Re: C & C Narrow Gauge Then & Now photos #9

Now that you bring it up, I decided to look up the precipitation at the weather station at the NevadaDOT maintenance station at Montgomery Pass.

Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary
Period of Record : 5/ 1/1960 to 6/30/1980

Annual
Average Max. Temperature (F) 60.3
Average Min. Temperature (F) 28.5
Average Total Precipitation (in.) 7.27
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 49.9
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1

See this url: MONTGOMERY MNTC STN, NEVADA


This is the average precipitation for the period 1971 to 2000
0.87 Jan
0.42 Feb
0.55 Mar
0.41 Apr
0.73 May
0.36 Jun
0.39 Jul
0.53 Aug
0.93 Sep
0.55 Oct
0.49 Nov
0.60 Dec
6.84 Annual


It is a "land of little rain" (as the author Mary Austin titled a 1903 book of collected stories about the Owens Valley and the California desert)

Brian Norden