You should be able to find adequate answers to this question in the archives. To sum up what many of these say, it that sufficient amounts of snow were not necessarily a bad thing, as sleads could often get around faster. Snow is a bigger problem for motorized veichles than older means of transportation.

But I'll leave the deeper explanations to the actual experts:

How did northern cities deal with snow removal before the advent of mechanized equipment?

Snow shovels, snow blowers, window ice scrapers--when and how were they invented?

Before machines removed the snow from roads, what happened when the heavy snows came?

Blizzards and snowstorms: How did people in your area of study survive harsh winters?

I know reading about Napoleon's "2nd War for Poland" or more commonly referred to as the Russian Campaign in 1812, that part of the major struggles on the retreat was dealing with icy hills and moving the artillery. In Adam Zamoyski's book 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow, he mentions multiple times that polish cities tended to have stock piles of sand to help carts on the inclined icy hills around their cities. This same practice was unknown to most of the French, Austrians, Prussians, Spanish, and Portuguese at the time. So it appears some European cultures were fairly competent with dealing with snow, but a lot also weren't.