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WEATHER
East Oregonian
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Very hot with
blazing sunshine
Mostly sunny and
very hot
Mostly sunny and
very hot
103° 69°
100° 65°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Blazing sunshine
and very hot
Sunshine; breezy,
very hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
97° 66°
101° 69°
98° 65°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
105° 68°
102° 63°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
102°
85°
106° (2013)
62°
56°
42° (1955)
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
0.00"
0.00"
0.02"
5.00"
7.49"
7.59"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Corvallis
97/54
LOW
104°
85°
107° (2013)
60°
56°
42° (2003)
0.00"
0.00"
0.01"
3.16"
4.19"
5.71"
SUN AND MOON
July 8
July 15
First
5:11 a.m.
8:48 p.m.
9:52 p.m.
7:13 a.m.
Full
July 23
July 31
John Day
97/64
Ontario
104/70
Bend
96/58
Burns
100/58
Caldwell
102/66
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
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105
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Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
96/55
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of sun and clouds
today.
Eastern Washington: Brilliant sunshine to-
day. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and hot today. Clear to partly cloudy and
warm tonight.
Western Washington: Sunny today; areas of
low clouds, then some sun at the coast.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today; very warm.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny and very warm
tomorrow.
Northern California: Partly sunny
today; a stray thunderstorm in the interior
mountains.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
103/68
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
Albany
97/55
Eugene
98/54
HIGH
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
100° 66°
Spokane
Wenatchee
100/68
104/73
Tacoma
Moses
93/56
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 105/68
97/57
75/54
92/54
106/66
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
88/56
105/74 Lewiston
106/68
Astoria
104/69
72/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
95/61
Pendleton 94/58
The Dalles 105/68
103/69
102/67
La Grande
Salem
96/57
97/57
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
102° 69°
Seattle
90/62
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
100° 65°
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National Summary: Drenching showers and locally gusty storms will stretch from Colorado
and parts of New Mexico to Virginia and the Carolinas today. Storms will dot the Deep
South and Southwest. The West will remain very hot.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 109° in El Centro, Calif.
Low 34° in Spincich Lake, Mich.
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
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Memphis
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Miami
92
Milwaukee
75
Minneapolis
82
Nashville
76
New Orleans
92
New York City
81
Oklahoma City
90
Omaha
80
Philadelphia
83
Phoenix
109
Portland, ME
77
Providence
80
Raleigh
84
Rapid City
81
Reno
95
Sacramento
98
St. Louis
81
Salt Lake City
99
San Diego
75
San Francisco
74
Seattle
90
Tucson
102
Washington, DC 81
Wichita
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Sizzling: Heat records fall across West
Meanwhile,
June
temperatures were scorching
From Seattle to Salt Lake in in Eastern Washington,
City, the West is baking under with many record highs set.
The two highest readings
record heat. Temperatures
reaching the triple digits have in June were 113 degrees at
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and sent folks looking for town of LaCrosse. The towns
relief heading into the Fourth of Chelan, Ephrata, Odessa
of July weekend. Unfortu- and Omak all recorded
nately, the forecast in many record highs of 110 degrees
areas calls for more sun and in June. Spokane reached a
record 105 one day.
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risk with high temperatures
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Seattle, not accustomed to and widespread drought
prolonged hot weather, saw conditions, Washington Gov.
Jay Inslee is asking people
its hottest June ever.
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average
high WR OLPLW XVH RI ¿UHZRUNV
temperature each day in June Inslee said he lacks the legal
was a record 78.9 degrees, authority to enact a statewide
breaking the 1992 record by ban, but notes some cities
more than 3 degrees, said are restricting or banning
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Inslee has issued an emer-
gist at the National Weather
gency proclamation that
Service in Seattle.
“Our high is supposed allows the state Department
to be in the low to mid 70s of Natural Resources to
at this time and lows in the quickly call on the National
Guard and the State Guard to
mid-50s,” he said.
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seeing highs in the 80s and fast-moving blaze this week
destroyed two dozen homes
lows in the 60s.
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suffers few heat waves, city of Wenatchee.
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many people do not have air
Washington’s
streams
conditioning.
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dry in the Seattle area in to the U.S. Geological
June, when only 0.23 inch of Survey. On Thursday the
precipitation was recorded. DJHQF\¶V :DVKLQJWRQ RI¿FH
That’s the fourth driest June reported that 80 percent
of the state’s rivers were
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Thursday.
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off police on Wednesday.
The four are to be charged
with arson, Police Chief Pete
Kerns said at a news confer-
ence Thursday. One is 10,
the others 12.
The stadium was a jobs
project in the Great Depres-
sion but hasn’t been used
since 2009 when the minor-
league Eugene Emeralds left.
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intend to destroy the park
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magnitude of their actions,
he said.
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rational information out of
them,” Williams said. “It’s:
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June 2015 stood out.
It was the third hottest
month the city has endured
since the National Weather
Service began keeping records
back in 1895. The warmest
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for this June was 94.0.
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Renee Jaime, 12, and her aunt, Sandra Jaime, of Mexico, shield themselves from temperatures of 110 and
the sun as they visit the Great Salt Lake, Thursday.. Salt Lake City saw the hottest above. The National Weather
June on record following the warmest winter ever.
Service said the longest
reporting
below-normal were 17 total.
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keep people safe amid the
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and 2013.
through June 30.
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at McCarran International the hottest June on record than usual.
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breaking the previous record ever.
the period of December 2014 of June.
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of 91.5 in 2013.
The National Weather to February 2015 broke the
More than half of last Service said the average previous record set during writers Nicholas K. Geranios
in Spokane and Yara Bishara
month was at or above 105 temperature last month was the 1977-78 season.
in Phoenix contributed.
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said June 13 through June 30 previous record of 75.7 set in
brought 18 consecutive days June 1988.
of temperatures in that range.
The average monthly low
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There’s never been that of 64.5 degrees also beat the
many in a row or in total 63.3 degrees in 1918.
in a June month. In 1961,
There were four triple-
there was a streak of 12 days digit June days recorded at
straight and in 1985, there Salt Lake City International
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