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The Twin Cities are freezing for 3-5 months out of the year...I knew quite a few who moved to San Diego for that sole reason. I guess what can be considered "cold" is a matter of opinion, but it's pretty well-known that Minneapolis and its surrounding areas are cold for more than the standard 3 months that we see out here in the BosWash corridor, even more extreme than Chicago much of the time, and for darned sure colder than the PNW.
are YOU trying to be funny? You know what people mean by winter. Who cares if astronomical winter is from Dec 21 to March 19? Winter in LA and Miami is almost non-existent, winter in Alaska lasts for 7 months or more. Winter is not a 3 month period in the calendar. Winter weather can be any time when the weather is below 32 or when it snows even if this is in May.
I like how you changed it from below 40 to below 32 . So you didn't really know. Whatever the case, Minneapolis doesn't have 4 or 5 months of freezing temps.
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Originally Posted by Hawaii4evr
The Twin Cities are freezing for 3-5 months out of the year...
I like how you changed it from below 40 to below 32 . So you didn't really know. Whatever the case, Minneapolis doesn't have 4 or 5 months of freezing temps.
0C = 32F. It was a typo. I meant below freezing with a chance of snow.
Doesn't minneapolis sometimes get snow in October? What most of consider "winter" lasts months longer in Minnesota than it does in most of the rest of the country. As much as the snow can be beautiful, I couldn't deal with that.
Doesn't minneapolis sometimes get snow in October? What most of consider "winter" lasts months longer in Minnesota than it does in most of the rest of the country. As much as the snow can be beautiful, I couldn't deal with that.
It hasn't snowed in October since I've been living in Minneapolis and I've been here a while. I'm assuming northern Minnesota often gets snow in October though.
According to the University of Minnesota's Climatology Working Group, "The last time there was measurable snow in October in the Twin Cities was .2 (two tenths) of an inch on October 20 and .4 (four tenths) of an inch on October 21, 2002. The most snow for the month of October is (of course) the 1991 Halloween Blizzard with 8.2 inches, which all fell on October 31."
Doesn't minneapolis sometimes get snow in October? What most of consider "winter" lasts months longer in Minnesota than it does in most of the rest of the country. As much as the snow can be beautiful, I couldn't deal with that.
pretty rare for snow to hit the TCs on a given day in October, probably less than 10% on avg.
November starts out at about 20% of a chance of snow on a particular day and hits about 40% by the end of the month on avg.
Probably more likely to hit 50 then have snow until you get into the last week or so of November.
I've never thought winter to last more than Jan - Feb up here, after that...it's all gravy.
I'll continue to experience my winters as being crisp vs dank.
If Minneapolis didn't have all of it's snow and cold, it wouldn't be the urban Nordic skiing heaven that it is. So nobody will be able to convince me that our winters are "bad." Somewhere has to have the extreme cold, we are that somewhere, and we take advantage of it very well.
Yes I understand those are very fun activities, but do majority of people in Minneapolis do those things THAT often during the winter? Like more than once or twice a week?
Anyway, my point is that the weather in the winter in Seattle doesn't hinder normal daily life in any way at all. Not saying the weather is nice, just doesn't cause any issues.
My friends and I had a game every Saturday. Anything else was based around our schedules. But Saturdays are a pretty common day to see people.
Besides significant storms I don't recall snow causing any issues so much that I'd rather have a 45 degree winter over it. I'm not going to make $100-$200 an hour plowing rain.
My friends and I had a game every Saturday. Anything else was based around our schedules. But Saturdays are a pretty common day to see people.
Besides significant storms I don't recall snow causing any issues so much that I'd rather have a 45 degree winter over it. I'm not going to make $100-$200 an hour plowing rain.
Oh, well that explains it. You grew up in Minne. I was wondering as to why you were so persistent in defending Minne's winters.
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