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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018
NOAA predicts warm months
ahead for most of the Northwest
Astoria man dies in
Highway 30 collision
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria man was killed
Sunday afternoon in a colli-
sion on U.S. Highway 30 just
east of the city.
Douglas Morgan, 54, was
driving a Toyota Prius west-
bound on the highway at
about 1:45 p.m. when a Chev-
rolet Tahoe driven eastbound
by Lori Courtwright crossed
the double-yellow centerline
into Morgan’s path, authori-
ties said.
Morgan died at the scene.
Courtwright, 43, of War-
renton, suffered serious inju-
ries and was flown by air
ambulance to a Portland area
hospital.
The highway was closed
for about three hours.
Oregon State Police is
investigating the crash, which
occurred near milepost 94
east of the Tongue Point Job
Corps Center.
The Northwest’s late spring,
summer and fall likely will be
hotter and drier than usual as
the Pacific Ocean warms up,
leading toward a possible El
Niño next winter, according
to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
Sea-surface temperatures
along the equator are slowly
rising from below normal to
average, according to NOAA.
By fall, climatologists antic-
ipate temperatures will be
above normal, a heating of the
ocean associated with warm
winters and low snowpacks in
the Cascades.
“Right now, I’d have to
forecast a less than average
snowpack. I reserve the right
to change my forecast,” Wash-
ington State Climatologist
Nick Bond said.
NOAA’s Climate Predic-
tion Center foresees above-av-
erage
temperatures
and
below-normal precipitation for
May, June and July in Idaho,
Oregon, Washington state and
Northern California.
Bond said he had more
confidence in the temperature
forecast.
“I would say that with the
(forecasting) models there is a
pretty strong consensus that it
will be on the warm side,” he
said. “I would be loath to put
too much stock in the precipi-
tation forecast.”
NOAA’s outlook relies
heavily on the Pacific Ocean
transitioning from La Nina, a
cooling of sea temperatures, to
Oregon State Police
Highway 30 was closed for about three hours Sunday
after a fatal crash.
Washington state ballot measure would
raise age to buy semi-automatic weapons
Associated Press
TACOMA, Wash. —
An organization that sup-
ports stricter gun regulations
has announced a new bal-
lot measure proposal to raise
the minimum age to buy a
semi-automatic weapon in
Washington from 18 to 21,
along with several other
restrictions.
The
News
Tribune
reported the Alliance for
Gun Responsibility will need
roughly 260,000 signatures
before the initiative can qual-
ify for the 2018 ballot.
The group’s initiative
effort comes after lawmak-
ers in the Democratic-con-
trolled Legislature declined
to bump the minimum age
to buy semi-automatic weap-
ons after the February mass
shooting at a Florida high
school.
The proposed initiative
would also hold gun owners
legally responsible if a child
uses a gun stored unsafely,
require a 10-day waiting
period to buy a semi-auto-
matic weapon and create
a state system to regularly
check gun owner eligibility.
El Niño, a warming. La Nina
has prevailed since last fall,
but chances are good that sea
temperatures will be normal
by May, according to NOAA.
La Nina generally means
colder and wetter winters
in the northern U.S. and the
opposite in the southern U.S.
Although never strong,
this La Nina has delivered for
Washington state irrigators.
Snowpacks in 11 basins
monitored by the Natural
Resources Conservation Ser-
vice were all well above aver-
age Thursday. Northern Idaho
snowpacks also are well above
normal, and some Northern
Oregon snowpacks have ral-
lied to above or near normal
after a slow start.
To the south, snowpacks in
the rest of Oregon and Northern
California are below normal. A
drought in eastern Washington
that covers almost one-third
of the state is expected to per-
sist for at least the next sev-
eral months, the U.S. Drought
Monitor reported Thursday.
Ocean temperatures may
gradually increase over the
summer. By October, the odds
begin to favor a weak El Niño.
NOAA cautioned, how-
ever, that climatologists have
been fooled before. “Though
we appear headed a toward
a cold-season El Niño, there
have been several false starts
in recent years where prom-
ising El Niños simply faded
away,” NOAA stated.
If NOAA’s forecast holds
true, sea-surface temperatures
will be much as they were the
winter of 2014-15, the year
of Washington’s “snowpack
drought.” That winter, how-
ever, El Niño was combined
with an unusually warm mass
of water off Washington’s
coast.
