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WEATHER
East Oregonian
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Brilliant sunshine
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
91° 58°
83° 55°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
Sunny and hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
83° 58°
91° 61°
96° 66°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
86° 56°
94° 60°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
86°
87°
108° (2008)
62°
57°
37° (1915)
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"
0.22"
11.37"
7.34"
8.17"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
87°
88°
107° (2008)
65°
57°
42° (1969)
0.00"
0.06"
0.11"
6.65"
4.99"
6.03"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 21
Aug 29
Full
Sep 5
5:59 a.m.
7:58 p.m.
2:27 a.m.
5:49 p.m.
Last
Sep 12
John Day
89/51
Ontario
94/58
Bend
89/50
Burns
89/45
Caldwell
92/55
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
69
90
89
74
89
87
85
88
94
89
91
88
86
97
65
69
94
93
91
79
91
85
84
87
78
91
92
Lo
54
45
50
56
45
49
54
58
60
51
48
51
48
58
52
55
58
56
58
56
46
56
55
45
55
62
56
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
Hi
67
83
82
72
85
80
80
81
86
84
86
81
78
90
64
67
91
87
83
77
83
81
80
78
77
84
87
Lo
53
44
46
56
45
47
49
53
56
49
49
46
43
56
49
52
56
51
55
54
42
52
55
42
52
58
54
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
Hi
85
92
86
68
76
79
72
88
82
62
83
Lo
70
81
69
55
57
60
52
66
73
49
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Sat.
Hi
82
92
88
68
75
84
70
85
82
59
84
Lo
71
83
70
54
56
61
52
69
73
47
74
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WINDS
Medford
97/58
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
85/56
Eugene
85/54
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
98° 66°
Spokane
Wenatchee
84/55
88/59
Tacoma
Moses
76/53
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 90/56
84/52
70/53
75/50
92/56
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
75/54
91/62 Lewiston
93/59
Astoria
92/61
69/54
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
79/56
Pendleton 87/49
The Dalles 94/60
91/58
88/60
La Grande
Salem
88/51
85/56
Corvallis
85/54
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
92° 58°
Seattle
75/57
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
87° 57°
Today
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny
Friday, August 18, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
91/48
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Sunshine mixing
with some clouds today, but sunny across
the south.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today; pleasant
across the north.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at
the coast today; hot in central parts. Mostly
sunny elsewhere.
Saturday
WSW 4-8
W 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny in central
parts today; clouds breaking for some sun
elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of
sunshine today; pleasant in central parts.
Mainly clear tonight.
Western Washington: Areas of low clouds,
then some sun today. Becoming cloudy
tonight.
Today
WSW 6-12
W 7-14
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0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Heavy, gusty thunderstorms will swing across the mid-Atlantic today.
Drenching rain will reach New England later. Storms will riddle the South and fire from
Minnesota to Texas. Much of the West will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Needles, Calif.
Low 31° in Leadville, 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
93
89
83
90
91
90
92
76
94
86
82
86
97
87
82
96
58
78
89
98
85
92
88
105
91
81
Lo
66
72
75
69
60
73
60
70
79
65
65
63
79
59
62
71
44
57
73
78
68
76
63
80
74
65
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Sat.
Hi
90
92
86
88
88
92
90
86
91
86
83
81
99
92
80
85
57
86
88
97
84
93
89
106
89
80
Lo
65
72
70
67
58
73
58
69
77
65
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62
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60
62
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44
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76
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66
75
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75
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Hi
Louisville
90
Memphis
91
Miami
92
Milwaukee
81
Minneapolis
77
Nashville
91
New Orleans
91
New York City
81
Oklahoma City
93
Omaha
86
Philadelphia
88
Phoenix
106
Portland, ME
70
Providence
77
Raleigh
97
Rapid City
86
Reno
96
Sacramento
93
St. Louis
90
Salt Lake City
93
San Diego
76
San Francisco
73
Seattle
75
Tucson
99
Washington, DC 91
Wichita
93
Lo
70
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80
63
61
68
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Sat.
Hi
90
90
87
79
82
91
91
87
95
89
89
106
81
86
92
94
96
90
88
93
76
72
74
96
90
94
Lo
70
74
80
66
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72
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Eclipse traffic already heavy in central Oregon
BRIEFLY
AP Photo/John Locher, File
In this April 12 photo, Marie Ries, center, marches
with others in support of defendants on trial in fed-
eral court in Las Vegas. A federal jury in Las Vegas
that heard five weeks of prosecution testimony is
deliberating the fate of four men accused of wield-
ing assault weapons against federal agents in a
2014 standoff near Nevada anti-government figure
Cliven Bundy’s ranch.
Jury ends deliberations for the week
in Bundy standoff trial
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Las Vegas
has ended deliberations for the week on Thursday in the
retrial of four men accused of wielding assault weapons
against federal agents in a 2014 standoff near the Nevada
ranch of anti-government figure Cliven Bundy.
Jurors spent a second full day mulling evidence in
U.S. District Court in the case against Idaho defendants
Scott Drexler, Eric Parker and Steven Stewart and Ricky
Lovelien of Montana and Oklahoma.
The jury is due to return to work Monday.
The six men and six women are considering 10
charges after five weeks of testimony on charges
including conspiracy, weapon possession and assault on a
federal officer.
Parker and Drexler testified, although Chief U.S.
