WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Freezing fog this
morning
Areas of fog,
freezing early
34° 24°
35° 23°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Freezing fog in the
morning
Cloudy with a
shower in places
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
42° 33°
45° 35°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
35° 23°
31° 24°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
29°
27°
39°
26°
67° (1924) -10° (1932)
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"
0.51"
15.33"
11.80"
11.98"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
42/27
Ontario
31/19
Bend
38/22
32°
30°
40°
28°
69° (2014) -14° (1932)
Burns
28/12
0.00"
0.01"
0.57"
8.77"
8.07"
9.04"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Dec 26
Full
Jan 1
7:27 a.m.
4:11 p.m.
1:42 a.m.
1:37 p.m.
Last
Jan 8
Caldwell
27/19
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
52
32
38
60
28
40
42
33
31
42
43
37
37
50
54
57
31
33
34
46
34
46
30
44
46
33
34
Lo
37
19
22
44
12
24
26
20
24
27
19
21
20
29
40
39
19
23
24
31
18
30
23
19
31
25
25
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c
c
s
c
c
s
s
s
c
c
c
s
c
s
c
c
s
c
c
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
52
40
45
61
35
42
46
36
35
49
47
40
39
52
55
58
33
35
35
49
42
49
33
44
49
34
38
Lo
37
21
20
45
14
23
26
22
23
27
22
20
20
30
40
40
22
25
23
33
16
30
24
21
33
26
26
W
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c
pc
pc
c
c
pc
c
c
c
pc
c
c
pc
pc
pc
c
c
c
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pc
pc
c
c
pc
c
c
WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
28
68
70
39
69
33
41
64
24
80
50
Lo
12
64
49
37
38
31
36
52
10
68
37
W
pc
pc
c
pc
s
pc
pc
sh
s
s
pc
Wed.
Hi
33
68
64
47
72
38
48
59
26
87
48
Lo
18
65
49
37
45
20
40
42
10
72
38
W
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c
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pc
r
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WINDS
Medford
50/29
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
Dec 17
Albany
45/29
Eugene
42/26
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
47° 34°
Spokane
Wenatchee
30/23
31/25
Tacoma
Moses
44/31
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 33/25
35/25
48/36
44/31
34/25
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
46/31
33/25 Lewiston
32/23
Astoria
36/27
52/37
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
46/31
Pendleton 40/24
The Dalles 31/24
34/24
36/28
La Grande
Salem
37/21
46/30
Corvallis
44/29
HIGH
42° 32°
Seattle
47/36
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
34° 26°
Today
SATURDAY
Rain and snow
showers
36° 26°
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Klamath Falls
43/19
(in mph)
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
Pendleton
ENE 3-6
N 4-8
NE 3-6
NNE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today. Partly
cloudy tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Areas of freezing fog
during the morning; mostly cloudy today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Areas of freez-
ing fog in the morning; mostly cloudy today.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Patchy clouds
tonight; a passing shower, except dry in
the south.
Northern California: Plenty of sunshine to-
day; pleasant in central parts. Clear tonight.
Western Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today. Partly cloudy tonight. Sun-
shine and some clouds tomorrow.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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flurries
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Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File
In this Feb. 1, 2017, file image provided the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife, a wolf pack is
captured by a remote camera in Hells Canyon National
Recreation Area in northeast Oregon.
other wildlife is a deplor-
able crime,” said Noah
Greenwalt, of the Center
for Biological Diversity.
“We need people to come
forward and help put a stop
Oregon
Rep.
Greg
Walden agreed to give up his
spot on the House-Senate tax
bill conference committee
at the request of another
Republican
lawmaker
who wanted to serve on it,
according to a Walden aide.
Spokesman
Justin
Discigil said Friday that
Walden surrendered his seat
on the conference committee
to Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.,
because of his legislative
work on a proposal in the
Senate bill: selling off oil
from the strategic petroleum
reserve to help raise money
for tax cuts.
Walden
is
sion that would
chairman of the
remove
the
House
Energy
mandate requiring
and
Commerce
individuals to have
Committee while
health insurance or
Upton chairs the
face fines.
panel’s
energy
That
raised
subcommittee. The
questions
about
chair of the envi-
why Walden would
ronment subcom-
take himself out
mittee, Rep. John Walden
of the picture in
Shimkus, R-Ill., is
negotiating a key
also on the panel working health care agreement —
out differences on the something his office didn’t
sweeping tax-cut measure.
respond to on Wednesday. At
A statement from House
Speaker Paul Ryan’s office
on Wednesday said the
energy and commerce
members would negotiate
oil sales and another much
bigger issue: a Senate provi-
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cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 86° in Camarillo, Calif.
