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WEEKEND, JANUARY 14-15, 2017
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HERMISTON
Airport, 17.5 inches
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Photo contributed by Logan Wood
Snow piles up around a road sign at Meacham.
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PENDLETON
Downtown, 12.1 inches
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Marvin Morris of Pendleton uses a snowblower to clear the driveway of a
friend’s house on Northwest Bailey Avenue on Wednesday in Pendleton.
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DEEP INTO WINTER
Eastern Oregon buried by heavy snowfall; 11th snowiest Pendleton winter on record
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Photo contributed by Kate Raymond
The sun sets on a plowed driveway in Helix.
f it feels likes its been a wetter
winter in Eastern Oregon than
usual, it’s because it has been.
At the Pendleton airport, the
National Weather Service station
has measured 30.9 inches of
snowfall since the beginning of
December.
That’s the second most the
service has ever recorded through
Jan. 11 in its history, bested only
by the 2008-2009 winter season.
If Pendleton gets no more snow
for the rest of the year, it would
still be the 11th snowiest winter
on record. The heaviest snowfall
Pendleton has ever received in a
winter season, according to service
records, was 53.9 inches in 1949.
Winter has been a little more
hospitable in Pendleton’s flats,
although Jim Smith, the service’s
observation program leader, noted
that the records were incomplete.
Records show at the Pendleton
Fire Station that this area of
Pendleton has received 12.1 inches
of snow since Dec. 1.
Hermiston has also seen less
snow than the Pendleton airport
— 17.5 inches since the beginning
of December, not close to the
36.9 inches Hermiston was buried
under in 1921.
Hermiston’s pace of snowfall
is the fourth highest in recorded
history.
Other places that have received
significant snowfall in the region
include Heppner — 27.5 inches —
and Meacham — 70.2 inches.
Eastern Oregon residents tired
of breaking out the snow boots
and shovels will get a respite next
week.
The National Weather Service
is currently forecasting warmer
weather and rain Monday through
Wednesday, which could mean
less layers of clothing but also
flooding along the region’s rivers
and creeks.
Photo contributed by Tabatha Steffen
This photo of the Hermiston Butte was taken from Good Sheprd Medical Center.
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Photo contributed by Sarah Thompson
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Photo contribtued by Clifford Stanger
Maria-Teresa Thompson, 19 months, offers mor-
al support to her daddy, Ira Thompson, while he
clears the sidewalk at their Hermiston home.
A horse named Ariel goes for a walk in a snowy
pasture east of Pendleton.
Marcella and Lauralee Stanger stand with their
12th man snowman on East Poverty Flats near
Mission.