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Fair warning, we have snow on the ground 6 months out of the year. When people tell you it's cold up here, they are not exaggerating. Not just cold, dry as hell too. You step outside and your nose hairs freeze and your skin cracks. You wake up dry and itchy. Invest in a humidifier. You always feel disgusting and crispy in the winter and shed dry skin. It's like the Alaska of the contiguous 48. (Minnesota, Wisconsin, ND, SD, Montana.) Snow. Ice. Cars in ditches. 6 months out of the year. Read it again. Half the year. When the rest of the United States is in the 60s, we are 31 degrees with flurries.
It's damn near April and it just snowed. AGAIN. I'm done with it. I don't expect us to be in the clear from snow storms until the middle of May. Pathetic.
I've been out of work for 4 months now due to an injury last year that keeps me off the ice and snow. I'm going broke. I hate this horse ****.
I don't even get outside to go to the gym because I hate the cold and the ice will make me slip. So people like me just stay indoors and get fat all winter. Not living your life for 6 months out of the year is pretty damn sad. Then summer hits in June with 2 weeks of spring and it's 90 and humid with mosquitoes. Fast forward to September and there's snow again. I think more people move away from this state due to the ****-poor weather than anything.
DO NOT MOVE HERE IF YOU LIKE BEING OUTDOORS in decent weather WITHOUT seven layers. You will not find quality natural weather here. Ever.
Fair warning, we have snow on the ground 6 months out of the year. When people tell you it's cold up here, they are not exaggerating. It's like the Alaska of the contiguous 48. Minnesota, Wisconsin, ND, SD, Montana. Snow. Ice. Cars in ditches. 6 months out of the year. Read it again. Half the year. When the rest of the United States is in the 60s, we are 31 degrees with flurries.
I've been out of work for 4 months now due to an injury last year that keeps me off the ice and snow. I'm going broke. I hate this horse ****.
That is all.
My FAVORITE POSTING in, I can't tell you how long! You need to be sipping margarita's poolside in Puerto Vallarta! Summer is almost here! Also, sorry about your injury...
Oh and as for the weather, remember, "there's no bad weather, only bad clothing." I've survived winters in the Scottish Highlands and Norway but admit even they weren't as frigid as -30* F.
There can be snow on the ground from November to April, usually not though. Luckily I don't remember any -30 degree days this winter. The -30 isn't too bad unless it lasts for a week to 10 days straight. I am not a big fan of the cold but it is WAY better than being hot.
You think Sioux Falls is bad, you should try living up in the Iron Range in MN. We had snow on my birthday at the end of May one year. -75 degrees. You either love the winter and suck it up or you don't and move.
You think Sioux Falls is bad, you should try living up in the Iron Range in MN. We had snow on my birthday at the end of May one year. -75 degrees. You either love the winter and suck it up or you don't and move.
I hear you. We get more wind adding to the "wind chill factor" here, but when it gets to right down bone chilling cold on the temparature gauge northern Minnesota has us whipped.
When people around here complain of the cold I point to a place that makes here seem absolutely balmy. That area is northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana. I've got relatives up there and I don't envy them. They get worse wind than we get AND they're 300+ miles further north. I "shudder" to think of living there.
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