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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3394817, member: 40"]
No worries, ArchDuke.  Considering -- per some quick internet research to validate -- that the coldest ever recorded day in history in Minnesota was -67 with wind chill in 1936, and that it has only been recorded to get below -60 wind chill an extremely small number of times in history, I sincerely doubt there were many -60 wind chill days for you to experience.  At minimum, I suspect hyperbole -- the same way that everyone talks up weather phenomenon.

No doubt, it can get cold here.  But that is intermittent, and not a consistent thing every winter, and there is a LOT less snow.  I've lived here for 16 years, and the coldest winter was in 2014 [which was a universal thing in the US that year].  The coldest temperature that winter was -20, with a -36 wind chill--it was brutal, there is no positive spin to put on that--but it sure wasn't -60 wind chill.

Your example is like pointing to the rare occasions where Syracuse gets bombarded with >20 inches of snow in a 24 hour span, and pretending that is the norm because it happens extremely occasionally.  I LOVE Syracuse, I'm not trying to defend Minnesota -- but when the poster above proclaims that it snows here in October, sorry that's just not true [even though I'm sure it has happened, just like it's happened in CNY]. I take a similar grain of salt when you describe all of those -60 wind chill days -- could it have happened?  Possibly, but I'm guessing it is hyperbole.
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