@DarkMage7280
So you could sort of compare the Northern Midwest to Scandinavia to a certain extent? We lack most of the rugged terrain, but....
In my home state( which has the highest concentration of Finns in America),we can get long, cold, snowy winters, but thanks to the El Nino, it was mild these last two years after the blizzard of 2013-14( no school for close to three weeks), but we're too far inland and east of the closest Great Lake to get lake effect snow like they do on the west coast,and then hot, steamy summers with mosquitoes everywhere because of how swampy the part where I live is-there's drainage ponds and little patches of water everywhere, and that isn't even counting the lakes, and the occasional tornado, but one hasn't hit here since 2014. Spring and Fall is where one day you go out in shorts and a t shirt, and the next day you're bundled up in a snow jacket., and in spring especially, you think just above freezing is warm and feels like summer, as long as the sun's out. This spring, there was also a huge windstorm that knocked out the power at school for 3 days; I clocked a 60 mile an hour gust on the weather station at home, the shingles flew off the roof, and there were trees uprooted and powerlines down everywhere. And yes, there's always orange construction barrels everywhere year round. The roads are also the worst in the country not only because of the freeze thaw cycle, but because of how heavy the trucks are driving, and so there's potholes everywhere that can make you blow out a tire or bounce high enough in your seat to hit the roof of your car. https://www.wunderground.com/wximage/Lainey315/2
Hometown in winter
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@DarkMage7280
So you could sort of compare the Northern Midwest to Scandinavia to a certain extent? We lack most of the rugged terrain, but....
In my home state( which has the highest concentration of Finns in America),we can get long, cold, snowy winters, but thanks to the El Nino, it was mild these last two years after the blizzard of 2013-14( no school for close to three weeks), but we're too far inland and east of the closest Great Lake to get lake effect snow like they do on the west coast,and then hot, steamy summers with mosquitoes everywhere because of how swampy the part where I live is-there's drainage ponds and little patches of water everywhere, and that isn't even counting the lakes, and the occasional tornado, but one hasn't hit here since 2014. Spring and Fall is where one day you go out in shorts and a t shirt, and the next day you're bundled up in a snow jacket., and in spring especially, you think just above freezing is warm and feels like summer, as long as the sun's out. This spring, there was also a huge windstorm that knocked out the power at school for 3 days; I clocked a 60 mile an hour gust on the weather station at home, the shingles flew off the roof, and there were trees uprooted and powerlines down everywhere. And yes, there's always orange construction barrels everywhere year round. The roads are also the worst in the country not only because of the freeze thaw cycle, but because of how heavy the trucks are driving, and so there's potholes everywhere that can make you blow out a tire or bounce high enough in your seat to hit the roof of your car.
https://www.wunderground.com/wximage/Lainey315/2
Hometown in winter