From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Clare Snyder"  wrote in message   
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   You can put on extra clothes until you are warm - you can't take off   
   enough to be cool - - -  Personally There is no place like the area   
   dead between the lakes in South Western Ontario. In the summer it can   
   be uncomfortably warm and humid for a few weeks- sometimes not even   
   cooling off over night - so  air conditioning (in home and car) is   
   pretty well mandatory - and we get numerous thunder storms - but we   
   are just south east of Ontario's "tornado alley"so seldom get SERIOUS   
   storms - and the winter is moderated by the lakes as well - very   
   seldom get long periods of VERY cold weather - and in the little   
   stretch of heaven called Waterloo Region we've been in something of a   
   "snow shadow" for the last several decades, getting less snow than   
   areas to the North, west, and even south ( as little as 15 miles away   
   can have significantly more snow).   
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   New England to your east is generally similar though the meandering Jet   
   Stream can bring us weather from the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson's Bay and   
   everywhere between. Hurricane Katrina passed over here after hitting New   
   Orleans.   
      
   The early settlers expected our climate to be similar to southern Europe's   
   at the same latitude, not deep snow and extreme winter cold more like   
   Scandinavia. Half of the Pilgrims died the first winter. Being retired I   
   don't have to drive in storms and can keep the wood stove going all day, so   
   I can enjoy the good weather and not be bothered by the bad. Your Canadian   
   air is very pleasant in summer.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)