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• TAB 8 <br />CLIMATOLOGY <br />Introduction <br />Teb 8 describes the climatology of the proposed Xeyden Gulch Coal loedout permit area. <br />This information is provided to fulfill the requirements of the Regulations of the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Xining at Rule 2.04.8, end presents data <br />representative of the permit area. Date included Concern precipitation, temperature end <br />winds. <br />Precipitation end Temperature <br />The closest meteorological station to the loedout facility that has collected data in <br />excess of 20 years is the National Oceenie end Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) station <br />at Nayden, Colorado, approximately one mile to the northeast. The Nayden station is at an <br />• elevation of 6440 above feet mean sea level (MSC). It has a 66 year record of temperature <br />end a 72 year record of precipitation amounts. <br />The Xeyden Station precipitation end temperature values listed in Tables 8-1 end 8-2 were <br />derived from '~Climatologicel Deta; Colorado", Volume 96, Numbers 1-12 (January through <br />December 1991) and "Climatological Dete Annual Summery; Colorado 1991", Volume 96, Number <br />13, MOAA. Normal values ere based on standard averages derived for the period 1951 <br />through 1980. <br /> <br />1 <br />