Hard to look it up on the phone, but I almost am sure that temperature extremes are harsher or same in Chicago than in Stockholm. I think being washed by seas f

Hard to look it up on the phone, but I almost am sure that temperature extremes are harsher or same in Chicago than in Stockholm. I think being washed by seas from all sides makes it softer. The bigger challenge imo is very short light day in winter months. As for the weather, they are very good at handling it at infrastructural level. Roads in Iceland in the middle of the night during a winter storm are better than in California in the afternoon after a medium to heavy rain. Also their attitude to clothing and cold weather is very practical and resilient. This is why it impressed me so much, that good infrastructure made bad weather livable. Otherwise, I don’t like winters and don’t miss snow a single bit.