Posted on 01/05/2008 10:08:51 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece
1. International Falls, Minnesota 36.4
2. Duluth, Minnesota 38.2
3. Caribou, Maine 38.9
4. Marquette, Michigan 39.2
5. Sault Ste Marie, Michigan 39.7
6. Fargo, North Dakota 40.5
7. Williston, North Dakota 40.8
8. Alamosa, Colorado 41.2
9. Bismarck, North Dakota 41.3
10. St. Cloud, Minnesota 41.4
Average annual temperture:http://web2.airmail.net/danb1/usrecords.htm
Brilliant solution!!
FYI
The coldest place on the planet was just discovered in the Clinton campaign headquarters the day after the Iowa Caucus.
You posted that while I was looking it up.. LOL
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The most beautiful “cold” place I’ve seen (besides Alaska which is beyond cold, IMO, and very dark in the wintertime-but amazing in the summer) is the area around Whitefish, Montana. The scenery is the most gorgeous you will ever see anywhere and they love their winter sports out there. The cold does not keep them indoors.
We were up in Glacier NP a couple of years ago in mid-June and it was snowing and sleeting so much, the park closed down the Going to the Sun Road. Started up it, then had to turn back. Got up there a couple of days later.
We’re the opposite of you and looking to move south, but not further south than NC - we’d miss the mountains too much. We want the season changes but winter season is too long where we live now.
Can you explain that?
DIARY OF A SNOW SHOVELER
December 8: 6:00 PM
It started to snow.
The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!
December 9:
We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I’ve ever had.
Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life.
December 12:
The sun has melted all our lovely snow.
Such a disappointment. My neighbour tells me not to worry; we’ll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we’ll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I’ll never want to see snow again. I don’t think that’s possible. Bob is such a nice man. I’m glad he’s our neighbour.
December 14:
Snow, lovely snow! 8’ last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shovelling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn’t realize I would have to do quite this much shovelling, but I’ll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn’t huff and puff so.
December 15:
20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife’s car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that’s silly. We aren’t in Alaska, after all..
December 16:
Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think, was very cruel.
December 17:
Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should’ve bought a wood stove, but won’t admit it to her. God I hate it when she’s right. I
can’t believe I’m freezing to death in my own living room.
December 20:
Electricity’s back on, but had another 14’ of the damn stuff last night.
More shovelling. Took all day. Goddamn snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbour kid to shovel, but they said they’re busy playing hockey. I think they’re lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they’re out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they’re lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he’s lying.
December 22:
Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white s**t fell today, and it’s so cold it probably won’t melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to pee. By the time I got undressed, peed and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he says he’s too busy. I think the ahole is lying.
December 23:
Only 2’ of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she...nuts??? Why didn’t she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she’s damn well lying.
December 24:
6’. Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a b who drives that snowplow, I’ll drag him through the snow by his balls. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shovelling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I’ve just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was busy watching for the goddamn snowplow.
December 25:
Merry Christmas. 20 more inches of the !=3D@x@!x!x1 slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shovelling makes my blood boil. God I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she’s an idiot.
If I have to watch ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ one more time, I’m going to kill her.
December 26:
Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all her idea. She’s really getting on my nerves.
December 27:
Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze.
December 28:
Warmed up to above -50. Still snowed in.
THE B*TCH is driving me crazy!!!
December 29:
10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That’s the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?
December 30:
Roof caved in. The snow plow driver is suing me for a million dollars for the bump on his head. The wife went home to her mother. 9’ predicted.
December 31:
Set fire to what’s left of the house. No more shovelling.
January 8:
I feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me.
Why am I tied to the bed?
Unfortunately, Southern MI elected Granholm.
Jackson Hole, WY. Winner, SD. Minot, ND is one of the coldest places in the US. UP of Michigan.
Exactly. West Yellowstone has some great scenery too. Nice lake and most of the tourists go away in late September.
There’s no trees.
Alaska humor - No tree's up there - it's too cold.
Thanks for your interesting post and link.
I hear the taxes are outrageous and they are becoming more hardcore liberal every day.
Yesterday Yellowstone was warmer than South Jersey at 8:00 pm. At the moment it is 27deg. in Yellowstone and Old Faithful is about to erupt .(41 deg . in S. Jersey )
I recommend the Antarctic where the snow pack and ice are reaching record levels. I think what is happening here is that the Arctic is getting sick and tired of all this Global Warming talk and has decided to move South just to get away from it all. This is fine with the Antarctic, of course, since company is always welcome.
Ditto. That's why We live in northern New Hampshire and commute 4 hours a day to southern NH. A little less than 7 years to go to retirement.
We live in the middle of "downtown" Lancaster, New Hampshire.
We've thought of moving out of town, but choose to remain here due to the easy access to services.
One has to think ahead to the day when one might not be able to, or want to drive.
We can walk one block to almost every service we need, including restaurants, library, post office, theater, recreation center with pool, banks, lumber yard, hardware store, clothing stores, dentist, optometrist, etc.
Within a half a mile or less are hospital, pharmacy, grocery stores, movie rentals, auto parts stores, gas stations, the dump, town offices, Masonic lodge, churches, and that final need the funeral home and cemetery, etc.
We have access to the local and state snowmobile trails right from our yard.
A one block walk brings you to 30 miles of woods and really if you wanted to hike or snowmobile it, around a hundred miles to the tip of New Hampshire at the Canadian border crossing in Pittsburg, with only encountering 2 blacktop and one dirt road.
We are right in the middle of everything, 3 1/2 hours to Montreal, Quebec or Boston Massachusettes, 2 hours to Burlington Vermont, Bangor, Maine, Portland Maine, Manchester, New Hampshire.
30 minutes to St. Johnsbury, Vermont and Berlin, New Hampshire.
45 minutes to the Canadian border.
We usually have a week or two of 30 to 45 below zero to get rid of the riff-raff.
If that doesn't send them packing, we have black fly season, mosquito season, deer fly season, and mud season.
This year most of December featured below or around zero nights and days a little above zero to mid 20s.
January, 2008
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