“Right now, there’s no
indication it’s really going to
warm up along our coast,”
Bond said.
If an El Niño forms, it’s no
sure bet that snowpacks will
suffer. The last El Niño clas-
sified by climatologists as
“very strong” was the winter
of 2015-16, when Washing-
ton snowpacks and reservoirs
were generally above aver-
age. By the end of the win-
ter, the state had pulled out of
the drought that had started in
2014.
“We kind of lucked out
in the winter of 2015-2016,”
Bond said. “What that shows
is that each El Niño event is
unique.”
DUII
• At 3:56 p.m. Sunday, Tyler
Volm, 35, of Portland, was
arrested by the Clatsop County
Sheriff’s Office on the 10
block of U.S. Highway 26 and
charged with driving under the
influence of intoxicants.
• At 11:25 p.m. Saturday,
Rosa Ann Marie Bartlett, 23, of
Long Beach, Washington, was
arrested by Astoria police on
the Astoria Bridge and charged
with DUII and reckless driving.
• At 7:11 p.m. Friday, Bruce
Eckols, 67, of Seaside, was
arrested by Seaside police on
the 820 block of 14th Avenue
and charged with DUII, hit and
run and reckless driving.
‘We kind of
lucked out
in the winter
of 2015-
2016. What
that shows is
that each El
Niño event is
unique.’
Nick Bond
Washington state climatologist
ON THE RECORD
Escaped Atlantic salmon caught in drift-net
Associated Press
SEDRO
WOOLLEY,
Wash. — Washington state
officials say an Atlantic
salmon that escaped from a
collapsed net pen at Cypress
Island has been captured in
a drift net 40 miles up the
Skagit River.
Fish veterinarian Jed Var-
ney of the Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife tells
The Seattle Times in a story on
Friday that the 3-foot fish was
thin but looked good with no
significant bacteria or parasites.
Varney says he found sev-
eral vertebrae of an unidenti-
fied small fish in the Atlantic
Assault
• At 7:33 p.m. Sunday,
James Terrell, 55, of Sea-
side, was arrested by Seaside
police on the 520 block of
Beach Drive and charged with
fourth-degree assault and men-
acing. He allegedly grabbed
and shoved a woman during a
domestic dispute.
salmon’s stomach.
A member of the Upper
Skagit Indian Tribe caught the
fish Tuesday while drift-net
fishing for hatchery Chinook.
The Atlantic salmon and
about 300,000 others escaped
from Cooke Aquaculture’s
net-pen farm in August when
one of its pens collapsed.
DEATHS
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
74
49
50
Mainly clear
Very warm with plenty
of sun
Mostly cloudy and cooler
Last
Salem
46/81
Newport
49/70
May 7
First
May 15
May 21
Baker
32/70
Ontario
40/73
Bend
33/74
Burns
33/71
Klamath Falls
36/74
Lakeview
34/72
Ashland
48/81
REGIONAL CITIES
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
3:18 a.m.
4:06 p.m.
Low
2.9 ft.
0.3 ft.
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
64
64
69
73
68
69
80
74
69
71
Today
Lo
32
33
49
42
51
36
47
49
49
49
W
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
Hi
70
74
63
78
72
74
84
81
70
68
Tues.
Lo
38
42
49
48
51
41
53
50
48
49
W
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
70
66
73
79
75
72
63
76
72
71
Today
Lo
39
39
52
45
46
52
41
43
50
42
W
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
Hi
75
76
81
84
81
76
70
79
80
76
Tues.
Lo
45
46
54
52
50
50
46
48
51
46
W
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
pc
s
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
W
r
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
pc
s
r
c
s
pc
r
t
t
s
s
s
pc
r
c
pc
s
pc
Hi
69
64
58
46
70
55
91
51
82
60
72
93
77
69
85
67
79
58
75
60
64
68
68
76
59
Tues.
Lo
55
47
40
26
44
44
58
30
72
49
48
69
55
53
70
53
60
52
47
52
48
46
51
50
55
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
c
pc
pc
c
c
c
pc
pc
sh
r
c
pc
pc
pc
pc
sh
s
c
s
r
c
s
pc
pc
r
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
in charge of the arrangements.
