🇺🇸 Chicago vs 🇺🇸 Hattiesburg

Humid continental — cold harsh winters, hot humid summers, severe storms

Chicago lives up to its Windy City nickname. Lake Michigan creates its own microclimate — cooler summers and heavier lake-effect snow in winter. Summers are warm but brief; winters are among the harshest of any major American city.

Hattiesburg in the longleaf pine region of south Mississippi is far enough inland to be less hurricane-vulnerable than the coast but close enough to feel tropical impacts. The University of Southern Mississippi campus dominates the cultural life and the city has a typical hot-humid Deep South climate.