We’re Cooking Up Here

It’s definitely July here in Minnesota, time for my annual complain-about-the-summer-heat post. It’s funny because when you mention that you’re in Minnesota to someone in another part of the country they will always ask if it’s nice and cool up here. They just assume that our summers are like a mild winter, like it doesn’t get remotely warm here. In reality Minnesota is the only state that I know of that although it has 4 seasons it really only has 2 climates in terms of temperature; Hella’ Hot and Hella’ Cold. It will get to -40F in the winter and 100F in the summer, no problem.

A good example – I was talking with a rep from a firm that our company does business with and he stated that he was in California and he asked where our office was. I said Minnesota and he said “Ohhh I bet it’s nice up there?! It’s about 87 down here today, not too bad but I bet that Minnesota weather is great!” and he was floored when I replied, “Nope, its 96F out with 80% humidity… hotter than hell right now.”

I wish it were nice and mild here, year round even. People think I’m obsessed with regions like the Pacific Northwest, I’ll mention that I’d like to move away to Seattle or Portland all the time but it’s true. Our weather here really does bother me… it’s unfair. We can never seem to have a string of nice mild, comfortable conditions. I swear, our “Spring” must last less than a day, You will wake up and it will be 31F, by lunch it’s 70 and raining and by the time you get home from work its sunny and blazing at like 90.

Days like this, I’m thankful that I work inside.