A bunch of us in Southern Ontario can relate to the snowy kilted experience.
Goes From cold and snow (Dec, Jan Feb), then a brief warm-up (April May), them blazing heat and humidity (june, July Aug Sept) then a brief cool down in Oct or Nov. much like Michigan and Buffalo. In fact Michigan usally gets the snow a few hours before we get it. And it usually dumps more snow south on Buffalo and New York State than us. They call us the great white north. There is quite a few areas that can boast the same south of the border.
Beautiful country in Northern Michigan. I have spent a few hours in Traverse City, and angeling on the Platt, Manistee, Betsie and Pere Marquette rivers in the Benzonia ( Benzie county) area. It looks a lot like Northern Ontario except for the piles of sugar beets and carrots to bait the deer and the shot guns strapped behind the drivers heads in the pick-up. I am cool with the beer being sold at every corner, grocery store and party store there is. I like Michigan a lot.

Kilted Stuart