Is it always cold in Minnesota?

Ahh, Minnesota weather is always changing. The winters can be brutally cold (not long ago it hit over 40 below F twice in the same winter) and they can be mild such as last winter when it snowed in December and then hardly any snow the rest of the winter. read more

The northern part of Minnesota gets the brunt of the cold air. International Falls, sometimes called the "Icebox of the nation", has the coldest average annual temperature of any National Weather Service first-order station in the contiguous United States at 37.4 °F (3.0 °C). read more