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Climate of the Twin Cities
The climate of the Twin Cities is the long term weather trends and historical events of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in east central Minnesota. Minneapolis and St. Paul, together known as the Twin Cities, are the core of the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. With a population of 3.6 million people, the region contains approximately 60% of the population of Minnesota. Due to its location in the northern and central portion of the U.S., the Twin Cities has the coldest average temperature of any major metropolitan area in the nation. Winters can be very cold, summer is warm to hot and frequently humid, snowfall is common in the winter and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall occur during the spring, summer and autumn. Though winter can be uncomfortably cold, the area receives more sunlight hours in mid-winter than many other warmer parts of the country, including all of the Great Lakes states, the Pacific Northwest, parts of the South, and almost all of the Northeast.〔(General Climate Information ) from Climate Atlas of the United States. Western Regional Climate Center.〕 Unless otherwise indicated, all normals data presented below are based on data at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, the official Twin Cities climatology station, from the 1981−2010 normals period.
==General climatology==
〔http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USMN0503〕
On the Köppen climate classification scale, the Twin Cities is located near the transition of the hot (''Dfa'') and warm (''Dfb'') within the humid continental climate zone, but fits the criteria to be classified Dfa. The continental climate refers to the large amounts of land mass and absence of large body of water that surrounds the region. The humid portions derives from the humid air masses that routinely flow northwards towards the region from the Gulf of Mexico. A feature of the humid continental climate in the United States is that weather can be unpredictable with extremes occurring in many phases of measurements. For example, the Twin Cities has a hotter all time record high temperature of than the entire state of Florida, despite being located nearly 1000 miles farther from the equator. Conversely, temperatures during the winter months are colder in the Twin Cities than in any other major metropolitan area in the continental United States, and are about equal to those in Anchorage, Alaska, which is around 1,000 miles closer to the North Pole. The Twin Cities can also experience droughts, floods, and on average are windier than Chicago (the "Windy City"), Illinois.
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