Low -6° in West Yellowstone, Mont.
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
54
48
53
47
55
50
28
46
60
36
25
30
59
66
24
61
29
34
83
63
28
68
44
64
53
83
Lo
28
28
26
18
35
26
21
28
29
15
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38
35
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33
22
24
68
35
16
34
30
43
29
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Wed.
Hi
56
48
36
34
49
52
32
32
51
35
34
27
73
57
26
62
33
35
80
63
39
58
56
66
63
81
Lo
28
36
27
21
32
36
23
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35
29
21
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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
35
48
74
23
25
42
61
48
54
45
47
79
45
50
52
63
50
62
39
41
78
64
47
74
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Lo
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62
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50
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50
62
52
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76
63
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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to the killing of these endan-
gered animals.”
Wolves are a protected
species across the state of
Washington. Poachers can
face fines and jail time.
These killings follow the
poaching of three wolves in
Oregon in the past several
months
“Poaching represents a
real threat to the recovery
of wolves in Washington
and elsewhere on the West
Coast,” said Nick Cady of
Cascadia Wildlands.
Gray wolves were hunted
to extinction in Washington
in the early 1900s. But the
animals started migrating
into the state in the early
2000s from Idaho and
Canada. The first wolf pack
was documented by the
department in 2008.
At the end of 2016, the
state estimated there were
a minimum of 115 wolves,
20 packs and 10 successful
breeding pairs in the state.
All of the documented
wolf packs are east of the
Cascade Range, mostly in
the northeastern corner of
the state.
There
have
been
numerous conflicts between
wolves and livestock in
recent years, and the state
has killed 18 problem
wolves since 2012, drawing
sharp criticism from envi-
ronmental groups.
Wolves are listed as
endangered by the state in the
eastern third of Washington
and have federal endangered
species protection in the
western two-thirds of the
state.
Rep. Walden gives up spot on tax conference committee
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
60s
National Summary: A snowstorm will unfold across northern New England today as biting
winds trigger lake-effect snow across the Great Lakes. Locally gusty winds will keep the fire
danger elevated in Southern California.
Reward for information on slain wolves grows to $20,000
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)
— The reward for informa-
tion regarding the killing of
two wolves in northeastern
Washington state has grown
to $20,000, two conservation
groups said Monday.
The Center for Biological
Diversity and Cascadia
Wildlands doubled a previ-
ously announced $10,000
reward by Conservation
Northwest for information
leading to conviction in the
killing of the wolves.
Over
the
weekend,
officials for the state Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
announced that two wolves
that were being monitored
had been found shot to death.
The
animals
were
members of the Smackout
and Dirty Shirt packs.
“Poaching wolves or
50s
the time, there was also no
explanation of who sought
the change in membership on
the conference committee.
Discigil said Friday that
the energy and commerce
members would only deal
with the oil sales provision.
The statement on Ryan’s
website had been changed
to say that the energy and
commerce members would
negotiate just the oil issue.
Discigil said the health
mandate issue would be
negotiated by members of
the House Ways and Means
Committee, which has
general jurisdiction over
taxes.
“Given
jurisdictional
implications of the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve provi-
sions in the tax bill,” Discigil
wrote in a statement, “at
Chairman Upton’s request,
Chairman Walden opted
to provide Mr. Upton the
opportunity to serve as a
conferee.”
Oregon pot
shops say
Nazi-linked
mix-up causing
harassment
EUGENE (AP) —
Two Oregon pot shops say
they’re getting harassed
for having a similar name
to another marijuana
business owned by a
white nationalist.
The Register-Guard
reports that Oregon
Growers
Analytical,
known as OG Analytical,
is a state-accredited
marijuana testing lab,
whose owner has been
linked to white pride
events and neo-Nazi
groups.
Now, two other pot
businesses,
Eugene
OG in Eugene and OG
Collective in Salem, say
they’ve gotten harassed
by phone for the name
mix-up.
Those businesses say
they have nothing to do
with OG Analytical.
Days earlier, OG
Analytical’s
Bethany
Sherman
issued
a
statement saying she’s not
a neo-Nazi but that she
was proud to be white.
Sherman also said
she would resign and
sell the company she
founded, which verifies
pot potency and pesticide
contamination.
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