Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-11
WAS
COOLEST KNOWN
IN STATE
Precipitation Slightly Above
Normal With Heaviest
Rains in Southeast, Accord.
ing to Weather Bureau.

General summary New Mexico sec
tion. September. 1913;
The month Of September. 1913. av-
eraged far below tho normal In tenn
perature, and slightly above normal
in precipitation. u was little colder
than September. 1912. and the coolest
September on record Ia New Mexico.
The deficiency Ia temperature was
general, although greatest In the east
ern plains region. the southeast. the
lower Pecos and lower Rio Grande
valleys. and the far southwest, where
Il averaged more than degrees
day below the normal, and at a few
stations 8 degrees TO degrees day
below.
Rather high temperature prevail
ed az the beginning OF the month and
continued TN the 8rd or fth. a sec
ond warm period occurred from the
18th to goth. the 18th proving the
warmcst day Of the month. rs rule.
on the other hand. pronounced cool
periods occurred from the nth 20
the nth, and from the 2Srd TO 2gth,
the nights continuing cold To- the close
at the month, rho 25th s.nd 26th
were the coolest days Of tho month.
and fros, was quite general on these
dates Ia north and north-central
counties. fully two weeks earlier than
the normal season,
The precipitation OF the month was
generally good II was large and
greatly in excess OF the normal IN the
lower Pecos valley and southeast
counties also over the northern noun
talns ANA the Black Range The
/ amounts were Ia excess OF the normal
generally. except that deficiency
occurred In the middle and lower Rio
Grande valley. and IN central Grant
and north and east Luna counties
shower periods occurred from the 3rd
TO the 10th. and again from the 18TH
10 nth, and general rain Gin many
northern counties and over the noun
tuins. snow from the 22nd TO the
goth or 27th The rains Of the 3rd-
IN la the southeast counties were cs-
pecially heavy, "a considerable area In
Otcro Chaves and Eddy counties re-
ceiving from one TO four inches dur
ing the 4S hours. most of which oc-
CURED ON the ith, The snowfall Of
the last OF the month was exception
ally heavy Cor September. averaging
an inch and half for the state. al
though the fall was confined to the
higher northern and central districts,
ana 60 tho mountlin areas.
! The month averaged considerably
| below Tho normal Ia sunshine; there
were 10 clcur days. II partly cloudy
aud cloudy. while precipitation t0.0i
inch or mureJ occurred on an average
of seven days AZ Santa Re there
was "a per cent OF the total possible
sunshine, and az Roswell % per cent.
The humidity averaged above the
normal condition. At tho ARricul-
ural college the average was 81 per
cent. az Roswell 60 per cent ana az
Santa Re 5S per cent Winds were
light, as a rule. although rather so-
we're gales occurred In parts OF the
state on the 22nd. The prevailing d.
Erection for the month WAS from the
southwest.
Temperature.
The mean temperature, as deter
mined from the records of 05 stations
having mean altitude OF about 5.O0g
feet was CO.'S degrees. or 3.5 degrees
below the normal and O.3 degrees be-
low September, 1912 The highest
monthly mean was 7O.2 degrees al
Deming and the lowest iT2 degree.
lat Elizabethtown. The highest re-
corded temperature was 100 degrees
at Artcsia on the 18th and the lowest
rs degrees az Eiizabcthtown. on IN,
goth. The greatest local monthly
range OF temperature was 90 degree.
at cliff and the least 80 degrees al
cioudcrofL while the greatest locn
daily range Of temperature was 90 dc
loco. "a rrf........t 80. 49, fnt