According to the meteorologists, we should be above freezing during the day this upcoming week. While cold, it has actually been a fairly typical winter in Minnesota. A couple of years ago, I had to walk to the university in temperatures around -40. That was athe air tmperature and, if memory serves, it was not a record for here.
I was fortunate enough to live in sothern Spain for several years and would move back, given the opportunity!
I looked it up, and the articles says that the average winter temperature is 5 °C there, but the temperature can go up to 45 °C in the summer, which is so hot that I cannot even imagine. The current absolute maximum temperature in my country (in Hungary) is 41.9 °C. But I would still gladly and happily live in southern Spain.