TEMPERATURE. 



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Table III. — Normal monthly temperature, normal annual temperature, average minimum 

 and absolute minimum for several stations in Nebraska. 



Town. 



Lincoln 



Auburn 



Crete 



Hebron 



Harvard 



Beaver City 



Imperial 



North Platte .... 



Ravenna 



Genoa 



David City 



Fremont 



Omaha 



Stanton 



Oakdale 



Sioux City (Iowa 



Santee 



O'Neill 



Valentine 



Kimball 



Fort Robinson . . 



Lancaster 

 Nemaha . . 



Saline 



Thayer ... 



Clay 



Furnas . . . 



Chase 



Lincoln .. 

 Buffalo . . . 



Nance 



Butler.... 



Dodge 



Douglas . . 

 Stanton... 

 Antelope . 



Knox 



Holt 



Cherry ... 

 Kimball . . 

 Dawes 



Normal monthly temperature. 



23.5 



25. 38. 



23.5 35. 

 >. 7 37. 

 .,22.4 34 

 9 26. 6 38. 

 2 26. 3 36. 

 025. 3'35. 



4 2-2. 9 



22.0 

 20.8 

 21.0 

 25.0 

 19.5 

 19.2 

 19.0 

 18.4 

 19.8 

 21.5 

 23.9 

 22.5 



7d. 



71. 



70. 



71. 



70. 

 8|71. 

 070. 

 2 67. 

 669. 

 369. 

 9 69. 

 2 70. 



7 71. 

 6 



68. 

 4 70. 

 71. 

 9 67. 



8 67. 

 8165. 

 465. 



69.0 



/. 



66.4 

 67 2 

 65.8 

 66.5 

 64.9 

 66.9 

 65.1 

 62.4 

 64.7 

 64.0 

 63.0 

 64.5 

 64.8 

 63.5 

 62.5 

 65.2 

 64.6 

 63.4 

 61.6 

 61.0 

 61.2 



37.6 

 4 



5 35. i 



4 50.6 

 6 52. 



as 





33 



9^ 



39.6 



37.0 



35.2 



36.0 



34 



33.9 26. 



35. 625. 



33.9 

 32.7 

 34.3 

 34.1 

 33.5 

 34.3 

 36.2 

 35.2 



49. 8 



50.5 



.5 



a, 



50.3 

 47.9 

 49.2 

 48.0 



47. 5 1 

 48. 4 



-15.4-29 



-18.2-35 



-15.8-32 



-16.7-34 



-18.2 



-19.0 



-21.2 



-19.5 



-19.4 



-20.2 



26.7 



49.6 



23.6 



41.5 



25.3 



46.9 



27.8 



47.6 



21.9 



47.9 



24.9 



47.0 



27.2 



46.3 



28.5 



47.5 



28.2 



47.1 



-20.9 

 -15.2 

 ■20.5 



-21.3-33 

 -24.0-33 

 -23.11-37 

 -20. 3; -30 

 ■23.8-37 



PHYSIOGRAPHY. 



Nebraska lies in the central portion of the Great Plains region, and 

 extends from the Missouri River to the foothills of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, 104° west longitude, and between the fortieth and forty-third 

 parallels of latitude. The area is 76,794 square miles. 



As to general topography, the State is little diversified, consisting 

 for the most part of undulating prairies. The extreme eastern portion 

 of the State along the Missouri River is forested, or was covered with 

 forest before the timber was removed. These forests extended west 

 along the rivers, the trees becoming fewer in number and species until 

 they finally disappeared about halfway across the State. The prairies 

 are covered with herbaceous vegetation, a large proportion of which 

 consists of various species of nutritious grasses, which will be discussed 

 briefly in another paragraph. 



The altitude varies from a little less than 1,000 feet in the south- 

 eastern part to about 5,000 feet in the western portion of the State. 



For a discussion of the botanical areas of the State and their relation 

 to climatic and soil condition, the reader is referred to various articles 

 by Dr. C. E. Bessey, in the reports of the Nebraska State Board of 

 Agriculture, and more particularly to the Phy togeography of Nebraska 

 by Pound and Clements. 



