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Old 12-20-2012, 01:04 PM
 
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Also explains why cities like Syracuse and Buffalo get quite a bit more snow than Minneapolis, with Minneapolis being a bit colder..
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Old 12-20-2012, 01:07 PM
 
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Also explains why cities like Syracuse and Buffalo get quite a bit more snow than Minneapolis, with Minneapolis being a bit colder..
I think that has more to do with lake effect. I'm sure one of the meteorologists posting on this thread will correct me if I'm wrong.
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Old 12-20-2012, 01:10 PM
 
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Also explains why cities like Syracuse and Buffalo get quite a bit more snow than Minneapolis, with Minneapolis being a bit colder..
Syracuse and Buffalo get more snow because they're on the leeward side of big-ass lakes. It's the same reason New Buffalo MI gets tons more snow than Chicago. The only material difference is which side of the lake they're on respectively.

The UP in Michigan is as cold (colder even) than Minneapolis and they get piles of snow. Why? Because no matter what direction a winter storm approaches from, chances are it picked up and carried a bunch of moisture from one lake or another before hitting landfall.
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Old 12-20-2012, 03:16 PM
 
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All true, but the Northeast is also more moist in general, including rainfall, and also quite cloudy, whereas places like Minnesota and North Dakota are sunny, dry, cold and windswept, and , as you mentioned, on the wrong side of the lakes...
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Old 12-21-2012, 12:34 AM
 
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Winters are not like they were 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago......
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Old 12-21-2012, 08:56 AM
 
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When I saw the title I thought that you were referring to the skinny-jean hipsters from Evanston.
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Old 12-21-2012, 08:58 AM
 
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When I saw the title I thought that you were referring to the skinny-jean hipsters from Evanston.
Are hipsters creeping into the suburbs now? Don't tell Chet. He'll have to move out to Rockford to keep a safe distance.
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Old 12-21-2012, 10:21 AM
 
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Are hipsters creeping into the suburbs now? Don't tell Chet. He'll have to move out to Rockford to keep a safe distance.
I know they like Berwyn.
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Old 12-21-2012, 10:47 AM
 
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I know they like Berwyn.
Really? I've only spent a limited amount of time there, but it seemed to me that, demographically, half of it was sort of an extension of Oak Park and the other half was sort of an extension of Cicero.
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Old 12-21-2012, 10:49 AM
 
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Really? I've only spent a limited amount of time there, but it seemed to me that, demographically, half of it was sort of an extension of Oak Park and the other half was sort of an extension of Cicero.
Yeah, it's a more recent thing.
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