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I am trying to move out of Colorado because of the influx of liberal people here and the cold/snow. There aren't a whole lot of options other than super humid east or dry expensive west. Is Idaho as cold as the front range of colorado? Winter here is just so long Oct-May
The winters are about the same.
Colorado gets more of the arctic winds coming south, but Idaho gets all the Pacific winter winds first as they move east and eventually hit Colorado. With the climate changing so much, it's hard to predict how the winters will be in the future.
But since Idaho is high and on the northern border, I don't expect our winters will ever be consistently mild. All my life here, we get a mild winter now and then, but it's always followed by a colder than average winter pretty soon.
If you want dry and mild, you have to look farther south.
Average highs in winter in Boise / Twin Falls are actually 7-8 degrees lower than Denver. A few more below zero days in Denver though. Another 10 degrees colder in Idaho Falls for highs in winter than Boise / Twin Falls.
The winter in the CO mountains lasts from October to May, but in Denver it averages 69 degrees for highs in May and 66 in October. Reaching 50 in March and still above that in November on average. Mornings are cool to cold but it usually ramps up.
For warmer, more conservative in the west, the options include Reno, Prescott AZ or Rio Rancho NM. Or spots in CA (Redding, Yuba City, some suburbs of Sacramento, Modesto) or most of Texas.
Thank you for your responses. I figured Idaho might be cold. Ya go south and you are in the desert. I wished there was a happy medium. I guess that is why people have winter and summer homes! I was looking at Texas but most say it is either so humid or so hot?? I want to be able to be outside......
My search continues.
Thank you for your responses. I figured Idaho might be cold. Ya go south and you are in the desert. I wished there was a happy medium. I guess that is why people have winter and summer homes! I was looking at Texas but most say it is either so humid or so hot?? I want to be able to be outside......
My search continues.
The happy medium does exist. It lies along the coasts where multi-millions of people live in it.
Thank you for your responses. I figured Idaho might be cold. Ya go south and you are in the desert. I wished there was a happy medium. I guess that is why people have winter and summer homes! I was looking at Texas but most say it is either so humid or so hot?? I want to be able to be outside......
My search continues.
I currently live in Colorado, and have lived in Texas twice. Other than about two months out of the year (August, and two weeks on either side), I find Texas heat and humidity to be quite doable.
Either will wax and wane depending on if it's an el nino or la nina year. But regardless, most of the time, the weather's quite nice, and much better than Colorado. Your mileage may vary.
Thank you for your responses. I figured Idaho might be cold. Ya go south and you are in the desert. I wished there was a happy medium. I guess that is why people have winter and summer homes! I was looking at Texas but most say it is either so humid or so hot?? I want to be able to be outside......
My search continues.
I currently live in Colorado, and have lived in Texas twice. Other than about two months out of the year (August, and two weeks on either side), I find Texas heat and humidity to be quite doable.
Either will wax and wane depending on if it's an el nino or la nina year. But regardless, most of the time, the weather's quite nice, and much better than Colorado. Your mileage may vary.
Where did you live in Texas? I don't mind some humidity. I have been to Houston and that was terrible! That kind of humidity and heat sucks the life out of ya!
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