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A12 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2021 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 TODAY THURSDAY TONIGHT HIGH 43° LOW 27° Cloudy with a couple of showers Some sun, then turning cloudy ALMANAC SATURDAY 41° 22° 41° 33° Showers around early; otherwise, cloudy SUNDAY 41° 26° An a.m. rain or snow shower, then a shower TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normal Record 46° 40° 60° in 2012 28° 24° -10° in 1974 PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday 0.03" Record 0.42" in 1935 Month to date (normal) 0.04" (0.28") Year to date (normal) 0.04" (0.28") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 30.16" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Rise/Set Today Thu. Sun 7:40am/4:43pm 7:40am/4:44pm Moon 12:12am/12:10pm 1:27am/12:36pm Mercury 8:30am/5:26pm 8:31am/5:31pm Venus 6:22am/3:16pm 6:24am/3:17pm Mars 11:59am/1:42am 11:56am/1:41am Jupiter 8:42am/6:07pm 8:39am/6:05pm Saturn 8:36am/5:58pm 8:33am/5:55pm Uranus 12:23pm/2:16am 12:19pm/2:13am Last New First Full Jan 6 Jan 12 Jan 20 Jan 28 Tonight's sky: Last quarter moon (1:37 a.m. PST). Source: Jim Todd, OMSI UV INDEX TODAY 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 0 0 0 0 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme. ROAD CONDITONS For web cameras of our passes, go to www.bendbulletin.com/webcams I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Periods of snow, mixed at times with rain. Roads slushy. US 20 at Santiam Pass: Snow mixed with rain at times Wednesday, 2-4 inches likely. US 26 at Gov't Camp: Snowfall of 2-4 inches today, roads slushy to snow covered. US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Snow today, 1-3 inches, with rain at times. Roads slushy. ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Snow of varying rates today, accumulating 4-8 inches. Roads snow covered. ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Snow of varying intensity today, accumulating 3-5 inches. SKI REPORT 43° 32° Variable cloudiness NATIONAL WEATHER 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s Base 30-30 58-58 32-40 75-81 87-126 21-40 0-80 24-24 22-36 33-47 40-60 24-27 35-41 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the Yesterday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene 66/32/0.00 Akron 35/32/0.04 Albany 33/30/Tr Albuquerque 57/26/0.00 Anchorage 19/16/0.02 Atlanta 58/43/0.00 Atlantic City 43/35/0.01 Austin 72/44/0.00 Baltimore 44/38/Tr Billings 47/34/Tr Birmingham 54/42/0.00 Bismarck 40/18/0.00 Boise 44/32/0.15 Boston 33/30/0.03 Bridgeport, CT 43/30/0.00 Buffalo 37/33/0.02 Burlington, VT 29/27/Tr Caribou, ME 29/22/0.00 Charleston, SC 64/40/0.00 Charlotte 56/33/0.02 Chattanooga 57/44/0.00 Cheyenne 43/26/0.01 Chicago 37/27/Tr Cincinnati 38/33/0.05 Cleveland 35/32/0.01 Colorado Springs 55/26/0.00 Columbia, MO 49/28/0.00 Columbia, SC 62/35/0.02 Columbus, GA 64/39/0.00 Columbus, OH 36/27/0.01 Concord, NH 33/24/Tr Corpus Christi 75/56/Tr Dallas 66/36/0.00 Dayton 35/29/0.04 Denver 55/31/0.00 Des Moines 40/19/0.00 Detroit 34/30/Tr Duluth 33/18/0.00 El Paso 66/30/0.00 Fairbanks -4/-8/0.00 Fargo 28/8/0.00 Flagstaff 51/21/0.00 Grand Rapids 36/30/0.01 Green Bay 35/26/0.01 Greensboro 52/29/Tr Harrisburg 42/37/0.02 Hartford, CT 41/27/0.00 Helena 44/37/0.01 Honolulu 81/70/0.07 Houston 71/46/0.00 Huntsville 54/33/0.00 Indianapolis 35/30/Tr Jackson, MS 62/34/0.00 Jacksonville 67/36/Tr Today Thursday Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 57/34/s 55/30/s 36/29/sf 35/27/c 34/23/c 33/20/s 47/24/s 50/26/pc 24/21/sn 27/21/sn 55/37/pc 51/38/r 47/31/s 50/30/s 67/41/r 62/35/s 46/31/s 46/26/s 47/32/pc 42/27/sn 56/41/pc 48/38/r 35/25/pc 37/28/c 43/32/c 42/31/c 39/30/pc 41/26/s 40/29/pc 42/26/s 34/28/sf 31/25/c 30/24/c 29/20/pc 31/21/pc 28/17/pc 57/35/s 59/49/pc 50/31/s 50/33/c 50/33/pc 48/37/r 42/22/s 45/24/pc 35/30/c 36/31/c 39/29/c 38/28/c 36/30/sf 34/29/c 45/23/s 46/23/c 48/31/c 