A10 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 TODAY TUESDAY TONIGHT HIGH 56° Cloudy, rain and drizzle in the afternoon LOW 28° 41° 24° Rain and drizzle early, then a snow shower Cooler with sunshine and patchy clouds ALMANAC THURSDAY 40° 27° FRIDAY 45° 29° Sunshine and patchy clouds SATURDAY 43° 29° A bit of snow and sleet in the morning TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normal Record 48° 45° 70° in 1995 34° 24° 8° in 1917 PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday 0.00" Record 1.94" in 1927 Month to date (normal) 0.29" (0.84") Year to date (normal) 0.95" (2.37") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 30.46" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Rise/Set Today Tue. Sun 6:54am/5:44pm 6:52am/5:46pm Moon 12:46pm/4:00am 1:43pm/4:54am Mercury 5:46am/3:47pm 5:44am/3:43pm Venus 6:42am/4:59pm 6:41am/5:02pm Mars 9:55am/12:50am 9:53am/12:49am Jupiter 6:09am/4:00pm 6:06am/3:58pm Saturn 5:48am/3:22pm 5:45am/3:19pm Uranus 9:20am/11:15pm 9:16am/11:11pm Full Last New First Feb 27 Mar 5 Mar 13 Mar 21 Tonight's sky: The bright star Arcturus of Bootes, the Herdsman, emerging above the ENE after 8:30 p.m. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI UV INDEX TODAY 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 1 1 1 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: A shower this morning, then rain and drizzle. US 20 at Santiam Pass: Periods of rain today. A little snow at times tonight. US 26 at Gov't Camp: Periods of rain today. US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Mostly cloudy today with a shower during the afternoon. ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Cloudy with a little snow with little or no accumulation today. ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Mostly cloudy with snow; little or no accumulation today. SKI REPORT EAST: Mostly cloudy across the north with a passing shower; times of clouds and sunshine to the south. Mostly cloudy NATIONAL Hood River Yesterday Today Tuesday Yesterday Today Tuesday Yesterday Today Tuesday 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 49/45/0.46 50/41/r 46/32/sh La Grande 37/31/Tr 45/30/r 38/23/sn Portland 51/45/Tr 53/40/r 48/34/sh Baker City 37/16/Tr 42/27/c 39/22/sn La Pine 42/29/0.01 49/21/r 39/19/pc Prineville 46/32/Trace 59/27/c 39/26/pc Brookings 53/39/0.00 54/41/pc 53/38/s Medford 50/36/0.00 57/36/c 53/31/pc Redmond 50/32/0.00 57/27/r 44/22/pc Burns 40/17/Tr 48/25/c 40/20/pc Newport 50/45/0.68 50/41/r 46/36/sh Roseburg 52/41/0.01 58/38/r 47/33/pc Eugene 52/44/Tr 54/37/r 49/32/pc North Bend 52/44/0.09 53/40/r 50/36/pc Salem 49/42/Tr 53/37/r 48/30/c Klamath Falls 44/28/0.00 53/23/pc 49/19/pc Ontario 40/25/Tr 42/29/c 45/25/pc Sisters 