Well, hut, if it makes you feel better, here in Northern Minnesota, we have nine months of winter -- we routinely plunge to 25-below-zero (Fahrenheit) for days and weeks on end -- 40 and 50 below is common at least once a winter -- the record here is 60-below-zero.

Our summers are warm but extremely brief -- and filled with mosquitoes and woodticks -- so that by the end of August, we are praying for freeze-up to get rid of the god*&&^^%^%$! stinging and blood-sucking insects.

Let's face it -- everyone knows that New Zealand has the finest weather in the world on average year round -- what I'm getting at here is -- will you let me live in your basement next winter? I don't eat much.

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not a very good climate? i have some old moa bones for you to make soup out of. LOL

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if you want to compare winters, we got 138 inches of snow this year, which was low compared to the almost 500 inches of show a community about 40 minutes north of us got this year. And we had a long cold spell this year ourselves, including both snow and cold in late May (we actually had a dusting of snow one day in June). No complaints from you now. lol

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I reckon. We're waiting for another blast today.

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Well, at least when you are cold you can put on more clothes to get warm. When you are down south like me, it gets really hot, and you can only take off so many clothes.

to real hot weather like in Australia - three hours away from NZ.

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