WSP11789

• File Number: 8101
• Description: Arkansas River Basin
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 2/10/1938
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Arkansas River at Holly - 1910
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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Excerpto from "Climatological Data for January, 1910"

District No.7, Lower lfississippi Valley.
(Bages 81 and 82).

"TEMPERATURE"

"COLOPADO AREA - The mean temperature was 29.30, and
the avero.ge departure from the normal was - 0.80. The highest
monthly mean was 38.00, at Canyon City, and the lowest, 16.00,
at Leadville. The hishest temperature recorded \'laS 840, at Roene,
on the 24th, and the lowest, - 340, at Lalce Moraine on the 6th."

"KANSAS AREA - The mean temperature was 33.00, and the
average departure from the normal + 1.70. The highest monthly
mean was 37.60, at Independence, and the lowest, 29.30, at La-
Crosse. The highest temperature recorded was 770, at Hugoton,
on the 2J.j.th, and the lowest, - 140, at Council Grove, on the 6th."

"PRECI?ITATION BY DRAINAGE AREAS"

"ARKANSAS RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES - Less than the normal
amount of precipitation oocurred in the Arkansas Basin, except that
over the extreme headvraters in Colorado, the Kansas area, and the
central portion of Oklahoma there vms an excess. Over the Arkansas
Basin in Cclorado, the precipitation from 30 stations averaged 0.68
inch, being about 0.1 inch below the normal. The precipitation over
the stretches of the Arkansas proper that lie in Kansas and Oklahoma,
from 39 stations, averaged 1.14 inch, practically all stations roport-
ing an excess, which averaged about 0.2 inch. The precipitation was
unevenly distributed over the Cimarron drainage area; There was nOne
over the headwaters in Colorado; a slight excess oocurred over that
portion of the valley that lies in Kansas, and there was a deficienoy
ovar those portions lying in Oklahoma. The amounts from 16 stations
averaged 0.57 inch, being about 0.2 inch below the normal. The preoi-
pitation was unifonnly light throughout the Canadian Basin. The amounts
from 59 stations averaged 0.43 inch, being about half the normal amount.
The precipitation was above the normal over the Neosho Valley; the
amounts from 13 stations averaged 1.53 inch, and the average excess
was about 0.4 inch. Nearly the normal amount of precipitation occurred
over the Verdigris Basin. The amount from 9 stations averaged 1.10
inch. The precipitation over that portion of the Ax:kansas Basin from
the Oklahoma-Arkansas line to its jULction with the 11ississippi was
uniformly light; the amounts from 15 stations averaged 2.20 inches,
being about 1.5 inch below the normaL"