GENERAL48599

• Permit No: M1980110
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Name: EXHIBIT K CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Climatic Summary

The property is located in the Denver Metropolitan region
on the east side of the South Platte River approximately 15
• miles northeast of downtown Denver at 132nd and US 85. This
area enjoys the same sunny, semi-arid climate that prevails
over much of the Rocky Mountain region. Extremely warm or
cold weather is usually of short duration. Temperatures of
• over 90 degrees are reached on the average of only 33 days per
year, and only in one year in five does the temperature brief-
ly reach and exceed the 100 degree mark. In terms of cold,
although temperatures commonly dip below freezing in the even-
• ~ngs (161 days per year) very rarely (less than 10 days per
year) is 0 degrees reached and most day time temperatures ex-
ceed freezing during the winter. The average temperature for
this area from 1939-1978 was 50.2 degrees with 63.4 degrees be-
• ing the average daily high and 37 degrees being the average
daily low.
The average precipitation from 1939 to 1978 was 14.50
inches per year. Thirty-seven percent of the annual total oc-
• curs in the spring in the form of wet snows and thunderstorms;
summer precipitation averages thirty-two percent of the total;
autumn has twenty percent, mostly in the form of rainfall; and
winter contributes eleven percent, almost all in snow. Snow-
• fall is usually infrequent, and although it can be quite se-
vere, tends to be of short duration. Total average snowfall
over 20 years was 59 inches per year. The mean relative humid-
ity is from thirty-eight percent to sixty-four percent over
• the average 24 hour period. In addition there are an average
of 116 days classified as sunny and clear, 131 classified as
partly cloudy, and 118 classified as cloudy.
The predominant wind direction is from the south-southwest
• with the yearly average mean being under 10 MPH. The strong-
est winds usually occur in March and April usually from the
northwest; in fact most winds year round that exceed 25 MPH
are from the northwest.
• The above data was compiled from "Local Climatological Data
Annual Summary with Comparative Data of Denver, Colorado" pre-
pared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), Environmental Data and Information Service, National
• Climatic Center, Asheville, North Carolina 28801. On the next
page is some tables reproducing average monthly data.
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