37/28/c 53/30/s 53/39/pc 58/40/pc 54/42/r 37/30/sf 36/27/c 35/23/pc 35/20/s 74/44/t 70/41/s 57/40/r 51/38/pc 37/28/c 36/28/c 46/25/s 49/25/pc 36/25/sn 32/23/pc 37/29/sf 35/27/c 29/20/c 27/18/c 58/28/s 60/32/pc -2/-5/pc 5/-4/pc 33/21/c 30/23/c 48/18/pc 52/18/pc 36/27/c 34/24/c 34/26/c 33/24/pc 48/28/s 47/32/pc 43/32/pc 43/26/pc 39/28/pc 41/21/s 43/30/c 40/24/sn 82/72/pc 81/67/pc 70/44/r 59/40/s 53/36/pc 47/36/r 37/28/c 36/28/c 58/46/pc 51/37/r 62/42/s 68/49/pc Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Beirut Berlin Bogota Budapest Buenos Aires Cabo San Lucas Cairo Calgary Cancun Dublin Edinburgh Geneva Harare Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima Lisbon London Madrid Manila 38/34/sn 62/53/pc 77/63/s 68/41/pc 91/74/pc 14/-9/s 73/61/pc 36/32/sn 65/47/t 43/33/r 82/66/pc 79/57/c 75/58/pc 39/25/c 80/66/pc 39/28/pc 35/27/pc 37/24/c 83/61/t 65/55/pc 58/50/c 63/50/s 79/58/t 79/69/c 49/39/c 41/30/pc 44/28/pc 89/76/s City Juneau Kansas City Lansing Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison, WI Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Newark, NJ Norfolk, VA Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Palm Springs Peoria Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Rochester, NY Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe Savannah Seattle Sioux Falls Spokane Springfi eld, MO Tampa Tucson Tulsa Washington, DC Wichita Yakima Yuma Yesterday Hi/Lo/Prec. 41/34/0.27 52/26/0.00 33/29/0.01 62/41/0.00 39/33/0.00 46/17/0.00 55/37/0.00 63/48/0.00 39/34/0.01 33/19/0.00 53/37/0.00 72/59/0.00 37/26/Tr 34/16/0.00 52/40/0.00 68/47/0.00 42/37/0.00 42/36/0.00 51/37/0.00 58/27/0.00 42/20/0.00 70/45/0.00 76/46/0.00 32/22/0.03 42/39/0.00 71/44/0.00 35/31/0.01 32/28/0.04 37/31/0.02 48/29/0.00 50/23/0.00 49/27/0.00 50/39/0.00 35/32/0.01 58/35/0.00 51/30/0.00 42/31/0.05 66/47/0.00 61/49/0.00 58/47/0.00 57/41/0.00 54/19/0.00 65/41/0.00 47/42/0.30 41/13/0.00 40/33/0.00 54/23/0.00 72/47/0.00 72/40/0.00 61/26/0.00 43/40/0.03 53/24/0.00 40/28/0.01 73/43/0.00 Today Thursday Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 40/37/sn 40/35/r 39/31/r 38/26/c 35/25/c 32/24/c 59/40/pc 62/39/s 40/28/c 40/29/c 37/30/sn 37/22/c 49/38/r 41/32/r 72/50/pc 71/51/s 42/31/c 41/31/c 31/24/c 33/23/pc 54/41/pc 42/34/r 74/60/s 76/65/pc 37/32/c 36/31/c 33/22/c 32/20/c 49/33/pc 45/33/r 66/51/c 58/44/c 41/32/pc 44/29/s 42/31/pc 44/26/s 47/36/s 45/35/pc 45/35/c 42/31/pc 35/29/sn 35/21/c 69/50/s 74/57/pc 73/50/pc 77/50/s 35/26/c 33/27/c 43/32/s 44/27/s 71/44/pc 71/44/s 35/28/sf 34/24/c 37/27/pc 39/21/pc 40/29/pc 44/24/s 49/29/s 48/33/pc 44/19/s 40/26/pc 53/26/pc 49/34/s 48/29/s 47/29/pc 33/28/sf 31/24/c 53/42/sh 55/45/pc 45/32/c 37/30/sf 39/24/s 39/22/c 69/44/sh 66/36/s 67/46/pc 69/47/s 57/47/c 59/51/pc 61/44/pc 62/49/pc 44/19/s 48/19/pc 60/37/s 63/50/pc 49/41/r 51/43/c 36/27/sn 35/21/c 40/34/c 40/29/c 44/33/r 37/25/sn 69/52/s 72/60/pc 73/41/pc 73/41/pc 45/36/r 44/28/sh 46/33/s 46/30/s 43/34/r 41/28/c 46/29/c 45/35/pc 71/42/pc 72/42/pc 87/67/0.00 73/45/0.00 27/25/0.14 30/28/0.16 81/59/0.00 75/67/0.02 67/59/0.08 49/36/0.00 16/14/0.00 28/27/0.09 37/34/0.06 82/73/0.00 52/43/0.84 86/54/0.00 86/68/0.00 23/10/0.02 27/19/0.00 47/42/0.00 86/73/0.04 30/29/0.04 82/69/0.06 65/60/0.37 74/55/0.00 50/41/0.00 34/32/0.04 45/37/0.40 39/36/0.00 41/37/0.52 88/71/pc 73/46/pc 31/18/c 21/19/c 80/58/s 74/63/pc 68/52/sh 48/34/pc 15/15/pc 30/22/c 39/31/c 87/77/t 53/39/r 87/57/pc 86/71/t 23/10/sn 28/3/s 44/20/pc 84/76/t 30/28/c 75/62/t 63/52/r 75/56/pc 45/39/pc 34/25/sf 47/38/pc 36/31/c 38/34/c INTERNATIONAL 48 contiguous states) National high: 84° at Kingsville, TX National low: -8° at Crested Butte, CO Precipitation: 0.72" at Quillayute, WA T-storms Cloudy with a couple of showers possible NATIONAL Astoria 50/41 Yesterday Today Thursday Yesterday Today Thursday Yesterday Today Thursday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 52/40/0.12 50/41/r 51/44/c La Grande 41/31/0.05 40/31/sn 39/31/c Portland 51/43/Tr 