JiminDenver,
Yes, the U.P. can be quite hot or very cold and the same for Lake Superior but omit the "hot" word. We spent a lot of time in the U.P., Drummond Island, Tahquamenon Falls, Ontario Canada etc with one of our RV's or the TC etc in winters. Snowmobiling etc. This past winter was brutal+ up there and the last of the ice on Lake Superior just melted last Sunday, latest date ever! Lake Michigan west of Grand Rapids is still only in the low 60's and should be nearly 70 by now. perhaps we have a long very warm Fall comming as they said a strong el nino is forming and that means the nextbwinter will likely be in the 40's to 50 and very little snow here west of Grand Rapids on the lakeshore. Much will depend upon how warm Lake Michigan gets before mid october.
The heat rising off the warm lake blows over us on the lakeshore until about Febuary and it warms up anyway in March. You didn't get that luxury in the U.P. though. Many years here we have worn only sweatshirts along the lakeshore here but not on the Wisconsin side or 30+ miles inland or in the U.P. Went 7 years without blowing snow or running the A/C here and that's not completely normal either.
Hey, it was very cold in Florida last winter nearly all the nearly 3 months we were there. We were approx 150 miles south and Tallhassee and didn't get the bitter cold 9 degrees windy and the ice they got there. Just a lot of cold rain!
