Wher to move for hot summers and snowy winters (ski resorts, living)

[Bo]

FWIW, places that have extreme temperature swings like this also get severe weather events like tornadoes and ice storms and severe thunderstorms.

[Broadrippleguy]

I would also recommend looking into the Indianapolis area.
Most affordable real estate market in the country. lowest cost of living of any major city. And home to some of the worlds largest sporting events like the Indy 500 and the Super Bowl.
2nd Indianapolis is within a days drive to 75% of the United States population if you have relatives here
plus our summers are mild with highs in the mid 80s to low 90s and we have all 4 seasons with mild but some snow in the winter
Also Indy's residents are very nice and down to earth people. Willing to give you a hand when you need it.

[AZLiam]

Maybe Prescott, AZ or Albuquerque, NM.

[stlouisan]

Originally Posted by Broadrippleguy

I would also recommend looking into the Indianapolis area.
Most affordable real estate market in the country. lowest cost of living of any major city. And home to some of the worlds largest sporting events like the Indy 500 and the Super Bowl.
2nd Indianapolis is within a days drive to 75% of the United States population if you have relatives here
plus our summers are mild with highs in the mid 80s to low 90s and we have all 4 seasons with mild but some snow in the winter
Also Indy's residents are very nice and down to earth people. Willing to give you a hand when you need it.

I'm not sure I would call Indy's summers and winters mild. It gets pretty damn hot and cold both in the winter and in the summer. The mid-80s to low-90s, coupled with humidity, makes for a pretty hot summer. Indy's winters are moderate more than anything else, cold, often with a reasonable amount of snow. Summers are just slightly better than St. Louis, winters slightly worse. Either way, summers and winters are typically not the best seasons for either of these cities.

To get a place with truly mild winters and summers, the only way I've found that can be accomplished is by living on either the East or West Coast, more likely the West Coast. San Francisco and Seattle are mild year round.

[Colts]

Originally Posted by stlouisan

I'm not sure I would call Indy's summers and winters mild. It gets pretty damn hot and cold both in the winter and in the summer. The mid-80s to low-90s, coupled with humidity, makes for a pretty hot summer. Indy's winters are moderate more than anything else, cold, often with a reasonable amount of snow. Summers are just slightly better than St. Louis, winters slightly worse. Either way, summers and winters are typically not the best seasons for either of these cities.

To get a place with truly mild winters and summers, the only way I've found that can be accomplished is by living on either the East or West Coast, more likely the West Coast. San Francisco and Seattle are mild year round.

Again...hate to do this to you, but this is one of those situations where I'll have to disagree, but I guess it depends on your perspective. I wouldn't call 84 degrees pretty hot, being that the average high temperature in Indy in July is only 84 degrees (90 in St. Louis). Having lived in the South during the summer (and the humidity does increase the farther south in latitude you go), I would have killed for a sunny 84 degree day with less humidity compared to 92 with a heat index of 103. While not mind-blowing, that's a pretty noticeable difference, I would think. Also, it does not exceed 90 very often in Indy, in fact, there have been years where the highest temperature never exceeded 90 degrees. 100 is even more rare--it can take decades to see a 100 degree day.

Winter is much more variable, particularly with regards to the amount of snow. Snow totals can vary dramatically across the Midwest thanks to the Great Lakes and prevailing winds, and every once in a while you'll get a mild year such as this or a nastier winter with 50 inches of snow. I think places near the shore are much more consistent in terms of snowfall, which I would rather have. If it's going to be cold outside, at least give me some snow to look at.

[stlouisan]

Originally Posted by Colts

Again...hate to do this to you, but this is one of those situations where I'll have to disagree, but I guess it depends on your perspective. I wouldn't call 84 degrees pretty hot, being that the average high temperature in Indy in July is only 84 degrees (90 in St. Louis). Having lived in the South during the summer (and the humidity does increase the farther south in latitude you go), I would have killed for a sunny 84 degree day with less humidity compared to 92 with a heat index of 103. While not mind-blowing, that's a pretty noticeable difference, I would think. Also, it does not exceed 90 very often in Indy, in fact, there have been years where the highest temperature never exceeded 90 degrees. 100 is even more rare--it can take decades to see a 100 degree day.

Winter is much more variable, particularly with regards to the amount of snow. Snow totals can vary dramatically across the Midwest thanks to the Great Lakes and prevailing winds, and every once in a while you'll get a mild year such as this or a nastier winter with 50 inches of snow. I think places near the shore are much more consistent in terms of snowfall, which I would rather have. If it's going to be cold outside, at least give me some snow to look at.

It does depend on your perspective...and if you look at the charts for recent summers, particularly the past two years, Indy has been pretty bad, and there's no disputing that. It doesn't have to get above 90 at all to be bad. The upper 80s combined with humidity is downright awful. Not to mention, a heat index of 92 is not exactly what I would call pleasant...so that's why I said not a big difference...as you said, not mind blowing, but a difference, as I acknowledged. Either one is not very tolerable.

Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, don't frequently get hot enough in the summer for the heat index itself to even reach 90. That's not something that can be said for Indy and Columbus. I've been observing summers between all these cities for the past 5 years, and except for one, where every one was cool, and this year where it was unusually hot, i've gotten pretty consistent feedback.

As far as hot goes, St. Louis is far from the only place in the Midwest that reaches heat indices of over 100. Omaha and Kansas City exceed them quite often, far from unheard of, and Iowa is pretty hot in the summer as well.

[Colts]

Originally Posted by stlouisan

Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, don't frequently get hot enough in the summer for the heat index itself to even reach 90.

That is absolutely not true. A temperature of 85 can produce a heat index of 90 at a dew point of just 65 degrees. The average July high temperature is in the 80s for all of those cities.

Do you honestly research this stuff before you post it?

[stlouisan]

Originally Posted by Colts

That is absolutely not true. A temperature of 85 can produce a heat index of 90 at a dew point of just 65 degrees. The average July high temperature is in the 80s for all of those cities.

Do you honestly research this stuff before you post it?

Have you paid attention at all to the past 5 years, out of curiousity? I've been followed weather patterns on a consistent basis for about 6 years, from 2006 to the present day, doing comparisons between cities by the day. And I can testify, unequivocally, that Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland generally didn't have a lot of days where the heat index reached 90....temperatures that have been more typical for those cities, at least as of the past 5 years, have been in the lower 80s to upper 70s and heat indices below 90. I've seen Indy exceed 90 degrees in terms of the heat index much more often than these three. If you want to attack my observations, go ahead. That's your business. You seem to be of the contention that Indy is as cool as Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago in the summer...from my own observations I can tell you that's false. As far as average temperatures go, those can also be misleading, especially if they are monthly, because one city can reach a much greater extreme on any given day than another. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. IF you honestly believe Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit constantly exceed 90 degrees in the heat index, and do it often, you've essentially just claimed those places are unbearable in the summer. Typically, one associates a dew point 65 or over as uncomfortable...i've never met anyone who said Indy was as cool as Chicago in the summer.

[FOReverxpeace]

You'll love New York. Our weather is on the extreme side of every season (except for this season, which has been exceptionally warm). We had a day last summer where it was up to 105 degrees - it was crazy. The summers usually range in the high 90s and winters in the 20s-30s. We usually get a lot of snow when it's crazy..haven't you heard of snowstorms in the Northeast?

[Jeromeville]

Hot summers and snowy winters? Upstate NY is what you want. The summers are getting hotter, definitely. And although this winter has been crazily without snow, usually you get plenty.