America's Upper Midwest sports the world's most variable climate. Nowhere else is the setting as close to being a rainforest in summer and an arctic wasteland in winter. The American Indians must have known this, and they also know that there is a curse on those who choose to ruin the natural and social environment by making as if this is Just Anotha Joe.
In order to understand the vastness of the climate change, it must be taken into account that there is a big biological difference between a hot arid desert and a rainforest. Granted, temperature extremes per-se, there are other places where the ranges are greater. But what would truly be more different: a place like Fairbanks in the winter and like Phoenix in the summer, or a place like Fairbanks in the winter but like Honolulu in the summer? Sure, Phoenix is hotter, but Honolulu is more biological. That's the basis on which it can be stated that the Minnesota region sports the most variable climate of all.
The seasonal extremes are painful, but the actual degree of transition is even worse. Most creatures are adapted to a root climate which can include seasonal variation, not to an environment in which the climate literally turns 180 degrees and includes almost everything in between.
Minnesota weather SUCKS! So there!
