Just found this on the internet about Escanaba.  It's in the banana belt, so you'll be fine.  ;D
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		| Being in the U.P.'s "banana belt" helped shipping and farming, too. Shielded from Lake Superior blizzards, the area gets an average annual snowfall of just 50 inches, a fourth of what's usual in many northern Lake Superior locales. |