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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Cloudy with a shower in spots Clouds breaking for some sun 57° 38° 53° 43° SUNDAY MONDAY Cloudy, a shower or two; mild Cloudy and mild PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 56° 50° 63° 49° 62° 46° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 58° 37° 56° 42° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE LOW 51° 45° 66° (1924) 42° 29° -8° (1929) 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 0.02" 0.24" 0.49" 1.75" 1.48" 1.87" Corvallis 57/44 HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records LOW John Day 61/39 Ontario 46/32 Bend 55/28 52° 40° 47° 29° 68° (1977) -16° (1929) Burns 46/23 Trace 0.05" 0.38" 1.15" 1.05" 1.66" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Feb 22 7:03 a.m. 5:17 p.m. 9:20 a.m. 10:40 p.m. Last New Mar 1 Mar 8 Caldwell 50/35 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 56 45 55 56 46 49 58 55 58 61 56 53 52 60 56 58 46 58 57 58 57 58 48 55 56 55 54 W sh c c sh c c sh c c c c c c sh sh sh c c c sh c sh sh c sh c sh Hi 53 45 50 55 43 42 57 51 56 51 52 49 46 57 55 58 50 56 53 53 54 56 44 46 51 53 53 Lo 48 32 38 47 27 33 48 40 42 42 34 39 37 42 49 50 34 41 43 48 38 49 36 36 46 45 37 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r c pc c pc c c pc pc pc pc c c c sh c pc pc pc sh pc sh c pc sh c pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 55 71 58 46 71 32 42 58 52 83 57 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 56/31 Lo 36 65 44 37 33 29 36 48 42 69 53 W r pc s c s sn r sh r t pc Sat. Hi 40 70 62 44 69 34 47 60 56 85 65 Lo 19 65 49 36 33 27 38 50 28 71 60 W c c s r pc pc r sh r s pc REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today with show- ers; cooler in central parts. Showers tonight. Eastern Washington: Cloudy today with a couple of showers. Eastern and Central Oregon: Variable clouds today; a shower across the north and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Cloudy today with showers. Periods of rain tonight, but a shower across the south. Cascades: Cloudy today with a couple of showers; mild in the south. Northern California: Rather cloudy today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow. Today Saturday WSW 3-6 SW 4-8 WSW 7-14 WSW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 1 2 1 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 2I¿FHKRXUV0RQGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\DPWRSP &ORVHGPDMRUKROLGD\V www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ (DVW2UHJRQLDQ(USPS 164-980)LVSXEOLVKHGGDLO\H[FHSW6XQGD\0RQGD\ DQG'HFE\WKH(20HGLD*URXS6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25 3HULRGLFDOVSRVWDJHSDLGDW3HQGOHWRQ25Postmaster:VHQGDGGUHVVFKDQJHVWR (DVW2UHJRQLDQ6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 SUBSCRIPTION RATES /RFDOKRPHGHOLYHU\ 6DYLQJVRIIFRYHUSULFH (=3D\ SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW (=3D\ RQH\HDUUDWHZLWKDPRQWKO\FUHGLWRUGHELWFDUGFKHFNFKDUJH Single copy price: 7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\6DWXUGD\ Relaxed Oregon hemp rules headed for House vote Bill would allow growers to use greenhouses, cuttings desirable plants and produce the crop on a smaller scale. Under House Bill 4060, SALEM — Oregon which was passed by a key hemp growers would be legislative committee, the free to cultivate the crop in PLQLPXP DFUH ¿HOG greenhouses and propagate requirement would be it from cuttings under a bill scrapped and hemp farmers that’s headed for a vote in would be given the same ÀH[LELOLW\ LQ SURGXFWLRQ the House. Under current law, hemp and propagation methods as can only be seeded directly growers of other crops. 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The amended version Since then, the Oregon Department of Agriculture of the bill, which will soon found that many hemp be subject to a vote on the producers were more +RXVH ÀRRU DOVR FODUL¿HV interested in growing the that growers can cultivate crop for cannabidiol, a all varieties of hemp and that compound used for medic- the crop won’t be considered inal purposes, than for such a food adulterant, among other provisions. traditional products. Growers can also send To this end, they wanted to use greenhouses, clone crop samples to accredited laboratories for required WHVWLQJZKLFKLVH[SHFWHGWR be cheaper than using ODA staff and facilities. During the Feb. 11 hearing, the committee also unanimously approved House Bill 4007, which creates a new way to form rangeland protection associ- DWLRQVZKLFK¿JKWZLOG¿UHV Landowners must currently win approval from the Oregon Board of Forestry to create such associations, but H.B. 4007 would also allow them to be approved by county govern- ments. Currently, 20 rangeland protection associations staffed by volunteers protect 4.6 million acres in Eastern Oregon. New associations orga- nized by counties would still have to submit annual budgets to the Oregon Board of Forestry and enter into cooperative agreements with the Oregon Department of Forestry. ——— The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Agencies push back on proposal to double lodging tax highest in the state. Randy Tucker, a lobbyist for Metro, told lawmakers at a hearing this week that the proposal would put Portland at a disadvantage when competing with other big national cities to host conventions in the short term. In the long term, the LQFUHDVHG VWDWH WD[ ZRXOG cripple the city’s ability to LQFUHDVHORFDOORGJLQJWD[HV to pay for tourism improve- ments. “Portland does have its own tourism infrastructure and event needs, just like Hayward Field and the track event,” said Jeff Miller, CEO of Travel Portland. 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Much of the Plains, South and West will be dry, except for showers in the coastal Northwest and western Montana. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Yuma, Ariz. Low -35° in Cotton, 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 67 58 29 31 44 61 51 26 58 31 22 25 70 49 26 74 14 2 81 77 27 75 35 74 60 85 Lo 35 27 22 20 35 28 34 17 36 11 1 7 40 29 4 43 4 -12 69 50 3 45 9 48 29 55 W s pc pc pc pc s c s c sf pc sn s pc sn s pc pc s pc sf pc pc pc s s Sat. 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