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I drove near there the other day, it's on US-71 about 100 miles south of Int'l falls. The winters are quite gorgeous, difficult to beat that within the lower 48. The summers have tolerable temps but (from what I've heard) are full of mosquitoes and other bugs; not ideal but redeemable.
Overall an A-/A.
I saw a cool thing near there on route 71: a group of bald eagles feeding on a dead deer. Was pretty amazing. They flew away when I tried to get a shot, but I caught a slight pic of one:
D+
The winters have rather lackluster snow totals given the levels of cold they experience. The record lows are way too low. But at least May-September seems comfortable.
A cuddly pasty white furry man (a little bit horny, hunter, gatherer type) and a place to go for 6 - 8 weeks in winter - Mmmm, just fine with me. Some of the best mesoscale convective complexes go through there in June, July.
I've never seen the term "hemiboreal" before but I guess I'll use it to describe the point at which a climate starts becoming a little too cold for my taste. I'll give it a B-/C+ depending on the actual precip pattern, which appears to be missing from the wiki article...
E or E+. I'm not sure which I'd like more between Umeå (my E benchmark) and Bemidji... summers are much nicer in Bemidji and it's fair bit sunnier, but winters are so much colder... I guess Bemidji wins because of sun and summers, and although winters are much colder, at least it's sunnier, has longer daylight and has its maximun temps during the day (Umeå isn't warmer during the day exactly because of insignificant sunshine).
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