WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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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
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s
s
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pc
pc
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s
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s
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s
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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
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s
pc
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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
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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
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
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cold front
70s
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warm front stationary front
110s
high
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National Summary: Localized flooding downpours will affect parts of Texas and the
Northeast today. Storms can be locally severe in the northern Plains and the mid-Atlantic.
Storms will dot the interior Southwest.
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
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Wed.
Hi
88
91
88
90
92
91
98
87
92
82
86
86
82
88
86
93
73
85
87
87
83
93
87
107
81
88
Lo
62
74
73
72
61
74
65
69
76
69
68
69
72
57
67
68
51
64
75
75
69
72
67
79
71
64
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Today
Hi
Louisville
82
Memphis
83
Miami
91
Milwaukee
84
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
88
New Orleans
90
New York City
88
Oklahoma City
89
Omaha
88
Philadelphia
94
Phoenix
109
Portland, ME
79
Providence
84
Raleigh
94
Rapid City
87
Reno
95
Sacramento
98
St. Louis
84
Salt Lake City
97
San Diego
83
San Francisco
72
Seattle
82
Tucson
103
Washington, DC 97
Wichita
91
Lo
71
73
77
69
65
72
78
76
66
68
79
84
67
75
74
57
62
61
70
70
68
55
58
76
79
66
W
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s
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Wed.
Hi
84
84
90
85
85
84
89
89
84
91
92
108
82
88
94
91
96
98
89
97
82
74
81
102
92
89
Lo
71
73
77
68
68
71
77
74
67
69
74
83
62
66
74
60
64
62
72
72
69
57
61
77
76
68
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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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
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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
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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.”
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