WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
A couple of rain or
snow showers
A touch of
afternoon rain
48° 35°
46° 41°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Rain and drizzle in
the morning
Clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
44° 33°
42° 28°
40° 27°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
49° 36°
45° 41°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
53°
43°
39°
27°
67° (1933) -13° (1972)
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
0.10"
1.36"
0.46"
9.17"
11.04"
11.93"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
44/32
Ontario
46/36
Bend
40/29
57°
42°
40°
28°
68° (2014) -11° (1972)
Burns
38/26
0.13"
0.91"
0.52"
6.30"
6.58"
8.99"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Dec 18
Full
Dec 25
7:25 a.m.
4:11 p.m.
7:19 a.m.
5:00 p.m.
Last
Caldwell
45/34
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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Medford
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Year to date
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Dec 11
Albany
50/42
Eugene
50/40
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
42° 28°
Spokane
Wenatchee
40/28
39/29
Tacoma
Moses
49/33
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 44/27
41/32
49/37
47/32
43/29
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
47/36
50/36 Lewiston
48/35
Astoria
46/34
51/39
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
49/39
Pendleton 40/27
The Dalles 49/36
48/35
45/34
La Grande
Salem
43/32
50/39
Corvallis
51/40
HIGH
45° 26°
Seattle
50/37
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
46° 36°
Today
TUESDAY
Times of sun and
clouds
Friday, December 11, 2015
Klamath Falls
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(in mph)
Today
Saturday
Boardman
Pendleton
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SSW 4-8
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Occasional rain today and
tonight. Heavy rain tomorrow. Sunday:
periods of rain.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Showers of
rain and snow today; however, a couple of
rain or snow showers across the north.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with showers.
Jan 1
Eastern Washington: Rather cloudy today;
a rain or snow shower in spots, but a snow
shower in the mountains.
Cascades: A little rain today; periods of
snow, accumulating 3-6 inches in the south.
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Northern California: A shower or two
today; snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the
interior mountains.
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National Summary: Unusual December warmth will continue from Texas to Maine today.
Spotty snow will affect parts of Colorado, Utah, Montana and North Dakota. Rain and snow
will spread southward along the West coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in Zapata, Texas
Low 9° in Alamosa, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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Interstate 5 closed by major storm
SEATTLE (AP) — A rain-
soaked hillside collapsed on
the main highway connecting
Washington and Oregon,
stranding thousands of
motorists for hours Thursday
while rain continued to fall
throughout the region.
The storms that have been
sending rivers out of their
banks, closing roads and
killing at least two people
in the Paci¿c 1orthwest this
week were easing a bit, but
forecasters said mudslide
danger on the saturated hills
would remain high through
the weekend.
“It was crazy and I was
scared,” said Diane Smith of
Lacey, Washington, who was
stuck for three hours behind
the landslide on Interstate 5
about 26 miles north of Port-
land, Oregon, and then drove
a steep, windy mountain road
to get around the slide.
The massive landslide
blocked the lanes Wednesday
afternoon after a hillside of
rocks and dirt collapsed on
the roadway after days of
pounding rain.
More rain is on the way
through the weekend.
Forecasters at the 1ational
Weather Service say that also
could mean more landslides
as drenched hillsides keep
soaking up water.
“The threat of landslides
doesn’t end when the rain
does,” said Kirby Cook,
science and operations of¿cer
with the weather service
of¿ce in Seattle.
Smith said her detour onto
the Green Mountain Road
above Woodland, Wash-
ington, was by accident. After
being stuck on the highway,
she followed directions and
left the freeway. But when
she got off I-5, it wasn’t clear
which of three routes to take.
Smith, who was driving
her 6-year-old grandson and
his other grandma back from
Vancouver,
Washington,
probably made the wrong
choice, according to the
Washington
Department
of Transportation. Of¿-
cials used social media to
discourage drivers from
taking the mountain road
without guardrails around the
slide, but as Smith points out,
she was driving, not checking
her cellphone for updates.
“It was scary. I was like
‘Oh, my gosh’,” she said,
adding that she wasn’t sure if
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Natasha Jackson snaps a photo of the remains of a
vehicle crushed by a bigleaf maple tree along W. 11th
Ave. in Eugene on Thursday.
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1ational Weather Service of¿cials in Portland have
con¿rmed a tornado touched down Thursday morning in
the southwest Washington city of Battle Ground.
They are still determining the tornado’s intensity rating.
City of¿cials said 36 homes and two commercial
buildings were damaged.
she was going the right way
until she made it back to the
freeway.
Her grandson declared the
experience an adventure to
remember.
The 1ational Weather
Service also con¿rmed a
tornado touched down in
southwest Washington in the
town of Battle Ground on
Thursday. There were reports
of damage to 36 homes and
two commercial structures
but no initial reports of inju-
ries.
The other weather danger
hanging over the Paci¿c
1orthwest comes from high
waves on the coast and inland
waters that could cause
coastal Àooding, Cook said.
More storms are coming,
but nothing as strong as
earlier this week. Steady rain
of the usual winter variety
is expected in Oregon and
Washington over the next few
days. The major storms have
shifted south into California.
Residents
throughout
western Washington and
Oregon were assessing
damage Wednesday from the
heavy rains and strong winds
when another storm hit that
night, cutting power to more
residents and businesses.
People who live along
the Snoqualmie River in
Washington state are used
to waters cresting the banks,
but the storms that slammed
the Paci¿c 1orthwest this
week were more intense and
destructive than residents
have seen in some time.
On Wednesday afternoon,
a woman was found dead
inside a vehicle in knee-to-
waist deep water in Clats-
kanie, Oregon. Fire¿ghters
rescued her husband who
was standing on top of the
car.
Oregon State Police
identi¿ed her as 2-year-old
Penny Forrest. It’s unclear if
her husband, Richard Forrest,
will be cited for going around
a road closure and driving
into Àoodwaters, Lt. Bill
Fugate said.
In Portland, a large
Douglas ¿r tree crashed into
a home early Wednesday,
killing a 60-year-old woman
who was in bed.
Dennis Elleson told The
Oregonian that his wife,
Roberta Elleson, had moved
to a different bedroom to
sleep a few hours before.
“I ran in the bedroom and
she was moaning,” Dennis
Elleson told the newspaper.
“I went to her side and told
her, ‘Hang on. Hang on.”’
He said he couldn’t move
the tree and tried to ¿nd a
place for her to get air, but it
was too late.
Washington Gov. Jay
Inslee declared a state
of emergency directing
the Washington Military
Department to coordinate a
response.
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