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We are thinking if moving to Sioux Falls, but I'm just learning it is windy. Is it crazy windy, like year round make sure everything is bolted down, or is there a season? How windy does it get? Thanks for any insight!
We are thinking if moving to Sioux Falls, but I'm just learning it is windy. Is it crazy windy, like year round make sure everything is bolted down, or is there a season? How windy does it get? Thanks for any insight!
During the summer in the northern plains, the winds are somewhat less strong compared to the other seasons. If you want to avoid the wind you're out of luck and in the wrong region of the country. If you want less wind across the board you have to be in more densely wooded areas east of the Mississippi River. A place like Wausau, Wisconsin has far less wind compared to Rochester, MN. Rochester, MN is somewhat less windy than Sioux Falls, but not by a great extent.
Here's my completely non-scientific explanation: Wind speed has a worse affect in areas that are flat, because there are no obstructions to disperse it. So on the Plains, outside of cities and areas where there are lots of trees, the wind can take your breath away and drive you nuts with the sound, and it can create super dangerous driving conditions. However, in cities (like Sioux Falls), in the woods, and on hillsides, the wind is much less noticeable or bothersome.
So, IMHO, the wind in Sioux Falls itself isn't a big deal. (I don't live there though, just shop there.) I live an hour away and my house is built into a hillside and surrounded by woods, and the wind never seems bad to me here at all. But I never drive to SF on I29 on a very cold windy day, because I'm afraid of black ice.
Anyway, if you're picking a place to live in SF, if wind bothers you just pick a place in an older neighborhood that has plenty of mature trees, or place with lots of taller buildings, or a hilly area. Just avoid the new subdivisions in flat areas that don't have trees or buildings or hills to act as wind breaks. And if you pick a suburb just be careful in the winter when driving through areas with no windbreaks.
Here's my completely non-scientific explanation: Wind speed has a worse affect in areas that are flat, because there are no obstructions to disperse it. So on the Plains, outside of cities and areas where there are lots of trees, the wind can take your breath away and drive you nuts with the sound, and it can create super dangerous driving conditions. However, in cities (like Sioux Falls), in the woods, and on hillsides, the wind is much less noticeable or bothersome.
So, IMHO, the wind in Sioux Falls itself isn't a big deal. (I don't live there though, just shop there.) I live an hour away and my house is built into a hillside and surrounded by woods, and the wind never seems bad to me here at all. But I never drive to SF on I29 on a very cold windy day, because I'm afraid of black ice.
Anyway, if you're picking a place to live in SF, if wind bothers you just pick a place in an older neighborhood that has plenty of mature trees, or place with lots of taller buildings, or a hilly area. Just avoid the new subdivisions in flat areas that don't have trees or buildings or hills to act as wind breaks. And if you pick a suburb just be careful in the winter when driving through areas with no windbreaks.
Good advice for the OP, finding the heavier tree coverage areas are a big component to avoid the more severe winds.
Souix Falls is not "crazey windy" but the rural prairie of South Dakota can be.
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