Rate the climate: Las Vegas, New Mexico (snowy, warm, ice)

[Donar]

My rating: A. The best climate on earth I've seen so far, even better than Beckley, WV.

It has the perfect mix of interest and comfort: snowy and variable winters without much rain and stable summers with loads of thunderstorms.
The rather low record high for a "Southern" US place particularly impresses me . Don't know how common ice days are there, I hope they get a few each winter.
Snow in April and probably too much sun in winter are the only downsides of this climate but worse things happen at sea, it's still the best.

[AJ1013]

C++

[Sickandtiredofthis]

D. I don't like climates with a high winter standard deviation because that means the snow can melt.

[divisionbyzero0]

Low record high? >1mi elevation

Its liks cooler denver, C-ish

[wawa1992]

70% / C-. Too arid year round, and summers are too cool, especially at night. Record highs are anemic.

[Maxwell Senf]

Wow. Weirdly enough this passes all of my criteria. A.

[Maxwell Senf]

Due to slightly cooler summers and warmer springs I prefer this to Denver.

[Subscribe]

I prefer a Mediterranean rainfall pattern and a little less diurnal variation. However, this climate offers nice seasonal variation and is likely sunny so I'll give it a C+.

[pepe3797]

E+
Good summers but disgusting winters.

[MuffinMan16]

A

The winters look pretty nice as do the summers that follow, and I like the annual sunshine totals. Warm summers that are dry and sunny followed by moderate winters that still get snow and lots of sun. Looks pretty good to me...