PAGE2 —__ MARCH 1979 COMMENT Some like it hot, some like it cold to 3 degrees Fahrenheit colder a Utahn than they did earlier in twentieth century while temperatures during’ present century are 1.5 degrees warmer than _ were during the nineteenth tury,’’ said Dr. Murphy. sat at Grandfather’s knee and heard him tell stories were was much deeper than at present,” Murphy, How’s your child? (continued from page 1) able to express themselves without fear of reprisal or putdown. @ Join in parent-child activities. you, you portant to together.”’ me. We'll be a é ee the warmest. “Looking at the charts over the one hundred year period, then,’”’ Dr. Murphy concludes, “the climatic trend in the area seems to be toward slightly cooler and drier winters with slightly hotter and wetter summers. This would not appear to support grandfather’s claim to colder and wetter winters in the past, but it does not deny the fact that certain past winters may indeed have been extremely cold or wet.”’ COM If your toes, fingers and heating bills said ‘‘cold winter”’ this year records affirm that January was one of the coldest while January ‘78 was one of R. lee Ol TEMPERATURE AND precipitation reveal climate trends to Dr. Don Murphy, professor of Geography. are do inr it overly-anxious about your child. It undermines a child’s feeling of self confidence if parents don’t show appropriate confidence in them for their age and maturity. ee “I enjoy with @Don’t : Second-class Ogden, year postage Utah, published in October, paid at five times a December, February, April and June at Weber State College with editorial offices in the Alumni Office, Ogden, Utah 84408. Vol.11 No.3 Mar. 1979.COMMENT is mailed at no charge to alumni of Weber State College. Alumni Editor: Arlene Wilson. Alumni Board of Directors Executive Committee Tim Morris, president Kent Petersen, first vice president Margaret Favero, second vice president Alan E. Hall, executive director Says, ‘you are important to me.” His four sons are, left to right, Jade, 5, Lance, 7, Dirk, 10, and Troy, 8. He also has a daughter, Minda, 3, who chose not to join in, ana wife, Julia. Photos Lorna Rich Lewis Joseph Tim Blackburn Jerry Lindquist Gene Hansen Paul Skeen George Stromberg Heed Swenson Donna Roberts Jeff Flamm Mike Hunsaker Donnell Stewart Michael | | 2 i Directors BY SPENDING time with his sons in activities they enjoy, Dr. Frank Apolonio ee This is really saying being Si “~“ ie of Utah Historical Quarterly, examined Utah climate records, drawing some interesting conclusions. ‘It appears that January temperatures presently average 2 5 age ‘ ; See lee published in the fall 1978 issue * Seed le summers suffering through what seemed like endless hot days and sleepless nights.”’ Dr. Murphy’s “One Hundred Years of Utah Climate” Ol homes instead of spending such teed Coe man’s eed to weds due — be advancing technology that... allows us to travel in heated automobiles on wellmaintained highways instead of open buggies along snowdrifted lanes or relax through hot summers in air-conditioned Va, may He also found that March and November temperatures have been dropping through the years except for a slight rise during the last 30-year interval. “Precipitation has increased in April, June, July and August but decreased in May and all other months,”’ he said. The steady decline of May precipitation, which is such an important time for crop growth may be more significant for agriculturalists than the slight increase in precipitation during the following warm months. Dr. Murphy pointed out that while the winter of 1976 was one of the driest on record April, ‘76, was the wettest along the Wasatch front so precipitation was “normal” for the year and won’t show up as a dry year on charts. ted At R. tl Don at Cm. lh ae Dr. professor of Geography. ‘The misimpression of ‘rougher winters in the past’ a! said ite the snowfall “foe, and D. Lyon Dick Speechly Jim Packer par as a lad, winters colder Greg Garfield by Mike Schoenfeld -_ when, the July the to 2 they cen- ~~ a child many . “As probably