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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote] I never realized that State College was in the tropics.  [/quote]

Compered to Wisconsin, minus 47 degrees, without wind chill factored into your equation seems like the tropics[/quote]

Sure 🙄[/quote]

According to best places.net Climate compare:

State College: 178 sunny days/yr
January low: 17, July High 82
Snow: 44.5 inches

Madison Wisconsin: 187 sunny days/yr
January low: 10.2, July high 81.9
Snow: 42.4 inches

Ann Arbor MI: 178 sunny days/yr
January low: 16.5, July high 82.8
Snow: 43 inches

Columbus, OH: 178 sunny days/yr
January low: 21, July high 85.3
Snow: 22.4 inches

So Madison is a bit colder than State College, but not that much.  Ann Arbor is about the same. Columbus looks like the best weather if you don't like the cold out of OPs options.
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Madison is the third-coldest major city in the U.S., according to a ranking assembled by the Weather Channel.

The list considered the 100 most populous cities in the country. It then narrowed down the 20 coldest from that list, using 30-year average temperatures during the months of December, January and February, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. The cities were ranked based on which ones are persistently the coldest — not on record temperatures.

Madison's average temperature during those three winter months is 21.6 degrees, according to the Weather Channel. Its all-time record low came in 1951, when the temperature fell to -37 degrees.
The temperature drops below zero an average of 17 days per year, but it falls below freezing an average of 152 days each year.  The only persistently colder major cities in the U.S., according to the list, are Anchorage, Alaska, with an average winter temperature of 18.8 degrees, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., with an average temperature of 18.7 degrees in the cold months.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- (2019) The daily low-temperature records set on Jan. 30, 1911, and Jan. 1, 1899, were shattered overnight. Just before midnight Wednesday, Jan. 30, the National Weather Service was reporting a temperature of 17 below zero, and the temperature dropped one more tick to 18 below zero by 7 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31.  The prior daily low records were 11 below zero and 12 below zero, respectively.
The 18 below zero registered early Thursday ranks as the sixth coldest daily low temperature ever, since the University of Michigan began collecting temperature data in 1881.

To be fair, the lowest temperature ever recorded in State College, Pennsylvania was -20 °F which occurred on February 10, 1899.

All these schools are great.  My kid decided to attend PSU based on many factors.  It's all good.  Congratulations to the kids that are newly admitted to PSU (or other schools across the US)!

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...[/quote]

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