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Midwest States, Often Billed as Climate Havens, Suffer Summer of Smoke, Drought, Heat

“After COVID, this seems like another big thing that we haven’t experienced before,” said library page Nancie Cotter. “It’s almost a little scary.”

 OK, hard to argue with "almost a little scary," but climate havens? Midwestern states?

The flat, shadeless Midwestern plains can get brutally hot in summer, and states like North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan's UP? I left Minnesota for good in 1959 and I'm still not warmed up.

And there's nothing between the North Pole and central Illinois but maybe a couple of snow fences in Canada: When the wind howls down across that flat land it's cold.

So climate havens? Really?

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