Do you like the Tri Cities weather? (Yakima, Benton City: layoffs, luxury)

[PDXGirlJ]

hahah yeah wind, without the rain is good!

[GameHog9]

I like the rain


in this sense Seattle is perfect for me.

[ReturningWest]

Would someone elaborate on the wind??? how much, how often ect.

The Yakima Valley is one of the prime areas I'm considering as I DO NOT want the doom and gloom of the "wet side" where I grew up.

Thanks

[M3 Mitch]

The website itself has data on wind speeds in various places but of course the averages don't tell the whole tale. The Tri-City area has several days each year, mostly spring and fall, with winds high enough to have significant blowing dust. This seems to be worse in Tri-Cities, by the time I get around Prosser, the dust is usually less, but they do have a few days of it there as well. Kennewick has always struck me as the dustiest of the 3 "true" Tri-Cities, but West has a pretty bad problem as well. It's usually worse along I-82 than further north.

But I'm originally from Atlanta, and I definitely like the weather here much better.

Sorry for the vagueness of the post, but each year is different, each dust storm is different.

[ReturningWest]

Thanks, M3 Mitch, I've looked at the stats but as you say they don't tell the whole story. Some of the posts make it seem that it blows the doors off every day. A few days in the spring in fall isn't bad...I'll trade those for the long hot humid summers, tornados and T-storms

I've been thru and camped out in the Yakima valley but it has been ummm errr quite sometime ago.

The Yakima valley is the area that really meets my needs and wants the most.

Dryer climate of a plains nature with mountains near by.
Also, I like that I can Get to Seattle, Portland or Spokane within several hours.

So anyway it's always good to hear from the "locals" about the real deal.

[GameHog9]

The wind is horrible

But you cant really escape it in SE WA

[j_k_k]

I generally like the weather here. My family came from Kansas so the wind blowing all the time kind of seems familiar to me.

[Moon Waffle]

Yes, the wind is relentless in the Tri-Cities and results in frequent dust storms. The area is known for being one of the worst for allergies. When we moved here, my allergies went off the charts and the doctor said, "there are two types of people in the Tri-Cities: those with allergies, and those who don't yet know that they have allergies."

Don't let anyone fool you, the wind is almost a constant. Only on the hottest and coldest days of the year does it seem to stop. It gets old and if you don't like wind, you shoudn't move here.

[ButterflyUK]

Originally Posted by Moon Waffle

Yes, the wind is relentless in the Tri-Cities and results in frequent dust storms. The area is known for being one of the worst for allergies. When we moved here, my allergies went off the charts and the doctor said, "there are two types of people in the Tri-Cities: those with allergies, and those who don't yet know that they have allergies."

Don't let anyone fool you, the wind is almost a constant. Only on the hottest and coldest days of the year does it seem to stop. It gets old and if you don't like wind, you shoudn't move here.

Now you are scaring me. When you say wind, do you mean strong breeze or 50 mph type wind?

[j_k_k]

Originally Posted by ButterflyUK

Now you are scaring me. When you say wind, do you mean strong breeze or 50 mph type wind?

The strong breeze is common and normal. 20 mph winds are not a major event here. About three times a year, we'll get winds gusting from 45-70 mph. But since this area's dominant soil is loess (windblown silt), any wind can kick up a dust storm, made worse when there is major construction that hasn't kept wet down or planted quickseed. It sucks when you just washed your car.