Variation in local climate

Our gym's indoor swimming pool was again busy early this morning and mst3kmoxie suggested that this coincides with seasonal improvement in weather. I was surprised as I hadn't noticed significant change in the weather in my time here and I realized that just because I find the local climate always temperate doesn't mean that locals think likewise.

Wikipedia tells me that Columbus, OH, where I worked for many years, has a recorded temperature range from -30°C to over 40°C and is subject to severe weather. Whereas, around here, from Perth to Dundee, it never gets anywhere near -20°C and rarely over 30°C (Dundee itself never has). The milder temperatures and lack of severe weather mean that it never seems very forbidding to me, but perhaps it might to others?

I enjoy the more interesting weather: I miss everything from the freezing rain to the lightning storms. In Boston my children were able to excavate a horizontal tunnel through the snow in our front yard. The weather's certainly one of the reasons I want to return to the US. Though, a colleague just went from here to Georgia and their child has already required medical treatment for heatstroke: I certainly don't plan to live quite that far southeast. In the meantime, my winter gloves and summer shorts have remained largely unused since we moved to Perthshire and I also no longer carry much in the way of emergency kit in my car's trunkboot.