WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Partly sunny
Partly sunny and
beautiful
71° 41°
70° 47°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy
Variably cloudy,
showers around
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
75° 50°
65° 46°
62° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
72° 42°
74° 38°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
68°
79°
94° (2013)
54°
50°
31° (1916)
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
0.21"
11.37"
7.69"
8.59"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
75°
80°
96° (1937)
0.00"
0.00"
0.17"
6.65"
5.40"
6.29"
SUN AND MOON
Sep 27
Bend
67/37
Burns
66/25
Full
Oct 5
6:34 a.m.
7:06 p.m.
1:20 a.m.
4:35 p.m.
Last
Oct 12
Caldwell
71/45
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
70
66
67
69
66
60
79
67
74
67
69
65
63
79
64
67
71
74
71
78
69
80
66
62
78
70
75
Lo
47
29
37
52
25
32
46
41
38
37
38
32
31
48
47
49
42
38
41
54
33
50
41
31
49
45
40
W
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c
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s
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s
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s
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
Hi
69
67
69
65
66
64
76
69
72
69
72
66
65
80
62
64
69
72
70
79
71
79
65
66
77
71
73
Lo
51
34
40
52
31
39
47
45
42
43
38
39
39
48
50
51
42
41
47
53
35
49
44
38
49
51
42
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
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pc
s
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s
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
83
91
82
60
76
69
60
76
82
71
78
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
61
83
66
46
57
49
44
65
61
54
68
W
pc
pc
s
sh
pc
r
t
pc
pc
s
pc
Sat.
Hi
84
94
81
60
75
61
59
77
82
71
74
Lo
59
81
64
47
58
51
47
62
60
48
68
W
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WINDS
Medford
79/48
PRECIPITATION
Sep 19
John Day
67/37
Ontario
71/42
58°
49°
30° (1970)
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
80/46
Eugene
79/46
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
67° 50°
Spokane
Wenatchee
66/41
71/47
Tacoma
Moses
75/42
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 73/42
64/38
71/50
76/42
75/40
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
77/46
70/45 Lewiston
73/38
Astoria
69/42
70/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
78/54
Pendleton 60/32
The Dalles 74/38
71/41
80/46
La Grande
Salem
65/32
80/50
Corvallis
79/48
HIGH
70° 50°
Seattle
74/53
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
78° 54°
Today
TUESDAY
Cooler; rain in the
afternoon
Friday, September 15, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
69/38
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today;
however, sunnier toward the Cascades.
Clear tonight.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Mainly clear
tonight.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Colder in the interior mountains; pleasant
at the coast.
Saturday
NE 4-8
NNE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today.
Increasing clouds tonight, but mainly clear
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of
clouds and sun today. Clear tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny in
central parts today; times of clouds and sun
elsewhere.
Today
NNE 6-12
NNW 6-12
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-0s
showers t-storms
0s
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: Downpours will dot the Northeast and the Deep South today as rain
and high-elevation snow affect the northern Rockies and High Plains. Most other areas will
be dry. Warmth will hold in the Central states.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Carrizo Springs, Texas
Low 27° in Sunset Crater, Ariz.
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
84
84
80
82
45
86
66
78
89
77
85
80
94
82
79
91
62
69
88
90
83
86
88
88
88
76
Lo
58
68
67
64
37
68
41
64
69
58
65
61
74
47
60
67
40
51
76
71
63
73
69
69
66
63
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c
s
s
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Sat.
Hi
82
83
79
83
49
85
66
77
87
83
87
82
93
72
80
91
63
59
89
90
87
85
86
90
89
77
Lo
59
67
66
65
38
68
48
64
68
60
68
61
74
50
61
67
42
46
76
73
65
71
63
70
69
64
Today
W
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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
84
87
90
80
87
86
87
80
90
92
83
97
73
81
83
60
73
86
90
65
74
73
74
95
84
94
Lo
64
70
79
65
70
63
74
68
70
70
68
75
58
62
64
40
44
55
67
48
66
59
53
67
68
70
W
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c
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pc
s
s
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Sat.
Hi
86
88
91
82
83
87
87
79
88
83
83
97
77
82
85
57
77
86
89
67
74
76
76
96
85
91
Lo
65
72
78
66
54
66
74
66
70
54
68
74
58
63
64
36
49
56
70
50
66
59
54
67
69
63
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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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Oregon secretary of state seeks
presidential primary date change
Genna Martin /seattlepi.com via AP, File
In this Sept. 5 photo, the Eagle Creek wildfire burns on the Oregon side of the
Columbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks. Wildfires that have blackened more than
thousands of square miles across the American West have also ignited calls, includ-
ing from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, for thinning of forests that have become so
choked with trees that they’re at “powder keg levels.”
Forest Service spends record
$2 Billion battling forest fires
By MATTHEW DALY
and DAN ELLIOTT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Forest Service has spent
more than $2 billion battling
forest fires around the
country — a record as wild-
fires blacken the American
West in one of the nation’s
worst fire seasons.
Wildfires have ravaged
the West this summer with
64 large fires burning across
10 states as of Thursday,
including 21 fires in
Montana and 18 in Oregon.
