[karibear]

Originally Posted by Jammie

You guys have long winters over there just like we have here. We don't get lake effect snow, but our yearly avg. is 31 (?) inches per year and that's way too much for me. I know exactly what you mean about those Alberta Clippers. We get cold shots of Canadian air over here, too and it's horrible. The way it appears, Tulsa's winter is quite comparable to our mid to late autumn.

We spent one winter in Conrad, MT, and that was cold! We'd rented a house and the thermometer seemed to be broken, for one solid week it stayed at -20, then all of a sudden one day it actually made it up to 15 above! I really didn't think it was that cold, it was very dry, and every morning I let the dogs out barefooted, and I couldn't figure out why my feet were a funny color while I had my first cup of coffee. Then it was like of course they were a funny color, they were half frozen! It's not supposed to get that cold in the Lower 48, and I never had that problem taking the dogs out barefooted when we spent a winter in Anchorage.