Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-21
WHERE is CLIMATE.
TO SURPASS 1T
Meteorological Facts and Figures
From Annual Report Of Weather
Bureau at Santa Fe.

imum temperature of 9S degrees, or
IL degrees warmer than the maximum
at Santa Fe 1t had minimum that
year of four below zero or four de
grees colder than the minimum at
Santa Fe. Albuquerque had an ex-
treme range in temperature of 1O2 de-
grees, Santa Fe of 81 degrees, diff
ference Of fifteen degrees which meant
fifteen degrees more of comfort to
health seekers Las Vegas, that year
had a maximum Of IS degrees, or
eight degrees warmer than Santa Fe,
and minimum of six below zero, or
six degrees colder than Santa Fe, an
extreme range of 101 degrees for Las
Vegas against 81 degrees for Santa
Fe. Roswell had a maximum of 101
degrees or fourteen degrees warmer
than Santa Fe, and minimum of SIX
degrees below zero or six degrees
colder than Santa Fe. The Roswell
extreme range exceeded that OF Santa
Fe by twenty degrees. And yet, out
side of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las
Vegas and Roswell have as perfect
weather and climate as can be found
anywhere in the Southwest. These
figures are official and taken from the
annual climatological report of the
Federal Weather Bureau at Santa Fe,
Just from the New Mexican press.
Santa Fe in 1906 had 73 per cent of
sunshine; less than usual, but far
above the highest average percentage
of eastern towns. Roswell had &C per
cent of sunshine or six per cent less.
Amarillo, Texas, had 67 per cent. The
relative humidity at Santa Fe was "a
per cent greater than usual but at
Roswell it was 63 per cent, at Am
arillo So per cent, at Durango, Colo
RADIO, 62 per cent. The year was the
windiest at Santa Fe that old resi-
dents remember and yet the average
velocity was only 7.G miles per hour.
At Amarillo, it was II miles per hour
or total of 10000 miles more per
year than at Santa Fe. At I'll Paso
the average velocity was 1913 miles
per hour or a total wind movement
of $4,000 miles more than at Santa Fe,
Thus, no matter how it is taken or
how it is compared with other
weather bureau stations, Santa Fe
climate has its points of superiority
that are officially and impartially ac-
knowledged. Above all stands the fact
that of the seventy seven southwest
ern stations given for comparison,
Santa Fe had the least range of ex.
tremes in temperature, only 81 de-
grees. In other words, besides being
the sunshiniest and almost the dryest
and calmest, the weather at Santa Fe,
summer and winter, is the most equit-
able and therefore, the most salubri-
GUS and the most comfortable to be
found in the Southwest and that
means in the entire country and is in
consequence, the most agreeable, be it
the month of December or July, April
or October, or any other of the
| twelve
The days come and go, one as sun.
shiny as the other, and the average
resident Of or visitor to Santa Fe
does not think of climate or weather
until there comes an occasional cloud
ing of the sky, some needed rain OF
a high wind The Legislature has
been in session more than thirty days
and not one of those days was with
out sunshine; on not one was the min
imum temperature anywhere neal
zero or the maximum below the freez
| ing point; not one of those days had
a wind of thirty miles or more per
hour; not one was so disagreeable that
it was uncomfortable to sit in shirt
| sleeves in the midday sun, And MIND
you, that is in January and Febru
ary, when the east had three weeks
of uninterrupted zero weather, o.
snowdrifts and blizzards. Certainly
Santa Fe possesses in its climate al
asset which no panic, no misfortun,
can take away, which is always avial
able and which each year will brin.
more prestige, more wealth, more de
sirable residents, more renown, evel
i If every one Of the many other natura
assets Of the city Of the Holy Faitl
| should fail.