Where I live the average high temperature ranges from 66F in January to 78F in August. When the daytime temp drops below 60F people wear parkas, wool hats, and gloves. On the 1/2 dozen days per year that it snows in the higher elevations of the mountains about 40 miles east of my home, people drive out to frolic in the temporary winter 'wonderland'. I spent a couple of winters in Wisconsin and know what a heavy snowfall looks like and how dangerous sub-zero temperatures can be.