50/41/r 51/43/c Baker City 42/27/0.01 39/26/sn 39/29/c La Pine 38/25/0.02 41/23/sn 39/31/c Prineville 45/27/0.00 44/27/c 39/34/pc Brookings 55/43/0.17 52/42/t 53/46/c Medford 45/34/Tr 50/33/r 46/39/c Redmond 46/24/0.00 47/28/sh 45/37/pc Burns 42/21/Tr 39/21/sn 38/26/pc Newport 50/43/0.03 50/42/r 51/45/c Roseburg 53/34/0.06 53/36/r 47/42/c North Bend 55/42/0.04 52/41/r 53/46/c Salem 51/40/0.01 50/38/r 49/41/c Eugene 50/37/0.01 50/36/r 48/41/c Klamath Falls 41/26/Tr 40/24/sn 38/33/pc Ontario 47/33/0.02 43/31/c 42/31/pc Sisters 40/24/0.04 44/27/sh 42/34/c Lakeview 39/27/0.01 41/19/sn 37/29/c Pendleton 52/35/0.00 49/37/c 46/33/c The Dalles 44/32/Tr 47/35/sh 48/38/c Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday -0s 51° 39° TRAVEL WEATHER Umatilla Seaside Hood 48/35 49/39 River Rufus Hermiston Cannon Beach 48/35 46/33 Arlington Hillsboro Portland 47/36 Meacham Lostine 49/40 50/39 50/41 39/28 Wasco 49/34 42/32 Enterprise Pendleton The Dalles Tillamook 41/31 45/32 49/37 Sandy 47/35 McMinnville 51/39 Joseph Heppner La Grande 47/41 Maupin Government 49/40 40/31 38/29 Camp 45/30 Condon 48/37 Union Lincoln City 46/31 44/37 41/32 Salem 49/40 Spray Granite Warm Springs 50/38 Madras 47/31 Albany 36/23 Newport Baker City 45/30 45/28 Mitchell 50/42 49/38 39/26 WEST: Rain tapering Camp Sherman 44/27 Redmond Corvallis John Yachats Unity to showers Wednes- 44/27 47/28 50/37 Day Prineville 50/41 38/22 day. Partly to mostly Ontario Sisters 44/27 Paulina 42/27 43/31 cloudy at night with Florence Eugene 44/27 41/24 Brothers Bend Vale areas of fog. 52/42 50/36 41/23 Sunriver 43/27 40/29 Nyssa 42/26 Hampton Cottage La Pine 41/29 Juntura Oakridge Grove 41/23 41/23 OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay Burns 41/25 51/32 50/38 Fort Rock 53/41 Riley 39/21 YESTERDAY Crescent 42/21 39/19 High: 55° 40/23 Bandon Roseburg Christmas Valley Jordan Valley at Brookings Beaver Frenchglen Silver 53/42 53/36 43/23 42/26 Low: 21° Marsh Lake 43/24 Port Orford 39/20 42/22 at Burns Grants Burns Junction Paisley 54/43 Pass 45/24 Chiloquin 41/18 51/37 Rome Medford 40/21 Gold Beach 50/33 46/26 53/44 Klamath Fields Ashland McDermitt Lakeview Falls Brookings 43/24 48/32 40/24 41/22 52/42 41/19 -10s 48° 34° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. EAST: Cloudy and breezy Wednesday; snow, mixed at times with rain. Rain and snow in the evening; mostly cloudy later. CENTRAL: Wednesday will be damp with periods of rain and snow. Partial clearing Wednesday night. TUESDAY Chance for a couple of showers Rain In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday Ski resort New snow Anthony Lakes Mtn 0 Hoodoo Ski Area 0 Mt. Ashland 0 Mt. Bachelor 3 Mt. Hood Meadows 9 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl 0 Timberline Lodge 3 Willamette Pass 0 Aspen / Snowmass, CO 0 Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA 3 Squaw Valley, CA 12 Park City Mountain, UT 5 Sun Valley, ID 8 MONDAY OREGON WEATHER Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest. High Low FRIDAY Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Warm Front Stationary Front Cold Front Source: OnTheSnow.com 39/35/0.17 61/46/0.00 77/63/0.00 64/43/0.00 90/73/0.00 29/6/0.00 72/59/0.00 35/33/0.20 68/39/0.12 41/39/0.04 83/73/0.44 79/46/0.00 73/60/0.00 36/30/0.02 79/70/0.38 41/36/0.91 38/35/0.14 36/29/0.08 81/59/0.21 70/63/0.00 59/54/0.03 62/49/0.00 77/60/0.13 77/67/0.00 48/37/0.00 39/35/0.27 43/23/0.00 84/77/0.08 39/35/sn 62/56/c 76/64/c 67/38/pc 91/75/pc 20/1/s 73/60/pc 35/30/sn 66/47/pc 38/27/pc 85/70/s 80/58/s 75/57/pc 35/16/s 82/63/sh 38/31/sh 37/28/pc 37/26/pc 82/61/t 63/46/pc 59/52/pc 62/47/s 74/57/t 80/70/pc 50/37/c 36/29/pc 34/28/sn 89/75/s Mecca Mexico City Montreal Moscow Nairobi Nassau New Delhi Osaka Oslo Ottawa Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Santiago Sao Paulo Sapporo Seoul Shanghai Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei City Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw 87/73/pc 70/47/pc 