Wisconsin winters, quality of life in general (Green Bay, Lakewood: school, to live in)

[Hntr]

Originally Posted by ehanvey

Would that mean the town of Mountain would be less brutal in the Winter than Green Bay?

I doubt if you would notice the difference in the weather between Mountain and Green Bay, other than the occassional lake effect which can be good or bad.

[susancruzs]

Great side-by-sides! Weather in the midwest is just plain tricky, add the Great Lakes in and its a guess at best.

Over at weather, I posted Two Rivers average highs and lows and they thought I was crazy it couldn't be "that cool"! I told them Two Rivers is nicknamed the "Cool City" for a reason.

[Hntr]

Thanks Susan.

Exactly, weather is tricky around here, the lake makes it even more so. Two Rivers is almost out on a point where you get lake breeze from more than one direction.

A lot of times Milwaukee and points south get more snow than we do here in the center of the state. My kids will call me to tell me they got ten-fifteen inches of snow down there, while we've got nothing up here.

Hey, C'est la vie!

[susancruzs]

The point is what makes TR interesting! The lake is east of Wisconsin but in TR also south of me, plus east and west twin rivers dumping into the lake add to the humidity and fog issues.

We get roaring waves on the lake no matter what the wind direction is and cooler than Manitowoc, sometimes by 10 degrees in the summer. We can be shrouded in fog, Manitowoc sunny. I love the variety, surprises and the fog horn at the coast guard station!

[vdy1985]

Winter is fine. March is just terrible.

[ehanvey]

Thank you for the insights! January/February-brutal. The months before and after, OK. Correct with a handful of exceptions?

Quality of life always outweighs everything? Given a choice with equal jobs/houses: Green Bay or Mountain/Breed? Why?

[ndheah]

Originally Posted by ehanvey

Thank you for the insights! January/February-brutal. The months before and after, OK. Correct with a handful of exceptions?

Quality of life always outweighs everything? Given a choice with equal jobs/houses: Green Bay or Mountain/Breed? Why?

Mountain doesn't have jobs, unless you're a park ranger, a gas station attendant, or a bar tender.

[susancruzs]

Green Bay is over 100,000 people, whereas those 2 towns are under 1,000 really not easy to compare kind of like apples/oranges.

With your initial post about the weather, December was brutal this year, too, coldest temps ever in Dec., lots of snow. Snow is relative, some years the northern half gets hammered, next year the southern half, no guarantees on weather in Wisconsin.

[BacktoNE]

OP, have you ever been in northern New England, right at the coastline in January? It's colder here in WI. I would NEVER have thought it possible, but yup, the wind off those lakes is way colder than off the north atlantic. Brrrrrrrrr. The good news is that it doesn't last all winter and January appears to be the worst of it. Of course, we've only been here for 3 winters so we aren't exactly the voice of experience. I wish 20* was the worst of it...

[GraniteStater]

If ya live in the north I have to recommend taking up a winter sport. My faves are hockey, skiing, snowmobiling, and ice fishing. In terms of climate differences in WI the interior northwest and far north away from Lake Superior are the coldest. The further removed from Lake Michigan you get the colder the lows are as well. The coldest low temperature ever recorded in Wisconsin was Couderay at -56F in the winter of 96-97.