Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-03
FALL Of SNOW IN
YEAR JUST ENDED
UNUSUALLY HEAVY
Average for State Was "a
Inches; 200 Clear Days,
Showing Record for Sun
shine Below Normal,

SPECIAL eosR.spoNpEscs ~ soRa'Ns JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Feb THE United
States Weather Bureau today issued
the annual report for 1915 for New
Mexico. The year averaged slightly
below the normal both in tempera-
ture and in precipitation. The tenn
perature average was 81 degrees or
6 of a degree below the normal
while the precipitation averaged
1898 inches or .04 of an ich below
the normal In a general way the
western counties, portions of the CEN
trad counties and the southeast had
a deficiency of precipitations. while
the Rio Grande Valley and the north
east counties had an excess. The
greatest precipitation occurred in the
most. successful agricultural coun-
ties. Fairly large areas within the
state had less than 10 inches of pre-
cipitation but high plateau and noun
tain districts had as high as so inches
The snowfall averaged SAL inches by
far the greatest on record within the
history of the state, exceeding 1918.
the previous high record by almost
10 inches and more than doubling
the normal fall. All parts of the
state shared in the snow, only small
areas in the lower southern and CEN
trail valleys having less than ten
inches, while 20 to so inches occur
red over a large part of the state and
100 or more inches over large areas
of the mountain districts of the south
west the southeast and the central
and north. The crest of the range in
eastern Taos county ranged the enor-
nous total of 2SS inches.
over the state while temperature
conditions were variable, an excess
occurred, as a rule, in the western
parts of San Juan and Mckinley
counties and in narrow belt across
the southern part of the state. while
elsewhere a fairly general deficiency
was noted, which exceeded two dc
grees in much Of ColfaX county Cha
vos and southern portions of Eddy.
| The highest annual mean was at
1 Deming ga degrees and the highest
recorded temperature 116 degrees at
Artesia on June % The lowest an
nual mean was 3S.9- degrees at Eliza
BEETHOVEN and tho lowest recorded
temperature 80 degrees below zero ut
| Vermejo Park on January II, July
! was the warmest month with 72.5 de-
=
| 292 degrees.
| The last general frost of the spring
/ occurred over the southern and CEN
/ trail counties on April 20 and 81, and
! over the northern counties as late as
! May II and 10, some of the higher
1 mountain sections reporting frost as
/ late as June /. In fall, frost touched
! the higher portions about the middle
of September, but the season for the
most apart was free from frost over
/ the state until October % to 81.
The sunshine was somewhat below
normal with more than the usual
! number of days with precipitation
| For the state as whole there were
/ 900 clear days 1hfpartR cloudy and
CT cloudy while 50 davs had OF Of IN
! inch or more of precipitation. Santa
! Fe had 2991 hours of the possible
sunshine cr CT nov cent while Ros.
Won had IS per cent.
The winds were prevailin"ly south
| westerly and moro moderate as .
/ rule than during 1917 Santa Fe roc.
! istered a total of f5,132 miles or "A
/ miles per hour with MAXIMUM velooi.
4 tv Of AZ miles on Nav 30; Roswell
I had 71.412 miles or SO miles pc,
hour with maximum velocity of As
! miles on January 10: Agriculture
College 9034j miles or 81 miles per
i hour with. MAXIMUM Of 60 niles or
January is; FL Paso 100134 miles oI
115 miles per hour With maximr"
/ velocity Of sc miles on February ~
The relative humidity at Santa Fl
i averaged HS nor cent Roswell II poi
cent Aerioultnral COLLEGE AZ pei
| cent and FL Paso "a per cent
1 Another Glass "a" station was aAd-
\ ed to the evaporaton statiors---thf
/ AGRICULTURAL College. Generally Tho
evaporation was less than in 1917
/ Thus at Agricultural Colleoe the rec
' ord beginning In September indi-
Gates somewhat greater evaporation
than ~ the Elenhant Butte Dam, anf
. probable total in excess of 1OC
i inches. The total at the Dam wn'
It05.042 inches, or four inches less
i than in 1871
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