29/15/pc 22/20/sn 81/57/s 76/67/s 66/49/pc 42/27/c 20/14/c 27/14/c 38/29/pc 88/78/t 51/39/sh 87/57/pc 87/71/t 26/13/sn 14/-1/s 25/17/pc 81/76/c 32/27/sn 72/58/pc 54/43/r 74/53/s 53/33/pc 30/18/pc 47/38/c 37/25/pc 35/31/sn Payments Pittock Continued from A11 Continued from A11 The IRS said that direct deposit payments would take several days to post to individual accounts but funds were largely available on Monday. Some payments are also being sent via paper check or debit cards during the month of January. Taxpayers can use the Get My Payment tool on the IRS website to find out about the status of their payment. However, many people said that they checked the IRS site and found their payments were sent to an account they did not recognize. Samantha Smith, of Dallas, said she received her $1,200 relief payment in the spring via direct de- posit without any issues. But her payment for this round of economic relief went to an account she did not recognize. She contacted TurboTax, which prepared her most recent tax filing, and was told if she paid her tax preparation fees with her refund due, rather than paying for it upfront, then the second pay- ment may have been sent to a TurboTax bank. Several other taxpayers who paid their fees the same way also reported delays. Smith, who was laid off in October, had planned to use the money to pay her rent and is frustrated as her hands tied until the money comes in. “I would love that money,” she said. “It’s imper- ative.” There is no exact measure at this time of how many taxpayers were impacted. The IRS did not have a comment early Tuesday on the scope or cause of the problem. TurboTax said that the IRS is the “sole party with the ability to determine eligibility and dis- tribute stimulus payments” and that by law, the financial institution must return the payment to the IRS if an account is no longer active. “We know how important these funds are for so many Americans and that everyone is anxious to get their money,” said company spokeswoman Ashley McMahon. “We are partnering with the IRS to help taxpayers receive their payments as Alco said that several long-distance phone companies expressed interest in leasing space at the Pittock Block during the 1980s, when it was near another local phone company’s regional switching hub. “About the same time, the Internet be- came more widely adopted and Internet Service Providers that were also interested in gaining access to the neutral telecommu- nications infrastructure, built data centers in the building,” Doug Rosen, Alco’s chief investment officer, said in a statement Tues- day. “As a result, we oversaw a major retrofit of the building in 1999 that set the building up to take on these types of tenants.” The Pittock Block functioned as neutral territory for all those phone lines to con- nect meet and continues to play a similar role today, serving 16 fiber-optic internet carriers and 179 other service providers. Externally, the building is indistinguish- able from other older buildings downtown. But the Pittock Block gained a degree of national fame in 2012 when Portland soft- ware developer Cabel Sasser wrote about his discovery of old newspaper clippings pasted to the walls of the building’s base- ment – and juxtaposed those with photos of modern telecommunications cables run- ning through the property. The building once served as a newspa- per pressroom but though Pittock was The Oregonian’s publisher for four decades, historical evidence suggests his newspaper never published in the Pittock Block. Rather, it appears The Evening Telegram may have published there beginning in 1914 or soon after. When Pittock died in 1919 his death was attributed to influenza amid a global flu pandemic. AP file WHO’S GETTING MONEY? After months of halting negotiations, Congress agreed to a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief package Dec. 21 that includes $600 direct payments to taxpayers who earn less than $75,000 annually, or $150,000 for couples, with an additional $600 for each child under 17. Those earning up to $87,000 — or $174,000 for couples — will receive reduced payments, with higher earners ineligible. WHEN? Many Americans have already received their $600 payments as direct deposits into their bank accounts. Checks will be automatically mailed to taxpayers who don’t have direct deposit information on file with the Internal Revenue Service. WHAT OTHER BENEFITS? Congress’ relief bill includes $300 per week in extra unemployment payments for up to 11 weeks, half of the amount Congress authorized from March through July. Critics of stimulus checks argue increasing those jobless benefits is a more targeted way to get help to those who need it most and stimulate the economy. Sources: Spokesman-Review, Associated Press quickly as possible.” H&R Block said that it “understands stimulus checks are vitally important for millions of Amer- icans” and said if the IRS Get My Payment website displays an account number a customer doesn’t recognize, then its customer service agents are ready to help by phone or online. The IRS has said that there is no action re- quired by eligible individuals to receive this sec- ond payment. The payments are automatic, and people should not contact their financial institu- tions or the IRS with payment timing questions. Homebuying Banking Continued from A11 Brooks, who has been nominated by President Donald Trump for a full term as comptroller, is facing time pressure to finish the rule because he could be replaced after President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan. 20. “The proposal’s fundamental practical prob- lems are compounded by its basic legal deficien- cies,” the Bank Policy Institute said in its letter. It would “effectively replace the traditional busi- ness of American banking” by dumping a firm’s risk-management decisions for a system in which the regulator dictates “to whom financial services must be provided.” The proposal drew thousands of comment let- Continued from A11 “It is extremely troubling that a federal regulator is using its supervisory authority to pressure banks to finance projects the banks themselves have deemed too risky.” — Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii ters, many of them from people supporting its requirement that big banks open their doors to firearms businesses. Consumer groups and Democratic lawmak- ers joined lenders in criticizing the rule, focus- ing more on climate change issue than on banks’ business models. “This proposed rule directly undermines the OCC’s responsibility to ensure a safe and sound banking sector,” said Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who co-signed a comment letter with a group of congressional Democrats. “It is extremely trou- bling that a federal regulator is using its supervi- sory authority to pressure banks to finance proj- ects the banks themselves have deemed too risky.” Bankers also questioned OCC’s reliance on Dodd-Frank Act language directing the agency to ensure “fair access to financial services” as a basis for the rule. It “strains credulity” to anchor a “significant, burdensome, and novel rule” on that clause, the American Bankers Association said in its letter. “We are considering all of the stakeholders comments as we prepare a final rule,” said Bryan Hubbard, an OCC spokesman. During the pandemic, prices have in- creased faster than earnings, leaping by double digits in 79% of the 499 counties included in the report. More than half of those counties are now less affordable than their historic averages, Attom said in a re- port Thursday. Mortgage rates ended 2020 near the lowest on record, with the average for a 30-year loan at 2.67%, Freddie Mac said Thursday. “The future remains wholly uncertain and affordability could swing back into positive territory,” said Todd Teta, chief product officer at Attom. “But, for now, things are going in the wrong direction for buyers.