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Title: The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max, comp Walter, Paul A. F
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Publisher: (Santa Fe, N.M.) J.S. Duncan: public printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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aches the marvelous total of 93 per cent of the possible(June, 1902), and it has never fallen below 55 per cent (Jan-uary, 1898). In actual hours of sunshine the record averages3,352 hours in a year, 9.2 hours for each day. The average relative humidity is slightly below 46 per cent,it is highest, slightly below 55 per cent, in January, and low-est 33 per cent in June. The annual relative humidity atDenver is 50 per cent; at St. Louis 70 per cent; at Boston72 per cent; at Washington 73 per cent; at Chicago 77.per cent,and at Jacksonville 80 per cent. For the warmest months ofthe year—June, July, August and September—the average atSt. Louis is 66 per cent; Chicago and Boston 74 per cent;Washington 75 per cent and Jacksonville 82 per cent; in otherwords the humidity during the heat of the summer in theeastern cities is considerably greater than the annual average,while, just the opposite condition prevails in Santa Fe, whereit is a dry heat, thus always free from enervating effects.
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 117 The average hourly wind movement is low (6.9 miles perhour) and it is rare indeed that a storm velocity (40 miles anhour or higher) is attained, there being but 37 such recordsin 21 years. There is no record of the wind ever having at-tained a velocity of 60 miles an hour at Santa Fe. Summarized, the climate may be described as one that ismild and equable, much given to sunshine, free from greatheat, high winds, humidit)^ and debilitating effects so notice-able in the central and eastern cities, free also from the coldand snow and storm of other northern cities, a climate of clearskies, small rainfall, few storms and those of short duration,one which is usually warm in the sun in winter and cool in theshade in summer.

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