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It's very local as others have said.  Here in Minnesota, we have more dry air winters, so I don't worry about the moisture problems the northeast and northwest beekeepers would experience.   I do not use upper entrances to conserve heat.  I am running at 17% winter loss on 170 hives this year and my winter loss went way down with OA vapor fall treatments.  This year I have seen no nosema which really has surprised me but it seems this is confirmed with other info that OA cleans this up.   
It has been a milder winter here to say the least.  Lots of warm records were broken in February in MN.  
I run mostly 2 deeps with some singles and nucs.  I do use excluders.  

Jeff Dankey 
Minnetonka Gold
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