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For me personally yes even if in official classifications it is not. Minneapolis winters are similar to Ottawa's where I lived before and they are brutal.
Minneapolis is a bit too sunny for me but has a good Dfa climate.
It's USDA zone 4a-4b and even some enclaves of zone 5.
Summers can get really, really warm there. Spring and Fall are fairly lengthy and although the winter is pretty cold, it's not particularly long-lasting.
The area is surrounded by forests so definitely not a tundra
IMO it's a good 4-season climate for people who like these but don't want the excess snow or the cloudiness that comes with some of the snow belt climates further east. I think it's a good climate period.
Minneapolis, Minnesota has a hot summer continental climate with no dry season (Dfa) whereas Anchorage, Alaska has a boreal subarctic climate with dry summers (Dsc).
It is way colder in winter than Tromsø, that is a subarctic climate, so I think that's a good argument for it being subarctic, what about you?
Tromsø averages a -3.7°C mean in its coldest month and Minneapolis -9.1°C...
Therefore I think it's fair to say that Minneapolis is a more subarctic climate than Tromsø since fewer plants must be able to sustain the cold onslaught in Minneapolis
No.
Minneapolis has a hot-summer humid continental climate zone (Dfa in the Köppen climate classification),[44] typical of southern parts of the Upper Midwest, and is situated in USDA plant hardiness zone 4b, with small enclaves of the city classified as being zone 5a.[45][46][47] As is typical in a continental climate, the difference between average temperatures in the coldest winter month and the warmest summer month is great: 60.1 °F (33.4 °C).
I think so too. Wikipedia says that it's not subarctic but when a climate that makes way fewer frosts in January is considered a subarctic climate it shows the scale is wrong
It's because it has much cooler summers than Minneapolis. You can't go by winter temperatures alone.
No.. its summers are often quite warm and humid and warmer than a subarctic climate would have.
Its winters... meh I live 300 miles NW of MS. Is Minneapolis cold....I suppose compared to St Louis....but it is often 10 degrees or more warmer than where I live so for me it is toasty. Minneapolis having a high temperature below 0F is quite rare but for Grand Forks ND area where I live it is much more common.
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