The point is that many Americans treat &#x27;Canada&#x27; as a bucket in which everything is cold weather. And yet the whole swathe of the northern states Minnesota, North Dakota, upper Michigan, etc. are _significantly_ further north and colder than where the bulk of the Canadian population is.<p>I once had a coworker from Atlanta at our office in Toronto. Overheard him on the phone talking to his wife, gobsmacked by the cold, which he said &quot;it&#x27;s just so far north!&quot; and yet that&#x27;s not the reason -- we&#x27;re no further north than northern California. He happened to be here during a cold front that came out of northern Ontario. It&#x27;s a classic continental climate; summer heat here is as intense as that of many southern US states.<p>The climate on the north side of Lake Ontario is actually milder than on the other side due to lake effect and weather patterns. Just got back from a trip to the Finger Lakes; our wines in the Niagara region are noticeably riper than those from down there.