<p>Are there are Cornell students from SoCal/Arizona/New Mexico who can testify about adjusting to snow? I live in Phoenix currently (where there's no such thing as snow) and I want to know what it's like to suddenly be surrounded by snow/extreme cold. Is it as horrible as most people say it is? Thanks.</p>
<p>um if you're from an area where it never snows, kind of.</p>
<p>it snows a little bit every week and there are probably 3-4 big snowstorms when we get a foot or more of snow. its fine if it snowed the night before because ithaca is really good about plowing and shoveling, but its a b*tch to walk to class in. </p>
<p>just bring a warm jacket, GLOVES, and a hat that covers your ears and you should be fine and get used to it after a while.</p>
<p>you're not going to be "suddenly be surrounded by snow/extreme cold" for the love of god. This is the northeast, not Antarctica.</p>
<p>Ha ha. :) So I guess that was a bit of an exaggeration. Even so, I still wonder what it's like to go from extreme hot (110 F) to cold (~20F). It certainly might FEEL like traveling to the South Pole. Lol.</p>
<p>when you arrive at Cornell it will be in the mid 80's with high humidity. It will feel like southern Arizona, trust me. It doesn't get cold until december (a few days in november will be cold as well).</p>
<p>^Says the New Yorker. It depends on your definition of cold.</p>
<p>20F isn't really considered as extreme cold. It was 9F during finals weeks and the actual temperature can get down to -20 to -30F if you factor in wind chill.</p>
<p>it starting dropping in temp (like below 50 or 60) around the second week of october. before that, it was above 70 and very humid. right now, its cold, but if you bundle up, its comfortable. just invest in a very large parka, and buy one now after xmas because once april comes around, there wont be anything</p>
<p>and this is coming from someone from MD</p>
<p>"Says the New Yorker. It depends on your definition of cold."</p>
<p>New Yorker maybe, but I've spent plenty of time around the realms of southern AZ (where my brother is). 40 degrees in arizona actually feels colder than 40 degrees in New York.</p>
<p>For how many months is it really cold? What is the average temperature there in the spring and summer?</p>
<p>^Not that it doesn't get cold in Ithaca, but I have to confess my amusement with some of these posts. I've spent some time in the northern reaches of Norway in the dead of winter. When I was there, dawn was at 10 am, dusk was at 3 pm, it was 30 below zero at night (without the wind chill factor) and the snow (not the drifts) was 7-8 feet deep. Now THAT's winter.</p>