Rate the fictional climate: Best Dfa Climate

I challenged myself to make the best climate possible according to my standards while still remaining within the confines of my home humid continental classification. The results turned out like this, with short but intense winters featuring copious amounts of snowfall; there's always a snow day or two off from school in January! Spring and autumn feature rapid changes in average temperatures as they lead respectively into and out of the extended summer period, which takes up a full 5 months out of the year; most summer days are warm, sunny, and low on the humidity scale, though there are plenty of good thunderstorms during that time of year too. This climate doesn't really get a lot of drizzle; storm events are the source of most of the precipitation throughout the year, though it can vary from a severe weather outbreak in July to a windstorm in November to a big blizzard in January.

Those warm record highs in the winter months are not typos. On rare occasions, the jet stream will lift that far north, allowing much warmer air from the south just to pool in and bring temperatures to decidedly springlike or even summerlike levels. This is actually good for making sure the size of the snowpack doesn't get too intense; we don't want the whole city to be flooded come March when the snow melts. 70'F (21'C) is recorded in winter once a year, and 80'F (27'C) every 10 years, on average. There's a certain "this is so wrong but so right!" factor to being outside on a 70'F January day with two feet of snow on the ground all around!

The vegetation in the area is mostly deciduous, with the first trees starting to turn color, responding to the decreased daylight hours, in mid to late September, earlier if there's an early-season cold snap bringing low temperatures into the 40s. Peak time for foliage is right around Halloween; the last few days of October and first few days of November. Average highs at this time are still in the 60s, great weather for an outdoor hike in the woods or along a nature trail surrounded by various types of trees showing their true yellow, orange, red, and brown colors. "Indian summer" refers to a stretch of weather, typically in early to mid November, after the first frost when temperatures return to the 70s or 80s for a few days as a dry, warm air mass moves in for the time being; it's one of locals' favorite times of year for weather but typically ends followed by an epic storm event. Leaves are typically gone from trees by Thanksgiving but buds can be seen again by late March; the first or second weekend of April is when they tend to pop, turning the city's many avenues a refreshing shade of green as the annual cycle repeats itself.

What do you guys think? Personally, despite the cold winter there's enough warmth throughout the rest of the year, and ample precipitation throughout, for me to give it a C. At least I'd be at lower risk of big nosebleeds in the winter compared to here, and I'd still be able to wear T-shirts on probably 200 or more days in the average year, a rarity in continental climates.