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Weather Watch: Hawaii, the Great Central Valley and Seneca Oregon

Weather and micro Climates: The importance of Local, Location, Location.

Hawaiians are serious about weather and climate. Michael Fox reports from the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  The new UC Merced campus north of Fresno is impacted by summer weather.  Tiny Seneca, Oregon claims the title, “winter icebox of the west”.

Meanwhile,  the data debate and the rhetoric surrounding AGW continues. 

* Hawaii would seem to be a good place to conduct scientific studies on climate and CO₂. Mauna Loa (the Volcanic Shield Mountain) on the Big Island is the site of the data for the Keeling Curve,  Top earth and astrological science in done by the Keck and other observatories on the summit.  In all points of the compass, the region is dynamically influenced by the surrounding Pacific Ocean,  On that point, the Michael Fox article is filled with gritty authenticity.

*  UC Merced Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Kease has announced her retirement from that post.  After spending $500 million on planning and building the newest campus in the UC State System a smaller than expected class is expected to enroll in the mid Valley campus. The 2006 class will be down to 500 entering freshmen from 700 in 2005. UC President Dynes recently called the school, “a startup.”
High summer temperatures, student isolation, unfinished dorms,  unequiped labs, scant recreational facilites, few cultural events or venues, no sports teams and limited majors have not been able to overcome the proximity of Yosemite N.P. at attract students according to a July 17 report from the National Desk of the nytimes.

* Seneca, in eastern Oregon’s Bear Valley and nearby Crane Prairie in the Logan Valley at the headwaters of the Malheur River south of Strawberry Mountain in Grant Country are known as cold sinks.  Local records indicate, and the State Climatologist concurs, that during the month of February 1933, the average air temperature was 0.0 ° F., the coldest in the nation. The lowest recorded temperature is -54° F.  Portions of the area are now part of the Paiute Indian Band properties.  There is no archeologic evidence of native American settlements in the area and there is unlikely to be any Resort or Gaming developments in the future.

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