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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Mostly sunny and chilly A quick afternoon shower 45° 30° 43° 27° TUESDAY Partly sunny Clouds and sun with a shower PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 49° 36° 50° 36° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 47° 27° 48° 29° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 47° 36° 45° 29° 73° (1996) -20° (1929) 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" 0.26" 0.40" 1.85" 1.99" 1.78" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW John Day 43/28 Ontario 50/24 Bend 40/25 50° 35° 46° 29° 70° (1996) -24° (1929) 0.00" 0.14" 0.31" 1.24" 1.91" 1.59" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Feb 22 7:05 a.m. 5:14 p.m. 3:26 a.m. 12:55 p.m. Full Last Mar 1 Mar 9 Hi 50 45 40 60 43 39 52 45 48 43 47 42 39 57 51 54 50 48 45 52 44 53 38 38 51 45 54 Lo 34 19 25 40 18 21 29 29 29 28 19 20 19 27 36 36 24 30 30 32 22 31 26 22 32 33 29 W s pc pc pc pc s s s s pc pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s Hi 48 44 46 55 41 41 48 43 47 45 47 43 40 49 48 51 46 46 43 48 48 49 38 40 47 44 50 Lo 34 24 24 40 20 25 34 25 27 30 23 25 23 31 36 39 28 28 27 33 23 33 21 21 33 28 27 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh c c pc c c pc c c c pc c c pc pc pc c c c pc c pc c c pc c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 47/19 Hi 32 70 72 48 70 22 37 57 36 84 57 Lo 15 54 58 39 49 20 33 36 16 72 43 W s pc pc r pc c pc s pc s pc Sun. Hi 33 66 67 45 70 26 43 54 28 88 54 Lo 17 54 54 32 47 17 29 38 15 69 37 W s pc c pc pc sn c s sf pc sh REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight. A shower tomorrow. Monday: clouds and sun. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny today; cooler in the south and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today. Increasing amounts of clouds tonight. A couple of showers tomorrow. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight; however, some clouds toward the Cascades. Cascades: Mostly sunny today; colder in the south. Partly cloudy tonight. Today Sunday SSW 4-8 W 4-8 WSW 8-16 WSW 8-16 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 1 2 2 Northern California: Partly sunny today; cooler. Mainly clear tonight. 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. Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Low snowfall creates bleak water supply outlook would have to deliver 125-225 percent of normal precipitation, with all of that falling as snow. “Water managers will need to carefully eval- uate water supplies this summer if snow and spring rains fail to bring relief,” Koeberle said. Northeast Oregon continues to boast the highest snowpack in the state, at 64 percent of normal in the Grande Ronde, Powder, Burnt and Imnaha basins, and 55 percent of normal in the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Willow basins. Those averages drop as low as 38 percent in the Willamette Basin, 35 percent in the Owyhee Basin and 33 percent in the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon, where streamflow forecasts between April and September are all project to be less than 60 percent of normal. John Wolf, manager of the Klamath Irrigation District, said his board met for more than four hours Thursday to discuss drought planning. “It’s pretty bleak down here right now,” Wolf said. “We’re all praying for a February or March miracle.” 0 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 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 www.eastoregonian.com 1 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme SUBSCRIPTION RATES To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 2 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 211 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 Warm weather and meager mountain snow could spell a difficult water year ahead for Oregon farms. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service released its monthly water supply outlook report for February, and overall conditions are not looking good in most basins across the state. Of 137 monitoring stations, every single one recorded below-average snowpack as of Feb. 1. Most were less than 50 percent of normal, according to the NRCS. Julie Koeberle, snow survey hydrologist, said the chances for a full snow- pack recovery are low, but stressed there is still time for conditions to improve. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- tion’s Climate Prediction Center is calling for cooler and wetter weather over the next three months, offering a glimmer of hope. However, if Oregon expects to fully catch up on snowpack by April 1, the next two months 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 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WINDS Medford 57/27 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — By GEORGE PLAVEN EO Media Group Caldwell 49/25 Burns 43/18 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 Feb 15 Albany 52/29 Eugene 52/29 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 54° 35° Spokane Wenatchee 38/26 46/28 Tacoma Moses 48/30 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 44/26 38/25 47/34 48/30 54/29 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 50/31 45/33 Lewiston 48/29 Astoria 46/28 50/34 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 52/32 Pendleton 39/21 The Dalles 48/29 45/30 53/33 La Grande Salem 42/20 53/31 Corvallis 52/31 HIGH 49° 34° Seattle 47/34 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 44° 23° Today WEDNESDAY Partly sunny 39° 24° Saturday, February 10, 2018 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rain will spread from the South Central states to the Northeast today. A swath of snow and ice is forecast from the central Plains to part of northern New England. Snow will also fall on the central Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Thermal, Calif. Low -31° in Cotton, 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 67 67 53 50 22 68 47 50 75 54 23 33 54 21 27 76 -3 10 81 71 35 81 23 77 54 68 Lo 31 62 48 49 12 62 28 40 64 46 15 26 28 11 20 48 -14 2 69 53 25 64 12 43 34 52 W s sh r r pc r pc c c r sn r c sn sn s pc s pc r i c c pc r pc Sun. 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Neahring, 51, said to make the transition from treating patients to helping in an interview with the East Oregonian solve the nation’s Thursday that health care prob- people have asked lems. her why she doesn’t A Bend doctor start with a more who formerly local position, like specialized in a seat on the Bend kidney treatment City Council or the and palliative care, state legislature, but Neahring recently said taking federal jumped into the office is the best seven-way Demo- Neahring way to influence cratic primary for health care policy. the right to mount “You either go big or you a longshot challenge against Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood go home,” she said. Neahring said she isn’t a River. Neahring has practiced single-issue candidate, but medicine in Oregon since her focus on health expands 1998 but, concerned about to other areas. She said it’s Republican attempts to repeal difficult to lead a healthy life the Affordable Care Act, she if the government doesn’t quit her job in April 2017 to address other important look for a way to contribute issues like transportation and to the national health care affordable housing. A modern health care debate. “For the last 10 or 15 system needs to address years I’ve wanted to figure issues like high drug prices out how not just to practice and providing the type of care medicine, but how to make a people need, Neahring said. While she isn’t locked into difference,” she said. While she originally the idea of creating a single- thought she might join a payer health care system, she panel or advocacy organi- said it’s an idea that could zation, she was eventually be looked into along with a By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian system that would require affordable prices for core health services. Neahring said Congress could benefit by having a doctor who is familiar with the health care system and its shortcomings. If she is elected, she would join a small club. Between the House of Representatives and Senate, only 14 physicians currently serve in Congress, or approx- imately 3 percent. Of those 14 members of Congress, only two are Democrats — Reps. Ami Bera and Raul Ruiz of California. She said she’s ramped up her campaign from “zero to 60” in recent weeks, hiring a campaign manager and a communications director and looking to do some campaign fundraising. Despite the district’s strong Republican lean, Neahring said her early campaign events have seen larger attendance than antic- ipated and many voters are becoming disenfranchised with Walden. Regardless of some of these early indicators, Walden will be difficult to defeat in District 2, a nearly 70,000-square-mile district that encompasses all of Eastern Oregon and most of the central and southern parts of the state. Originally elected in 1998, Walden often earns more than 70 percent of the vote and has amassed $3.1 million for his 2018 re-election campaign. Although the race isn’t on the national radar, local Democrats are enthusiastic enough that seven candidates have already entered the race. The field includes Neahring, Jim Crary of Ashland, the 2016 Demo- cratic nominee, Eric Burnette of Hood River, Michael Byrne of Hood River, Raz Mason of The Dalles, Jamie McLeod-Skinner of Terre- bone, Steven Cody Reynolds of Portland and Tim White of Bend. ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836. WE HEAR YOU! LOCAL, INDEPENDENT AUDIOLOGIST Corrections The Feb. 8, 2018 article “County plans to streamline path from jail to treatment” had an incorrect number for the contract approval. The Umatilla County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted 2-0 in favor of a contract to provide mental health and drug/alcohol assessments for inmates at the county jail, Pendleton. 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