45/33/0.00 54/26/r 40/25/sf Lakeview 37/13/0.00 45/21/pc 43/19/pc Pendleton 47/34/Tr 48/35/r 42/28/sn The Dalles 54/38/Tr 54/39/r 49/30/pc 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 NATIONAL WEATHER -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the T-storms Yesterday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene 67/46/0.00 Akron 33/8/0.00 Albany 30/13/0.00 Albuquerque 47/34/0.00 Anchorage 18/7/0.00 Atlanta 61/33/0.00 Atlantic City 37/24/0.00 Austin 76/33/0.00 Baltimore 40/19/0.00 Billings 42/23/0.00 Birmingham 64/31/0.00 Bismarck 48/8/0.00 Boise 44/26/0.03 Boston 33/19/0.00 Bridgeport, CT 37/19/0.00 Buffalo 31/16/Tr Burlington, VT 31/18/Tr Caribou, ME 30/7/0.00 Charleston, SC 53/30/0.00 Charlotte 49/30/0.00 Chattanooga 60/27/0.00 Cheyenne 36/20/0.02 Chicago 37/17/0.05 Cincinnati 41/17/0.00 Cleveland 34/3/0.00 Colorado Springs 38/26/Tr Columbia, MO 43/31/0.01 Columbia, SC 54/28/0.00 Columbus, GA 65/30/0.00 Columbus, OH 37/6/0.00 Concord, NH 31/2/0.00 Corpus Christi 79/46/0.00 Dallas 74/44/0.00 Dayton 37/11/0.00 Denver 42/20/0.10 Des Moines 32/25/0.24 Detroit 30/1/0.00 Duluth 29/17/0.13 El Paso 67/51/0.00 Fairbanks -16/-13/Tr Fargo 35/20/0.00 Flagstaff 45/15/Tr Grand Rapids 33/3/0.00 Green Bay 33/0/0.02 Greensboro 44/22/0.00 Harrisburg 37/19/0.00 Hartford, CT 35/16/0.00 Helena 42/30/0.01 Honolulu 82/71/0.14 Houston 72/37/0.00 Huntsville 60/28/0.00 Indianapolis 40/19/0.00 Jackson, MS 68/28/0.00 Jacksonville 66/38/0.00 Today Hi/Lo/W 64/42/s 38/31/sn 34/27/sn 53/29/s 16/7/s 59/38/sh 44/37/r 67/37/s 41/34/sn 46/34/pc 60/34/r 51/28/pc 46/31/pc 39/32/sn 40/32/r 38/31/sn 34/29/sn 27/25/sn 66/42/pc 51/33/r 58/33/r 45/31/s 38/35/c 40/34/c 39/32/sn 51/27/s 49/34/pc 61/38/r 63/37/sh 39/32/c 34/26/sn 72/44/pc 65/39/s 39/33/c 53/29/s 40/32/pc 37/32/sn 38/29/c 63/35/s -12/-27/pc 42/25/pc 49/20/s 35/32/c 37/33/c 45/31/r 39/33/sn 37/28/sn 48/32/pc 82/71/pc 67/39/s 52/33/r 37/33/c 55/31/s 73/47/r 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 60/49/pc 61/43/s 77/66/pc 62/39/s 94/76/pc 53/25/s 65/56/pc 54/37/s 65/50/sh 54/34/pc 84/67/t 78/59/s 67/50/pc 42/23/pc 83/72/pc 52/45/pc 50/41/pc 56/40/pc 80/62/t 76/64/s 50/37/s 57/49/s 73/62/t 74/66/pc 59/52/pc 54/43/r 52/37/c 87/75/c Tuesday Hi/Lo/W 74/47/s 39/31/c 38/31/c 59/33/s 18/17/sn 64/41/s 45/37/pc 73/50/s 50/31/pc 38/20/sf 64/39/s 44/22/c 43/25/pc 43/34/pc 41/33/pc 38/33/sn 39/31/sf 37/26/c 65/40/s 63/34/s 63/35/s 47/15/s 42/35/pc 48/35/s 40/33/c 57/21/s 57/36/s 66/37/s 67/39/s 41/31/s 41/30/pc 74/56/s 72/51/s 42/34/s 55/20/pc 44/30/s 41/32/sf 37/19/sn 72/39/s 3/1/sn 36/20/sn 53/23/s 40/33/sf 41/30/c 60/36/s 45/30/c 42/32/pc 37/18/sf 82/71/sh 71/48/s 61/37/s 45/36/s 65/37/s 68/40/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. 