The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-04
SUNNY DAYS
WHAT WEATHER MAN RE-
PORTS ON COLORADO
Coolest Part of Year, February,
Warmest, July, and the
Wettest in the Month
of April

Frederick II. Brandenburg, the
weather man, has complied his re-
port from January to December 20,
as follows, showing the climatic con-
ditions in Colorado for that period:
Out Of 354 days SO far the sun has
shone on 266, with l24 entirely clear
days and 142 partly clear days.
The mean temperature was 49.3
degrees, or OF degrees below normal.
For the similar period In 1904 the
mean was SIP degrees. The five
months, February, April, May, July
and October were 9 degrees colder
than normal, with the greatest aver
age daily deficiency, SO degrees, in
February. March gave AN average
daily excess of 4.3 degrees; other
months appreciably warmer than
normal were August, September and
November.
The mean of the coldest month,
February, was 25.2 degrees, and that
of the warmest month, August,
was 73 degrees. The highest tenn
perature, "a degrees, was noted on
July IA. Temperatures Of 80 degrees
above were recorded on seventeen
days, distributed as follows: One
in June, four in July, eleven in
August and one in September. The
lowest temperature reached was q
degrees below zero on February II.
Zero or lower was recorded on nine
days, three of these readings being
noted in January and six in Febru-
ary. The minimum, or night tenn
peratures, were below 32 degrees
thirty-one times in January, twenty
three in February, thirteen in
March, fifteen in April, two in May,
thirteen in October, nineteen in
November and twenty in December.
The temperature did not rise above
30 degrees on eleven days in January,
eleven in February and one in April,
October and November.
The total precipitation (including
rain, hail and melted snow was
1867 inches, or 3. 40 inches more than
normal. Three months were I'M
usually wet; March with an excess
of 2.10, April, 2.9l, and October,
LAO inches, while May to September.
ments / would like to remind you
that when leasing proposition was
proposed few years ago and the
cattlemen. or large part of them,
wished to lease and pay rent for
what public land they used, there
was general protest through the
press, your paper amongst the Others
if remember correctly. and the
main opposition amongst cattlemen
to the leasing system came from the
cattlemen living in the territory
lately set aside as forest reserves,
and "like the army Of fate the
men who did not want the govern
ment control of public lands have
got it while theAarge majority Of
stockmen who favored government
control are still left without 1t. U.
S. bulletin No. 81, Grazing on the
Public Lands" is just out and is
showing the report OF the public
lands commission, appointed by the
president in 1903. The commission
sent circulars to stockmen through
out the west asking series of Ques-
tions pertinent to above subject and
inclusive, and November and Decem-
ber were drier than common. The
monthly precipitation was as fol-
lows: January, 0.99; February,
o.35; March, 3.O7: April, 4.95 May,
2.65; June, 0.6l; July, 1.55; August,
O.67: September, O.49; October, 2.3l;
November, O.O4, and December, a
trace. There was no excessive pre-
cipitation $50 inches in twenty-four
hours, or one inch per hour). The
total snowfall was tifty-one inches.
distributed as follows: January and
February, each seven inches; March,
five; April, IS; May and October,
fourteen inches. The mean relative
humidity was 60 per cent.
OF the 354 days, 124 we're clear,
l42 partly cloudy and eighty-three
cloudy. Precipitation (0.O1 inch or
more) occurred on eighty eight days,
with greatest number, sixteen, In
May. OF thunder storms there were
tifty-seven, distributed as follows: