<p>Any school in Alaska wins this one, but in the lower 48, my alma mater, the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, is the coldest. It’s north of Fargo, listed at number 2, above. It’s 60 miles from the Canadian border and smack dab in the middle of the continent with no large bodies of water nearby. They have very reasonable tuition and a great aviation program.</p>
<p>On a funny note…A few years ago we were crossing the border between Canada and the state of Maine. My kids and husband all have Minnesota listed as their place of birth on their passports. The customs official said he gets so upset when International Falls, MN get all the attention for being the coldest spot because often times it’s colder there in Maine, but no one gives them any attention.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in Minnesota and North Dakota all my life, and they’re pretty brutal.
I would say MN definately has colder temps (lowest its been since i lived here has been -29) and the wind chill can get unbearable.
North Dakota isn’t SUPER RIDICULOUSLY cold, but the snow amount was insane. Every 5 days I swear there was a snow day. and since ND is flat land, the snow piles up fast. It usually gets to anywhere between 1-4 feet of snow (at least from my experience).
Maybe its colder out east, I don’t know…ive never been out east =[
so school wise…UND, NDSU, most of the MN schools that aren’t in the city (Saint Cloud, St.Olaf, Carleton, Mankato)</p>
<p>I got through a year at the U of Toronto without a real winter coat because I was too cheap to buy one. I wouldn’t recommend that sort of thriftiness to anyone.</p>
<p>The University of Minnesota Duluth and Saint Scholastica (also in Duluth).</p>
<p>Duluth’s average January high is 16 degrees and the average low is -1.
The average temperature for the whole year is a high of 48 degrees and a low of 29 degrees.</p>
<p>University of Fairbanks gets crazy cold. The average January low in Fairbanks is -19 and the high is -1.</p>
<p>Also, lower peninsula Michigan really isn’t that cold. The upper peninsula is colder, but not like northern MN. The UP gets a ton of snow instead. </p>
<p>The east coast and Chicago aren’t cold. Not by a long shot.</p>
<p>Personally I think University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is the coldest place.
Although it may have a little bit of higher temperature in winter compared to other schools, sometimes snow storms come during APRIL. Beat that.</p>
<p>Anything north of Minneapolis will have snow storms at a later date. </p>
<p>Most people don’t know what cold is.<br> It’s cold:
When icicles form on your eyelashes,
When your eyes will freeze shut if you don’t keep them open long enough,
When vapor clouds form off of nearby bodies of water,
When you can’t move your face,
When you feel the snot in your nose freeze,
and When your spit freezes almost instantly upon hitting the ground.</p>
<p>Houghton, MI (Michigan Tech): +8, +22
Sault Ste. Marie. MI (Lake Superior State): +5, +21
Minneapolis, MN (U Minnesota): +4, +22
Northfield, MN (Carleton, St. Olaf): +1, +22
Bemidji, MN (Bemidji State): -4, +16<br>
Grand Forks, ND (U N. Dakota): -4, +15.
Fargo, ND (N. Dakota State): -2, +16</p>
<p>Michigan Tech is not nearly as cold as Bemidji State (MN), the University of North Dakota, or North Dakota State; actually not even as cold as the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Carleton, or St. Olaf. That’s because Michigan Tech is on a peninsula surrounded on three sides by Lake Superior. Sounds cold, I know, but the lake actually has a moderating effect on temperature. I’ve lived in both northern Michigan and in Minnesota. Minnesota’s colder. North Dakota’s colder still.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you want a competition for who gets the most snow, Michigan Tech would certainly be right up there, possibly at the very top due to the “lake effect” from cold dry air moving over warmer water and as it warms picking up moisture that is redeposited as snow as soon as the now-warm-and-moist air hits a (relatively) colder land mass. But large amounts of snowfall are not the same thing as cold. In fact, in those parts they tend to be inversely related because it’s warm moist air that produces the most snow.</p>
<p>“Personally I think University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is the coldest place.
Although it may have a little bit of higher temperature in winter compared to other schools, sometimes snow storms come during APRIL. Beat that.”</p>
<p>It snowed during April in southeast Michigan my senior year of high school.</p>
<p>I am not sure about it being a once in a lifetime occurance. It snowed on graduation day back in 1996. I graduate on May 2nd, 1996 and it actually snowed…very little and it did not stick, but still. However, I agree that Southeastern Michigan would not make the list of the coldest places in the US.</p>
<p>Gunnison, Colorado (Western State College of Colorado) is a very, very cold spot…I’d say it’s about as cold as North Dakota and often times colder than International Falls . If the snow squeaks it’s cold. You can have lots and lots and lots of snow and it still not be sub-zero at noon. And take it from someone who has lived in alot of very cold places, there is a huge difference between damp cold with wetter snow and frigid cold with dry squeaky snow. But then again, personally I’ll take the dry, sub-zero, squeaky snow, sunny, frigid cold anyday to the just plain cold, wet snowy, damp 15-20 degree gray winters around the great lakes.</p>