<p>Haha okay, so I'm from California. You know, the place where everyone tans and plays beach volleyball? Yeah, that place. I was wondering how horrified I would be if I had to adjust to Michigan weather. Would I freeze my ass off all year round? Or does it get pretty much snowing for half of the year and then the other half it gets pretty hot?</p>
<p>It gets really hot like 10 days per year. During winter, sorry to disappoint you, it snows a lot. It's really easy to get depressed seeing all the snow ALL the time, especially if you didn't grow up in Michigan.</p>
<p>I live in upstate new york where the weather is almost identical to michigans. Spring doesnt start till may really....and by that time you are gone.</p>
<p>Dont worry though. You get used to the snow. Its sort of there after a while. There are some fun things to do in the snow anyways.</p>
<p>Exactly how much does it snow? Yeah, pretty open ended question, but I was j/w. I'm from NJ, so I'm used to snow, but not feet upon feet (that only happens every few snowstorms).</p>
<p>10 days?! So what, it's basically snowing/really cold all year?</p>
<p>symphony,</p>
<p>the point was that it is very hot for about 10 days a year. from april or may through september the weather is absolutely gorgeous.</p>
<p>I'm from Florida, so I'm used to summer all year, I know that at Umich it will be totally different. When I was there for orientation, It was just as hot as it was in Florida, when does it start to get into the 60's? Will it be very hot for most of september?</p>
<p>You can have some nice days in Sept. Like high 70s in the beginning and trailing off to 60s by the end. October is the big plunge. I have seen it snow on halloween (not a lot just a dusting but it was cold enough) where i live and i have similar weather to UM.</p>
<p>You know it's a scientific fact that extensive deprivation to sunlight makes hormones unstable so people become depressed. I was at Orientation and some girls told me that people drive with their windows down in early March when it's still pretty cold just because the sun has finally come out. Is that true? Is it like coming out of the Ice Age or something? I'm an OOS so I'm just curious. Also they said you can taste when it's going to rain/snow. X_o</p>
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I was at Orientation and some girls told me that people drive with their windows down in early March when it's still pretty cold just because the sun has finally come out.
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Yes. But it's not because the sun has finally appeared. It's not as though we have six months of total darkness every year.* :) It's because in March the temperatures can begin to climb into the forties; after a long winter this tends to feel quite balmy. Plus, the snow is beginning to melt. Here's how it's been going for the last few years.</p>
<p>-November/early December: winter comes, snow, ice, the normal stuff.
-Late December/early January: big snowstorm.
-late January/early February: a thaw. Warm enough to melt most of the snow. But don't go digging out the flipflops yet.
-February: more snow, more winter.
-March/April: Temperatures get progressively warmer, occasionally interrupted by a freak ice or snow storm.</p>
<p>*Incidentally, Detroit has fewer 'sunny' days than Seattle.</p>
<p>Autumn is probably the best season here. At least I think so.</p>
<p>I agree that autumn is probably the best season. It tends to be mild (60s), sunny most of the time, and very little rain. </p>
<p>Summer can be really hot. Spring is hit or miss, as it can be 70 in March, then snow in April. It also tends to rain a ton later on in the spring.</p>
<p>Recently, November and December haven't been too bad. The heavy snow tends to be after Christmas, and it seems to be the coldest in February.</p>
<p>yeah...i don't know if i would be able to handle that. I'm from California where it's sunny 360 days of the year</p>
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It also tends to rain a ton later on in the spring.
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Oh yeah, monsoon season. A few years ago it thunderstormed for a week or so. It never really stopped raining, it just sort of drizzled for a half-hour or so, then started up again, rinse and repeat every couple hours or so. This year was pretty good though, it didn't rain too much on a continual basis.</p>
<p>If 'spring' to you means flowering plants and leaves on the trees, you won't see that until late April at least.</p>
<p>Generally in the winter the cold temperatures only become a serious problem when it is windy.</p>
<p>I can stand the cold...but the word "autumn"? <strong>shudder</strong></p>
<p>I enjoy a crisp, cool day in the Fall more than anything but 40 degrees is considered "balmy". x_o Oh well, I guess I'll get used to it.</p>
<p>Yeah its very interesting how well humans adapt. Trust me, after 2 straight weeks of single digit temps 32 will be seem like 70. Its really not that bad though. People just find different things to do. Plus there are things you can do in winter that you just cant do in the summer...aka snowball fights.</p>
<p>That's true. I'm gonna be in West Quad this Fall and I've heard about the Snowball Fight. i met some cool people at Orientation but they're all in Bursley. I didn't meet a single person who got West Quad. For lack of better words, It freaking sucks.</p>
<p>I can't even think of what 40 degrees feels like. The lowest it gets here is probably in the lower 50s and it can go upwards to about 110. 70 degrees is what it's like on Christmas day. Haha that's mainly why i'm skeptical about applying to schools in the mid-west and east coast. Weather sucks, but I suppose adjusting couldn't be TOO bad. I would just be the wimp who wears 12 sweaters when it gets to 30 degrees</p>
<p>I lived in Hancock Park in LA before starting HS so I know what you mean.</p>
<p>I think I live south of everybody here, in Naples Florida. It almost never gets below 60.</p>