Idaho Weather For Movers (Pocatello, Idaho Falls: 2014, home, living in)

[oregonwoodsmoke]

It was 3 degrees when I got up this morning. The ground is covered in snow, although it is not fresh snow. It is from an earlier snow storm.


Power was out a for four days a couple of weeks ago, due to a wind storm.


All those nice people writing and asking if the weather is sunny, be aware that we get a real winter here. We don't have the same gentle weather as you are accustomed to where you are coming from. Idaho is located next to the Canadian border and you can expect some of the same weather as you would get in Canada.


Cold weather has to be planned for if you intend to survive it, so be aware that it happens and be prepared for it.

[Faithfullizhe]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

It was 3 degrees when I got up this morning. The ground is covered in snow, although it is not fresh snow. It is from an earlier snow storm.


Power was out a for four days a couple of weeks ago, due to a wind storm.


All those nice people writing and asking if the weather is sunny, be aware that we get a real winter here. We don't have the same gentle weather as you are accustomed to where you are coming from. Idaho is located next to the Canadian border and you can expect some of the same weather as you would get in Canada.


Cold weather has to be planned for if you intend to survive it, so be aware that it happens and be prepared for it.

my mom in law lives in nebraska , they are -6 there. Preparation is key. I love the cold.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

It was 3 degrees when I got up this morning. The ground is covered in snow, although it is not fresh snow. It is from an earlier snow storm.


Power was out a for four days a couple of weeks ago, due to a wind storm.


All those nice people writing and asking if the weather is sunny, be aware that we get a real winter here. We don't have the same gentle weather as you are accustomed to where you are coming from. Idaho is located next to the Canadian border and you can expect some of the same weather as you would get in Canada.


Cold weather has to be planned for if you intend to survive it, so be aware that it happens and be prepared for it.

Yup.
As an addition:

It's better to plan for winter before leave for Idaho than after you arrive.

If you have never lived in a cold climate before, expect the worst and prepare for that.

If you have lived in a cold climate before, expect to find Idaho to be drier and colder than some other states, and you'll have much shorter winter days here than in other states.

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

It was 3 degrees when I got up this morning. The ground is covered in snow, although it is not fresh snow. It is from an earlier snow storm.


Power was out a for four days a couple of weeks ago, due to a wind storm.


All those nice people writing and asking if the weather is sunny, be aware that we get a real winter here. We don't have the same gentle weather as you are accustomed to where you are coming from. Idaho is located next to the Canadian border and you can expect some of the same weather as you would get in Canada.


Cold weather has to be planned for if you intend to survive it, so be aware that it happens and be prepared for it.

Exactly what location is this?

[f5fstop]

If someone is going to Move to Idaho and expects nothing but sunny days they need to do some simple research. It is a very pretty state, much prettier than many; not as pretty as all.

It is very windy in some areas of the state, but not the windiest.
It gets a lot of sunshine compared to many, but not the state with the most sunshine.
It gets cold here, but not the coldest state.
It gets snow here but not the snowiest state.


Granted I live near Pocatello, but the winters in southern MI were a lot worse than here. Temps about the same, but snow here is nothing compared to the northern suburbs of Detroit and would guess northern MI gets more average snow than even the mountain towns of Idaho. Last period I was in MI was 2005-2008, and during that period, in the winter I used my darn snowblower almost twice a week, last year I believe I used a snowblower twice, so far this year NEVER! My old neighbors in MI so far this year used their snowblowers many times.
Will say, here the electric supply has been extremely great; living in MI, it was terrible and very expensive.



And doing a search....
Highest snowfall average in Idaho 135.7 McCall https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...l-snowfall.php

Highest in MI 207.7, Houghton with three other cities with more average snow than McCall. https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...l-snowfall.php


Now, looking at these two websites, I have to ask an expert MIKE, does the info that Pocatello has higher average snowfalls than Idaho Falls appear correct? Having lived here for six years, I have to say that is not accurate. However, these averages go back to '81, so possibly prior to 2014 this area was a heck of a lot snowier than it is now?

[nm9stheham]

Originally Posted by f5fstop

And doing a search....
Highest snowfall average in Idaho 135.7 McCall https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...l-snowfall.php

Highest in MI 207.7, Houghton with three other cities with more average snow than McCall. https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...l-snowfall.php

You missed a couple: Island Park ID averages 192 " per year. But north of Houghton, on the Copper peninsula, it beats Houghton. Met a young lady who grew up there... driving through 'open topped tunnels' was the winter norm!

So did you live on the west side of lower MI? And yeah, I have been in colder temps in an OH blizzard than the record coldest temp at Rathdrum.... and much lower average temps in No IN.

But the coldest was -40F at Stanley. That is about 4500' higher elevation than Rathdrum so a lot has to do with the elevation.

[banjomike]

It's been colder in Island Park than -40º.

I saw the thermometer register -50º there on New Year's Day, 1984 at the Wild Rose Ranch.
10 years later it hit -50 again just over the border in W. Yellowstone MT.

[nm9stheham]

No doubt..... -40F is the coldest for me, Mike.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by nm9stheham

No doubt..... -40F is the coldest for me, Mike.

I couldn't take it for very long.
It was over New Year's, and friends had planned a big party up there. I already had a cold, but my wife really wanted to go, and I had a van that would fit everyone, so I went.

No Fun. I went to bed before midnight because I was sick, and was sicker the next day. Everyone but me went out and skied for a while, but I stayed in bed all New Years Day pretty much.

The van wouldn't start in the cold, so I had to go mess around with it until it fired up the next morning.

It was the coldest ride home I've ever done, and it was the most miserable holiday I've ever spent. Everyone was frozen to the bone before we got back to Idaho Falls, and it's only about a 70 minute drive.

I really don't notice the difference between 10º and 0º, but -10º in noticeable, and -50º is so cold it feels like burning when you breathe, and everything you touch is so cold it burns.

[nm9stheham]

Yep, well any temp is bad when you are sick. We were up there for 5 uhdays, snowmobiling and snowshoeing, but had the right clothes and the wind often is tame there
But if you live where it gets that , better have backups to your backups and have weeks and months of wood handy.