<p>I live near New Haven, we miss most major snowstorms, at least we have the past few years. </p>
<p>The weather sucks, get used to it.</p>
<p>Actually, I guess we're pretty lucky out here, in that weather remains fairly consistent. I was exaggerating a bit on my heat/humidity standards, but I had no idea it got so humid back east. Good thing I asked.</p>
<p>I'm somebody who wears shorts year-round, and when I did an overnight at Ham in mid-January I found the temperature to be a pleasantly brisk 15 degrees. The humid heat will be something to deal with, but hopefully being ensconced in a forested landscape will help alleviate some of the heat.</p>
<p>Hamilton College is 150 miles from the Massachusetts border. It is in upstate New York, not New England, and the weather there is vastly different than the weather in New England itself.</p>
<p>The weird weather fluctuations don't bother me so much, because I come from another part of the country (the Ohio River Valley) that has unpredictable weather. It drives a lot of people mad.</p>
<p>The humidity doesn't bother me. I grew up in Georgia and Kentucky, so I think the summers, including the humidity part, are for the most part gorgeously mild. :) Nearly everyone I know from out West has complained incessantly about the humidity during the summers, though. So it's something you'll want to consider, just as I, a Southerner, had to consider the cold.</p>
<p>The winters are less cold than you would get in, say, Minnesota, or Wisconsin. In fact, it got as cold in Kentucky as it does in metro Boston. The difference is that the metro Boston winter is several months longer. Winters here are very long.</p>