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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Abundant sunshine Mostly cloudy and breezy 61° 46° 56° 42° THURSDAY FRIDAY Cloudy with a couple of showers Today SATURDAY 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 Mostly cloudy with a little rain A little morning rain; cloudy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 56° 41° 50° 34° 46° 33° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 60° 41° 60° 46° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 48° 57° 79° (1901) 32° 36° 11° (1935) 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 Trace 1.41" 1.01" 13.70" 10.34" 9.95" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 56° 59° 72° (2015) 0.00" 0.79" 0.68" 7.80" 7.33" 7.24" SUN AND MOON Nov 10 7:34 a.m. 5:43 p.m. 4:20 p.m. 3:07 a.m. First New Nov 18 Lo 45 28 39 47 24 39 37 44 46 41 27 41 39 37 46 45 29 39 46 43 35 41 36 37 42 46 38 W s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s s pc s s s s s pc s s s s Hi 55 58 58 58 61 52 59 55 60 57 64 54 51 67 57 59 61 60 56 57 59 59 49 52 56 56 61 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Caldwell 57/31 Burns 58/24 Lo 42 29 33 47 23 35 41 41 41 39 33 37 37 41 46 44 32 38 42 44 30 44 33 36 45 42 31 W sh s pc s s c pc s c s s c c s pc pc s s c c pc pc c s c pc pc Hi 60 78 69 57 74 37 52 68 64 68 61 Lo 39 70 58 46 55 30 38 45 50 54 52 Wed. W pc pc pc pc t sn s pc s c c Hi 63 81 68 59 75 32 57 66 66 68 67 Lo 40 71 54 43 57 23 46 45 51 59 54 W s s c c pc sf c s c c pc WINDS Medford 70/37 PRECIPITATION Nov 3 Bend 64/39 Hi 59 59 64 66 58 57 59 61 60 61 61 58 57 70 60 63 57 60 61 60 65 62 49 58 59 61 59 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. WORLD CITIES John Day 61/41 Ontario 57/29 34° 36° 6° (1935) 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 Full Last Albany 60/39 Eugene 59/37 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 49° 33° Spokane Wenatchee 49/36 55/37 Tacoma Moses 59/41 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 55/35 51/38 58/48 61/40 59/38 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 59/43 61/46 Lewiston 59/42 Astoria 55/41 59/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 60/43 Pendleton 57/39 The Dalles 60/46 61/46 61/45 La Grande Salem 58/41 62/41 Corvallis 61/39 HIGH 52° 35° Seattle 59/46 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 58° 40° Tuesday, October 31, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 61/27 REGIONAL FORECAST Nov 26 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. WSW 10-20 W 12-25 0 Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today; however, sunnier toward the Cascades. 1 2 2 1 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today; warmer. A passing shower across the north tonight. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Northern California: Mostly sunny today; pleasant in central parts. Mostly clear tonight. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — www.eastoregonian.com Wednesday UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today; pleas- ant. Partly cloudy tonight; a shower in spots across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today, but some clouds in the upper Treasure Val- ley; warmer near the Cascades. Western Washington: Sunshine today. Today SW 6-12 SW 4-8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -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: Rain and snow showers will extend from northern New England to the Upper Midwest as chilly air sweeps southeastward today. Rain will gather over the southern Plains. Most other areas will be dry. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 90° in Gila Bend, Ariz. Low 14° in Angel Fire, N.M. 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 60 70 60 58 53 69 57 58 74 52 43 45 59 51 45 71 32 37 85 74 44 76 43 80 57 70 Lo 43 49 43 36 38 52 37 41 50 31 31 33 48 40 32 52 22 27 74 63 33 50 31 58 41 60 W c s s s c s pc s s pc pc pc r sf pc c pc pc sh pc pc s pc pc pc pc Wed. 