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Don't move to upstate NY/northern New England if you aren't ready to be obliterated with snow, ice, and below freezing temperatures each year. On top of endless days of cloudiness that makes you want to kill yourself.
On the other hand, I hear people in Utah and Colorado (only know of people who live in the major cities) enjoy the snowy winters there since it doesn't drag out for months and months on end like in upstate NY/northern New England.
Our last snow in metro Denver in the spring was May 21. Our first snow in the fall of 2019 was October 10. June, July, August and September were snow-free.
OP here!
Thanks for everyone's input!
We'll be taking a road trip through Utah and Eastern Idaho first week of February. As far as I can tell, the roads are open and will hopefully remain that way.
We have a Subaru Outback, and we'll drive carefully.
Wish us luck!
Our last snow in metro Denver in the spring was May 21. Our first snow in the fall of 2019 was October 10. June, July, August and September were snow-free.
Which is actually longer than the usual snowfall length in Upstate NY, but a lot of people do not realize this.
Which is actually longer than the usual snowfall length in Upstate NY, but a lot of people do not realize this.
Correct. Now that late of a snow is a bit unusual (though not unheard of). Sometimes the last snow is in late April. The first snow is usually in October, once in a while November. Haven't had snow in September for about 10 years now.
Anything above and along 41 degrees of latitude....about the latitude of Chicago or Cleveland is a good market for where the real hard core weather misery begins. Above that line are places that spend half or even more than half the year in cold weather. If you live somewhere that it can snow in May then you are too far north......yes there are places where snow falls in May.
Good internet towns like Provo and Salt Lake, maybe Ogden? We won't have a ton of time, but want to get a general feel and check out a couple of apartments.
Hardest
1. Syracuse, NY
2. Buffalo, NY
3. Minneapolis, MN
4. Cleveland, OH
5. Worcester, MA
6. Green Bay, WI
7. Albany, NY
8. Milwaukee, WI
9. Chicago, IL
10. Hartford, CT
Best?
Honolulu, Miami, Tampa, San Diego and LA lol
#1 and #2 here are generally correct (with in-between Rochester a glaring omission, probably deserving of the third spot if not the second), but given the nature of the OP, I'm not sure that (s)he's looking for...sheer rankings of severe winters, but rather 'places that don't shut down when getting 3 inches of snow'....
Cleveland's snowfall is measured at it's west side airport. Go to the east side and you're over 100 inches average in some places - like Chardon. In 1996, one storm dumped over 60 inches. I remember, power was out for 5 days.
The Lake Erie/Lake Ontario chain of cities of Cleveland-Erie-Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse wins this hands down, right, in terms of just 'worst snow conditions in the lower 48 metros'? Someone show me that I'm not correct to assume this
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