<p>That’s why I compared offered the comparison to Bagotville instead (higher altitude, not urban, still not as mountainous as the Adirondacks, but the lattitude should compensate). I know mountains have microclimates… Looking through <a href=“http://www.worldclimate.com%5B/url%5D”>www.worldclimate.com</a>, you only have averages, and no standard deviations, so it’s harder to get a grasp on extreme weather.</p>
<p>Anyway, my acquaintances from [Fermont</a>](<a href=“http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?Province=ALL&StationName=fermont&SearchType=BeginsWith&LocateBy=Province&Proximity=25&ProximityFrom=City&StationNumber=&IDType=MSC&CityName=&ParkName=&LatitudeDegrees=&LatitudeMinutes=&LongitudeDegrees=&LongitudeMinutes=&NormalsClass=A&SelNormals=&StnId=5644&&autofwd=1]Fermont”>http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?Province=ALL&StationName=fermont&SearchType=BeginsWith&LocateBy=Province&Proximity=25&ProximityFrom=City&StationNumber=&IDType=MSC&CityName=&ParkName=&LatitudeDegrees=&LatitudeMinutes=&LongitudeDegrees=&LongitudeMinutes=&NormalsClass=A&SelNormals=&StnId=5644&&autofwd=1)would laugh when they heard we closed school at sustained -40 with windchill (still, only got 1-2 storm days a year, though 1 was usually icing rain in novermber, the calendar allowed for 3, so back in 1994, we just had to suck it up…). </p>
<p>Still, wasn’t this discussion about Boston in the first place. And here’s a quote from another acquaintance of mine, who went to MIT: “In Boston, it only snows in Alley McBeal”.</p>