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B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2022
Woman and her son endure boyfriend’s odd behavior
if I bring it up. I like doing things
with him and with his daughter, but
not when they’re together because
it’s always them against us. She
also hangs on him constantly and
whines when I’m around.
I realize I can’t change how he
acts, but I feel like I constantly
need to prove myself to him and
stick up for my son. Sometimes
I’m a little jealous because he
treats his daughter so diff erently
than he treats us. I don’t want to
feel this way. Can you help me
come up with a diff erent way of
reacting to it? — WEARY IN
WISCONSIN
DEAR WEARY: Frankly,
your question, “Can you come up
with a diff erent way of reacting
to the way your boyfriend treats
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend
of seven years is very competitive.
There is constantly this under-
lying contest about whose kid is
better, whose dog is better, etc. It’s
silly. They are both great kids (and
dogs) in their individual ways, and
I suspect he likes to brag about his
11-year-old daughter just to publi-
cize that she’s “great.”
He often criticizes my son.
He also has “house rules” for us
that he doesn’t hold himself or his
daughter to, and becomes upset
you and your son?” surprised me.
The traits you have described are
obnoxious. I fi nd it hard to believe
that for seven years you’ve tol-
erated the double standard he
exhibits and his constant criticism
of your son — who by now prob-
ably thinks there is something
wrong with himself — because of
it. Put your foot down (better late
than never)! Insist that he stop crit-
icizing your boy and displaying
the double standard. If he doesn’t
comply, for both your sakes, end
the relationship.
DEAR ABBY: Last year a
friend of mine had a baby shower,
which I attended, and I bought her
an expensive gift. Shortly after,
her baby was, unfortunately, still-
born. Rather than return the gifts
or save them for a future child,
my friend sold them on an online
virtual yard sale. I was upset
because I had spent a lot of money
and, had she returned the item,
I could’ve used it because I was
pregnant. Needless to say, I didn’t
tell her how I felt.
Now, one year later, she’s preg-
nant again. Honestly, I’m happy
for her, but she’s having another
baby shower. What would be the
rule of etiquette here? I want to
go, but I don’t feel I should have to
buy her another gift. — UPSET
IN THE EAST
DEAR UPSET: It’s regret-
table that the gifts from the fi rst
pregnancy weren’t returned to the
givers or kept for a future preg-
nancy, but chances are that your
friend was an emotional wreck
after having lost her baby, and she
wasn’t thinking straight. If you
plan to attend this shower, you
should absolutely bring a gift.
A side note: While reading
your letter, I recalled that although
the practice is well-entrenched
here, not all cultures have baby
showers before a child is born. In
China, Egypt and France, the cele-
bration is held after the birth. And
in Ireland, Russia and Japan, it’s
considered bad luck to have a baby
shower before the baby arrives.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Scientists use tiny trackers, plane to follow moths on move
size, Menz said. The kinds of radio
tags used to follow birds can be too
heavy for smaller fl iers.
But transmitters have gotten
tinier. And it helps that the death’s-
head hawk moth is huge compared
to other insects, with a wingspan
up to 5 inches.
The iconic species — dark col-
ored with yellow underwings and
skull-like markings — was able to
fl y well with the tiny tracker glued
to its back, said Martin Wike-
lski, a study co-author and migra-
tion researcher at Germany’s
Max Planck Institute for Animal
Behavior.
The moths are thought to
migrate thousands of miles
between Europe and Africa in the
autumn, fl ying by night.
For the study, researchers
released tagged moths in Germany
in the hopes they’d start fl ying on
their migration path toward the
Alps.
Wikelski, the study’s pilot, took
off in his plane, circling the area and
waiting for any moths on the move.
If he did pick up a signal from a tiny
traveler, he would follow its radio
blips for hours at a time.
“The little moth is guiding you,”
he said.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Trillions of
insects migrate across the globe
each year, yet little is known about
their journeys. So to look for clues,
scientists in Germany took to the
skies, placing tiny trackers on the
backs of giant moths and following
them by plane.
To the researchers’ surprise,
the moths seemed to have a strong
sense of where they were going.
Even when the winds changed, the
insects stayed on a straight course,
the scientists reported in a study
published Thursday in the journal
Science.
Their fl ight paths suggest these
death’s-head hawk moths have
some complex navigation skills,
the authors said, challenging ear-
lier ideas that insects are just
wanderers.
“For many, many years, it was
thought that insect migration was
mostly just dictated by winds, and
they were blowing around,” said
lead author Myles Menz, now a
zoologist at James Cook University
in Australia.
It’s been tough for scientists
to get a close look at how insects
travel, in part because of their small
weather
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Christian Ziegler/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
In this undated image provided by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior,
after tagging, moths are released in Konstanz, Germany, and followed in a light
aircraft for up to 80 kilometers into the Alps. Scientists in Germany attached tiny
trackers to giant moths looking for clues about insect migration.
The researchers followed the
fl ight paths of 14 moths, with their
longest track around 56 miles.
Not only did the moths fl y in
straight lines, but they also seemed
to work around wind conditions,
Menz said, fl ying low to the ground
when the winds were against them,
or rising up to catch a helpful tail
wind.
Though the number of moths
tracked was fairly small, get-
ting any close-up look at insect
migration is signifi cant, said Ryan
Norris, an insect and bird migra-
tion researcher at the University of
Guelph in Canada, who was not
involved in the study.
“I was surprised at how far
they could track them,” Norris
said. “And it certainly is surprising
that individual moths stay on this
straight trajectory.”
Offi cials: Loud ‘boom’ in
north Utah likely a meteor
SALT LAKE CITY — A loud
“boom” heard across areas of
northern Utah was likely a meteor,
offi cials said Saturday, Aug. 13.
