WEATHER
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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
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30
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Hi
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48
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48
51
46
46
43
48
48
49
38
40
47
44
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Lo
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24
24
40
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34
25
27
30
23
25
23
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36
39
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28
27
33
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33
21
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28
27
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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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
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72
43
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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°
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showers t-storms
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20s
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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
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53
50
22
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75
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14
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53
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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
49
57
84
22
15
59
76
50
31
14
52
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44
51
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51
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Hi
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38
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64
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Bend doctor takes aim at Walden’s seat
in hopes of fixing health care system
convinced that running
for Oregon Congressional
District 2 was her best chance
Jenni Neahring is hoping to create change.
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.
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