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Lived in Chicago, its winters are no joke, that stated .. I would take them with a smile over the crazy impossible MSP gets. I don't know how you guys manage it.
And then there are the few million people who live north of it in Canada.
People adapt if they want to.
Chicago is the third coldest major city in the country. Right behind Milwaukee. Chicago is much more likely to hit negative Temps than NYC. That makes Chicago more like MSP than NYC imo.
Minneapolis is the coldest everyone know that. Shouldn't be a surprise. Chicago is not that much warmed and far worse wind. Boston is also very cold. Chicago, Boston and Milwaukee dont make a big enough difference in temp to choose over Minneapolis if thats all you're worried about.
Chicago is the third coldest major city in the country. Right behind Milwaukee. Chicago is much more likely to hit negative Temps than NYC. That makes Chicago more like MSP than NYC imo.
Chicago’s average January high is basically right in the middle between NYC’s and Minneapolis’s highs, so it’s pretty even compared to these cities as opposed to being more like Minneapolis.
Chicago is the third coldest major city in the country. Right behind Milwaukee. Chicago is much more likely to hit negative Temps than NYC. That makes Chicago more like MSP than NYC imo.
That theory has been thoroughly debunked on this very thread.
Chicago’s average January high is basically right in the middle between NYC’s and Minneapolis’s highs, so it’s pretty even compared to these cities as opposed to being more like Minneapolis.
Chicago's extremes are much closer to Mpls. New York doesn't see the low temps Chicago does.
That theory has been thoroughly debunked on this very thread.
What theory? Chicago gets frigid much more often than NYC and actually hits negative Temps. NYC never gets that low. NYC imo is pretty mild compared to Chicago.
Sometimes these comments get a bit ridiculous. We all know the Midwest gets our interior Continental Winters. Many times the Arctic Blast slip into the US there and spread though the East. We all know NYC is its own heat Island and has some moderation being on the coast. Boston is just enough North to be less protected from it.
Chicago has a bit of moderating from Lake Michigan. Still some years it is on the bad side of Lake Effect snows and might get hammered. Some years more nuisance snows closer to the lake. Otherwise it is South and West of the Great Lakes that yearly get it.
When someone needs to HAMMER IT IN Chicago is still Worst or just hammer vs NYC. There is a sort of agenda at work. Sstil I see little sense in this thread but to give the obvious that even just Wikipedia can solve.
We all know the Hype that Chicago got for the Polar Vortex winter of a couple years ago. News Media Hyped it, there are YouTube videos of a virtually frozen Lake Michigan and Chicago River. Of course virtually every Lake in Minnesota was frozen. And By me in Eastern more Central PA we clearly had a it spread east. A few degrees moderating was it. NYC also remained warmer, but still had a severe winter. JUST COMMON SENSE IS ALL WE NEED and one can look up season temp stats and average snow totals etc. No need to say one city is far worse for some agenda or bring a city in not even in the choices.
Makes little difference is NYC moderates vs a Chicago and Minneapolis. We all know this.
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