Why does Minnesota sometimes get colder than the North Pole?
America’s Siberia. The icebox of the nation. “Unfit for human habitation.”Minnesota’s cold weather is the stuff of legend. “Cold” is a defining feature of the state’s culture.
But how cold is it, really?
That’s what teacher Logan Jensen’s sixth-grade science class wanted to know while recently studying the Earth’s tilt. Specifically, the students inquired why Minnesota is sometimes colder than the icy climate of Santa’s hometown, the North Pole.
So Jensen wrote on their behalf to Curious Minnesota, the Star Tribune’s reader-powered reporting project. It is a simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer.
DREAMSTIME / TNSAn aerial view of the North Pole region.
