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Ok, so I have already destroyed the myth why that Chicago is worse to live than DC because it is colder. This next step is to prove that Chicago may actually be better place to live simply because it is a few degrees colder.

The follwing are precipatation tables:

Silver Spring, MD

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Avg. High

41°

44°

55°

65°

75°

84°

87°

86°

78°

68°

57°

45°

Avg. Low

24°

26°

34°

42°

54°

62°

67°

65°

58°

46°

37°

28°

Mean

34°

35°

45°

54°

64°

74°

77°

76°

68°

57°

47°

37°

Avg. Precip.

3.0 in

2.9 in

3.3 in

3.3 in

4.4 in

3.7 in

4.0 in

4.4 in

3.6 in

3.3 in

3.4 in

3.3 in

Chicago, IL

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Avg. High

31°

35°

46°

58°

70°

80°

84°

82°

76°

65°

50°

36°

Avg. Low

17°

22°

31°

41°

51°

60°

66°

65°

58°

47°

36°

24°

Mean

25°

28°

38°

50°

61°

71°

75°

74°

68°

56°

44°

30°

Avg. Precip.

1.9 in

1.6 in

2.9 in

3.8 in

3.6 in

4.1 in

3.8 in

3.9 in

3.5 in

2.4 in

3.1 in

2.8 in

What is the worst kind of weather in the world? Not snow, but freezing rain. Freezing rain is just terrible. It's cold, it's wet, it sucks. Guess where there is much more freezing rain? That's right, DC suburb, Silver Spring.

Look at Jan-March in particular. Silver Spring average temperature is above the freezing point of 32 degrees. Therefore, their precipatation on average is terrible freezing rain rather than Chicago's wonderful white puffy snow. I defy you to tell me that cold rain is better than snow. Plus Silver Spring has so much more of it than Chicago. Therefore, Chicago is actually more pleasant, weather-wise, than DC.

Game, set, match, championship for me. Boy, I feel like John Stossel or that guy that wrote Freakonomics (What is his name again? Apollo Creed?) shooting down all this conventional wisdom.