High Noon: 50-Below Labor Days

North Dakota has trouble hanging on to North Dakotans. Various surveys over the years have asked its emigrants why. Cold weather, of course, is the reason folks up-stakes and shuffle southward. But turns out it’s not the 50-below-zero mornings, especially, that drive Nodaks away. It’s the blizzards on Memorial Day and Labor Day. Arctic Januaries are depressing, but churlish springs and surly autumns are positively soul-killing. The issue arises because winter has already settled into south-central Idaho like your unemployed and recently divorced brother-in-law onto your living room couch. It snowed - a lot - on Oct. 4. Last year it snowed - a lot - on Oct. 11. Based on my heating bill last May, this is a pattern that shows every sign of persisting until Flag Day. We’re being cheated/ Steve Crump , Twin Falls Times-News. More here .

Question: Did you move to North Idaho from a place with a harsher climate?