i guess the one good thing is that we can still occasionally score with the right set up and get absolutely dumped on. i feel like that won't be going away even in the midst of winters that are warming up fairly rapidly
yeah i honestly can't remember the last real ice storm I experienced. there might've been one in NYC while I lived there - but as you say, climate change + the UHI makes them a real rarity (especially the UHI in Manhattan)