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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
THURSDAY
Mostly sunny
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
46° 35°
46° 33°
FRIDAY
Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
Mostly cloudy and
mild
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
43° 28°
45° 39°
50° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
51° 35°
51° 36°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
48°
40°
43°
30°
71° (1892) -13° (1896)
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
0.04"
0.87"
1.36"
11.26"
7.81"
11.39"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
51°
44°
67° (2014)
0.02"
0.54"
1.10"
7.87"
5.39"
8.41"
SUN AND MOON
Dec 7
Bend
43/31
Burns
39/18
Full
Dec 13
7:13 a.m.
4:13 p.m.
7:05 a.m.
4:55 p.m.
Last
Dec 20
Caldwell
43/26
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
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40
43
53
39
37
53
45
51
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41
41
40
49
53
56
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48
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Hi
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
42
74
63
42
74
14
40
52
44
76
56
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
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45
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Sunshine today;
fog near the Idaho border and in central
sections.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Snow at times
tonight, accumulating 1-3 inches.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today;
not as cold in the interior mountains.
Wednesday
WSW 8-16
WSW 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Periods of clouds and
sun today; a little afternoon rain across
the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partial
sunshine today; a snow shower in spots in
central parts.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy
today; a little rain at the coast during the
afternoon.
Today
SW 4-8
SW 6-12
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Giant ponderosa pine in the
Pacific Northwest has died
The Columbian/File
In this 2000 photo, Dennis Seidman of the U.S. For-
est Service measures the Big Tree on Mount Adams
in Washington. The 213-foot-tall ponderosa near Trout
Lake in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in south-
west Washington died last year but its demise was not
made public. The tree was estimated to be between
370 and 500 years old.
was well within its twilight
years.
The tree was already in
rough shape from old age,
a regional drought, insect
damage and perhaps years of
visitors’ footsteps crushing
the soil around its roots.
A Western Pine beetle
attack that began about three
years ago finally killed it last
year, Nakae said.
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National Summary: Rain and thunderstorms will extend from the Gulf coast to south New
England today. Snow and/or a wintry mix will fall in north New England with snow over the
northern Plains. Flurries will dust the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in McAllen, Texas
Low -4° in Monte Vista, Colo.
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
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Jacksonville
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Little Rock
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“Champion Trees of Wash-
ington,” published in 1996,
the Big Tree was 22 feet
around and 213 feet tall,
though Nakae said it was 202
feet tall in 2015.
It wasn’t the biggest
known ponderosa alive on
Earth, but it might have been
the tallest.
A ponderosa on the
Yakama Indian Reservation,
which also recently died,
was shorter but considerably
stouter and thus the biggest
ponderosa in Washington
state.
The world’s largest known
living ponderosa named Big
Red sits in Oregon’s La Pine
State Park. It is more than
500 years old, nearly 29 feet
around and 162 feet tall.
Its girth made it bigger, but
the Big Tree towered over it
by about 40 feet.
Ponderosas typically live
between 300 and 600 years,
Zobrist said, so the Big Tree
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VANCOUVER,
Wash.
(AP) — One of the oldest
and tallest ponderosa pines
in the Pacific Northwest has
died with little fanfare after
hundreds of years.
The so-called “Big Tree”
was a well-known attraction
for tourists driving through
the Columbia River Gorge
and was for decades the
centerpiece of an interpretive
site for travelers headed to
Mount Adams, The Colum-
bian reported.
The massive specimen
near Trout Lake in the Gifford
Pinchot National Forest in
southwest Washington state
was declared dead last year
but it was left standing and
the news of its demise is not
widely known, the paper
reported.
The Big Tree contained
about 22,000 board feet of
lumber — enough wood to
frame almost one and a half
2,400-square-foot homes.
No one from the U.S.
Forest Service is quite sure
of the tree’s age. The web
page devoted to the Big Tree
pegged it at about 370 years
old, but Jon Nakae, a scientist
with the Mount Adams
Ranger District, thinks it’s
likely more than 500 years
old.
Nakae can’t count the
rings of the giant tree to
determine its age because he
doesn’t have a sampling tool
long enough to get all the way
through the Big Tree’s trunk.
The Forest Service could
cut it down to know exactly
how old it was, but agency
officials say it’s worth more
standing.
It survived an untold
number of forest fires and
the estimated magnitude 9
Cascadia earthquake of 1700.
According to the book
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
WINDS
Medford
49/38
PRECIPITATION
Nov 29
John Day
42/31
Ontario
44/24
42°
30°
0° (1931)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
51/44
Eugene
53/42
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
53° 39°
Spokane
Wenatchee
36/31
45/34
Tacoma
Moses
52/40
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 43/33
39/32
50/44
51/40
48/32
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/44
46/35 Lewiston
49/35
Astoria
43/31
54/45
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
51/43
Pendleton 37/25
The Dalles 51/36
46/35
52/37
La Grande
Salem
41/30
53/42
Corvallis
52/44
HIGH
47° 40°
Seattle
51/44
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
48° 28°
Today
SATURDAY
Cloudy, a shower
in the p.m.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Hi
40
75
62
64
38
76
41
51
79
68
57
62
72
42
59
54
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42
81
80
59
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55
58
67
69
Lo
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58
52
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Wed.
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38
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43
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38
81
70
53
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Lo
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
68
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83
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61
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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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BRIEFLY
Venezuelan served
sentence for drugs;
faces deportation
SALEM (AP) — An
immigration lawyer
and a rights group say
a Venezuelan man who
is HIV positive and is
in the U.S. legally was
arrested in Portland in a
pre-dawn raid because
of a meth-possession
conviction. They fear he
will be deported to his
home country, which is
experiencing economic
collapse with medication
scarce, saying it would
be tantamount to a death
sentence.
N. David Shamloo,
attorney for Luis Garcia,
said Monday that instead
of being locked up in
a federal immigration
detention center in Tacoma,
Washington, Garcia
could have have been
allowed to return home
and put on electronic
monitoring pending his
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hearing before a federal
immigration court.
Shamloo says Garcia
has a job and is a legal
permanent resident of the
United States.
Salem dumps
raw sewage into
Willamette River
during storm
SALEM (AP) — The
city of Salem says it
dumped nearly 20 million
gallons of raw sewage into
the Willamette River last
week after heavy rains
overwhelmed its sewer
system.
The Statesman Journal
reported Monday that the
release was legal under
state law because 24-hour
rain levels exceeded a
predetermined threshold.
City spokesman Mike
Gotterba says the release late
Thursday and early Friday
prevented raw sewage from
backing up into people’s
homes.
City workers posted
signs at both the Willamette
River and Pringle Creek
throughout the weekend
warning the public to avoid
the water.
The signs were removed
Monday when tests showed
normal bacteria levels.
Fewer suppliers
means Christmas
trees may cost more
SALEM (AP) —
Christmas trees in Oregon
may cost a bit more this year
as the supply of holiday firs
in the state has dropped.
The Statesman Journal
reports that an oversupply of
trees in 2015 has led some
growers to leave the market,
meaning there are fewer
trees to go around this year,
which could push prices
slightly up.
According to the United
States Department of
Agriculture, harvest and
sales of trees dropped 26
percent in 2015 compared
to 2010. USDA statistician
Dave Losh says growers
planted an overabundance
of trees compared to the
demand for them.
Pacific Northwest
Christmas Tree Association
Executive Director Bryan
Ostlund says while supplies
have tightened, there is no
shortage of Christmas trees
in Oregon.