<p>yup, almost all the colleges that fit OP’s criteria are in “cold” areas…
Seriously, I don’t think there’s a prize for good weather to be won between Boston in February and St Paul in February…
I suppose that OP could check out “days of sunshine” instead of temperatures because finding good schools in tolerable climates will be hard outside of CA: Pacific Northwest = rain, Southeast = humidity… (People from the Southwest often underestimate how unbearable humid heat is, because it’s hard to grasp until you’ve lived it. I’d take a cold crisp day over a humid hot one but ymmv.)</p>