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Does all that crud and gunk cover your car? Seriously. Particulates that everyone breathes in?
Not really. It's more the stuff from the road that gets on your car.
Smoke from the summer fire season gets on your car, but that's usually only every 4-7 years.
Breathing here can be tricky. We get a lot of poor air quality days and some burn bans... but the particulates are different than, say, Oregon... which usually rates higher on allergy counts.
My problem is more with cracked skin because of the dryness.
It always gets windy in Boise during the spring but not very noticeable the rest of the year, with a few exceptions. It can get worse outside of town depending on the direction you go.
Yeah, we get an occasional windy day, but I don't really consider it a factor, especially compared to Idaho Falls or Logan, UT, where the wind blows all morning one direction, and all afternoon the other direction, but it is always blowing.
Yeah, we get an occasional windy day, but I don't really consider it a factor, especially compared to Idaho Falls or Logan, UT, where the wind blows all morning one direction, and all afternoon the other direction, but it is always blowing.
Idaho Falls can be windy, but it isn't even close to the top windiest cities. (Today was cold, about 12 for the high, but calm).
It always gets windy in Boise during the spring but not very noticeable the rest of the year, with a few exceptions. It can get worse outside of town depending on the direction you go.
As far as the wind IN Boise, it "can" get pretty windy all over and out by Micron on a regular basis. Spring winds and late summer storms as the seasons start to change are usually the worst times. Late summer windstorms can hit all over. They have been known to uproot trees, fall branches and pull off roof shingles. The occasional microbursts move trampolines and have ripped open tents at the fair. They are infrequent, but they DO happen in most if not all of the outer areas.
Sorry, I wasn't saying it was a super windy city compared to the rest of the country, just compared to the rest of this this part of the country. I see on your list that nowhere in the entire Pacific Northwest made the list at all (of course the list was only of cities with populations higher than 50k, and this part of the country doesn't have terribly many of those in the first place).
Anyway, my family all originates from Idaho Falls on both sides, and I just know that pretty much every time I've ever been there to visit (which is quite a few times), the wind has been blowing. It wasn't that it was super hard wind, just very consistantly breezy.
Sorry, I wasn't saying it was a super windy city compared to the rest of the country, just compared to the rest of this this part of the country. I see on your list that nowhere in the entire Pacific Northwest made the list at all (of course the list was only of cities with populations higher than 50k, and this part of the country doesn't have terribly many of those in the first place).
Anyway, my family all originates from Idaho Falls on both sides, and I just know that pretty much every time I've ever been there to visit (which is quite a few times), the wind has been blowing. It wasn't that it was super hard wind, just very consistantly breezy.
This is one of the reasons we've ruled out Reno. I did a Google on wind direction for Boise. Chart showed, on a general month-by-month basis, that winds come out of the NW, April-July, and out of the SE the rest of the year. Does that sound right?
This is one of the reasons we've ruled out Reno. I did a Google on wind direction for Boise. Chart showed, on a general month-by-month basis, that winds come out of the NW, April-July, and out of the SE the rest of the year. Does that sound right?
Yes, cold vs. warm. And per the news, much of the valley smoke last summer was from Eastern Oregon an N Cali.
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