All this snow'n that.
First - apologies if this in the wrong place.
Second - apologies if it has already been posted somewhere else.
It's just that I do not post here much.
Now the practicalities:-
Long ago when I was a junior technician [radar] at RAF St Athan in the early 1960s they were messing about with a prototype jet snow clearer. It had two obsolete engines from an obsolete fighter aircraft. These were mounted on a platform with castoring wheels. The engines faced forward and the whole thing was attached to the front of a bowser. The idea was to blow the snow away not to melt it. I think the engines were Derwents from the Meteor fighter.
I was told that the thing had been shipped to Yorkshire where snow was more likely. This was done just before the winter of 1963 happened.
Subsequently I saw these things working on various RAF airfields. Once I saw a formation of four snow clearers. Two in the centre of the runway facing forward and a different one on each flank that seemed to be blowing out sideways. As far as I could see they cleared the runway in a single pass and could do taxiways also.
All this was in the 1960s. Surely these things are cheap to build and operate compared to the financial losses being incurred daily at present? I am amazed to see on the tele vast runways being cleared by snow ploughs that seem similar to the ones the council uses [sometimes] on the streets in the town where I live.
So as I see it the problem of snow was solved fifty years ago.