Maine Ranks High In List Of States With The Worst Winter Weather

This winter has been relatively mild as compared to last winter, but it's still cold, snowy and icy. Mainers usually take winter in stride, but we still rank in the top five as states with the worst winter weather.

Thrillist.com has complied their winter misery index. Their winter misery index was made up factoring in everything from weather patterns, average temperatures, and how effective and quickly their department of transportation clears highways, to interviews with locals and the historical success rates of their winter-season sports teams.

Maine came in at number five!
#4. North Dakota
#3. Alaska
#2. Michigan
#1. Minnesota

Here's what they had to say about winter in Maine.

' More than 80% of Maine’s land is forests. There are entire huge thousand-mile swaths of land that are uninhabited or barely habited, and that is because northern Maine has winters that are only really spoken about in Game of Thrones -- brutal and never-ending and likely on par with The Long Night.

The coast and the south where people actually live have more moderate winters, thanks to the Atlantic, but the Mainer attitude towards winter is a great one -- they all seem pretty fired up to ski and sled despite not getting to eat lobster or blueberries for many months -- and they tend to be much more upbeat than say, us Bostonians, who always like to pretend that we’re getting it the worst and thus are the strongest. And that attitude (and the general lack of people in the real harsh stuff) prevents Maine and its Longest Winters from pushing even farther down the line.'