Well, yeah, I'll concede that Frostbite Falls is in Minnesota...
...but I didn't grow up in Pennsylvania. Upstate New York gets very cold in the winter. I recall the snow piles at the foot of our driveway being much taller than Dad, who was over 6 feet tall before he started to shrink.
When we lived in Vermont, there was still snow on the ground in the wooded area behind our place in Brattleboro (a city, with all the associated "heat island" phenomena) into early May.
I'll grant you the tundra of the Great Plains can allow for some pretty nasty winds. I wonder, though, when you stop feeling your toes and your face is wrapped against frostbite, does it really matter whether it's 25 below zero or merely minus 2?
(I....'m dreeeaming of a whiiiiiite Christmas... ;) )
Cheers!
Mary Anne