re: #93 thedopefishlives

I spent most of my formative years on the Illinois plain and just off the southeast corner of Lake Michigan. It never seemed to get as cold on the lake as it does up here, though.

True, but lots and LOTS of snow. I worked about 10 miles west of my house there, I would roll into town with my car covered in snow and people would be looking at me thinking “where the hell did you just come from?”
The lake effect stopped about 2 miles west of my farm. Go from three feet of snow to dry pavement as if there was a force field installed.