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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY A morning shower; mostly cloudy Warmer Sunny 60° 41° 70° 45° SUNDAY Partly sunny Partly sunny and mild PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 74° 47° 66° 42° 66° 42° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 64° 40° 73° 42° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 55° 57° 76° (1939) 42° 37° 18° (1965) 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 0.04" 0.81" 1.07" 2.36" 3.61" 3.58" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 60° 60° 80° (1939) 77° 46° 43° 36° 13° (1965) 0.03" 0.25" 0.71" 1.31" 2.23" 2.95" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Mar 26 Apr 4 6:50 a.m. 7:14 p.m. 10:29 a.m. 12:38 a.m. Last New Apr 11 70° 41° Spokane Wenatchee 51/39 56/45 Tacoma Moses 57/41 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 58/40 50/40 56/48 57/43 62/38 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 58/43 60/46 Lewiston 63/42 Astoria 55/42 59/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 61/45 Pendleton 51/33 The Dalles 64/40 60/41 60/40 La Grande Salem 54/37 64/45 Albany Corvallis 64/45 66/45 John Day 55/36 Ontario Eugene Bend 59/36 65/44 57/36 Caldwell Burns 58/36 57/32 Medford 69/45 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 70° 39° Seattle 57/47 ALMANAC Apr 18 REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY 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 Hi 66 75 68 49 76 44 50 59 55 73 53 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Eastern Washington: Cloudy today with a passing shower. 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If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File sion gives us time to continue work on a long-term plan to reform federal forest policy” to create jobs, improve forest health, and fund schools and roads. Boehner spokesman Mi- chael Steel said the speaker understood the needs of rural timber communities and was committed to renewing the payments program. The longstanding subsi- dies make up for declines in federal timber revenues shared with counties since logging on national forests was cut back to protect the northern spotted owl and salmon in the Northwest. They expanded from North- west counties to timber coun- ties around the country. Set to decline 5 percent a year, the subsidies provided about $100 million to 33 Oregon counties last year and $500 million nationally. Since 2000 the program has given $2.8 billion to Oregon counties. low Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. In this June 2013 file photo, dead, brown, beetle-killed trees mix with live trees as a wildfire burns west of Creede, Colo. the Senate Budget. “It is good news the House leadership has decid- ed to stop playing politics with the safety net for Ore- gon counties,” Wyden said in a statement. The House twice passed a bill last year to ramp up na- tional forest logging, but it made no progress in the Sen- ate, and faced a veto threat form the White House due to reduced environmental pro- tections. Oregon Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio said the proposal from Republicans originally included provi- sions for changing national forest policy, which were dropped after Democrats ob- jected. DeFazio added some Democrats who opposed the payments in the past have retired, and there was strong support from rural California Democrats. Walden said in a state- ment, “This two-year exten- high NATIONAL CITIES Today Know your options. previous research has shown beetles affect ¿res in other, more threatening ways. Trees infested with beetles have only about 10 percent of the moisture of healthy trees, Jolly said. Because they are drier, beetle-infested trees are more vulnerable to ignit- ing from embers or burning branches carried by wind and heat waves, he said. “How that ¿re is burning is the most im- portant thing,” he said. Nearly 36,000 square miles of trees have been attacked by mountain pine beetles in the West since 1996. 110s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 90° in Brady, Texas Low -11° in Saranac Lake, N.Y. 6HQLRUVSHRSOHZLWKGLVDELOLWLHVIDPLOLHVDQGFDUHJLYHUV weather was unusually hot and dry. The study didn’t look at years with more moderate weather, but Sarah Hart, the lead author of the report, said she believes the results would be the same if it had. The study said beetle out- breaks and wild¿res increased at the same time but that drought was behind the wors- ening ¿res. Matt Jolly, a Forest Service research ecologist at the Mis- soula Fire Sciences Laborato- ry in Montana, said the ¿nd- ings are valid but stressed that 100s National Summary: Areas of rain and thunderstorms will stretch from the Midwest to the Southeast states today. Locally severe storms will erupt from Texas to the Ohio Valley. Showers will dot the Rockies and the Northwest. ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson MSHUNLQVRQ#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP SUBSCRIPTION RATES /RFDOKRPHGHOLYHU\ 6DYLQJVRIIFRYHUSULFH (=3D\ SHUPRQWK SHUFHQW 2QH\HDU SHUFHQW PRQWKV SHUFHQW PRQWKV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW (=3D\ RQH\HDUUDWHZLWKDPRQWKO\FUHGLWRUGHELWFDUGFKHFNFKDUJH Timber county payment extension in the works GRANTS PASS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden said Tuesday that House Speaker John Boehner has agreed to include a two-year exten- sion of subsidies to Oregon timber counties in a biparti- san agreement to overhaul the way doctors are paid by Medicare. The Oregon Republican said the agreement made good on a commitment he and Boehner made last De- cember to secure an exten- sion of the Secure Rural Schools program by March 31. The House is expected to vote on the Medicare bill Thursday. It then would go to the Senate, where it would have to be resolved with a different version. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said bipartisan Senate support has already been shown in an 18-4 committee vote that in- cluded a three-year extension of Secure Rural Schools in W pc s s s s pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s pc s s s s pc s s s pc UV INDEX TODAY Report says beetles don’t make forests more likely to burn DENVER (AP) — Moun- tain pine beetles have left vast tracts of dead, dry trees in the West, raising fears that they’re more vulnerable to wild¿re outbreaks, but a new study found no evidence that bug-in- fested forests are more likely to burn than healthy ones. In a paper released Mon- day, University of Colorado researchers said weather and terrain are bigger factors in de- termining whether a forest will burn than beetle invasions. The ¿ndings could pro- vide some comfort to people who live near beetle-infested forests, if those trees are statis- tically no more likely to burn than healthy forests. But the study acknowl- edged that other researchers have found that beetles pose different ¿re risks. Previous studies by the U.S. Forest Ser- vice found that once sparked, beetle-killed trees ignite faster and burn more quickly than healthy trees, posing a danger to ¿re¿ghters. The new ¿ndings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers studied the three worst ¿re seasons in the past 12 years, when the Lo 47 34 40 49 33 35 47 41 42 41 35 40 35 48 47 49 39 42 45 49 37 47 42 40 46 50 43 Today Didn’t receive your paper?&DOO EHIRUHSP7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\ RUEHIRUHDP6DWXUGD\ for same-day redelivery Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group Hi 66 66 71 61 67 62 71 70 73 67 70 67 64 78 61 66 67 72 70 73 72 72 61 67 72 71 72 WSW 4-8 WSW 4-8 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — W r c pc pc pc c pc pc c c pc c c pc r pc pc c c sh pc sh c c sh c c WINDS Boardman Pendleton REGIONAL FORECAST Lo 45 30 36 48 32 33 44 39 40 36 34 37 34 45 45 48 36 41 41 45 34 45 39 36 44 46 38 Today Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: A little rain today; in the morning in central parts, any time across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy today. Milder; a shower in spots across the north. Western Washington: Periods of rain today. Mainly cloudy tonight with a shower in places. Hi 59 54 57 60 57 51 65 57 64 55 61 54 50 69 57 62 59 64 60 61 59 64 51 53 61 60 62 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. WORLD CITIES (in mph) Klamath Falls 61/34 Wednesday, March 25, 2015 Looking for information and services can be frustrating. Your Aging and Disability Resource Connection counselor will make it easy for you to access local caregiving, Medicare counseling — whatever you need. Knowing your options will help empower you to live as independently as possible while getting the help you need. Don’t miss out. The service is free and available to all seniors and people with disabilities, as well as their families and caregivers. Get in touch with your local ADRC options counselor today at: 1-855-ORE-ADRC (673-2372) www.ADRCofOregon.org
