Drier heat, if you will. Montreal can get stinky humid at times in the summer.
(Been out in Montana and the Dakotas in June & July when it was 90+ but the humidity was low so it didn't feel bad at all as long as you had some level of breeze. Nights were super comfy in the summer.)
I just checked Billings Montana weather averages and it’s surprisingly not that cold in the winter ?? Also it has daytime summer high’s similar to Atlanta. Any explanation to this ???
It gets down into the -50f (-45c) range semi regularly. Montana had the lowest temp recorded in the lower 48 at -70f (-56c) which beats Montreal’s record cold which was -36f (-37.8c). When I worked in ND it would stay in the -30f to -40f degree range for weeks at a time and with windchill would get down into the -60f range. But also all those areas can get above 100f in the summer North Dakota having a record of 121f and Montana’s record at 117f while it’s never broken 100f in Montreal.
If it makes you feel better, cold state architecture is built around cold weather instead of whatever the fuck Texas infrastructure is meant to do. But I would rather be in -50 in Montana than 20 in Texas.
Yep, that sounds like home (I was born and raised in West Central Minnesota on the edge of the vast Dakota flatlands with no way to stop the Canadian Arctic Blast from flash freezing me during the winter)
Except that was on a mountain pass not in the areas people live.....growing up near Montreal and living in Montana, it's more the Wind and dry desolation that makes it undesirable, not necessarily the cold. Wind though.....
The wind coming through that area makes it much colder than the winter. Of course it's even colder in other parts of Canada that aren't Montreal. Like Saskatchewan, directly north of this. And barely anybody lives there either.
Low temperatures are not that low actually in the Piedmont region. Up in the mountains its a lot cooler. Raleigh gets 6 inches of snow per year on average and the average low barely gets below freezing.
North Carolina has a wide variety of geography, but I would describe most areas as at least "kinda humid". South Carolina has a lot of swamp and swamp-ish areas even a good bit inland, and it's all awful.
...and there's a lot of dryness since there are no major waterbodies in that area. Chicago is along the Great Lakes, NYC is in NY harbor, San Fran is in the Bay area, LA is along the coast, Seattle is located in a Bay along a Sound, a lot of the major FL cities are along the coast, outside of Disney which is build on a swamp, even Salt Lake City is built near a dry lake bed that fills when the Pacific has hurricanes/cyclones that redirect water into CA and the Great Basin away from the PNW.
Lived in North Dakota for four years and I can confidently say that The Plains in the US is the most deceptively brutal place I’ve ever been in. I grew up on the Gulf Coast, I thought I knew misery. Granted the humidity is nothing, but the hottest I ever saw it get was 115 Fahrenheit. Coldest I ever saw it get was -55 Fahrenheit WITHOUT wind chill. Believe WITH wind chill it was estimated to be about -75 Fahrenheit.
That's what I figured. It gets cold as fuck in Sask and Manitoba. But that biting wind makes it so much damn worse. I couldn't see it being much different in ND or Minnesota. But I've never been to either state.
If memory serves ND tends to be a bit colder but generally the two are pretty close. I believe ND gets a bit colder from wind chill because it’s flatter.
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u/zakress 26d ago
100+° in summer and -20° in winter isn’t helping desirability any