Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-12
MAY WARMED UP
At TER SHE HAD
GOTTEN A START
Mean Temperature of Month,
However, Was Lowest on
Record With One Exception
Which Was in 1907.

ESPECIAL eossssronorses TO sossiss JoursAu
\ Santa ffe, June / beginning cold.
the month of MAY gradually warmed
up, and. as a rule. touched the high
Il est temperature of the month on the
i 18th or 18th, continuing thereafter
moderate until its close, although
brief cold periods again occurred on
the l9th-20th and 26th-27th. The
lowest temperature of the month gen
orally occurred on the eth, but the
end, Ord and 4th were also cold days.
| a deficiency Of temperature was gem
eral, greatest, however, in Dona Ana,
Luna and Grant counties, large also
In western Valencia, Mckinley and
San Juan counties. With the excep-
ton OF May, 1907, the mean tempera-
ture of the month Just closed was the
lowest OF record. Severe frosts were
general until the eth or Sth. and in
the higher central and northern coun-
ties they occurred until the goth.
| The precipitation of the month.
considering the state as a whole, was
practically normal. and yet more than
one-half of the state had less than n
half inch of precipitation, and about
lthree-fourths of it showed a deficien-
Icy. The southern third was practi-
cally without precipitation, the fall in
icreasing rapidly northward to more
than five inches In extreme eastern
Taos and extreme northeast Colfax
counties.
| Snow occurred quite generally over
| the north half of the state, and also
over the southern mountain areas, the
| fall amounting to 20 inches over the
| highest parts of the Sangre de Cristo
range in Taos county, and to more
than 20 inches over large part of
| the higher mountain country of Taos
and Rio Arriba counties. Much snow
remained at the close of the month in
the dense timber. in the gulches and
over the north slopes, although II had
generally disappeared below the 5000
to S.500-foot level. The average fall
for the state 2.3 inches, giving a total
seasonal fall of 1873 inches. about a
third greater than the normal. North
ern streams carried a large volume of
water during the month. reaching
their maximum flow toward its close, |
while southern streams had passed |
the maximum early in the month and |
were low at its close. Considerable |
water from snow was still indicated |
for the first half of June over the Rio |
Grande watershed in northern New |
Mexico.
Pressure.
The mean sea-level atmospheric !
pressure at Santa Fe was 20.76 inches; |
highest, 5000 on the 3rd; lowest !
29.42 on the 18th. At Roswell the /
mean was also 1916 inches; highest, |
zoos on the 18th: lowest 29.3S on
the 18th. At FL Paso the mean was
2a.72 inches; highest, 5000, on the
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Temperature.
The monthly mean for the state. as
determined from the records of ninety
stations having a mean altitude of
about 5000 feet, was 56.7 degrees or
3.2 degrees below the normal, as de-
termined from the departures Of thir-
ty-six stations having records for ten
years or more. The state averaged
ga degrees "a day colder than In May
1914. The highest monthly mean was
sos degrees at Carlsbad, and the
highest recorded temperature, l01
degrees at Artesia ON the 10th. The
lowest monthly mean was 1872 degrees
at the Red River Canyon station, and
the lowest recorded temperature, 16
degrees ut Luna, western Socorro
county, on the 3rd.
Humidity.
The mean relative humidity at San
ia Re at a. m. was So per cent; at
6 p. M, "a per cent, and for the
month, 46 per cent. At Roswell the
mean at a. m. was SO per cent; at
D. M, 81 per cent, and for the month,
AZ per cent At the Agricultural col
lcge the a. m. readings averaged Al
per cent; the 5 p. m. readings 16 per
cent, and for the month, rs per cent,
while a series of forenoon readings
taken at Fort Bayard average Al per
cent for the month.
Precipitation.
The average precipitation for the
state, as determined from the records
of 1877 stations. was 0.97 inch or
0.04 inch below the normal as de-
termined from the departures of for
ty-nine stations having records for ten
years or more. May, 1914, had 1866
inches greater average precipitation
than the month just closed The
greatest amount was 5.6S inches at
Anchor mine, and no precipitation
was recorded at twenty stations. The
greatest amount in any twenty-four
consecutive hours was 100 inches
near Lake Alice on the 26th. The
of the month, as previously
stated, averaged 2.3 inches. There
was an average of four days with Dol
inch or more, precipitation.
WIND
The total wind movement for the
month at Santa Fe was 6,707 miles,
or 80 miles per hour: highest velocity,
"a miles from the southeast on the
18th. At Roswell the total move
ment was 6.37l miles, or $50 miles per
hour; the highest velocity, 36 miles
from the southwest on the LIST. AT
Ell Paso the total movement was 1890
miles. or 1874 miles per hour; the
highest velocity, a. miles, from the
west on the 18th. At the Agricultural
college the total movement was 6,254
miles, or S.4 miles per hour; highest ,
60 miles, from the southwest ,
on the LIST. The prevailing direction
for the state was from the southwest ,
Sunshine and Cloudincss. ,
There was an average of nineteen /
clear, nina partly cloudy and three ,
cloudy days, considering the state as
a whole. at Santa Fe 20 per cent of
the possible sunshine was recorded, or
a total of 307 hours, and twenty -six
days had so per cent or more of the
possible amount At Roswell, IS per
cent of the possible sunshine was re-
corded, and there were twenty nine
days with so per cent or more of the
possible amount. 8