I tend to prefer winter over summer, fuck I hate the heat. The intermediary seasons are better than both, however - spring and autumn. The only real plus to heat is, if your power's out, it's less likely to outright kill you than bitter cold like this. But it's still fucking miserable, miserable enough that you might be wishing that you were dead, however. Summer just has way too many cons. It's fucking hot, the humidity sucks balls, mosquitoes and other assorted annoying insects, sunburn, having to mow the yard twice a week because otherwise it looks like a good place for the Vietcong to set up an ambush, every other week there's some huge squall line that comes through to fuck you in the ass and rip your roof halfway off.
I'll take shoveling snow over all of that any day. The only exception is ice storms - fuck those.