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As a general rule of thumb I would consider anything south of the 45th parallel (i.e. closer to the equator) to be a "hot climate" and anything north of the 45th parallel (i.e. closer to the north pole) to be a "cold climate".
Therefore nearly all the US would be considered "hot" with the exception of Alaska, Washington, and North Dakota. Most of Montana, Minnesota, and Maine are also above the 45th.
Of these six, I consider Washington and Maine to be mitigated by coasts and therefore not "cold". Hence the only states that I would truly consider "cold" would be Alaska, Minnesota, Montana, and North Dakota.
Um... Illinois is neither hot or cold. In the winter, it is an icy tundra of frozen depression, and in the summer, it is a smoldering, sticky, sweltering hell.
It seems like you consider a state cold if it's known for having any kind of winter. Here in Connecticut we have a few months of cold with temps that can reach below 0, we also have a few months of hot with temps that can get above 100, and then we have in-between months with mild to cold or mild to hot weather. We aren't cold and we aren't hot, it doesn't work that way, we have both. Maybe some states are hotter than colder throughout the year like Georgia or Arizona or somewhere (I don't know), but there's only a few states you could classify as one, maybe Alaska, Hawaii, I don't really know what else, there's alot of variance.
I don't get the attitude that some people have that if a state has a winter it's all cold all the time, it's definitely not true up here.
I mean, the Southern states except for Florida have winters too, but he still put them as "hot". Sure their winters are nothing like Michigan's but you would never confuse a Dallas or Atlanta January day for July. Even if its a warm winter day, its still brown and dead looking since most of the days in January are chilly.
What makes Missouri "cold" but Delaware "hot"? Missouri gets more heat than Delaware.
Yeah it's interesting. Missouri though is a much larger state and encompasses both humid continental and humid subtropical climates. The southern areas are fairly mild in the winter and attract retirees from states like California and New York. The northern portions can be bone-chilling cold in the winter and are more quintessentially Midwestern.
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