District Judge Gloria Navarro ordered the jury to disre-
gard Parker’s testimony after deciding that he broke rules
of evidence that had been set before trial.
The four men were tried earlier this year before a jury
that found two co-defendants guilty of some charges but
failed to reach verdicts in their cases.
The trial is a prelude to another expected later this year
for Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and two
other defendants.
Six other defendants, including two other Bundy sons,
are slated for trial next year.
Portland hospital gave away recalled
eclipse glasses
PORTLAND (AP) — Legacy Health in Portland,
Oregon says some of the glasses it gave away at public
events for viewing the upcoming total solar eclipse may
be among those recalled by Amazon.
The hospital said Thursday that people who got solar
glasses from Legacy Health at public events should
discard them and buy new ones.
It says glasses it gave away at Legacy Health clinics or
Legacy/GoHealth Urgent Care clinics in the past month
are safe.
The online retail giant Amazon.com issued a wide-
spread recall for eclipse glasses sold through its site after
being unable to verify they met safety standards.
The total solar eclipse is the first one to cross the U.S.
in 99 years.
The shadow cast by the moon first makes landfall in
the U.S. in Oregon on Monday.
PORTLAND (AP) —
Traffic is already a headache
in central Oregon as thou-
sands of people arrive before
Monday’s total solar eclipse.
Traffic was backed up
about 15 miles at one point on
Thursday on U.S. Highway
26 near of Prineville, the last
town before the turnoff for an
eclipse-themed festival that’s
expected to attract 35,000
people in a remote area with
narrow, one-lane roads.
Drivers then had to contend
with another 14 miles of traffic
on local roads to the venue.
A handful of gas stations in
Bend and Prineville also ran
out of fuel Wednesday before
getting restocked.
The scene echoed one
on Wednesday night, when
eclipse traffic first began to
swell. Traffic backed up for
12 miles on the same stretch
of road, doubling the drive
time between the towns of
Redmond and Prineville as an
estimated 8,000 cars passed
through.
“The numbers of people
who were coming in, we are
beyond capacity really on that
highway. Traffic is moving
— it’s not stopped — but it’s
taking a long time,” said Peter
Murphy, a spokesman for the
Oregon Department of Trans-
portation in central Oregon.
Traffic officials repro-
gramed traffic lights to
provide more time on green
lights on east-west routes. The
Prineville police also closed
Oregon State Police via AP
This aerial photo provided by the Oregon State Police
shows a 15-mile traffic jam on Highway 26 heading in
to Prineville on Thursday. Traffic is already a headache
in central Oregon as thousands of people are arriving
before Monday’s total solar eclipse.
the eastbound lane of the
highway and diverted traffic
onto local roads so the crush
could clear.
In Madras, to the north,
traffic was also picking up
Thursday but so far there were
no traffic jams. Gas stations
were still stocked, said Joe
Krenowicz, executive director
of the Jefferson County-Ma-
dras Chamber of Commerce.
The town of about 6,000
is considered one of the best
viewing locations in the
nation and is expecting at least
100,000 people over the next
four days.
“We know that we will run
out of gas at some times, but
they will refuel. There will
be some inconveniences,” he
said.
“We’re
encouraging
people to come into Madras
with a full tank of gas if they
possibly can.”
Traffic elsewhere in the
state was still normal, officials
said, but more visitors were
expected starting Thursday
and into the weekend.
“When it comes, it will
come as a rush,” said Dave
Thompson, chief ODOT
spokesman.
About 1 million people
are expected to visit Oregon
in the coming days — and up
to 200,000 to Central Oregon
— in the coming days to see
the rare celestial event. It’s
the first total, coast-to-coast
solar eclipse in the U.S. in 99
years and totality — when the
moon’s shadow blocks the
sun and casts a shadow on
Earth — first makes landfall
in Oregon, making the state
a top destination for eclipse
watchers.
State officials are urging
travelers to log onto www.
TripCheck.com before they
leave or call 211, an informa-
tion number about the eclipse
set up for the public.
Wildfire threatens buildings in Central Oregon
SISTERS (AP) — With
the solar eclipse just days
away, a wildfire raging
within Oregon’s path of
totality threatened more than
400 structures Thursday and
led officials to issue evacua-
tion warnings.
Gov. Kate Brown invoked
the Emergency Confla-
gration Act so the Oregon
fire marshal can mobilize
resources from around the
state to protect homes.
“State
agencies
are
already working around the
clock and across the state,
and as we get closer to the
total solar eclipse, we’ll need
all resources available to
keep communities, visitors,
and property safe,” Brown
said in a statement.
The wildfire was burning
in the center of the state near
the town of Sisters in the
Three Sisters Wilderness
Area. The blaze started last
week and stayed relatively
small and tame for days.
It expanded Wednesday to
more than 5 square miles,
charring dead timber in the
scar of a 2006 wildfire.
More than 200 firefighters
were working to establish
containment lines.
The homes where people
were told to prepare to
evacuate lie west of Sisters,
the Western-themed town
where eclipse observers will
see 34 seconds of totality on
Monday. The Red Cross has
opened a shelter at Sisters
Middle School for those who
choose to leave.
Other
wildfires
are
burning in what is typically
Oregon’s busiest month for
wildland firefighters. The
state after a very wet winter
and spring has so far been
spared the kind of wildfire
that destroys neighborhoods
and burns areas the size of
Rhode Island.
A public meeting to
update residents on the fire
was scheduled for Thursday
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