WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Plenty of sunshine
Abundant
sunshine
94° 59°
93° 59°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Hot with plenty of
sunshine
Today
SUNDAY
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
Very warm with
plenty of sun
Mostly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
96° 64°
95° 61°
88° 58°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
96° 61°
97° 63°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
85°
88°
107° (1897)
54°
58°
40° (1911)
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"
Trace
0.11"
11.30"
7.20"
7.68"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
86°
88°
107° (2002)
60°
58°
42° (2008)
0.00"
0.00"
0.08"
6.59"
4.93"
5.78"
SUN AND MOON
July 16
July 23
5:18 a.m.
8:44 p.m.
10:50 p.m.
8:51 a.m.
First
Full
July 30
Bend
90/53
Hi
66
91
90
63
91
89
84
90
97
94
90
92
89
96
61
63
96
96
94
82
92
85
88
88
79
95
95
Lo
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50
55
63
58
49
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59
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59
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
John Day
94/58
Ontario
96/63
Caldwell
97/60
Burns
91/49
Hi
98
89
91
71
70
72
74
86
86
61
88
Lo
79
79
70
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WINDS
Medford
96/60
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
84/51
Eugene
84/50
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
93° 60°
Spokane
Wenatchee
88/61
91/63
Tacoma
Moses
77/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 93/58
86/54
66/52
77/50
95/59
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
76/54
95/67 Lewiston
96/61
Astoria
94/63
66/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
82/57
Pendleton 89/51
The Dalles 97/63
94/59
91/62
La Grande
Salem
92/54
85/54
Corvallis
85/52
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
100° 63°
Seattle
76/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
99° 66°
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
90/49
REGIONAL FORECAST
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Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today; pleas-
ant across the north. Clear tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of
sunshine today; hot. Clear tonight. Hot
tomorrow.
Western Washington: Low clouds followed
by sunshine today. Patchy clouds tonight.
WSW 7-14
WNW 4-8
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Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the
coast today; sunny in central parts. Partly
sunny in the interior mountains.
Aug 7
Thursday
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Low clouds followed by
sunshine today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Today
WSW 6-12
W 4-8
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showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
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50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Storms will dot the Deep South, Northeast, central Plains, central
Rockies and the Desert Southwest today. Severe storms and flash flooding will tend to
focus on the lower Great Lakes region.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 111° in Needles, Calif.
Low 31° in Climax, 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
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
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106
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101
72
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85
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90
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Today
Hi
Louisville
94
Memphis
91
Miami
90
Milwaukee
87
Minneapolis
89
Nashville
93
New Orleans
89
New York City
87
Oklahoma City
96
Omaha
93
Philadelphia
92
Phoenix
105
Portland, ME
78
Providence
86
Raleigh
95
Rapid City
89
Reno
97
Sacramento
92
St. Louis
100
Salt Lake City
97
San Diego
78
San Francisco
70
Seattle
76
Tucson
96
Washington, DC 95
Wichita
102
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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NORTHWEST BRIEFLY
Power outages hit
Hermiston twice in
four days
HERMISTON — Herm-
iston customers lost power on
Friday and Monday thanks to
a bird and a balloon.
About 2,950 Umatilla
Electric customers lost power
Monday evening when
a metallic party balloon
contacted lines at Geer Road
and Theater Lane.
According to UEC
spokesman Steve Myers,
the contact started a fire and
knocked out power around
north Hermiston from
6:45-7:43 p.m.
Myers cautioned that
releasing helium balloons
into the atmosphere can cause
power outages and fires.
About 2,900 Umatilla
Electric customers lost power
Friday morning when a bird
flew into power equipment
at the Hermiston Butte
substation.
Land-use group
tries to stop
Oregon solar farm
MEDFORD (AP) — The
land-use group 1000 Friends
of Oregon is trying to block
a large solar farm planned
for prime agricultural land
outside Medford.
The Mail Tribune reports
the Jackson County Board
of Commissioners approved
the project last month by a
2-to-1 vote. 1000 Friends
filed its intent to appeal with
the state Land Use Board of
Appeals on Friday.
Neighboring landowners
and other opponents say
high-value farmland should
not be converted to a
large-scale solar farm.
Commissioners said
the solar farm that would
include almost 40,000 panels
is an economically beneficial
use of the land and doesn’t
permanently remove it from
agricultural production. They
imposed a condition that
the farm be dismantled after
30 years so the land can be
returned to agricultural use.
Florida-based Origis
Energy hopes to install
panels, fencing and other
parts of the solar farm in the
next few months.
Oregon wildfire
spreads to nearly
10 square miles
PORTLAND (AP) — A
wildfire has scorched nearly
10 square miles of brush, tall
grass and timber in sparsely
populated south-central
Oregon.
Authorities say the
fire that began Saturday
near the unincorporated
community of Summer Lake
is threatening structures and
sage grouse habitat. Officials
have scheduled a meeting
Tuesday night to update the
community on the status of
the fire.
The cause of the blaze
remains under investigation.
High-tech firm
moving main office
to Medford
MEDFORD (AP) — A
tech employer in southern
Oregon is shifting its
headquarters to Medford.
Lighthouse Worldwide
Solutions announced it’s
moving more than two dozen
executive and management
jobs away from Northern
California.
The company
manufactures cleanroom
particle monitors. Founder
Tae Yun Kim said she was
cautioned by family, friends
and others about moving
to Medford, because of
transportation challenges and
other factors.
But the company
determined the pros
outweigh the cons. Those
positives include more
cost-effective labor, utilities,
taxes, workers’ compensation
and house prices.
The Mail Tribune reports
Lighthouse Worldwide
opened a manufacturing
site in Medford 15 years
ago. The company currently
employs about 75 workers at
sites in Medford and Grants
Pass.
The company’s marketing
manager, Mark VonHolle,
says the average annual wage
for electronic instruments in
the Rogue Valley is $65,000,
double the median wage in
Jackson County.
Woman sentenced
for taking
relative’s benefits
PORTLAND (AP) — An
Oregon woman has been
sentenced for taking
thousands of dollars’ worth
of Social Security benefits
meant for her granddaughter
after the girl’s mother died.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports
53-year-old Julia Simmons
will serve 30 days in a
halfway house and three
years of probation. She
pleaded guilty to theft
of government funds.
Simmons was also ordered
to pay back the nearly
$40,000 of stolen benefits.
Simmons’ granddaughter
lost her mother Rhonda
Casto after she fell off a
cliff during a hiking trip
in 2009. After Casto’s
death, Simmons submitted
a Social Security survivor
benefits application on
behalf of her granddaughter.
Prosecutors say Simmons
claimed the money for more
than five years.
Simmons has apologized
and says she deeply regrets
what she did.
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Corrections
Pendleton Mayor John Turner did not directly lobby Rep.
Greg Barreto (R-Cove) or Sen. Bill Hansell (R-Athena)
for projects in the transportation package, but along with
a group of city officials brought a request to legislators
during statewide hearings on the legislation. Inaccurate
information appeared in the article “Pendleton shut out of
transportation earmarks” (July 8, Page 1A).
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