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<br /> Ill COOPERATION YITi3 CPa10 C4A`uER OF We'ERDL
<br /> OJ,WtOnaAINT OF Tne 1ngrID ITAM e0 rd- 5
<br /> gantooa boo 30 t N eLMATOLMCAL SUMMARY STAvtos CRAIO, CMMADO
<br /> gneQUIppg 1070 33 'W
<br /> dr.(woUM 6280 feat
<br /> saAea aeo cronm sae eteutm 19)6 - 1965
<br /> Temperature(7) : Precipitation Total, (Inebes) Mean nmmber of days
<br /> Maw LSmtrsmN snow, Sleet Temperature
<br /> g p y pp ggy gg �j y o MAX Min.
<br /> t 7
<br /> w1 A ¢ 3 >• ¢ 9 >" 2Y F3 Y C7d N d: 0 �,�r7 �n �o � I
<br /> (a) (30) (30) (30) (30) (30) (15) (18) (18) (18) (30 (30) (30) (30) (30; (a)
<br /> JAN 32.3 1.5 16.9 53 1950e -45 1963 1L60 .924.751956 15.8 35.5 1951 11.0 1951 3 0 14 )1 15 J1.'1
<br /> TO 36.9 7.3 22.1 59 196) -43 1951 120719L5 10.2 15.0 1939 7.0 190 J 0 9 28 9 FU
<br /> MAR 43.6 16.2 29.9 71 1943 -2L 19L8 1123 1.04 .90 19L5 11.8 21.8 1945 6.0 1963• 4 0 4 31 3 Max.
<br /> APR 57.2 27.7 42.5 81 1946 - 2 1945 686 1.37 1.24 1950 5.1 13.7 196E 7.0. 1950 5 0 • 23 a APR
<br /> MAT 68.2 35.0 51.6 87 1936 11, 1953 401 1.38 1.64 19Lh 0.8 5.1 19L2 4.0 1942 L 0 0 11 0 MAT
<br /> JUN 77.7 L1.1 59.L lDO 19)6 21 1942 153 1.18 1.62 1965 T T 1952• T 190• 3 1 0 3 0 JL.;
<br /> JUL 85.9 L7.3 66.6 99 1959• 31 19L5 19 .92 .08 1941 0 0 -- 0 -- 3 8 0 • 0 JUL
<br /> AP1 83.L 46.1 6L.B 96 1949 28 1962• L7 1.J5 1.72 1953 0 0 0 L L 0 1 0 A.'
<br /> SEP 75.6 37.1 56.3 93 195) 17 lZr 262 1.21 1.25 1961 1.1 15.5 1965 9.3 1965 L 1 0 9 0 SEP
<br /> OCT 63.9 27.6 L5.8 BL 1957 9 1952 579 1.23 1.29 1959 1.0 6.2 1949 4.0 1949 4 0 0 2L O x;
<br /> NOV 46.6 22.8 34.7 71 1949 -19 1955• 1002 .95 .83 1938 7.8 2L.8 196E 31.0 196E J 0 L 29 3 ';C,'
<br /> DEC 36.6 8.1 22.L 64 1939 -31 1962• 13-a8 1.06 1.13 1951 12.9 28.6 1968 11.7 19L8 4 0 10 31 9 DE%
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<br /> Year 59.0 26.5 L2.8 100 1936 -45 1963 8275 13•L2 1.72 1953 66.5 35.5 1951 11.7 1948 U 1L Ll 221 39 Yaa:
<br /> (a) Average longth of record year,. ♦ Alec on earner dates, aontbet 'or years.
<br /> 7 Trace,an smount too small to measure. a Less than one half.
<br /> es Lee 65'r
<br /> CLIMATE OF CRAIG, COID.UM
<br /> Credit Is located in northwestern Colorado in the valley of the Tampa (less t.an one-fourth inch total) more often then any other ron'h. Mi.
<br /> River, and 13 about L5 miles west of the Continental Divide rurusing and October have been wet (more than two Snctes total) more often th.
