Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-01-07

SANTA FE WEATHER
FOR PAST YEAR
temperature Never Went Above 90
Degrees and Never Below Zero
Says Local Forecaster.

utOuSu LIE CoHILtS. Ol lJlfeCtOI
G. E. Linney of the United States
Weather Bureau in this city. the
Daily New Mexican Is enabled to pub
lish a summary of meteorological con-
ditions for the year 1906, much earl
Ter than usuaL An illustration of the
low range of temperature at Santa
Fe are the maximum and minimum
temperature figures for the year. AT
no time during 1906 did the maximum
temperature reach 80 degrees and at
no time did the minimum go below
zero, the maximum having been 81
degrees on July |, and the minimum.
zero, on January 22. There were only
II days during the entRe year that
the maximum temperature was below
32 degrees, or the freezing point The
mean temperature for the year was
4S.5 degrees The highest monthly
mean was in August, $50 degrees,
and the lowest in January, 2S.8 de-
grees, range of mean OF less than
27 degrees. The average temperature
of each month was as follows: Jan
uary, 2S,S; February, 35; March, 4O2;
April, 47.1 May, SAG: June. GAS;
July, 649; August. 65.6, September,
6O.2; October, 47.4 November. 3S;
December, IS degrees. The maximum
temperatures were: January, 52;
February, 56; March, So; April, 60;
May, rs. June, 81; July. 81; August,
So; September, 70; October, u; No
vember. Ga, and December. 56 de-
grees. The minimums for each month
were: January, zero; February. IL;
March, 16; April, 25; May, 33; June,
Al; July, 43; August, as; September,
80; October, 13; November, 4, and
December, II.
There we're during the year Ivy
clear days. 134 that were partly
cloudy, and only S2 that We're classed
as cloudy although most OF these had
some sunshine. The percentage OF
cloudiness during day time was only
3.4 The precipitation OF the year
was 1850 inches, the wettest month
having been July with 3.S2 inches.
The other months ranged as follows;
April 2.23 inches, August 1.S4 inches,
December 1.7S, September III, Oc-
tober SO, March LOS inches; Novem.
Der .6S, February IS, June 81, April
45 and January .35 Of an inch. The
greatest precipitation for any "a con
secutive hours was 2l2 inches on
July 2. There were Is days that had
more than .04 of an inch precipitation
There were % days on which snow
fell. II days on which hail fell and 9
days on which fog was observed. The
relative humidity was tS per cent al
It's a. M, and 46. per INT Ak,s n N
.4,o,e we're three days tiaifing the
year ON which the wind attained the
velocity of a gale. two in April ant
one in October, on which last named
day, the wind attained its creates
maximum ever recorded at Santa Fe
SO miles an hour. The average We
locity of the wind for the year was
rs miles per hour. April with ar
average velocity of 9.4 miles per houl
was the windiest month, while Au
gust with an average velocity of
miles an hour was the calmest month
The following was the wind average
for each month: January rs mile!
per hour; February Z; March 8;
April 9.5; May S.4; June so; Jul!
6.1; August 6; September GA; Octob
er Is; November 81, and December
IA miles per hour
OF course, there are no comparative
data at hand as yet to compare thes'
figures with the summaries of meteor
J oligical summaries of other places
! but it goes without saying that there
are few, if any towns, in the Unite,
States that can make as good a show
: ing as far as equability of tempera
ture, low range of extremes and sun
! shininess are concerned.