DETROIT, MI -- No major city has been hit harder this winter than Detroit.

At least that's what the Associated Press says.

This news service says Detroit is experiencing the most extreme weather of any city in the country, based on an index created by National Weather Service meteorologist Barbara Mayes Boustead.

Bousted - who according to the AP once lived in Metro Detroit - describes her index as "a misery index" that the city fairs well in it because of geography and bad luck.

Boustead’s analysis, based on cold temperatures and snowfall, found that Detroit is in the middle of its harshest winter since 1950.

Detroit has had 6.5 feet of snow so far this winter and 100 days of below-freezing temperatures.

New York, Milwaukee and Duluth are, according to the AP in the midst of their fourth harshest winters.

Also having top-10 harshest winters are Minneapolis-St. Paul in Minnesota; Louisville, Ky.; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and Cheyenne, Wyo.