National Disaster
Every year, they stop playing baseball and pretty soon, this kind of thing occurs.
It is only two more months until pitchers and catchers report in mid-February but even that is not enough. White stuff doesn't stop falling out of the skies in the major cities of North America until the baseball players begin to move around on the grass, pitching, throwing, catching, hitting, and running the bases in actual games that count in the standings.
As Spike Milligan said, the only successful preventative of seasickness is to sit under a tree. The only cure for snow is to play baseball.