A few yrs ago some Canadian friends who owned a fishing camp in Northern Ont. used to come south to winter in the U.P. .They said it was warmer with less snow...I guess ya' gotta' live it to know it...
There's areas up here that absolutely get hammered with snow. Calumet, Ironwood, and Munising are the typical winners. They usually get around 50-100 inches more per year than I do. They usually take turns on who gets dumped on. I got more snow than I need, but those guys get hammered. Then, we call Escanaba the banana belt, they usually don't get near the cold, or a 1/3 of the snow. And the eastern U.P. just sucks, not much snow and bitter cold nearly all the time. But the U.P. as a whole, NEEDS snow. Our hotels, bars, restaurants, gas stations, and repair facilities all depend on it to make money. The amount of tourists up here in the winter is staggering. We rely on snow, the same as a farmer in Iowa, or southern Michigan, relies on the rain.