Lorain/Elyria, OH
It’s official: Cleveland is worst winter city
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CLEVELAND — Snow on the way won’t help two Ohio cities that have found themselves on a Web site’s new list of the nation’s ten worst winter weather cities.
Cleveland ranks No. 1 for bad winters, according to Forbes.com. The Forbes magazine Web site says Cleveland winters require endurance, with frigid temperatures and an average of nearly 60 inches of snow.
Right behind Cleveland are Boston and New York.
Columbus ranks 8th, with an average annual snowfall of 28 inches and what Forbes.com describes as a moderately cold average temperature throughout the year of about 53 degrees.
Cleveland and Columbus are under a winter storm warning until Wednesday evening, as is virtually all of Ohio because of the potential for several inches of snow.
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Actually not a Forbes report, they just carried a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
America’s Worst Winter Weather Cities
In compiling our list, we measured weather patterns in the country’s 50 largest cities, or Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. This data was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and tracks average annual temperature, total precipitation in inches, and total snowfall in inches. The temperature and precipitation data was calculated over a 30-year period from 1971 to 2000–NOAA’s most recent figures because of its decadal calculation schedule–and the snowfall levels included up to 2008. Our list is made up of an individual ranking of all three measures.
There are two things to note about our data. First, we acknowledge that global warming may have caused temperatures to rise since 2000, but it is unlikely that individual cities have been affected by drastically different percentage changes, or that the trend is unaccounted for in the 30-year analysis. Second, Virginia Beach, the nation’s 42nd most populous city, has been excluded because NOAA does not track its weather.
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Any of these people ever heard of BUFFALO ???
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Another inane ranking of cities under some questionable category. The best cities for dating, the best cities for meeting girls, the best cities for retiring, the best ities for bird watchiing et ad nauseum. Who dreams up these rankings and categories?. They are subjective, subject o someones’ criteria. I geat bombarded on on home page everyday by these so called “Official” rankings. What is “Official” any way and by whose standards.?
I know many places with worse winter weather than Cleveland.
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