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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Sunny and very warm Plenty of sunshine 95° 60° 95° 62° THURSDAY FRIDAY Sunny and very warm Sunny and very warm PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 96° 58° 89° 56° 95° 62° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 98° 59° 99° 58° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 93° 87° 109° (1901) 59° 58° 38° (1910) 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" 0.07" 0.19" 7.39" 5.00" 8.18" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 95° 88° 104° (1933) 54° 58° 40° (1937) 0.00" 0.05" 0.10" 4.99" 3.25" 6.05" SUN AND MOON Aug 18 Aug 24 New 5:57 a.m. 8:01 p.m. 6:55 p.m. 4:05 a.m. First Sep 1 Sep 9 John Day 97/61 Ontario 100/65 Bend 90/51 Caldwell 98/62 Burns 96/52 Hi 71 92 90 70 96 91 89 93 98 97 93 93 87 99 63 66 100 98 95 85 94 87 92 89 85 96 99 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 Lo 57 48 51 54 52 53 52 55 59 61 52 49 49 61 50 53 65 59 60 60 49 56 63 49 58 65 62 W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. Hi 70 91 90 71 94 89 88 93 99 97 93 92 88 98 62 65 100 98 95 85 94 87 92 89 85 96 99 Lo 56 48 52 53 52 54 51 55 58 61 53 51 49 61 50 52 64 60 62 61 50 56 65 50 59 65 63 W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Hi 88 86 82 76 72 67 87 83 92 69 87 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 70 80 65 56 58 55 62 65 76 52 79 W pc r s pc t pc s pc s s t Wed. Hi 82 88 81 78 71 68 88 81 93 72 89 Lo 73 80 65 61 57 55 64 66 77 54 79 W c t s pc t sh pc pc pc pc pc WINDS Medford 99/61 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 89/54 Eugene 89/52 TEMPERATURE Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last 99° 59° Spokane Wenatchee 92/63 95/66 Tacoma Moses 83/54 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 97/59 91/53 70/53 84/51 99/62 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 81/56 96/65 Lewiston 98/59 Astoria 97/63 71/57 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 85/60 Pendleton 91/53 The Dalles 98/59 95/60 95/65 La Grande Salem 93/49 87/56 Corvallis 88/55 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 94° 53° Seattle 82/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 100° 64° Today SATURDAY Nice with abundant sunshine Tuesday, August 16, 2016 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 93/52 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Abundant sunshine today. Clear and moonlit tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Sunny and very warm today. Clear and moonlit tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hot in central parts. Sunny elsewhere. Wednesday WSW 3-6 WNW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Low clouds giving way to sunshine today; windy in central parts in the afternoon. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today; hot across the north and in central parts. Western Washington: Sunny today, except low clouds followed by sunshine at the coast. Today WSW 3-6 WNW 4-8 1 4 6 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 115° in Needles, Calif. Low 30° in Angel Fire, N.M. 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 90 90 88 96 92 92 98 82 93 88 82 84 80 88 80 94 68 82 87 85 79 92 87 108 78 90 Lo 61 74 79 76 61 73 66 73 74 70 69 66 71 59 64 67 54 60 73 74 68 72 68 81 71 64 W t pc t t s t s t pc t pc r t t r s sh pc pc r r pc s s r s Wed. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com State crime lab scientist NASA: Last month was pleads guilty to stealing drugs hottest in recorded history BEND (AP) — A forensic scientist at the Oregon State Police crime labs has admitted stealing hundreds of pills from evidence submitted to the Umatilla and Deschutes county labs over two years. Nika Larsen, 36, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to two counts of charges of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception, The Oregonian/ OregonLive reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Ofice says Larsen used her position to steal metham- phetamine, morphine and other drugs while processing and overseeing cases. An investigation found Larsen took the pills in Umatilla County between December 2013 and November 2014 and in Deschutes County between November 2014 and September 2015. She began working for the state in 2007. Larsen, who formerly worked on ingerprint and drug evidence as well as crime scene processing, told Judge Anna J. Brown that she also stole pills the crime lab had purchased to use in their analysis of street drugs. Oregon State Police launched an investigation in April 2015 after a forensic scientist in the Bend lab found 18 oxycodone pills were missing. Investigators found some pills were missing, partially missing or had been replaced with non-controlled substances — all in cases handled by Larsen. The prosecution and defense are recommending Larsen receive a 3-year prison sentence when she’s sentenced in December. Her plea agreement also releases Larsen from any potential charges iled by any district attorney in the state, a