’t read the whole thread, just came to tell y’all about this thing I saw on YouTube. It’s a Japanese low table with a heater installed in the underside of the top. You drape a big ol’ comforter over it, tuck your feet under, and live in utter coziness. Apparently cats really like to sleep under it, too.
It’s called “kotatsu.” They come in all sizes-- for the whole family or just for one or two people. I want one. I know my cats want one.
My Jaguar has a heated windshield. I assume it’s heated by invisible fine wires. You can kind of see them if the light hits it just right.
I keep in it the garage, so I haven’t had a chance to really test how good it is.
Another mini-threadjack, but … does any of this resonate with you ?
[whether that’s your model or not …]
Having spent a cold January in Japan, I can vouch for the kotatsu! They have all sorts of warming gadgets, including heated toilet seats.
Your cat has probably ordered one.
Mine is an I-Pace. It is probably the same technology. Honestly, I don’t notice it at all. (for those who didn’t click on the link, the author expressed that he would not be able to get past the distraction of the wires in his windshield on a Jaguar F-Pace.)
On the other hand, I don’t live in a snowy area, my car is kept in a garage, and the defroster works very well. So, I don’t personally need this accessory very often, if at all. I’m sure some day I’ll have a chance to put it to use, but it’s not a daily thing in the winter like it might be in Montana or Chicago.
Hmmm… I thought it was suspicious when I came in this morning and she was sitting on the computer keyboard… B-b-b-but she looked so innocent.
Don’t they always?
Here in Lethbridge, Alberta, we don’t get tons of snow and it’s not nearly as cold as Saskatoon (my hometown), but the chinooks give us ungodly thaw-and-freeze cycles. We get just enough snow so that it gets packed down solid, then a chinook comes around and melts some of it, and then it freezes again, except it’s not snow now, it’s six inches of ice. I will never willingly drive without winter tires here.
Regarding moisturizing in winter, I lotion my feet every morning before I put my socks on, and use vaseline on my hands and lips before I go to sleep at night. Cold weather is hard af on your skin!
Don’t forget to hydrate when you’re exercising outside in winter, too! You’re still going to sweat a lot. 
Unfortunately when a cat gets on a keyboard it produces results that only other cats can understand. The cat could only have successfully ordered one if it came from a supplier run by other cats.
Dogs, OTOH, operate keyboards with great success and even know how to spell most of the time. Evidence is this post. 
I had a kotatsu in my bedroom when we lived in Japan but I was not allowed to use it since the usual method of heating back in the day was a very small hibachi and the very idea gave my mom the wiggins. I did use them at other people’s houses and they really are one of the most civilized things imaginable. I’ve also used a bath tub that had a fire underneath the big metal tub with cedar floorboards and a low seat under the water. That was sybaritic in the extreme.
<swoon> Sounds heavenly.
The hibachi does sound iffy, not just because of fire hazard, but what about the potential for carbon monoxide poisoning? When I was a baby (1950-ish), we were stationed in Japan, and my father told me about an episode on a train where it got so cold that people started burning tubs of charcoal (probably in hibachis) to keep warm, until people started passing out. Finally someone figured out the problem and threw the tubs off the train. Apparently my mother and I narrowly escaped suffocation.
Well, in a traditional Japanese house there was likely enough air exchange to keep you from dying, what with shoji walls and all. By the time houses got way more airtight they came up with less scary methods of keeping warm. I’ve definitely considered having a proper tatami room with kotatsu incorporated into a house though my knees are less forgiving of kneeling now that I’m old and decrepit. Maybe a detached tea room/meditation space. Since I’m dreaming, might as well go for it!
Hockey Pucks! My favorite. But they are darn expensive down here in the States. Unless I become a pro rally driver to write off the expense or win the lottery, it’s Blizzaks in the winter for me. And now without a job, it’s worn out all-seasons, which is scary.
I’m going to guess the “first year is the worst” advice has already been given.
Items in the car will do weird things in the cold just like they do in heat. Sodas explode from freezing instead of overheating, but the end result is bad soda.
If you have the time, try to keep snow off the vehicle while the storm is going. It’s so much easier to get off 3-4" rather than 10" of snow.
Learn to recognize heavy snow, light snow, snow with a layer of ice, and giant sheets of ice that look like snow. You won’t be able to tell them apart at first, but with experience you’ll learn.
Most of all, have fun. I left Arizona for Massachusetts a bit more than two years ago and I don’t know if I could handle the heat anymore.
Want!
I got a toto toilet seat that’s mostly a bidet, but it’s also a heated seat. I love it.
I also have a bidet seat that’s heated (though not the high end toto 
), and when I’m out in the world and have to use an ordinary, ice-cold toilet seat, it’s a shock to my tushie! Watchoo doin’ to me??
My Wife have been living at altitude in the Colorado Mountains for 30 years. We have a lot of experience with snow and snow tires. We will now only buy either Nokian Hakkepeliittas or Bridgestone Blizzaks.