Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-13
Average of Nine and Half Hours Sun
shine for Each Day Last Year--Preci-
pitation Less Than 13 Inches
THERE ARE NO EXTREMES IN THE TEMPERATURE
Thus Does Our City Set the Pace in Offering the Most
Healthful and Agreeable Climatic
Conditions

Salubrious, sunny, dry. eyhilirating,
equable, free from extremes as TO
air movement or precip-
itation. such in brief is a description
of Santa Fe's climate The weather
during the year past, was not always
on good behavior; in fact the me-
neurological summary of the L. S.
weather bureau in this city, of which
Montrose w. Hayes is the director,
and j. B. Sloan, the assistant is not
near as favorable as that Of other
years, yet, taking it all in all, there
isn't another town in the United
States that makes quite as good
showing, and but few approach it.
Here are some of the figures for the
year:
Maximum temperature, sc.
Days with maximum below SO de-
grees, 9.
Minimum temperature, ! below zero.
Average daily range in temperature,
"a degrees.
Average velocity of wind, 9 miles
per hour
Maximum velocity. Al miles per
hour.
Cloudy days, 90
Total rainfall, 1913 inches.
Snowfall, 50 inches.
Sunshine, rs per cent.
Sunshine average for each day of
year, 8 IL hours.
NO EXTREME IN TEMPERATURE
Such is in brief the official record,
and little study of these figures eX-
plains why Santa Fe has the best eli.
mate for health-seekers, especially
those suffering from lung trouble.
With a maximum that reached only Sc
degrees, the heat, even on the hottest
day of summer cannot be oppressive,
only 81 degrees a day, the weather
must always be comfortable. With
only nine days a year on which the
maximum falls below 50 degrees and
an absolute minimum of only one de-
gree below zero. the cold cannot be
considered severe, especially when it
is remembered that there were 3,475
hours Of sunshine during the year.
The average temperature of the
year was AIS degrees; the average
minimum 35.7 degrees and the aver
age minimum 599 degrees, differ
ence of less than % degrees. The
maximum temperature was sc de-
grees in August, S5 degrees in July
and September, So degrees in June,
IS degrees in May, II degrees in Oc-
tober, 70 in March, 6S in April, 65 in
November, So in February, SO in De-
cember and so in February, differ
ence of only &c degrees between the
maximum of the warmest and that of
the coolest month. The minimum tenn
perature was 80 degrees in August or
the same as the maximum in January;
Al degrees in July. 3S in June, 80 in
April. 2S in May. q in September and
October, 16 in March, 10 in January,
9 in November. in December and
one below zero in February.
REMARKABLE DRYNESs.
At no time during the year was
there an inch of precipitation in any
"a consecutive hours. In no month
did the precipitation reach three
inches. In August it was 2.74 inches
in July 214 inches, in May 2.10 inches
in April 1S5 inches. In other words
the rains came at the proper time fo1
the farmer. except that June was ra
ther dry with only 6 of an inch OF
rainfall. In November the precipita
ton was LA inches, February S5 ol
an inch, October Sc, January .36
March .2S, December 10, and Sep
tember .07 of an inch. The maximum
for any "a consecutive hours was .95
of an inch. The relative humidity al