REEVES-DERRIG, David, 50, of Seaside,
died in Seaside. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation
Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
boardroom, 785 Alameda Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Human
Services Advisory Council, 4
to 5:30 p.m., 800 Exchange St.,
Room 430.
Astoria Library Board, 5:30
p.m., Flag Room, 450 10th St.
Astoria Budget Committee, 6
p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Warrenton City Commission,
6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main
Ave.
LOTTERIES
La Grande
36/70
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Today
Lo
57
42
45
32
45
50
62
31
72
50
45
69
55
55
74
54
59
44
50
46
52
43
52
48
52
John Day
37/72
April 20, 2018
HAGGERTY, Freeda Quindaria, 97, of
Wheeler, formerly of Seaside, died in Wheeler.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Astoria is
MONDAY
Clatsop Care Health District
Board, noon, Clatsop Care
Memory Community, 2219
Dolphin Ave., Warrenton.
Astoria School Board, 6:30 p.m.
study session on facilities, Capt.
Robert Gray School third-floor
Roseburg
45/84
Brookings
48/65
Tonight's Sky: Moon near Beehive cluster. (M44)
Hi
70
59
60
69
70
69
88
51
83
59
71
93
78
61
84
68
75
66
71
68
59
68
73
69
70
Lebanon
45/80
Medford
47/84
UNDER THE SKY
High
7.7 ft.
7.8 ft.
Prineville
33/76
Eugene
42/78
New
Pendleton
39/76
The Dalles
44/79
Portland
52/81
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:13 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 6:14 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today .......................... 1:12 p.m. 50/69
Moonset today ............................ 3:16 a.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
56
47
Mild with periods of
clouds and sunshine
Tillamook
53/78
SUN AND MOON
Time
9:05 a.m.
10:35 p.m.
67
49
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
50/74
Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 8.91"
Normal month to date ....................... 4.04"
Year to date .................................... 32.14"
Normal year to date ........................ 28.88"
Apr 29
FRIDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 58°/38°
Normal high/low ........................... 57°/42°
Record high ............................ 75° in 2005
Record low ............................. 32° in 1960
Full
74
51
Partly sunny
ALMANAC
THURSDAY
OREGON
Sunday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 1-3-6-3
4 p.m.: 9-2-8-8
7 p.m.: 4-1-6-1
10 p.m.: 2-0-5-6
Sunday’s Lucky Lines: 04-07-
12-14-18-24-28-29
Estimated jackpot: $22,000
Saturday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 9-3-7-6
4 p.m.: 5-9-0-7
7 p.m.: 0-3-6-7
10 p.m.: 2-2-4-3
Saturday’s Lucky Lines: 01-
08-11-16-19-24-27-30
Estimated jackpot: $20,000
Saturday’s Megabucks: 16-
19-25-39-41-43
Estimated jackpot: $4.6 million
Saturday’s Powerball: 40-50-
54-62-69, Powerball: 19
Estimated jackpot: $158
million
Friday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 3-8-2-0
4 p.m.: 4-6-8-8
7 p.m.: 1-1-3-1
10 p.m.: 8-8-4-9
Friday’s Lucky Lines: 02-07-
10-14-17-22-26-31
Estimated jackpot: $19,000
Friday’s Mega Millions: 1-15-
18-32-45, Mega Ball: 4
Estimated jackpot: $96 million
WASHINGTON
Sunday’s Daily Game: 2-3-4
Sunday’s Keno: 03-04-09-13-
15-17-18-23-31-32-33-38-49-
53-61-66-69-71-77-79
Sunday’s Match 4: 01-06-10-
13
Saturday’s Daily Game: 1-1-0
Saturday’s Hit 5: 08-10-14-
15-34
Estimated jackpot: $220,000
Saturday’s Keno: 03-04-12-17-
20-25-26-27-28-29-33-39-40-
45-47-54-59-63-70-80
Saturday’s Lotto: 16-19-21-
26-27-46
Estimated jackpot: $1.2 million
Saturday’s Match 4: 07-09-
10-21
Friday’s Daily Game: 2-2-6
Friday’s Keno: 02-03-05-10-
11-15-16-17-20-32-36-37-40-
43-49-54-61-64-75-77
Friday’s Match 4: 02-06-14-17
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