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Ok, having spent most my life in Michigan, I had to laugh!

#2. Michigan
Winter in Michigan begins well before Thanksgiving and stretches far past Easter, which makes for four-to-six wearisome months of always-gray, always-cold, always-drizzly, but-rarely-snowy-in-a-good-way misery. Some other states may see colder temps or more snow, but Michigan winters are unrivaled for their utter lack of sunshine. The ceaseless cloud cover begins in October, and envelopes the state in a daily sense of gloom that only worsens when the apathetic sun slouches below the horizon at quarter-to-five.

For the Michigander, this is winter: you leave work at 5 or 6, already in the dead of night, and fight your way down 94 or 96 or 75 or whatever Godforsaken stretch of highway. You can't even tell if it is drizzling rain or snow, because the brown salt sludge that sprays up off the road coats your windshield more completely than anything that falls from the sky. Overnight, the road freezes. In the morning you wake up and it is still dark. You scrape off your car, then get stuck in traffic as the cars ahead of you gawk at the SUV that has slid into the ditch. You actually look forward to a proper snowfall, just to cover the dirt. Even then, you do not go skiing, because there are no hills.

You do not look forward to outdoor winter recreation because there is none. You might go bowling. You probably put on weight. If you are lucky you might have a snowmobile, but it's a pain in the ass to get out. More likely your asshole neighbor has one, and it is loud. In early April you convince yourself it is spring because it is Tigers Opening Day. You overpay for tickets to the game, tell yourself 45 degrees isn't that cold, and cheer when the sun peeks out at the end of the fourth inning. That is the light at the end of the tunnel. Winter in Michigan is a miserable, miserable time.

https://www.thrillist.com/trav...us-states-for-winter



 
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Pretty much nailed Georgia. Winter is very wet but rarely all that cold. But when things do ice up, Atlanta traffic is a clown show of epic proportions. I think the entire state shares about 10 salt trucks.



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Y wife’s whole family is from Minn-ah-soh-tah

I went up to visit her grandfather in Gheen (population 9, located less than a hundred miles from international falls) once. Once. Never again


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Ok, having spent most my life in Michigan, I had to laugh!

#2. Michigan
Winter in Michigan begins well before Thanksgiving and stretches far past Easter, which makes for four-to-six wearisome months of always-gray, always-cold, always-drizzly, but-rarely-snowy-in-a-good-way misery.
https://www.thrillist.com/trav...us-states-for-winter


I lived in Michigan for 49 years and this first sentence is so true. I do miss May through October in Michigan, that weather is perfect.
 
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Well, I came here because winter in Illinois sucked worse. 4 months of mud, f that. A nice white wash, refreshed every few days is an improvement in my estimation. A week of -15 about every year, well... that does suck. I do live in the balmy south which might shade my opinion.


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Winters in Washington state are worse than New York? What a buncha shit. I’ve lived equal amounts of years in both places and there’s no comparison. Yeah, it rains a lot here. I’ll take that over white-out conditions, 3ft of snow overnight, snow glare, black ice, frostbite, ice storms that collapse homes and barns and every power line for three counties, and a week every winter where it doesn’t get above thirty below zero. What idiot wrote this article?

Newsflash: most of New York State is not New York City. You know? The southernmost part of the state?


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Yep. That’s a Michigan winter. Gray and gloomy.
 
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LOL at California. Not as eloquently stated as the Michigan rating but still accurate.



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I don't know. Kentucky is full of fun in fall/winter. Let's see. In October of 2019, less than a week before Halloween it was 98° F. Then October 31st it's 19° and is snowing. Then warms up some to a few months of cold rain, darkness and gloom. Christmas day can be from below zero, to like this year almost 70°. Hell my Christmas day outfit this year was a red and white Hawaiian shirt with my Santa Claus hat, it only seemed fitting for a 70° Christmas day.

Winter, where you wake up and it's -3° but buy 2:00 PM is 38°. With snow, ice, black ice rain and just to get your hopes up a little bit, a small peek of sunshine.

Where you have a overnight snow and ice storm that lays down 6" of crap, but by 5:00 PM is melted away, only to refreeze overnight. Then be in the 60's later on in the week.

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Yep, the Black mountains do shield Carolina from a lot of crappy weather...


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35. Utah
Like Colorado, you can generally count on the fact that winters will be packed with sunshine and access to world-class cold weather leisure activities (2002 Olympics for life!). Unlike Colorado, there’s no unfettered access to weed. But hey, at least the Jazz are back to semi-relevance.


I was going to say that Utah should always be ranked higher than Colorado (meaning better winters because our snow is better and our resorts are much more accessible and numerous), but then I read the bolded part. I guess weed trumps all with the folks who made up this list. Ridiculous.


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Posts: 30280 | Location: Elv. 7,000 feet, Utah | Registered: October 29, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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The Yoop has two seasons - Winter and August.


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Minnesodium. Renamed by me and a friend. Food is too salty to eat and the roads too salty to drive. Fuck that state.

I’m in the good ole 49. The winters here are quite awesome.



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I read some of them and skimmed the rest. Texas was fairly discussed. I came here 39 years ago after growing up in Michigan and 20 years in USAF. Was a great decision.

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Haha! Hawaii checking in!
 
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I lived in two different cities in upstate New York when I was growing up. The cities were 90 miles apart from East to West, but they were the same distance from the equator. I don't know why, but the city that was East of the other had incredibly horrible winters.

If the entire state had winters like that city did, it might be able to vie for number one on that list.



I found what you said riveting.
 
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Haha! Hawaii checking in!


Supposed to plunge down to 64 tonight over here. I have to close windows.
 
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Anyone wannna move to California?

The beach, mountains, sunshine. Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin
 
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Minnesodium. Renamed by me and a friend. Food is too salty to eat and the roads too salty to drive. Fuck that state.

I’m in the good ole 49. The winters here are quite awesome.


That’s why you don’t eat winter roadkill! Smile
 
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I must be some sort of masochist - Raised in Michigan (#2) and decided to retire in Maine (#5).

Then again, I'd like to see that list prioritized by how miserable the Summers are.

I'm not as tolerant of cold as I once was, but I hate heat and humidity with every fiber of my being.




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