Large swaths of the United States have had to deal with sweltering heat waves since March of this year. And this week, from Salt Lake City to Boston, people are living under extreme heat warnings once again.
But one metro area is almost guaranteed to stay cool, at least relative to other major cities: Buffalo, NY, the only major U.S. city in the Lower 48 to never hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Its location on the eastern shore of Lake Erie gives it a built-in air conditioner that has, so far, protected it from increasingly severe summer weather…