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What's
So Great About the Desert,
When I Prefer the Coast?
A
COMPARISON BETWEEN NEWPORT AND HERMISTON
WEATHER
Jeannie
Lockwood, Blue Mountain Community
College
Use these questions
and the list of Internet resources to guide your
investigation of your local region. These examples
are from the Hermiston, Oregon, project. We
compared our weather to that of Newport,
Oregon.
Below is a list of
Internet sites that can be used to answer the
following questions. Please feel free to use these
and any other URLs you locate while on your search.
URLs can be located by using search engines such as
Yahoo! to locate chambers of commerce in different
cities.
http://weather.hmsc.orst.edu/index.htm
http://www.hermistonchamber.com/
Oregon Live
http://www.oregon.live.com/
http://www.wunderground.com/forecasts/OR.html
http://www.hermistonherald.com/links.html#weather
http://www.newquestcity.com/cities/OR/Chamber/0395.htm
http://www.hermiston-oregon.com/
1. Contrast the
summer highs and lows of a coastal community,
Newport, with a city in eastern Oregon such as
Hermiston.
2. Compare the
difference in sea level between Hermiston and
Newport.
3. Search
the Internet to find five crops that do well in
your climate.
4. Explain
how once dry sagebrush land has been converted into
farmland in Hermiston.
5. Describe
the current wind, humidity, and precipitation in
your town today.
6. If you
are on the coast, tell the sky conditions in
Hermiston today such as cloudy, clear, or foggy. If
in Hermiston, describe the Newport skies.
7. Give the
extended forecast for the next four days for
Newport and Hermiston.
8. Check for any
severe weather forecasts or flood warnings for your
state.
9. Read a current
online newspaper's weather forecast to see if today
is picnic weather.
10. Which of the
above URL's did you find most useful and
why?
Click
here for this lesson's "Notes to
Instructors"
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