In all, 48,607 wildfires have
burned nearly 13,000 square
miles.
The fires have stretched
firefighting
resources,
destroyed more than 500
homes and triggered health
alerts as choking smoke
drifted across the West.
The Forest Service, part
of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, is the nation’s
primary firefighting agency.
Agriculture
Secretary
Sonny Perdue said the
severe fire season means
officials “end up having to
hoard all of the money that is
intended for fire prevention,
because we’re afraid we’re
going to need it to actually
fight fires.”
The emphasis on fire-
fighting means that money
for prescribed burns, insect
control and other prevention
efforts is diverted to putting
out fires in what Perdue
called a self-defeating cycle.
The end result is that small
trees and vegetation remain
in the forest for future fires
to feed on.
“That’s wrong, and
that’s no way to manage
the Forest Service,” Perdue
said.
The Agriculture Depart-
ment has been asking
Congress for years to
change the way firefighting
is funded so the Forest
Service does not have to
raid non-fire programs.
The spending figure
announced Thursday marks
the first time wildfire
spending by the Forest
Service has topped $2
billion. The previous record
was $1.7 billion in 2015.
The figures do not
include spending by Interior
Department agencies such
as the Bureau of Land
Management and National
Park Service, nor do they
include spending by state
and local governments.
The Interior Depart-
ment says it has spent at
least $391 million with
several weeks left in the
fire season. The previous
record for combined federal
firefighting costs was $2.1
billion in 2015.
Some previous years
have had bigger areas burn
but lower costs to fight fires.
“The level of continuous
activity and the length of
the fire season is driving
our costs,” Forest Service
spokeswoman
Babete
Anderson said.
Parts of the West have
suffered through above-av-
erage fires for months, she
said.
This year’s fires have
renewed discussions about
thinning overgrown forests
to reduce the risk.
Forest fuels are at
“powder
keg
levels,”
said Paul Hessburg Sr., a
Forest Service research
landscape
ecologist.
Hessburg
will
present
“Era of Megafires” in Pend-
leton next month.
Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke on Tuesday directed
land managers and park
superintendents
in
his
department to be more
aggressive in cutting down
small trees and underbrush.
SALEM
(AP)
—
Oregon’s secretary of state
is asking lawmakers to
move Oregon’s presidential
election primary two months
forward to March, so Orego-
nians can have a greater say
on who the nominees will be.
In a letter to Oregon’s
political leaders, Dennis
Richardson, who is also
Oregon’s chief elections
officer, asked for support in
urging the state Legislature
to change the date.
The request raises the
possibility that all three states
on America’s West Coast
could have presidential
primaries in March 2020,
which would generate more
national attention, and more
visits by candidates wooing
voters.
“Both California and
Washington are considering
legislation to move their pres-
idential primaries to March,”
Richardson wrote. “I believe
that Oregon should do the
same in the 2018 session.”
The California Legisla-
ture might move America’s
most populous state’s pres-
idential primary this week
to what’s known as Super
Tuesday, a day when several
states hold primaries. Wash-
ington state lawmakers have
also considered moving up
the primary in that state,
for Oregonians in
and it is advocated
terms of cost-ben-
by Washington’s
efit.”
secretary of state.
The financial
“ C u r r e n t l y,
cost to Oregon
only a handful
under
Richard-
of states vote
son’s
proposal
for
president
would be holding
after
Oregon’s
only a presidential
May
primary,”
primary in March.
Richardson wrote
Candidates
for
on Wednesday to Richardson
other offices could
Gov. Kate Brown
and Republican and Demo- continue to be nominated in
cratic legislative leaders. May, to avoid interference
“With our late primary date, in the 2020 legislative
both math and momentum session, he said. Lawmakers
usually prevent Oregonians would presumably be more
from having a meaningful focused on passing bills
say in selecting presidential than campaigning during the
legislative session, which in
nominees.”
Richardson said a change even years generally starts in
could also give Oregonians February and runs through
more access to campaigning early March.
California held its last
candidates, who frequently
visit states that have early presidential primary on June
primaries, like Iowa and 7, 2016. A bill in that state’s
Legislature would move the
New Hampshire.
On May 17, 2016, Bernie primary to the first Tuesday
Sanders won the Democratic after the first Monday in
primary in Oregon. Donald March, which is Super
Trump won the Republican Tuesday.
“A state as populous and
one.
Jonathan
Lockwood, diverse as California should
spokesman for the Oregon not be an afterthought,”
state Senate Republican California Secretary of
caucus, said of Richardson’s State Alex Padilla said in
proposal: “We are excited April. “Moving up the
about being a greater part California primary in 2020
of the national presidential makes sense and will give
conversation and we are California voters a more
reviewing what this means significant role.”
Corrections
Araya Edmiston’s name was misspelled in several instances in the article “Western wishes”
(Sept. 14, 1A). The tickets to the Round-Up kick-off concert were donated by the Round-Up
Association, not the Children’s Western Wish Foundation. Incorrect information was provided
to the East Oregonian. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets
any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
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