[johniegrad]

Only minus 8 here but I’m right on the shore of Lake Superior. This time of year we get the peculiar phenomenon of the big lake actually warming the cold. Most of the rest of the year it’s the other way around.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep, Superior is nature’s big AC unit in the summer.

[boycott]

I guess that’s at least a little bit of positive for both winter and summer. -8, I am not so sure I could handle that so well in south Alabama.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. A large body of water doesn’t lose heat as quickly as a land mass.

[Sasparilla]

I used to live in the middle of nowhere in the deep freezer of America near Embarrass MN where -36° is considered balmy sometimes. The unofficial low temperature there was −64 °F, which was reached in February 1996 in town.