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The LED and snow issue is about traffic lights, which are horizontal and therefore subject to getting filled with blowing snow.

Streetlights face down and don't have a cavity to fill with snow.

It's also FUD, it's trivial to add a heater to the LEDs and still come in at a lower wattage than a tradition lamp.

Great video on it and why the “ahh but” people should be shot.

We've been getting LED street lights in Minneapolis, so can't be a problem now.

Chicago plows.

Snow on the lights, not the roads.

I discovered LED headlights on cars don’t melt off the ice like incandescent do the last time I drove in an ice storm.