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<br />I Cheesman, Colo.
<br />I Denver.. Colo.
<br />I Estes ~')nrk.. Colo..
<br />1Ft, Col1bs, Cola,
<br />i Ft. !,;orcccn, Cola,'
<br />I Greeloy, Cola,
<br />Idaho Springs, Colo.
<br />Julcsburc, Colo.
<br />l~o.sslor,. Colo.
<br />~edgvrick, COla,
<br />Lons's Poak, Colo.
<br />Starling, Cola,
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<br />17. The c:..voro.go growing scaso:_l, \:;h0 period froe fl'or.1 )cillinc frost, in
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<br />.the lower 1)ortion of thu basil'}. is 1~5 dG.Ys and incrcc.s8s to 163 days ::-tt Demrur
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<br />!L'1d 165 days C\t Bouldor.
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<br />Tl:..o shortest g:rovring SOC.GO~l ig the plo.L1s 8.l'oa i'\rC"~s
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<br />81 do.ys at Fort Eorgcn in 1918, D,nd tho longost vme 260 dccys at Boulder in
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<br />1901, which ccppec.rs to bo an extreme as the no',t longoet growinG s"ccson vms
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<br />20( days at DOHy.)r in 1933. T:,o c.vorcc{';o {';rowinr; 800.80'1 in t:10 mountCtins r.t
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<br />Long I S 2cak is 61 dc:.ys, v;hcrc the. shortest Gr01ir:;~nb soason 0:1" record Y{f\.G 3 days
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<br />in 1910,
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<br />18. Eunidity. The basin is chnro.ctcri;:-;od by .;";>_0 101;! rclo."'civo hurr.id-
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<br />iti0S prevalont in th::: GroD.t Plnins ror;ion. Tc..blo 7 lists -chr; o.vcrugo r:::onthly
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<br />rclati"l"J-c humidities for 57 years of record C'.t n.nlvur, Coloro..do nnd Cr.oYC"-'..nc"
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<br />Wyoming,
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<br />19. ~:Jind. Stron;--,.1 dry win-dG c~ro Ecncrc-.l in OCC1..1.rronce ovor tho South
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<br />Platte River basin :J.ncl tend to injure crops bJ7 o.ccolorf.tinc ovo.porQtion. Tho
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<br />prodorni::1D.nt ~'dnds in tho bnsin n:c'o fro:;,. tb:.; nortlw[ost r:...'1c. c,ru e;rontcst during
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<br />March and .l~pri1. .t.t Donver, tho prcvniling "finds :ire from the s0'J.th and. a.ro
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<br />mostly drccina{';c winds from tho mountccins, Tccblo 8 prosonts ccvorcc50 hourly
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