It certainly doesn’t feel like its almost summer right now in Cañon City does it? Despite the cooler weather we’ve been having lately, Cañon City is generally a temperate climate to live in. Even back in 1897 they knew it! Here is an article from the Cañon City Clipper on January 5, 1897 that extols the virtues of Cañon City.
Canon City a Famous Health Resort
CLIMATE
Colorado is known the world over as a health resort of many virtues. But Colorado is not all alike in respect to its climate. There s a wide difference in sunshine temperature and general climatic condition and Canon City lays claim to the possession of the best climate on the Atlantic slope. It has fewer cloudy days, far less rain and snow than any place on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, and, therefore more sunshine and a more equitable climate. Being shut in by the mountains and foothills on the west, north, and south, the city is protected from the strong winds of winter and spring, which render more exposed localities so unpleasant. This together with the practically perpetual sunshine, constitutes advantages which all will at once appreciate. The following table gives temperature for 1893 at Canon City, which record was kept by Judge W.B. Felton for the United States Meteorological Bureau:
MEAN
MEAN
MAXIMUM
MEAN
MINIMUM
RANGE
January……………………………….. 34. 49.5 18.5 31. February……………………………… 31.5 41. 12.5 28.5 March…………………………………. 43.5 58.3 29.5 29. April…………………………………….. 52.6 67.8 3.6 30. May……………………………………… 59.3 77. 44.3 33. June…………………………………….. 65.8 84.2 49.3 34. July………………………………………. 71.5 85.5 57.3 26. August…………………………………. 70. 83. 57. 26. September…………………………… 62. 71. 45.5 33. October……………………………….. 53.3 71. 35. 39. November……………………………. 42.2 57.5 26.3 30.6 December……………………………. 39.5 54.7 23.6 31. Mean Temperature for Year… 52. 68. 36.3 31. The climatic advantages may be summed up to be a summer with a greater proportion of sunshine than in any other state, and sufficiently hot for the successful production of fruit, a comparatively mild winter temperature, without loss of invigoration and a comparative immunity from high winds. These features, taken into conjunction with the general atmospheric dryness of the region, with an altitude highly stimulating in its effects, but not excessive, with as large a proportion of sunny days as is to be found anywhere in the sunniest of all climes, furnish strong claims for attention.
So, here’s to hoping we get back to those sunny days we’ve always claimed to have soon, right?