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Hi 52 63 81 48 42 63 77 55 70 59 56 83 52 57 71 54 72 69 52 70 69 66 54 83 58 60 Lo 50 61 69 44 34 56 66 50 52 40 51 62 42 46 51 27 39 46 49 48 60 53 43 54 50 46 W r t pc c sn c c pc pc pc c s s pc c pc s s c s pc s sh pc c pc 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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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Christmas tree prices expected to rise amid shortages By JONATHAN BACH Statesman Journal SALEM (AP) — Amer- icans will pay more for pre-cut Christmas trees this year as shortages deepen from the country’s top two producers, Oregon and North Carolina. Joe Territo sells Oregon trees in San Jose, California. But he’s becoming increas- ingly frustrated with rising costs, from the trees to labor. Territo says the only figure going down is profit. “It seems like every year, it’s harder and harder,” Territo said. He expects to sell 6-foot Noble firs for about $75 a piece this season, up from about $69 last year. The problem is one of supply. Christmas tree growers are coming up short as their 2017 harvest enters its critical period, with trees being shipped coast-to-coast and abroad. Around the time of the Great Recession, growers had an oversupply of trees after planting too many in the early 2000s. Subsequent low prices forced many farmers out of the Christmas tree business, leaving other growers to tend to the market. But now, with only so many trees to go around, remaining farmers can’t keep up with demand — and they might not catch up for years. It can take nine years before some trees are ready to be cut and sold. Oregon farms harvest the most trees in the United Danielle Peterson/Statesman-Journal via AP Gerald Beard, left, Alberto Valdez and Alberto Bolla bale and sort Christmas trees in November 2016, at Hupp Farms in the Silverton area. Christmas trees in Oregon may cost a bit more this year as the supply of holiday firs in the state has dropped. States, exporting them to places like Asia and Cali- fornia. Trees from North Carolina are generally shipped to states east of the Mississippi River. Casey Grogan is a manager at Silver Bells Tree Farm, a few hundred acres outside of Salem. He reckons the farm has received 20 times its normal number of customer inquiries. “We just have enough to supply the customers we’ve been supplying, so we’re not able to help them,” Grogan said. But Grogan is optimistic for fellow Oregonians who should be able to find fresh fir trees. And there are many u-cut tree farms. “The people that are really gonna suffer from this, I think, are going to be people in Southern California, Arizona, Texas, places like that,” he said. Tim O’Connor, executive director of the National Christmas Tree Association, denies a shortage, but acknowledges, “Supply is tight.” “Everyone who wants a tree will be able to get one,” O’Connor said. Christmas tree farmers aren’t so confident. “Right now, there’s a tree November 3-4-5, 2017 22nd Annual Christmas shortage. It’s been coming down the line for the last eight or 10 years, or so,” said Jason Hupp, who helps manage Hupp Farms near Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. “So our biggest chal- lenges are having enough trees to supply customers and just getting phone calls after phone calls after phone calls of people desperate for trees that don’t exist,” he said. One recent morning, a helicopter piloted by Terry Harchenko swooped over Hupp Farms, snatching up bundles of trees after Raul Sosa, a lone worker clad in high-visibility orange, connected them to a hook on the chopper’s dangling line. It’s dangerous work — the hook could swing and strike Sosa — but worker and pilot worked gracefully in concert. “It’s like air ballet. It’s crazy,” Hupp said before- hand. The helicopter dropped the heavy trees in a nearby lot, where other workers pulled away ropes holding them together. Wholesale growers esti- mate they’re raising prices at least 10 percent year-over- year. Growers don’t expect normal harvest levels for Christmas trees to return until at least 2021 or 2025. Like Hupp Farms in Oregon, Barr Evergreens in North Carolina can fulfill wholesale orders for its existing customers but has to turn away new ones, said owner Rusty Barr. Barr expects to raise prices $2 to $3 for pre-cut Fraser fir trees at his retail outfit. That’s on top of the $60 to $80 they’ve sold for in the past, depending on size. North Carolina harvested an estimated 3.5 million trees in 2016, according to the Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association. The state was followed by Michigan (3 million), Pennsylvania (2.3 million) and Washington (1.5 million). By contrast, Oregon cut down approximately 5.2 million trees. For Oregon growers, popular Noble firs are especially lucrative — but they only grow so fast, often spending nine years in the ground to grow to 6 feet in the Pacific Northwest. CONGRATULATIONS TO HHS HOMECOMING QUEEN 2017 COURTNEY WHEELER OUR YOGURT SLAYER! 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