WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
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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
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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.
Hi
71
72
59
55
44
68
63
54
77
52
49
51
78
72
49
78
30
44
87
80
50
79
55
79
60
68
Lo
45
54
54
46
26
58
35
48
59
46
45
43
62
39
43
54
19
27
73
68
44
58
48
57
56
58
W
s
pc
pc
c
r
pc
s
pc
s
sh
c
c
pc
pc
c
pc
pc
sn
t
t
r
pc
pc
s
t
pc
Today
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
50
58
79
43
37
57
77
56
53
43
57
82
57
59
67
49
65
71
47
58
69
66
59
82
60
45
Lo
36
45
66
31
28
41
62
43
38
32
40
62
35
37
44
34
35
46
37
42
62
51
46
57
43
34
W
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
s
r
pc
s
pc
s
s
s
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s
s
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pc
sh
pc
s
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s
r
Wed.
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
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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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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.
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