I'm scouting out good places to live/visit.
I want to be where it snows over 200"/year. Say 250"+ would be ideal.
BUT I don't want to live where it regularly goes below 0F.
I lived up in the mountains of NY for two winters and LOVED the snow but the 20 and 30F BELOW sucked so much I couldn't take it.
What's it like out west? Oregon? Washington State? Are there places that get dumped on but aren't frigid? Colorado?
I'm clueless about the western weather patterns.
I have heard that Colorado is not as cold as we think it is. Maybe you can ask HockeyHound.
Cats congrats on your weight loss ticker.
And Come to Cleveland Ohio. We get snow & cold and its quite reasonable, lol. Nothing in the minus temps.. OK I admit we do get spurts of minus temps but they don't last long.
And we have great place to go skiing at if your into that?
Right now it is 25ยบ and hardly any snow on the ground. But that is due to change very soon, (sigh) After losing so much weight I feel the cold more. I am not ready for this winter.
Anyway we are due for a lot of snow. So if you like snow. Cleveland is the place to be, lol
My mom used to live in Colorado and it snowed all winter long, but was also sunny and warm.
I'm from Seattle where it doesn't snow, but it does if you go East or closer north near Canada. Eastern Oregon is this way as well. However I wouldn't recommend living in eastern Oregon or Washington. Just my opinion but I do know a few people living there who do like it.
And no, you won't find 20 or 30 below out west. The entire Pacific Northwest, Northern California and Colorado are quite mild year-round.
The area I can think of is in eastern California; like Lake Tahoe and/or the Sierra Nevadas. They get a lot of snow, but rarely it gets into sub-zero. Unfortunately, a lot of places that get a lot snow can get into the sub-zeros at times.
I used to hate those days when it would get into the sub-zeros when I lived back east. I didn't mind the 20s and 30s, but I hated it when it felt like -20.
According to
this site, Mount Washington, NH and Blue Canyon, CA seem to be the only ones outside of Alaska.
Colorado is the way to go. I don't recall it getting below zero more than a few days a year. Even single digits are somewhat rare. When it does snow in town, it almost always melts within one or two days. The sun is out over 300 days a year. In the mountain towns, it snows more and is colder at night. But for daytime snow activities, the weather will only keep you off of the mountain for a few days a year - and that's mostly due to high winds. Wind is the most annoying weather feature we have here. Also occasional hail.
Parts of California and the NW get lots of snow, but it's wet heavy snow that, IMO is not as fun so play in. Colorado is famous for champagne powder.
Of course, Utah and Wyoming are similar to Colorado, weather-wise - but their socio-political climates are less desireable.