WSP11418

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/1971
• Author: Missouri Basin Inter
• Title: Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study - Volume VI - Land Resources Availability - Hydrologic Analyses and Projections - Appendix
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CLIMATE

The dima!t' oi tht' \lissouri Basin is continental
in lype. being characteriud by wiut" ranges In tern.
perature and Irr~ular annual and Si'Jsona) pre.:ipIIJlion.
This results in J range of .:hmallc lont"s and aswc\Jled
natural vegetation over the basin. as shown m I1gure ;.
Salable Jfe the ('xuemes in temperature induced by
altcrnatll1g cold .lIT masSi'S moving inlo tht' basm irom
Iht' northwest and warm au ma"-ses movmg from the

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Gulf regions. Under their influen,:es the seasonal varia.
tion. and even the Jaily range in temperalUle. lend 10 be
large. Ex~'ept in IhL' mounlains. all localities ha"e ex.
perienced summer lemperalures o'"er 1000 F.. and
below-zero ....inler temperatures. Average annual lem.
peralUres range (rom 550 F. 1fi lhe soulheast to less than
~Oo F. in the nOrlhwesL
Wmd is a signifkant fac(()r In lhe climate lhroughout
lhe basm. A\'Crage wind directions for the grealer part of
lhe basin are (rom south and southeast in summer and

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