Boise Idaho Weather
When trying to describe the weather in Boise, the closest fit I can find is near perfect! That is with a couple of exceptions. The hottest part of the summer is a little bit to hot and the coldest part of the winter is a little bit to cold.
But the rest of it is near perfect, the glorious indian summer of the fall and the life that arises from the ground each spring, makes one realize that life is worth living when you live in such a place. We have four true seasons and the change from one to the next marks the time and the place. From the skiing at Bogus Basin and the Idaho Steelheads hockey games in the winter, To the Rafting, WaterSkiing and Idaho Shakesphere Festival in the summer. Each season has it's own unique events, things to do, place to see and people to meet. The area boasts more sun than is probably health for the human body. We have no real natural disasters. While we are ranked 6th in the country for earthquakes, the last large one that we had was in 1982 and was epicentered near Challis about 150 miles from Boise. Other than that lightening and forest fires are pretty much it. You have to be a careless, clueless or a little unlucky to get burned by either of those.
For those of you looking for the best 7 day forcast, try the Noaa site, National Weather Service for Boise Idaho. This is what I use when trying to figure out what were and when for the various day trips that I am going to take around the area.
Since I am writing this in July I will start with summer. The bad first, Remember the summer all the cows in Texas died because it was so hot, 1994 I think? We had a record number of days over 100 that summer. I believe it was 18. A normal summer we have about 8 this year we have had 2-3 so far. Typically we have cool mornings with lows around 60 degrees and hot afternoons that reach the peak temperature at about 5:00. We have an over abundance of sun, with little rain between June and October.
Our late summer melds into fall with October having highs in the 80's and lows in the 30's and 40's. Around the middle of October we start getting freezing nights and the fall color's explode on to the scene. By the end of the first week of November the colors start to fade giving way to an icing of the white stuff on the nearby mountains.
Winter in the valley is typically an event of watching the snowline move up and down the adjacent mountain sides. We get on average of about 21 inches of snow on the valley floor over the course of the entire winter. A storm of 3 inches and then within a couple of days it typically melts, and so on until about 21 inches of snow has fallen. If this is not enough to scare you away you can search Boise real estate at this site.
Typically the weather in the valley gets warm and nice before the snow is gone at the ski hill. By April the grass is growing and the golfers are golfing. The daffodils and tulips are going by Easter. Some time in May we start getting highs in the 80's, by the end of June we are usually getting some low 90's.
If you have never lived in an area with four true seasons the change from one to the next is truly invigorating and feels like a new beggining. To go trick or treating without a few blowing leaves, To pass the Christmas season without the hope of waking up to a dusting of the white stuff on the ground is not living. If you are coming from a place with one and a half seasons, wake up and smell the dogwoods. If you will not move to Boise without being able to experience all that 4 seasons has to offer, wake up and smell the dogwoods. Dogwoods do smell don't they??
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