Geological Survey Professional Paper 17 Preliminary Report on the Geology and Water Resources of Nebraska West of the One Hundred and Third Meridian

Western Nebraska has a climate of typical plains character. It is dry and hot in summer, moderately moist in late spring, and cold, but with little snow, in winter. There is considerable variability in the climatic features from year to year, rather more than is found farther south or north, and some local variations from point to point, particularly in rainfall. Records of weather were kept for many years at Sidney, in the Lodgepole Valley, and at Fort Robinson, on White River, while for shorter periods observations have been made at Alliance, Gering, Hay Springs, Kimball, and Camp Sheridan. In Pl. XLII there is given a graphic reproduction of rainfall records covering a period of several years at some of the stations above mentioned, compiled from an article on the Rainfall of Nebraska,a by C. D. Swezey and G. A. Loveland, together with data for 1896 and 1897, kindly supplied by Mr. Loveland.

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aUniversity of Nebraska, Bull. Agric. Exper. Stat., vol. 8, article 4, 1896.

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PLATE XLII.—DIAGRAM OF RAINFALL AT LOCALITIES IN WESTERN NEBRASKA, 1884 TO 1897. . . . . No precipitation. ______ Trace. The absence of horizontal line indicates that no observations were recorded during a portion of the year. (click on image for a PDF version)