<br /> along the 10,000 to 12,000 foot mountains of the Park Range. To the suer rcnths. Although a LL-year average annual precipitation `:
<br /> south, and to the northeast mountains rise to over 10,000 feet altitude slightly under IL inches at Lay, about 16 miles west and at abtvt ^
<br /> about 25 miles from Craig. The Temps River emerges from the mountains same altitude, Is almost the sane as that for Craig, the seasceal d_
<br /> a short distance east of Craig, then flows westward through open roll- trlbution at lay shows distinctly drier averages for Jwe and None-:'
<br /> .ing btlls,plateaus end bluffs to the Green River near the ,tat" border. and Lie tirhest averages for Parch and September. This difference
<br /> Altitude, in this area range from less Nan 6,000 feet near the river pattern Is probably ]rgely the result of variations 1n terrain iu
<br /> to more than 8,000 feet on some of the higher plateaus and hills. exposure, but it may be affected also by possible changes In
<br /> Northward from Craig the elope is generally upward, through similar precipitation regimes since 1936, as compared with the older L
<br /> billy broken country. record.
<br /> The climate of Craig 1s highland continental, choraeterlreJ by low As the temperature averages indicate, summers are relatively cool
<br /> precipitation, a rather large daily temperature ranee, low hustdlty, Craig. 7hs record highest of 100 degrees has been registered ccl�
<br /> moderate Amounts of wind, and abundant suLhine. Sumer day, are warm, once In the period of record. Temperature r.axisms above 95 degre-
<br /> but seldom hail summer nights are coal. In winter the nights are cold, have occurred in only eight month, In the 30 years period of r,cor:.
<br /> but the days are more comfortable than might be emevted from the tem- and 1n foam or the years t,.+peratures did not reach 90 degrees at w
<br /> perature averages, because of the low hunldity and usual brlr.ht sun- ties duriro. the ,ureter. Winters are calf, but the average daily r.
<br /> shins. The prevailing direction of air movement Into the area is from lmu+ for January his been above freecfrg in core than half of t: •
<br /> the vast. The west wlmds arrive conparattvely dry after their long, years, L-dlcating a high frequenmy of winter days wa_-r enoacm Co r
<br /> travel over land and loam of much of their mol,ture In pascinq over the snow cover. Snowfall Is not extr-rely :•ary,Anr ill totalo rarrt -
<br /> mountain ranges to the west. Relatively span areas to the north and from 33 Inches b 77 inches. "Open' winters occur in years -yen
<br /> northwest permlt somewhat eater scow, to the area for sterns from colder renths are dry. On the ether hand, the ground may remalr. rover
<br /> the north then to other mote protected areas of western Colorado. ad with snow for several weeks after a heavy snow followed by
<br /> extended perlod of low temperatures in ore of the colder Kant".
<br /> The average annual precipitation of about IL Inches places Craig In
<br /> a Beal-arid climatic clen,iflcation. A moderately high decree of Degree day data are provided a, an Index of heating requirements .:r
<br /> v ariatien free year to year In rrocipitatlen Is shown by a range of bulldLrs. Degree days are obtained ty subtracting the .ean to-en
<br /> about 60% to 250% of long torn average for 1nJividual years. Proclp- Lure for each dal from 650. Daily values `m obtained are seas:
<br /> ltstion in the eurroun.ing area, varlea cowidnrably with elevation vbtaln monthly totals. The need for the heatlrg of buildines Ss ce--
<br /> and exposure, but amounts decrease generally w•:stward from Cralg, par- altered none or slight if a day has a mean te-perature of tg= cr -r
<br /> haul arly at lover altitudes. asocnts are grtater in the hlrher or. Average monthly fuel requirements will be approxlrutsly prc;:
<br /> country to the east, reaching 20 to 1D inahe- or more annually In the tlonal to the degree day totals.
<br /> mowtalm. Mountain preclrltatlon 1, hes,ler in winter Nan in surwar,
<br /> a significant factor In providing env accuaulatlnns adequate for a J. W. Derry, State Climatologist
<br /> year around water supply to lower and drier areas. gnv Srcmectal Selena, Ter+ic es A?.Snis trot lc-.
<br /> P. 0. Po. 1079
<br /> long tare preelpltetion Avenge- far Crolg tr'Irale a fairly even fervor, hlcreb 91:^1
<br /> distribution lhro'+g1 the v. a]Vrr`uth th.-e nee wii+ varlaL'err. frnv re•-ser :o-A
<br /> vnth to w•mtlr to
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