Most of Europe sees far fewer freeze-thaw cycles than most of the US does, which are a huge killer of roads. The color scales aren't equivalent here but you ca

Most of Europe sees far fewer freeze-thaw cycles than most of the US does, which are a huge killer of roads. The color scales aren't equivalent here but you can see the difference: Europe - pretty much only unpopulated northern Scandinavia + up in the Alps/Pyrenees getting over 64 days, most of the most densely populated areas with lots of infrastructure below 32 days: https://www.atlas.impact2c.eu/en/climate/freeze-thaw-days/?parent_id=22 https://www.atlas.impact2c.eu/en/climate/freeze-thaw-days/?p... US - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Climatology-of-Freeze-Thaw-Days-in-the-Conterminous-Haley/a2bb1c65533c6c6bfb7fab00c67031bc246ba843 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Climatology-of-Freeze-... (Fig 4.2) - Probably more than 50% is over 75 cycles, and large chunks breaking 100 cycles a year (almost all of New England and some other scattered patches, the Rockies/interior West/Western Plains).