Good News Amidst the Winter Weather

Just when I thought it would be a great idea to move to someplace where you don't have 8" of snow blowing in gusts that bring the wind chill to ridiculous levels this shows up (emphasis mine):

Southerners are more like to die from the effects of the weather than people living in any other region of the US.

But for all the attention garnered by catastrophic hurricanes such as Katrina and Andrew, simple heatwaves kill far more people than all natural disasters combined, according to a newly published county-by-county map of natural hazard deaths

Large cities like San Francisco and New York are among the safest places to live, but if city living isn't for you, the odds of dying from the weather are lowest in the Midwest.
--The New Scientist

I guess that means that I should be grateful for the weather here in the Midwest. Remind me of that next summer.