Living in the both Blessed and God-forsaken land that is Minnesota, the cold can get brutal. Then 4 months later the humidity and heat is so high you wonder how you can still breathe and not steam your lungs. You can tell when it hits -10F (-23C) because the little hairs in your nose will freeze with each breath. You wiggle your nose and it feels "crunchy" inside. At -20F (-30C) snow actually starts to chirp and squeak when you step on it. It was +10F (-12C) today and we forgot our scarves on our walk. Even a 5 MPH wind feels like it's trying to fillet layers off your face.
As bad as all that is, I'd rather it be cold than warm. I can always put more clothes on. I can only take so many off in public before I get to spend some time in a jail cell with "Bubba"...
Cars need to be specially adapted for extended weather below -20F. Washer fluid freezes and damages the system at -20F. The oil and the grease in the joints don't like to move and your tires develop flat spots where it was standing all night, which take a while to work out as they warm up while spinning. When it gets that cold, a lot of people rely on "Block heaters" which are heating elements installed in the engine blocks that we can plug in overnight to keep the antifreeze warm, and the car more likely to start in the AM.
But hey, at least the two or three weeks that we get in spring and fall are amazing, but seems shorter than it is. The joke here is, "If we're lucky, spring and fall will come on weekends this year!"