I'm tempted to say Jay doesn't handle it, or handles it poorly, but actually he does fairly well. He avoids unnecessary ventures outdoors, keeps time outdoors down, and tends to wear a thicker, heavier coat and such. Fortunately he's not really the outdoors type and so doesn't have to deal with the typical Winter recreations that some folks get into. I'd be more than surprised if he expressed any interest in taking up cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, or ice fishing.

I'm a bit more used to low temperatures. Jay and I disagree on just when it gets cold (and what is too hot, as well). But below zero Fahrenheit we both agree that it is indeed cold. He uses more colorful adjectives sooner than I do. Also, he's rather less apt to joke about it. Much is simply that I grew up with cold Winters and see them as not that big of a deal.

Jay moved up here in late 2001. I moved down to Fairmont, MN in mid-late 1996. I'd been living in or around Merrill, WI since, well, as long as I can remember and a bit before that.

I moved as that's where the job was. I moved from a small town in north-central Wisconsin to a small town in southern Minnesota so the change wasn't that much. It's generally warmer (or not as cold, if you prefer) here. The thing that's really different is that being more on the plains, there is much more wind. I'll let Jay answer for himself.