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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3394886, member: 40"]
I don't think that anyone disputes that it CAN get colder here than in Syracuse, just like nobody disputes that CNY gets exponentially more snow most years.

But having to reference data from 1996, and 2004, etc. kind of proves my point -- sure, it can happen, but it tends to happen in very remote parts of the state that aren't close to Minneapolis, and it doesn't happen frequently.  1996 was 24 years ago.  2004 was 16 years ago.  And something happening in International Falls, the coldest part of the state 300 miles away, doesn't apply any more than Tug Hill's snowfall does to New York City.

Along those same lines, from the data you posted -- do a quick check to see how far away Grand Marais, Duluth, Fosston, and Park Rapids are from the Twin Cities.  Discussing the weather in Grand Marais and trying to apply it to where the University of Minnesota is located near Minneapolis would be like trying to lump in the lake effect snow from Cleveland into the Syracuse annual accumulation.

As you suggest, not worth arguing about.  It can get frigid here -- VERY.  But it doesn't happen as often as many think, and it certainly doesn't occur in the Twin Cities every winter, even if it happens in International Falls / Grand Marais.  I just get annoyed by hyperbole thrown out as fact, that it snows here every October, that it is -60 wind chill here routinely.
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