It is beautiful in the summer. It gets too cold for me in the winter.
The entire state is too cold for you? We’re looking at the southern part — Boise to Pocatello.
Winters are very mild in SW Idaho. After last November, we had very little measurable snow for the rest of the winter. Last year was pretty much the same. This winter, we didn't dip below zero ever, and had very few single digit days at all. It's been warmer the last three winters here in Boise than those Kentucky winters I remember as a kid.
This summer is cool also. Here it is, mid-July and we've had fewer than 10 days over 90 degrees so far. My garden is barely putting along.
Cookie, you won't find anyone singing Idaho's praises more than me, but one thing does concern me. Gov. Otter seems bound and determined to lease a huge tract of land south of the Boise Airport and Gowen Field National Guard post to the Chicoms. He's trying to boost the state's GDP, and that's fine. I just can't understand why an otherwise rock-ribbed conservative like Otter isn't trying to get American companies to go into business here. Otherwise, Idaho is the home I have always wanted, only it took me 40 years to get here!
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It’d be tough to change your acclimation. I’d love it, too; but I think central California has ruined me for such winter temperatures.