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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
You Bah-stonians (which I am orignally) got nothing on us Rochesterians!
We average over a hundred inches a year!
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Pfft ... 100 inches?
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"The Keweenaw Peninsula regularly receives in excess of 200 inches of snowfall each year. By comparison, Minneapolis averages 47 inches, Chicago 40 inches and Detroit only 38 inches per year. Even the lake effect snows of Buffalo, New York, only average 93 inches per year.
"The heaviest winter snowfall in Houghton County was recorded during the 1978-1979 season with over 350 inches falling in the county. Yet residents know that the snowfall totals tell only a part of the story. Even in below average years, the snow can be punishingly constant. In 1984-1985 snow fell for 51 days straight, yet didn’t break a Houghton County record set in the 1930s when snow fell every day for two months."
Source: http://history.cityofhoughton.com/winter.html
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The first two weeks I was up here, it was in the -40s and we got about 5 feet of snow!! This is my boyfriend and his friend digging my car out of the parking lot:
Though, in the summer and fall, the UP is absolutely gorgeous - in a different way than Florida and Hawaii are!
