I beg to differ. That area gets every single kind of bad weather and extreme weather that there is. More so than Minnesota. More so than Texas. 100% humidity for weeks in a row, snow that brings traffic to a halt for a full day, ice and sleet that bring branches and powerlines down and kills your power (and heater), plenty of rain from about half of the named hurricanes every year, you name it. I don't count tornadoes as weather myself.
That's in the last three years, most of them multiple times.
I’ve lived in Wisconsin and now live in North Carolina. I’ll take these dustings of snow and sleet to six months of winter any time.