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
57/76
Kennewick
61/95
St. Helens
68/102
64/99
61/100
Condon
66/105
64/98
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Mostly cloudy
and hot
Mostly sunny
and hot
Partly sunny and
very hot
95 58
92 54
95 53
6
6
5
98 62
95 59
97 60
5
4
4
Baker City
49 99 53
Comfort Index™
La Grande
4
54 100 57
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
5
4
2
56 98 58
Comfort Index™
3
95 60
3
5
3
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 116°
Low: 33°
Wettest: 4.95”
88°
41°
90°
41°
95°
42°
0.00
0.12
0.19
4.59
6.18
0.00
0.16
0.30
9.14
10.96
0.00
0.07
0.29
17.83
15.52
PRECIPITATION (inches)
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
15%
NE at 4 to 8 mph
13.1
0.25
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
8% of capacity
51% of capacity
22% of capacity
77% of capacity
3% of capacity
37% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
OREGON
Ontario
Meacham
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Port Aransas, Texas
High: 100°
Low: 35°
Wettest: none
On Aug. 16, 1979, temperatures dropped
below freezing in northern Minnesota and
to 37 degrees as far south as Pittsburgh,
Pa. It was because strong high pressure in
Canada brought chilly air southward.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
5:54 a.m. 5:56 a.m.
7:58 p.m. 7:56 p.m.
10:26 p.m. 10:48 p.m.
11:22 a.m. 12:33 p.m.
MOON PHASES
653 cfs
80 cfs
134 cfs
48 cfs
131 cfs
28 cfs
Last
Aug 18
New
First
Aug 27
Sep 3
Sisters
Full
Sep 10
57/98
Beaver Marsh
Powers
57/80
62/98
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
64/96
Frenchglen
Paisley
63/96
57/91
55/92
Klamath Falls
66/104
54/94
65/102
Lakeview
54/89
McDermitt
63/95
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
THU.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
76/59/pc 72/59/c
Bend
96/60/c 93/60/pc
Boise
103/71/s 97/70/pc
Brookings
69/55/c 68/56/c
Burns
97/60/c 92/58/c
Coos Bay
70/59/c 68/58/c
Corvallis
99/62/pc 90/59/s
Council
101/62/s 97/65/pc
Elgin
101/59/pc 98/62/pc
Eugene
101/62/c 93/60/s
Hermiston 105/63/pc 103/73/pc
Hood River 102/75/pc 102/72/s
Imnaha
100/68/s 100/70/pc
John Day
98/63/pc 91/63/pc
Joseph
96/59/pc 97/62/pc
Kennewick 105/64/pc 102/70/pc
Klamath Falls 94/57/pc 92/56/pc
Lakeview
89/54/c 86/50/pc
Grand View
Arock
63/100
Fields
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
WED.
Diamond
62/96
64/97
Medford
Brookings
Boise
67/103
64/105
58/69
62/99
52/92
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
56/97
54/94
53/92
Roseburg
Ontario
65/104
Burns
Brothers
60/98
Coos Bay
Huntington
55/93
58/96
Oakridge
60/101
68/104
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
49/99
John Day
54/100
58/97
Florence
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Eugene
56/70
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Baker City
Redmond
56/69
58/100
53/94
63/95
53/65
60/89
91 62
3
62/102
Corvallis
Halfway
Granite
59/103
60/99
Newport
Enterprise
56/98
54/100
Monument
65/103
Idanha
Salem
60/101
97 62
Elgin
55/101
La Grande
64/99
Maupin
Partly sunny and
very hot
66/102
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
65/103
Hood River
63/104
TIllamook
Clear
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
61/105
Vancouver
64/97
56/81
TONIGHT
Reports of the loud noise circu-
lated at about 8:30 a.m., with people
from Orem to southern Idaho
posting that they heard the “boom,”
The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted
that his offi ce confi rmed it was not
related to any seismic activity or
military installations.
The National Weather Service’s
Salt Lake City offi ce wrote in a
tweet that its lightning detection
mapper likely picked up the mete-
or’s trail fl ash, which offi cials said
seemed to be confi rmed by witness
video in Roy.
South Salt Lake resident Wendi
Melling was just heading out the
door when she heard the noise,
which she described as a “loud deep
booming sound” followed by a few
seconds of rumbling.
“I thought I heard something fall
in the house. I have since searched
the house top to bottom and the
only thing I’ve found was one slat
from our wooden fence that had
fallen, so that’s a relief,” Melling
wrote in a Facebook message.
“It did sound similar to sonic
booms I’ve heard before, followed
by a short incident of a sound sim-
ilar to low rolling thunder,” Melling
said.
WED.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
THU.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
103/69/s 102/73/pc
95/64/pc 89/62/s
99/53/pc 96/61/c
104/67/pc 103/66/s
65/54/c 64/55/c
90/58/s 91/60/s
104/68/pc 98/72/c
105/64/pc 102/69/pc
104/67/pc 99/74/pc
98/70/pc 94/66/s
80/59/c 74/59/c
100/58/c 97/58/pc
98/66/pc 92/63/s
102/66/pc 94/62/s
97/66/s 98/70/s
105/73/pc 104/75/s
97/55/pc 93/57/pc
102/70/pc 99/75/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Partly sunny; warm
Partly sunny; hot
79
54
95
60
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Partly sunny
Very hot
89
53
104
66
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Partly sunny; warm
Partly sunny; warm
84
55
94
49
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Partly sunny; hot
Very hot
96
59
103
68
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Record-tying heat
Very hot
99
53
100
57
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