Minnesota may be cold buuuut…

Atleast we don't have alligators like Brooklyn. 
 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64491273

Heh, heh... cold butt.

If Minnesota did have gators, would they turn them into Lutefisk?

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

I'm torn. Conflicted. 
On one hand, that looks like white hell. 
On the other, that looks like the most fun possible. 

Id rather have gators than snow 

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

Minnesota dozent get that much snow. Gotta warm up to snow here.   We average about the same as New York State per year, but without the extremes of western New York. 

In reply to Fueled by Caffeine :

Except for this week...they're saying maybe 20 inches of white stuff in the next couple days.

In reply to stuart in mn :

Buffalo got 6 feet in one storm. Quit cher belly aching. 
 

last year I lived in western ny. We got 128" of snow in a year.  

Wally (Forum Supporter) said:

Id rather have gators than snow 

Why not both?

In reply to Fueled by Caffeine :

Too cold to snow isn't better 

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

It is when it's sunny and bright out all the time and New York is cloudy and gloomy.  Buffalo and surrounding areas have nearly as many cloudy/gloomy days a year  as Seattle. 

Wally (Forum Supporter) said:

Id rather have gators than snow 

I'll take miserable heat in July/August, to have things like sunny days in the 60s-70s often December through February. 

In reply to z31maniac :

I fat bike on sunny days December through March. Sure it's cold. But we live longer up here. 

That's not a real alligator. They are much bigger. 13' and almost 700 pounds. 

I'm getting to where I would rather live somewhere I didn't have to run the AC on Feb 21. Highs for the rest of the week are 80. Can we please have another couple of weeks of cold to go with our alligators? 

In reply to Toyman! :

Yeah I'm actually with you a more mild or even type climate would be more to my liking. Also less humidity. People here believe that Minnesota is humid but it only gets into the 70% humidity range in the summer.  You guys in SC would like that ha. 

Any place with 10,000 lakes has 10,000,000,000 mosquitos.

No thanks.

In reply to Duke :

We have 11842 lakes thanks. And the mosquitoes are only bad for 2 months. Too cold the rest of the year for them to live. 

Here is a chart of each state's record high and low temperature. North Dakota's record was -60F on February 15, 1936 and 5 months later was 121F on July 6, 1936. So, 181 degree spread.

wikipedia.org: U.S. state and territory temperature extremes

In reply to VolvoHeretic :

I'm 100% certain it's never been -22 in Columbia SC in recorded history. Maybe at the top of a mountain in the upstate, but not in Columbia. 

Looks like -19 was seen at Caesars Head mountain and -1 at Columbia in 1985. 

Edit to say Charleston SC got down to 6 the same day. 

The thought of not only being miserably cold, but also having to be aware of alligators was not something on my bingo card for today.

Toyman! said:

In reply to VolvoHeretic :

I'm 100% certain it's never been -22 in Columbia SC in recorded history. Maybe at the top of a mountain in the upstate, but not in Columbia. 

Looks like -19 was seen at Caesars Head mountain and -1 at Columbia in 1985. 

Edit to say Charleston SC got down to 6 the same day. 

 

I believe that the -22 was on Hogback Mountain.

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to z31maniac :

I fat bike on sunny days December through March. Sure it's cold. But we live longer up here. 

So there's brutal cold, and more of it.  Quite the sales pitch. 

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

Keeps ya young.  Go ask Dorothy Molter. 
 

https://www.rootbeerlady.com/dorothy/

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to z31maniac :

I fat bike on sunny days December through March. Sure it's cold. But we live longer up here. 

I suspect that has less to do weather and more to do with things like this:
 

"The official Oklahoma state meal consists of BBQ pork, sausage with biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak, fried okra, squash, black-eyed peas, grits, corn, cornbread, pecan pie, and strawberries. Technically meant to be consumed across the day as breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the Oklahoma State Meal can nevertheless be had in its entirety at restaurants like The Press in Oklahoma City. And while all of these dishes may seem like relics of a bygone era for the South, the meal still reflects much of the cultural proclivities of modern Oklahomans."