<p>How does the climate (temperature and weather) of U of Minnesota compare to the Northeastern climate, such as the climate in Boston or New York. I'm looking at Mid-western schools, but I dislike the cold weather. I can deal with New England weather, but if it is much colder than in the Northeast, then it will be a big turn off. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Minnesota is really really cold. And really really snowy. Lived here all my life. I don’t know how you can honestly say you’ll be turned off by cold weather at a school and consider Minnesota…</p>
<p>If you dislike (extremely) cold weather but can handle new England weather, some mid western states such as Missouri, Ohio and Kansas might be comparable and worth considering. Minnesota will be too cold for you.</p>
<p>Yeah, Minneapolis is definitely colder. January, especially, can be reeeally brutal. Here, I found you some averages to look at:</p>
<p>[Average</a> Weather for Boston, MA - Temperature and Precipitation](<a href=“National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information from The Weather Channel and weather.com”>National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information from The Weather Channel and weather.com)
[Average</a> Weather for Minneapolis, MN - Temperature and Precipitation](<a href=“National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information from The Weather Channel and weather.com”>National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information from The Weather Channel and weather.com)</p>
<p>I live here and don’t consider the northeast relatively warm.</p>
<p>My roommate is actually from Boston, and with what he’s told me about his climate versus Minnesota’s is that they’re relatively comparable. Sure come January there’s going to be some tough below zero week stretches, but it’s not like all winter is like that. As far as snow goes, southern Wisconsin has seen more snow each of the past 3 years than the Minneapolis area has. I wouldn’t be afraid of the weather here. Spring and Fall are close to perfect IMO.</p>
<p>The snow probably won’t bother you that much.</p>
<p>The cold will. </p>
<p>Expect it to drop below 20 sometime in November and then not rise back above it until sometime in March.</p>
<p>Expect that when you are walking outside all you’ll really be doing is thinking “<em>#@# its #</em>@$ing cold.” </p>
<p>Expect it to get light at 8 am, for it to be fully night out at 4 pm, and for it to be grey and cloudy for most of the hours in between.</p>
<p>Expect to see the natives in shorts and a t-shirt as soon as the mercury rises above about 45 degrees.</p>
<p>Just to give you an idea.</p>
<p>I like the University of Minnesota as a match school for me, due to a nice location (though large campus), good physics programs, and good cost. </p>
<p>Upstate New York (south of Albany) is pretty cold IMO, but manageable, though I don’t want to go to say Potsdam due to weather. Plus I don’t like lots of snow. I’ll have to consider U of Minnesota more carefully. </p>
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<li>Big 10 school!</li>
<li>doesn’t cost an arm and leg</li>
<li>urban campus</li>
<li><p>good physics program</p></li>
<li><p>cold</p></li>
<li><p>large campus
those two kinda compound if I have to travel a long ways in the cold, haha! I usually run where ever I want 2 go, but usually sub-freezing forces me indoors. Put is this way, the Cross Country state meet in Norwood-Norfolk (a stone’s throw away from the Canadian border in NY) was brutal, specially with a wind-chill of 0 farenheit, haha.</p></li>
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<p>0 with wind chill?</p>
<p>pfft. Try -20 to -30 for a few solid weeks.</p>
<p>All the snow that falls just hardens into an icy rock that will cut you if you happen to fall into it.</p>
<p>yeah 0 with wind chill. But i was wearing short shorts and a XC singlet, so that makes it much colder. Once you get running you don’t feel it though.</p>
<p>Would you say weather in Minneapolis is better or worse than the weather in Chicago?</p>
<p>Weather in Minnesota is slightly worse than it is in Chicago. The biggest difference is probably that it gets cold earlier and stays cold longer in Minnesota, by about a week or so on each end probably.</p>
<p>Chicago also has a few mixed in mildish days (20’s, that means) that Minnesota will most likely not have.</p>
<p>Almost five inches of snow today in the Twin Cities and it’s OCTOBER 12TH!!! Just sayin :D</p>
<p>I just looked at the webcam of the campus and while there is some snow, there is a lot of grass showing. Don’t think there could have been 5 inches of snow, unless it melted really quickly.</p>
<p>[Webcam</a> : Student Dashboard : University of Minnesota](<a href=“http://it.umn.edu/dashboard/webcam/]Webcam”>http://it.umn.edu/dashboard/webcam/)</p>
<p>There was a little over 2 and a half inches of snow in the metro, nice over-exaggeration there LakeSuperior. And it all melted due to above freezing temps, helpingmom</p>
<p>I heard five, but I don’t know. That might have been total snow in the last week cause it’s been snowin off and on since Saturday.</p>
<p>But yea, most of it has melted pretty quickly.</p>