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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of days each year with 90 or higher is but two. Theaverage daily maximum temperature (afternoon reading) ofthe w^armest month (July) is but 81^, while the average nighttemperature of this month is but 57-, a summer temperaturefar morecomfortable thanthatof St. Louis, Washington, NewYork, Boston, Chicago, Denver or St. Paul, and only ap-proached by the cities that nestle beside the frigid waters ofLake Superior. On the other hand, winter is not bleak and cold; the averagewinter temperature is 31-, just below the freezing point. Thetemperature of the night falls to or below freezing a little overone hundred times each year, while zero temperatures arerarely recorded. The low^est actual record is 13^ below zeroin December, 1879, and in January, 1883; many winters passwithout a record of zero temperature. The annual precipitation (including rain, snow, sleet andhail) is 14.3 inches; Denver the same; Chicago, 34.8; St. Louis,41.1; Asheville, 42.5; Washington, 44.8; Boston, 45.0, and Jack-
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 115 sonville, 54.1 inches. While the rainfall is low it should beborne in mind that 62 per cent of the amount occurs in thespring and summer months, leaving the fall and wintermonths dry and invigorating. July is the wettest m.onth,averaging 2.8 inches, while but 0.7 inch (or less) are measuredin November, December, January, February and March. Theaverage number of days with 0.01 of an inch or more of pre-cipitation is 81, against 111 at St. Louis, 120 at Chicago, 121at Boston, 122 at Washington, and 127 at Jacksonville. Thesefigures for Santa Fe, however, do not represent days with con-tinuous rain, but rather days with showers of short duration,for a day with continuous rain is practically unknown. The sunshine of Santa Fe is proverbial; there is annuallyrecorded 76 per cent of the possible amount, against 69 percent at Denver, 65 per cent at St. Louis, 59 per cent at Wash-ington, 54 per cent at Boston and 53 per cent at Chicago. Withall of these cities, except

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