Classify each state as 'cold climate' or 'hot climate'

[jennifat]

Agreed, the US doesn't really have any "cold" climates (where it's cold/chilly year-round) except for remote alpine regions and at the northernmost reaches of Alaska. If you want to say some states have cold winters, that's a much more fair assessment.

[IowanFarmer]

Originally Posted by jennifat

Agreed, the US doesn't really have any "cold" climates (where it's cold/chilly year-round) except for remote alpine regions and at the northernmost reaches of Alaska. If you want to say some states have cold winters, that's a much more fair assessment.

And even then, I'd say there only a few states that don't have portions which receive legitimate winters. The outer south/lower Midwest all experience winters storms/snow/very low temperatures in places.

I'd say Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi are the states that have the least winter (if you account for Hawaii's snow capped volcanoes).

Pretty much every other state has parts that regularly deal with cold and snow.

[Subtropical-is-temperate3]

Originally Posted by tahiti

it seems to you "cold" is a the overall determining factor whether a state is cold or hot. if the state has a winter, it's cold, period. the fact most if not all of those states have a hot summer seems to have no bearing on your thoughts. weird.

Then all the states are cold because they all have winter. Only Hawaii which is in tropics and Southern Florida which has a tropical climate would be the only ones to be hot.

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

The states that have the highest number of days below freezing would be the cold states and the states that have the highest number of days above 90 degrees would be the hot states.

[Borntoolate85]

Hot: Summer dominates with winters that are more similar to transition seasons in the mild/cool climates
Warm: Experiences some semblance of a winter, but still a summer-dominant climate
Mild: Experiences the four seasons fairly equally, although winters normally feature just bare ground and usually only subfreezing at night
Cool: Four, clearly-defined seasons with snow cover usually found over at least a third of the winter
Cold: Summers are fairly short, winters are long and usually subfreezing for weeks on end
Frigid: Winter dominates and some years don't have a proper summer

Alabama: Hot
Alaska: Frigid
Arizona: Hot
Arkansas: Warm
California: Warm
Colorado: Mild
Connecticut: Cool
Delaware: Mild
Florida: Hot
Georgia: Hot
Hawaii: Hot
Idaho: Cold
Illinois: Cool
Indiana: Cool
Iowa: Cool
Kansas: Mild
Kentucky: Mild
Louisiana: Hot
Maine: Cold
Maryland: Mild
Massachusetts: Cool
Michigan: Cold
Minnesota: Cold
Mississippi: Hot
Missouri: Mild
Montana: Cold
Nebraska: Cool
Nevada: Warm
New Hampshire: Cold
New Jersey: Cool
New Mexico: Warm
New York: Cool
North Carolina: Warm
North Dakota: Cold
Ohio: Cool
Oklahoma: Warm
Oregon: Mild
Pennsylvania: Cool
Rhode Island: Cool
South Carolina: Hot
South Dakota: Cold
Tennessee: Warm
Texas: Hot
Utah: Mild
Vermont: Cold
Virginia: Mild
Washington: Mild
West Virginia: Cool
Wisconsin: Cold
Wyoming: Cool

Note that each designation given above generally applies to where the majority of the population of each state lives. Big states like CA can be hot in the deserts in the SE, but in a place like Truckee in the Sierra Nevada, you'll experience a "cool" to even "cold" climate.

[P Larsen]

Very fine work there.

[Thealpinist]

Originally Posted by Borntoolate85

Hot: Summer dominates with winters that are more similar to transition seasons in the mild/cool climates
Warm: Experiences some semblance of a winter, but still a summer-dominant climate
Mild: Experiences the four seasons fairly equally, although winters normally feature just bare ground and usually only subfreezing at night
Cool: Four, clearly-defined seasons with snow cover usually found over at least a third of the winter
Cold: Summers are fairly short, winters are long and usually subfreezing for weeks on end
Frigid: Winter dominates and some years don't have a proper summer

Alabama: Hot
Alaska: Frigid
Arizona: Hot
Arkansas: Warm
California: Warm
Colorado: Mild
Connecticut: Cool
Delaware: Mild
Florida: Hot
Georgia: Hot
Hawaii: Hot
Idaho: Cold
Illinois: Cool
Indiana: Cool
Iowa: Cool
Kansas: Mild
Kentucky: Mild
Louisiana: Hot
Maine: Cold
Maryland: Mild
Massachusetts: Cool
Michigan: Cold
Minnesota: Cold
Mississippi: Hot
Missouri: Mild
Montana: Cold
Nebraska: Cool
Nevada: Warm
New Hampshire: Cold
New Jersey: Cool
New Mexico: Warm
New York: Cool
North Carolina: Warm
North Dakota: Cold
Ohio: Cool
Oklahoma: Warm
Oregon: Mild
Pennsylvania: Cool
Rhode Island: Cool
South Carolina: Hot
South Dakota: Cold
Tennessee: Warm
Texas: Hot
Utah: Mild
Vermont: Cold
Virginia: Mild
Washington: Mild
West Virginia: Cool
Wisconsin: Cold
Wyoming: Cool

Note that each designation given above generally applies to where the majority of the population of each state lives. Big states like CA can be hot in the deserts in the SE, but in a place like Truckee in the Sierra Nevada, you'll experience a "cool" to even "cold" climate.

I know your list is based on where “majority” of population lives.

But even if you take into account population it’s a bit off for many states. For instance you list NY as “cool” but the majority of NY residents don’t live in a “cool” climate most of the year. NYC has aspects of subtropical climate. Wyoming definitely not in same climate regime as NY.

You say Colorado and Utah are mild. Both places have populations center on average that have much snowier winters than population centers in places like NYC. Just doesn’t make sense.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by P Larsen

Very fine work there.

I thought that was a good job other than Wyoming... which is bear a$$ed cold. Probably the coldest state in the lower 48 due to the elevation.