Winters in Minneapolis

[Glenfield]

This thread sure has taken on a nasty tone over a simple difference of opinion on whether or not hot or cold weather is preferable. Some people like winter, some people tolerate it, and some people can't take it. I'm not sure why that simple difference of opinion merits all the name calling and snotty comments. The people who seem to like the cold weather seem to be coming from Minnesota, and those who don't like it seem to be coming from warmer parts of the country. So people seem to have gravitated to the climate they prefer. To anyone who hasn't, you have our sympathies.

So exactly what is anyone trying to accomplish on this thread? Are you trying to change someone's mind? Whose? Are you attempting to prove that someone's opinion is wrong? And how does any of what's been said in the last four pages relate to this original post?

Originally Posted by mw73

I am moving from Charlotte, NC to Minneapolis this upcoming Friday. As a Charlottean, typical winters are more like high 40's during the day. How cold does it get in MSP and is it true the windchill factors can dip in the minus degrees?

Why does everything here have to turn into some kind of X is better than Y contest? Don't people realize that these things are totally subjective. I don't get it.

[TimtheGuy]

Originally Posted by Glenfield

This thread sure has taken on a nasty tone over a simple difference of opinion on whether or not hot or cold weather is preferable. Some people like winter, some people tolerate it, and some people can't take it. I'm not sure why that simple difference of opinion merits all the name calling and snotty comments. The people who seem to like the cold weather seem to be coming from Minnesota, and those who don't like it seem to be coming from warmer parts of the country. So people seem to have gravitated to the climate they prefer. To anyone who hasn't, you have our sympathies.

So exactly what is anyone trying to accomplish on this thread? Are you trying to change someone's mind? Whose? Are you attempting to prove that someone's opinion is wrong? And how does any of what's been said in the last four pages relate to this original post?



Why does everything here have to turn into some kind of X is better than Y contest? Don't people realize that these things are totally subjective. I don't get it.

+1

Happens everytime in response to over-exaggerations by the naysayers.

[cinnamon_toast]

Nope, 15 degrees is too cold for me for skiing. That's why we ski at one of the warmer resorts in CO. I can have on 4 layers (including an insulated ski jacket) and still be cold. My feet are the worst! And I am a hardcore skier, I spend plenty of time in the moguls. By the time I finally get myself warm, I'm at the bottom of the run and I freeze all the way up the lift. If it's 15 out, I just won't ski. And ice skating leaves my feet completely frigid.

Every holiday season, our little Hill Country town will put up an outdoor ice skating rink the in the square. It will often be 60 degrees out! Now that's my kind of ice skating!!

Enjoy your summer you Minnesotans, I would have loved to be there earlier this week when we hit 100.

[Glenfield]

Originally Posted by cinnamon_toast

Every holiday season, our little Hill Country town will put up an outdoor ice skating rink the in the square. It will often be 60 degrees out! Now that's my kind of ice skating!!

This is very interesting to me. How does you town get outdoor ice when it's so warm out? I know that bad ice has been a problem on occasion during the NHL playoffs when the outside temps get too high, and that's indoors with the best ice making facilities available. I just wonder how your town makes this work, and what the ice quality is like.

Good ice, bad ice | The Columbus Dispatch

[cinnamon_toast]

It's all fake, Glenfield. Refrigeration units. You Minnesotans would probably be appalled. But it's still fun!!

[rtloucks]

Ive come to belive that Ghengis or whatever he/she calls theirself, must not have even stepped foot in MN. you dispute everything I say and complain that I don't back it up?

Everything I have said is pure common sense and everyone knows it! oh here's another !

Im not talking about the "Average monthly High temps" Im talking about REALITY, and the REALITY is that most years (as in more years than not) You will see snowfalls adn cold temps beginning in Nov if not OCT and lasting well into MARCH! I remember March 2010 when I forgot to bring gloves home to visit my mom and my hand stuck to her car door handle, I felt like that dummy from THE CHRISTMAS STORY MOVIE. I never thought the moisture in my hands would freeze to a door handle but if you dont believe me...try it sometime becasue My sister, mom and son laughed their a#@ off at me all the way home and it made me feel like an idiot..go ahead say it... there, i know you did.

To answer some of your comments, no I have not actually ever been in the ditch. My wife and I just talked about that yesterday though. how fortunate we are to have grown up and driven in Minnesota/WI winter weather adn to never had been so unlucky to have gone in the ditch. thank god, but i have witnessed it hundreds of time...yes hundreds...no exaggeration sorry.so No I'm not a whiteknucle driver.

Starting my car 30 minutes early.... easily have done this thousands of times in my life....why 30 minutes i assume you meant?? well probably becuase it usually takes a car about 15-18 minutes to get good and warm and then the glass needs to thaw so that it can be scraped easily....but maybe you use the old MN approach and just go throw a bucket of hot water on it?!?

Im not on here to argue, if you really want people to believe that winter is paradise in MN the maybe you should back up some of your comments that non of us believe....or wait, you havent actually made any that help the situation, all you do is dispute mine. I never claimed to be spot on and i can see how some of my comments may have been taken out of context by you but clear;ly other on here understand where im coming from.....

NOW.... in regard to another poster,

I do disagree that the Southern Heat can keep you confined just as the winters in MN

I enjoyed the luxury of living both iin DAllas TX and Charlotte NC during some of the worst summers they had including last summer in Dallas when we had something like 88 or more straight days of 100+ temps.

Im not goingot sit here and say its not uncomfortable, but I was outside every morning walking, every afternoon running errands and every evening on my patio watching my kids play. The heat actually never restricted me from doing anything. I still mowed my lawn and enjoyed it, I still did my landscaping, I still worked in my garage etc. I will admit that I didnt see everyone out as often, The heat is not for everyone i guess. And I will admit that I didnt schedule anything in excess if it was too hot, but we would go horseback riding, fishing, boating, out to festivals and anything else we wanted and you know what......Nothing was ever canceled due to the heat.....