WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Milder with
periods of sun
Mostly cloudy
34° 33°
44° 32°
TUESDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
Rather cloudy with
a little snow
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
43° 34°
46° 33°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
43° 32°
46° 33°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
34°
28°
40°
26°
62° (1933) -11° (2004)
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
Trace
0.29"
Trace
0.11"
0.29"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
41/30
Ontario
39/27
Bend
43/28
36°
30°
40°
27°
63° (1933) -11° (1950)
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
7:36 a.m.
4:27 p.m.
10:24 p.m.
10:45 a.m.
First
Full
Jan 16
Jan 24
Hi
49
43
43
53
42
40
49
45
46
41
45
43
41
49
50
52
39
44
34
49
45
51
35
40
48
35
44
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
Lo
40
25
28
42
21
29
34
33
33
30
22
30
29
32
39
38
27
33
33
38
24
37
31
27
40
35
33
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
47
39
46
51
40
40
48
46
43
43
45
40
40
48
48
51
37
41
44
47
45
50
36
43
47
42
43
Lo
43
25
30
44
21
31
33
32
32
33
27
32
31
35
42
41
27
33
32
37
25
37
33
30
37
35
35
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
38
68
52
44
68
37
46
60
35
87
49
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
21
65
42
36
40
34
40
52
19
74
40
W
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Sun.
Hi
38
71
55
42
72
36
44
65
36
97
50
Lo
23
67
41
37
43
23
39
54
23
73
40
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WINDS
Medford
49/32
Trace
Trace
0.20"
Trace
0.10"
0.20"
SUN AND MOON
Caldwell
37/26
Burns
42/21
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
Jan 8
Albany
50/37
Eugene
49/34
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
48° 35°
Spokane
Wenatchee
35/31
36/30
Tacoma
Moses
48/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 37/31
39/31
47/41
48/37
44/33
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
48/40
35/35 Lewiston
44/33
Astoria
43/32
49/40
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
49/38
Pendleton 40/29
The Dalles 46/33
34/33
47/35
La Grande
Salem
43/30
51/37
Corvallis
49/35
HIGH
44° 36°
Seattle
48/41
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
42° 34°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a little rain
44° 34°
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Today
Sunday
SW 7-14
WSW 6-12
SSE 4-8
SSE 4-8
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
45/22
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A shower in the morning;
otherwise, mostly cloudy today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. Snow showers in the south; showers of
rain and snow in the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: A shower in the
morning; otherwise, mostly cloudy today.
Jan 31
Eastern Washington: Times of sun and
clouds today. Rather cloudy tonight, but
cloudy in the mountains.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today; a snow
shower in spots, except dry in the south.
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rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Brutally cold winds will continue in the Northeast while bands of lake-
effect snow persist over the Upper Midwest to the central Appalachians today. Rain and
snow will affect the Intermountain West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 81° in Yuma, Ariz.
Low -44° in Embarrass, Minn.
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
58
40
19
18
42
42
39
8
37
17
14
9
59
52
11
68
6
17
82
63
13
50
28
70
40
70
Lo
37
22
5
2
29
23
25
-5
17
4
4
-2
49
29
0
47
-4
14
72
48
1
32
23
48
26
54
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Sun.
Hi
57
42
22
24
39
46
39
16
40
38
30
27
62
47
26
69
0
32
82
69
32
55
40
65
43
71
Lo
29
31
15
16
26
37
28
13
26
25
27
25
42
27
24
37
-14
18
71
49
29
46
24
44
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56
Today
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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
21
38
68
13
10
29
57
12
49
20
17
75
4
9
28
47
55
59
22
41
72
56
48
77
21
40
Lo
10
26
54
6
9
17
46
3
40
16
2
54
-15
-5
8
30
26
38
16
29
56
43
41
53
8
30
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Sun.
Hi
41
46
73
29
28
45
65
17
51
39
19
75
13
16
31
44
52
57
37
44
69
55
47
75
26
47
Lo
35
39
63
25
22
36
59
15
32
19
15
52
9
12
19
24
33
44
31
26
55
47
41
49
21
26
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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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Potential landslide threatens homes, I-82, Yakima River
By ANNA KING
Northwest News Network
Near the town of Union
Gap in south central Wash-
ington, a massive chunk of
Rattlesnake Ridge is moving
ever more quickly.
Geologists say it will
likely cause a landslide.
And when does come fully
down, it could take out roads,
infrastructure and in the
worst-case scenario, dam up
the Yakima River.
Now, nearby residents are
weighing their grim options:
Abandon house and home —
or stay and risk their lives.
Reading the cracks
There are about 50
residents in 15 houses and
trailer homes on a crescent of
land wedged in a depression
between Interstate 82 and
the hillside that’s cracking
near them. According to
measurements taken since
October by the state and its
consultant, the land above
this community and Inter-
state 82 is starting to move
more rapidly.
But there is some
disagreement among experts
on how big this slide will be.
Yakima County Emer-
gency managers believe
Photo contributed by Northwest News Network
A view of Rattlesnake Ridge from Interstate 82 near the town of Union Gap, Wash-
ington. Geologists say fissures in the hillside will likely cause a landslide.
it could be a small and
slow-moving slide and could
actually stabilize itself.
Bruce
Bjornstad,
a
well-known
independent
geologist who has studied
dozens of Columbia Basin
landslides for about the
last 20 years, called that “a
baseless hunch.” He said this
landslide looks very similar
to another one — called the
Toppenish Landslide — only
18 miles southeast in Yakima
Valley.
“There have been other
landslides on other ridges,
similar to what we have at
Union Gap, that have released
apparently very quickly and
have produced landslides
and debris that have moved
out at least a quarter to a third
of a mile out into the valley
floor,” Bjornstad said. “And
that potentially, if it happened
near the Yakima River, could
dam up the river.”
Further, Bjornstad said
where there are visible cracks
in the land on Rattlesnake
Ridge is just the start of
where the basalt rock might
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calve off. He said landslides
typically follow a curved line
and the debris flows away
from that. So what’s visible
is only a small part of the
picture of what might let go
off this slope.
“If you project that crack
to the south and north where
you can’t see it yet, but it
could develop over time as
it continues to move — that
crack is going to let the land
slide to the west towards the
other side of Union Gap and
that could potentially block
the river, and definitely take
out the freeway,” Bjornstad
said.
And he said the landslide
isn’t going to stabilize or
go away. It’s just a matter
of time before it all comes
down.
Bjornstad added that if
he were to travel past Union
Gap on I-82, “I think I would
find an alternate route.”
Between rocks and
a very hard place
Janeth Solorio is a young
mother who lives in the
community. It’s a place of
boarded up windows, broken
furniture outside, and large
chained German Shepherds
and pit bulls.
“We have to move and we
don’t have enough money,”
she said. “And that’s why I’m
worried — I’m alone with
my son and I’m pregnant. So
it’s not easy.”
Solorio and other residents
said they live there because
it’s so cheap. Most said they
are farmworkers, but there’s
not much work in the bitter
cold. Apple branches and
grape vines can be damaged
at low temperatures. So there
isn’t even pruning work right
now.
And it’s too expensive to
move.
But that is what fire-
fighters and an emergency
manager are asking them to
do. There’s a church shelter,
then a hotel stay for a month
and a bit of extra cash to help
them.
But only some have taken
that advice.
Tony Castillo, one of the
firefighters, said he hopes
these residents will leave
soon.
“What we’ve been told
is that it could come down
whenever,” he said. “It’s
imminent. There is danger
here.”
———
KUOW’s
Liz
Jones
contributed to this report.