Editing Estancia, New Mexico (section)

== Climate ==
Estancia has a typical New Mexico [[semi-arid climate#Cold semi-arid climates|cool semi-arid climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''BSk''). During the “summer” season from April to June, afternoons change from warm to hot, mornings move from freezing or near-freezing to cool, and the sky is generally very clear. [[North American Monsoon|The monsoon season]] from July to September provides the heaviest precipitation due to frequent thunderstorms, although diurnal temperature ranges remain above {{convert|35|F-change|C-change|1|disp=or}}. The cool winter half of the year from October to March gradually chills with freezing mornings almost every day. Over a whole year 177.1 mornings fall below freezing although most afternoons even in the depth of winter are cool and sunny and maxima during an average winter top freezing on all but 6.1 afternoons. Occasionally, an extratropical storm will penetrate far south enough to provide an easterly flow from the [[Gulf of Mexico]]: the average annual snowfall is {{convert|19.2|in|m|2|disp=or}}, although as much as {{convert|46.0|in|m|2}} fell in January 1987, and over {{convert|55.1|in|m|2}} between July 1915 and June 1916.

Since records began in 1904 the wettest calendar year has been 1911 with {{cvt|27.25|in|mm|1}} and the driest 1955 with only {{cvt|4.80|in|mm|1}}, followed by 1956 with {{cvt|4.87|in|mm|1}}. The wettest month has been October 1911 with {{cvt|9.66|in|mm|1}}, followed by July 1911 with {{cvt|7.79|in|mm|1}}, and June 1996 with {{cvt|7.05|in|mm|1}}. The wettest days has been June 27, 1996, with {{cvt|3.05|in|mm|1}}, the hottest afternoon June 19, 1989, which reached {{convert|104|F|C}} and the coldest morning on January 7, 1971, when the mercury fell to {{convert|&minus;37|F|C|1}}.
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{{Weather box|location=Estancia, New Mexico (1904 to 2016)|single line=Y|Jan record high F=71|Jan high F=46.4|Jan low F=15.6|Jan record low F=-37|Jan precipitation inch=0.53|Jan snow inch=4.1|Feb record high F=77|Feb high F=51.1|Feb low F=19.7|Feb record low F=-30|Feb precipitation inch=0.53|Feb snow inch=4.0|Mar record high F=84|Mar high F=58.7|Mar low F=24.5|Mar record low F=-9|Mar precipitation inch=0.60|Mar snow inch=2.1|Apr record high F=88|Apr high F=67.7|Apr low F=31.2|Apr record low F=2|Apr precipitation inch=0.66|Apr snow inch=0.8|May record high F=96|May high F=76.5|May low F=39.1|May record low F=12|May precipitation inch=0.99|May snow inch=0|Jun record high F=104|Jun high F=86.3|Jun low F=46.9|Jun record low F=23|Jun precipitation inch=0.92|Jun snow inch=0|Jul record high F=103|Jul high F=88.6|Jul low F=53.1|Jul record low F=35|Jul precipitation inch=2.21|Jul snow inch=0|Aug record high F=98|Aug high F=85.9|Aug low F=52.0|Aug record low F=33|Aug precipitation inch=2.37|Aug snow inch=0|Sep record high F=96|Sep high F=79.9|Sep low F=44.2|Sep record low F=20|Sep precipitation inch=1.52|Sep snow inch=0|Oct record high F=89|Oct high F=69.7|Oct low F=32.7|Oct record low F=4|Oct precipitation inch=1.25|Oct snow inch=0.8|Nov record high F=79|Nov high F=57.3|Nov low F=22.2|Nov record low F=-22|Nov precipitation inch=0.57|Nov snow inch=1.6|Dec record high F=74|Dec high F=47.6|Dec low F=15.3|Dec record low F=-33|Dec precipitation inch=0.74|Dec snow inch=5.8|precipitation colour=green|source 1=Western Regional Climate Center<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nm3060 |title=ESTANCIA 4N, NEW MEXICO (293060) |access-date=March 6, 2017 |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301171019/https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nm3060 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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