In order to have winters like that you need to endure summers with triple digits. To people who live full time in those environments, the 70s & 80s are cold, and they bundle up. If you just visit during their winter months it is a strange sight indeed. Walking around in shorts and a t-shirt while the locals are wearing parkas and knit caps.That's about what it was up here today. Kinda wish we had winters in the 70s and 80s