I'm gonna have to read this when I have a bit. Michigan's sounds like it was written by Cormac McCarthy!

Lost all credibility by listing Colorado anywhere in the top 40, let alone ahead of Florida.

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snowfall is a cause for celebration here

Whether or not true (doubtful) it should officially be made known that long periods of cold and heavy snows make for miserable winters.

#4..here. that sounds about right!

Having lived in Wisconsin and Michigan, I'd rank the Badger state in the top (or bottom?) 5. I do completely agree about Colorado. Winter there was pretty awesome. But think about this: as miserable as Minnesota, North Dakota, Michigan and Wisconsin are, most of Canada has it worse.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
Lost all credibility by listing Colorado anywhere in the top 40, let alone ahead of Florida.

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snowfall is a cause for celebration here

Whether or not true (doubtful) it should officially be made known that long periods of cold and heavy snows make for miserable winters.

I think they’re probably referring to what they’re most familiar with, the Denver metro area, which does have a pretty mild winter. When they throw in remarks about craft beer and the Broncos, it’s obvious that the authors aren’t really writing about mild winters, more about what they perceive as the attraction to being a Colorado resident. For perspective, try living on the Western Slope and needing to travel back-and-forth to the Front Range in the winter; that “mild winter” can be pretty elusive.

Snow ain't nothing. It's the wind (that never stops blowing in Minnesota) that makes it brutal.

It's actually worse in SW MN where I am, than the far north of the State.

I'm originally from Northern Maine (Presque Isle) so yeah, being top 5 makes a lot of sense. Anyone who spent anytime at Loring or in Caribou understands - and that extends to Quebec City and parts of Canada. Rough long winters, early snow, short days, lots of snow.

There is a reason a lot of my family has either moved or winters over in Florida.

Pyker is right about the wind! I live in SE SoDak, 30 miles from the MN border, and it always seems to snow sideways in this country. Gentle, falling snow is almost unheard of.

Damn popup when I got to Georgia wanting to give me a free burger and fries ,had to close out that thing.

Wait. Whut?

Arizona #49.

"Occasionally, retired Kroger business executives from Ohio and their Pilates-instructor second wives will accidentally move to Flagstaff and get very sad and angry when they realize the average winter temperature is somewhere in the 20s. But most of Arizona offers up that dry desert day heat that is good for arthritis and any lingering guilt about leaving their first wives to deal with their delinquent teenage kids back in Indian Hill."

Looking at 71 degrees today.

So. Has someone rated the states about their summers?

flashguy

i live 6 miles from Syracuse. Awful. If my family wasn't all here , I'd be gone in a flash, and not just because of the winters.

Pennsylvania was spot on lol

Winter sucks, unless you have mountains to play in.

New Hampshire # 15??? Must have done their research in Concord and not Berlin

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Originally posted by Ronin101:
#4..here. that sounds about right!

My family nearly took a relocation to North Dakota when I was a kid. The agent in charge that my old man would have been working for told him that in the dead of winter, he had a walk-in freezer in his garage he'd climb into to warm up before, taking breaks during, and after plowing the driveway. Why? Because the freezer was still 40-60 degrees warmer than outside and his garage wasn't heated. I don't know how much of that was truth or not, but after a week of -30 to -37 or so, when it warmed up to 20f, I was outside in jeans and shirtsleeves like it was suddenly springtime.

It truly is all relative.

New York #20 ? ? ? ? Plattsburgh New York (On Lake Champlain) can be described as 8 months of winter and 4 months of shitty ice fishing.

Tinyman

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
Missouri winters can be brutal but they are fairly short. December, January and a little of February, that's about it for mid-Missouri. It can also get pretty darn hot in the summer but I can still get work done if I am out early enough.

Yep. I'll be glad when we make it to March.

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Originally posted by Tinyman:
New York #20 ? ? ? ? Plattsburgh New York (On Lake Champlain) can be described as 8 months of winter and 4 months of shitty ice fishing.

Tinyman

I lived in Malone and Potsdam, basically straight west of Plattsburgh. The running joke was that we had four seasons. In order: ice fishing, mud, construction and hunting. 8-9 months of winter is no shit. Go from -30 in parts of the winter to the mid 90's in the height of summer with exactly nobody having air conditioning because 8-9 months of winter. No thanks.

I moved from that area of NY to Tampa, Fl in the middle of July. I thought I was going to either die of heat exhaustion or drown on the way from the airport to my friend's house. That Thanksgiving, I got to see the Atlantic for the first time at Cocoa Beach with my future wife. I went swimming at sunset and it was amazing. Her family thought I was insane. I was the only guy in the water, as far as I could see in either direction. She was on the beach huddled under a few towels and shivering. I was invigorated. Three years later, I lived only a few miles from there and would only go to the beach sometime around May to September.