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Old 03-03-2014, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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I religiously watch the temps all over the world, everyday, thru the newspaper's weather map. Even Moscow! And, for some strange reason, it's been warmer there than in the Upper Midwest, much of the year!
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Old 03-03-2014, 09:15 PM
 
Location: In transition
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I religiously watch the temps all over the world, everyday, thru the newspaper's weather map. Even Moscow! And, for some strange reason, it's been warmer there than in the Upper Midwest, much of the year!
Much of Europe has been having a very warm winter this year... so no surprise there.
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Old 03-03-2014, 09:21 PM
 
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Lows were -25 to -32F for central and northern Wisconsin this morning with -8 to -16F for the southern areas.
Those temps are unbearable!
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Old 03-03-2014, 09:42 PM
 
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I spent one winter upstate NY. Life's too short, sorry!

Atlanta is fine and has cheap housing costs to boot.
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Old 03-03-2014, 11:02 PM
 
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You should be aware though many places on the West Coast don't have adequate air conditioning and that extreme heat events happen even in Oregon and Washington, though.
Usually if you're very close to the water that moderates the temperatures some. And eastern WA, OR, and the Sierra in California have very cold winters with plenty of snow.

However, I'm on the Olympic Peninsula and many winters we get no snow, or like this winter, a couple dustings that melt within hours, and it's never gotten about 80 degrees in the summer here. We're also in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and only get 18" of rain a year. But it is pretty gray in the winter, even if it's dry, and some people don't care for that.
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Old 03-03-2014, 11:55 PM
 
Location: E ND & NW MN
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Grand Forks North Dakota 71 out of 90 days of winter had below zero temps (at some point). 21 days with high temps below zero (F). Average 3 month average temp 1.5F degrees ...7th coldest winter since records began in 1890. 44.7 inches of snow in those 3 months.
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Old 03-04-2014, 05:59 AM
 
Location: UpstateNY
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I spent one winter upstate NY. Life's too short, sorry!

Atlanta is fine and has cheap housing costs to boot.
LMAO I hear that!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 03-04-2014, 09:06 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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I honestly don't know how you folks from the northern tier can even stand it. I guess, for many years, all of the industry was there, and the jobs were not only plentiful but offered better pensions and good pay. Families were raised and rooted there. Down south, we have never really had that solid of an employment structure, lots of agriculture, and still to this day, I think we have a shaky employment situation. Not nearly as unionized as those old industry giants of the north were. Now, cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Dallas, etc have large industrial bases and can provide a great living for you. Minus much of the winter weather. But our jobs often times don't offer the pension protections and guarantees that your old industrials did. Many more right to work states.

But everyone can't move to the south. Those northern cities just can't continue to empty out, particularly in places like Columbus, Cleveland, Rochester, and Buffalo.
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Old 03-04-2014, 09:55 AM
 
Location: Ft. Myers
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I grew up in Pennsylvania and moved out in 79. First to North Carolina, then Southern California, and finally to Florida, where I now live. I will NEVER go back North again. I remember waiting all Winter to be able to finally put our boat in the water in late June, only to have to take it back out again in late August. Now I have 12 months of nice weather instead of 3. Even when we get a "cold" snap here it still only gets into the upper 40s and only lasts a few days or so.

Nope, there is more to life than scraping windshields, snow tires, falling down on ice, and wearing too many clothes. Wish I had moved here years earlier.

Don
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Old 03-04-2014, 11:08 AM
 
Location: Mid Atlantic USA
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Much of Europe has been having a very warm winter this year... so no surprise there.

Yes, very much so. The huge amplitude in the jet stream riding way up over Alaska, then way down over the eastern US, they way up again over Europe. Europeans comparing their temps this winter to our temps is rather unfair. A place like Zagreb is colder than us in winter on average, but not this year.
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