Which US city has the harshest winter?
Cold, snow and wind each punish a different city hardest, so the answer depends on which one you would least like to live through.
1ChicagoLake-effect wind off Michigan turns an ordinary cold snap into something people write about.
2MinneapolisThe coldest big city in the lower 48, with a downtown connected by heated skyways for a reason.
3BuffaloLake-effect snow off Erie measured in feet rather than inches.
4AnchorageAlaska's largest city, where winter runs from October and daylight runs about five hours.
5FargoFlat, open North Dakota prairie with nothing between the city and the wind.
6DuluthOn the shore of Lake Superior, routinely the coldest place in the continental United States.
7MilwaukeeChicago's weather, slightly worse, with the same lake doing the damage.
8SyracuseThe snowiest large city in America most years, and it competes for the title on purpose.
9DetroitGrey, wet Great Lakes winters that run long even when the temperature is unremarkable.
10ClevelandLake Erie snow and a stretch of overcast days that rivals the Pacific Northwest.
11BostonNor'easters that arrive off the Atlantic and shut the city down in a single day.
12Green BayCold enough that the local stadium's most famous game is named after the temperature.
13BurlingtonVermont on Lake Champlain, with long snow cover and very little January thaw.
14RochesterUpstate New York, snowier than almost anywhere and rarely mentioned for it.
15DenverMile-high storms that drop two feet and melt three days later.
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Comments
Placing well on this one is bad news. Minneapolis, Fargo and Duluth are colder than Chicago, and Buffalo and Syracuse get snow the city never sees: https://youpick.best/articles/chicago-ranked-many-ways