stipulation added because Larsen’s crimes potentially affected more than 2,500 drug cases statewide. All pending cases that relied on Larsen’s analysis were dismissed or a contin- uance was pursued in hopes of retesting evidence. Larsen told investigators the drugs she took were for personal use only. Voters in Grant, Wheeler counties cast ballots in recall Associated Press Voters in two Oregon counties were casting ballots in efforts to recall a senior oficial in each of the counties, with one initiative related to a county commis- sioner’s refusal to call for an investigation into a wildire that destroyed 43 homes and nearly 100 barns. Ballots will be counted on Tuesday in the recall effort against Grant County Commissioner Boyd Britton. The petition against Britton cites his refusal to call for an investigation of a 2015 ire in the Malheur National Forest, south of the town of John Day. The Oregonian/Oregon- Live on Sunday published its own intensive investiga- tion into the ire. It faulted the U.S. Forest Service and said “a cascading set of tactical errors slowed the agency’s response and squandered its chances to extinguish the ire early.” The U.S. Forest Service was reported in the article as saying crews were ighting many ires at the time and that consequently all crews throughout the Northwest were understaffed. The petition also says Britton had beneited from his decisions as commis- sioner. In a response, Boyd said he’s worked hard to represent the county and that his actions helped triple the timber harvest to 75 million board feet. Among challenges in the remaining 2½ years of his term is expanding protection from catastrophic loods on Canyon Creek, he said. The ire, which Oregonian/ OregonLive said caused more property damage than any wildire in Oregon in the past 80 years, has reportedly tripled the lood Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. threat because of the lack of vegetation. The recall effort against Wheeler County Judge Patrick C. Perry cites conlicts of interest. Perry says the recall “is based on unfounded and vague allegations.” So far, 62 percent of 949 eligible voters in the sparsely populated county have cast ballots, Wheeler County Deputy Clerk Alicia Hankins said Monday. Voters in Oregon either mail in ballots or put them in drop-off boxes. The votes would be counted Monday night and the results posted on Tuesday, Hankins said. WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to NASA. Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which spikes global temperatures on top of man-made climate change, July burst global temperature records. NASA calculated that July 2016 was 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1950-1980 global average. That’s clearly hotter than the previous hotter months, about 0.18 degrees warmer than the previous record of July 2011 and July 2015, which were so close they were said to be in a tie for the hottest month on record, said NASA chief climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. Scientists blame mostly man-made climate change from the burning of fossil fuel with an extra jump from the now-gone El Nino , which every few years is a natural warming of parts of the Paciic Ocean that changes weather worldwide. Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said this is signiicant “because global temperatures continue to warm even as a record- breaking El Nino event has inally released its grip.” NASA’s ive hottest months on record are July 2016, July 2011, July 2015, July 2009 and August 2014. Only July 2015 was during an El Nino. Records go back to 1880. This is the 10th record hot month in a row, according to NASA. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which calculates temperatures slightly differently, will come Flowers • Candles Jewelry • Plants Balloons & More! Put a smile on the heart with th the power of flowers. s. HWY 395, HERMISTON 541-567-4305 Mon-Sat 8am-6pm • Sun 12pm-5am www.cottagefl owersonline.com AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File In this July 21 photo, Hank, a quarter horse from Paris, Ill., stays close to a fan keeping cool inside a barn at the Illinois State Fair grounds in Springield, Ill. Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which spikes glob- al temperatures on top of man-made climate change, July burst global temperature records out with its July igures on Wednesday. NOAA has igured there have been 14 monthly heat records broken in a row, before July. “The scary thing is that we are moving into an era where it will be a surprise when each new month or year isn’t one of the hottest on record,” said Chris Field, a climate scien- tist at the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. This new record and all the records that have been broken recently years tell one cohesive story, said Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies: “The planet is getting warmer. It’s important for what it tells us about the future.” COME JOIN U S! Information or to register call (541) 667-3509 or email healthinfo@gshealth.org www.gshealth.org