The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-02-11
PaSt Year Considerably Below
Normal in Temperature and
Far Above in Precipitation

SANTA ~ FEB. if.r-The several
ItIlmatlc anmmar3 Tor New Meslco
ra5 thc year lai4 lolons;
rho year a~ves,rsd considerably be-
low The normal IN Temperature and
far above "a precipitation. n was the
third coldest sear Of record since
1891. only 1918. and 1914 being
colder. The lowest recorded ten-
pHraiurt OF tho YEAR .t3e deErees be-
Iou acro al Dnlco On The 2eth OF jan
naf5l has Only besn equailed once
Ntfort-ln December. 1911. while The
Highest recorded temperature Of tho
year tifo degrees az Artesia on the
18th OF AuTua7) has been exceeded
I several times. The year. az a whole,
averaged 90 degrees colder Than 1915.
The monfha from January to March,
Iuuo July. cfctubcr and November
were all below the normal, the coolest
month ~tJanuaryl averaging ~ de-
frcra below. while Deccushcr afcruf-
"a 80 dcfrce above. Practically az
parts OF the state shared In the do
flcIoncy. only small local areas show
ing n3rmni temperature or a slight
oxqcas. Among these IN the station
~ the Elephant Butte dam, where the
large body OF water. warming and
cqualiHng the temperature. save n
small excess Tor the year The high
est annual mean was tl.f degrees at
Aftcaia and the lowest 37.1 degrees
al Eilzabcthtown.
The precipitation. on the other hand
averaged far above thc normal. Just
e4uallinF tho iamocs yet year 1905,
with zo.g5 inches average precipita-
tilon for the state. This ~ s.S7 inches
greater Than 1915. The greatest
monthly average mount was $50
inches IN september and the least els
inch in January. while large monthly
atcraroa occurred In each month
from March 10 Novcnber. barring
August, which fell slightly beloW the
normal. The greatest loc1i amount
for tho year was sO.ab inches at the
Harvey Ranch. al The hqadwatcra OF
Tho Gallinas. IN northwest San Miguel
county. while the lcsut amount for
the year was G.36 iuchoa al Aziec'
san Juan county. Amounts IN excess
OF 30 inches occurred al many sta
lions In the northeast part OF the
state and also al s few stations In he
southeast mountain districts, while
lssa thar &c inches occurred over
much OF San Juan county and por-
itions OF Dona Ana aud Luna. There
MAS a fairly general large excess OF
precipitation over the eastern half
OF the tate, and a mail excess ~
mnrn OF the western decreasing TO a
small deficicnc, In parts OF the south
west and the northwest TIE greatest
monthly amount was 1885 inches at
/ carson Seep ranger station Ia Sep1
TENDER and the greatest in any y
consecutive hours 7.7i Inches at Meek
on the 15-16th OF the same month.
only one previous record In excess
OF that al The Carson See7 station Is
known for New Mexico. 1910 inches
az Err ln July, 1905. These stations
are both on the eastern slope OF the
southeast mountain district, not 80
very far apart.
The snowfall OF the year averaged
36.s inches. an o which has
been exceeded but n few times In the
last so years. February, March, April
and November were all much given
to snow. which occurred In every
month of the year. excepting July and
August. although the amounts IN Way
June. September and October were
small. An parts of the state re-
ccived snow. gse amounts increasing
from about an nch along tho ex'