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WEATHER
East Oregonian
TODAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Cloudy with
afternoon rain
An a.m. shower;
clouds and sun
Partly sunny, a
shower or two
46° 43°
53° 39°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
51°
41°
63° (1976)
34°
27°
-5° (1950)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.07"
0.32"
0.85"
0.32"
0.38"
0.85"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
54°
42°
63° (1961)
32°
28°
-9° (1957)
0.05"
0.18"
0.66"
0.18"
0.27"
0.66"
SUN AND MOON
Jan 20
Full
Jan 26
Some sunshine
48° 32°
44° 28°
51° 32°
Feb 3
46° 30°
38° 29°
41° 30°
Spokane
Wenatchee
37/35
36/33
Tacoma
Moses
49/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 40/36
39/38
51/48
49/48
40/36
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
53/48
47/44 Lewiston
40/38
Astoria
44/42
54/49
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
53/48
Pendleton 39/34
The Dalles 43/41
46/43
44/41
La Grande
Salem
42/41
57/50
Albany
Corvallis 57/49
58/50
John Day
45/39
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
37/35
59/49
50/39
Caldwell
Burns
39/36
42/38
Medford
56/49
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Fog in the morning;
partly sunny
Seattle
49/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
WEDNESDAY
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
55° 39°
REGIONAL CITIES
TUESDAY
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
43° 41°
Yesterday
Normals
Records
Forecast
7:31 a.m.
4:40 p.m.
4:30 a.m.
2:12 p.m.
Last
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Eastern and Central Oregon: Rain today;
snow, then rain, accumulating 1-3 inches in
the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Rain, becoming
heavy at times today.
Feb 11
Eastern Washington: Snow today, an inch in
the north and mountains; snow/rain near the
Idaho border. Rain in the south and central parts.
Cascades: Rain, heavy at times today.
Hi
38
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46
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73
32
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60
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Lo
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Hi
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Sun.
Lo
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Today
Sunday
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WSW 8-16
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Northern California: Cloudy today and to-
night; a little rain, except dry in the interior
mountains.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015
for same-day redelivery
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
-0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: The weekend will start on a cold note across the Northeast today as
temperatures rebound throughout the Midwest. Winds will whip the northern Plains, while
rain and mountain snow invade the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 77° in Tamiami, Fla.
Low -20° in Ely, Minn.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
50
56
32
34
38
56
39
21
61
54
40
41
64
49
38
60
15
39
80
65
46
64
52
65
60
77
Lo
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38
30
27
32
37
37
19
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37
32
37
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Hi
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48
45
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55
44
46
63
44
36
38
62
56
38
62
15
33
81
64
41
67
56
67
60
76
Sun.
Lo
29
34
34
27
32
32
30
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37
32
24
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41
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
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57
76
39
38
54
62
27
62
49
32
73
17
24
49
44
63
65
57
41
71
63
49
73
39
57
Lo
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63
29
24
38
44
27
32
27
27
48
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38
28
40
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52
53
46
43
34
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Hi
48
58
80
35
35
52
61
42
63
50
44
75
42
47
56
51
61
66
54
47
71
61
49
76
49
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Sun.
Lo
32
39
58
23
23
34
41
32
37
31
32
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36
31
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36
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
WINDS
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Lo
49
35
39
51
38
34
49
41
41
39
44
41
38
49
50
52
35
38
43
48
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Today
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
53/44
Hi
54
37
50
57
42
39
59
47
43
45
53
42
40
56
57
60
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54
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Coastal Oregon: Rain, heavy at times today.
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Growers struggle with glut of legal pot in Washington state
SEATTLE (AP) — Wash-
ington’s legal marijuana market
opened last summer to a dearth
of weed. Some stores periodically
closed because they didn’t have
pot to sell. Prices were through the
roof.
Six months later, the equation
-
ing pains to the new industry.
A big harvest of sun-grown
marijuana from eastern Washing-
Prices are starting to come down in
the state’s licensed pot shops, but
due to the glut, growers are — sur-
prisingly — struggling to sell their
marijuana. Some are already wor-
it tougher than expected to make a
living in legal weed.
“It’s an economic nightmare,”
says Andrew Seitz, general man-
ager at Dutch Brothers Farms in
Seattle.
State data show that licensed
growers had harvested 31,000
pounds of bud as of Thursday, but
Washington’s relatively few legal
pot shops have sold less than one-
marijuana users have stuck with
the untaxed or much-lesser-taxed
pot they get from black market
dealers or unregulated medical dis-
pensaries — limiting how quickly
product moves off the shelves of
legal stores.
“Every grower I know has got
surplus inventory and they’re con-
-
gill, who has sold half of the 280
pounds he harvested from his pot
farm in central Washington. “I
don’t know anybody getting rich.”
Control Board, which regulates
marijuana, aren’t terribly con-
cerned.
So far, there are about 270 li-
censed growers in Washington —
but only about 85 open stores for
them to sell to. That’s partly due to
retail applicants who haven’t been
bans in many cities and counties.
The board’s legal pot project
manager, Randy Simmons, says
he hopes about 100 more stores
will open in the next few months,
providing additional outlets for the
weed that’s been harvested. Wash-
ington is always likely to have a
glut of marijuana after the outdoor
crop comes in each fall, he sug-
gested, as the outdoor growers typ-
ically harvest one big crop which
they continue to sell throughout the
year.
Weed is still pricey at the state’s
pot shops — often in the $23-to-
$25-per-gram range. That’s about
twice the cost at medical dispensa-
ries, but cheaper than it was a few
months ago.
Simmons said he expects pot
next year and a half: “It’s the vola-
tility of a new marketplace.”
Colorado, the only other state
with legal marijuana sales, has
a differently structured indus-
try. Regulators have kept a lid on
production, though those limits
were loosened last fall as part of
a planned expansion of the mar-
ket. Colorado growers still have to
prove legal demand for their prod-
uct, a regulatory curb aimed at pre-
venting excess weed from spilling
to other states. The result has been
more demand than supply.
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