40/37/0.47 42/32/0.01 31/6/0.00 60/45/0.02 42/19/Tr 36/29/0.15 53/16/0.02 73/46/0.00 47/21/0.00 31/17/0.10 55/29/Tr 76/64/0.02 35/17/0.04 28/18/0.07 56/24/0.00 70/41/0.00 37/24/0.00 37/21/0.00 39/30/0.00 55/37/0.00 35/27/0.63 73/50/0.00 73/54/0.00 39/21/0.03 37/22/0.00 70/50/0.00 34/3/0.00 33/18/0.00 35/21/Tr 46/23/0.00 40/19/0.00 51/23/0.00 41/19/0.00 32/6/0.06 64/39/0.00 49/27/Tr 41/30/0.00 73/44/0.00 82/46/0.00 64/45/0.00 64/41/0.00 46/25/0.00 62/32/0.00 51/42/0.01 34/24/0.12 38/29/Tr 42/31/0.02 76/51/0.00 68/44/0.00 55/38/0.00 39/25/0.00 52/35/0.00 49/32/0.00 73/51/0.00 Today Hi/Lo/W 40/31/c 54/33/s 36/32/c 67/47/s 40/32/r 45/28/pc 54/34/s 79/52/s 43/36/c 38/32/c 52/35/s 81/70/sh 38/35/c 41/30/c 51/36/pc 68/44/pc 39/33/sn 39/32/sn 58/38/r 56/28/s 44/30/pc 82/60/pc 80/54/s 40/33/c 40/33/sn 77/49/s 41/31/sn 35/28/sn 41/32/r 56/34/r 52/30/s 57/32/s 48/34/r 39/31/sn 69/46/s 49/36/pc 48/32/pc 69/39/s 75/51/s 67/49/s 71/47/s 48/24/s 67/43/sh 53/40/r 44/30/pc 44/30/c 51/32/s 78/61/pc 77/45/s 59/32/s 42/35/sn 58/27/s 57/32/r 76/45/s Tuesday Hi/Lo/W 37/33/sh 61/34/s 41/32/sf 72/47/pc 49/36/s 48/28/s 61/40/s 76/50/s 53/39/s 42/32/pc 61/43/s 82/69/pc 42/34/s 40/27/pc 60/40/s 66/46/s 43/35/pc 44/33/pc 57/38/pc 63/37/s 47/29/s 74/48/s 85/56/s 46/34/s 44/34/c 79/49/s 40/31/c 43/31/pc 44/34/pc 61/36/s 43/19/pc 57/26/pc 58/33/pc 39/32/sn 73/45/pc 57/40/s 47/28/c 73/52/s 70/51/s 70/48/pc 74/43/pc 54/27/s 68/40/s 47/34/c 45/27/pc 38/23/sf 61/36/s 72/50/s 80/45/s 63/40/s 53/33/pc 63/34/s 48/24/c 80/48/s 84/61/0.00 77/49/0.00 27/7/0.00 19/12/0.36 79/62/0.47 72/70/0.15 81/54/0.00 67/39/0.00 37/34/0.06 30/3/0.00 64/47/0.00 82/74/0.03 61/39/0.00 84/57/0.00 81/66/0.00 30/27/0.00 64/36/0.00 77/52/0.00 88/77/0.00 46/35/0.05 82/69/0.28 76/52/0.00 63/45/0.00 68/50/0.00 28/10/0.00 52/41/0.17 50/36/0.03 50/30/0.00 82/68/pc 75/46/s 32/30/sn 9/-19/sn 76/60/t 80/71/pc 84/57/pc 67/47/s 38/33/c 32/29/sn 59/51/pc 82/73/t 63/42/s 84/55/s 79/64/t 34/23/pc 56/23/s 78/45/c 88/75/c 39/34/pc 80/67/pc 86/63/s 68/56/s 66/51/s 38/30/sn 49/37/pc 52/35/pc 46/32/s 80/68/c 75/49/pc 37/32/sf -4/-12/s 77/58/t 81/70/pc 87/59/pc 51/34/pc 41/35/c 36/29/sf 62/48/pc 84/74/t 63/43/s 88/57/s 87/64/s 30/18/sn 40/24/c 54/45/c 89/75/c 42/32/r 70/65/r 82/66/s 71/55/pc 58/39/s 39/31/sf 45/32/pc 57/35/pc 47/37/pc INTERNATIONAL 48 contiguous states) National high: 85° at Kingsville, TX National low: -13° at Clayton Lake, ME Precipitation: 0.87" at Quillayute, WA In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday Ski resort New snow Base Anthony Lakes Mtn 0 0-48 Hoodoo Ski Area 0 0-85 Mt. Ashland 2 63-67 Mt. Bachelor 2 117-129 Mt. Hood Meadows 2 139-172 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl 0 54-73 Timberline Lodge 0 0-150 Willamette Pass 0 0-60 Aspen / Snowmass, CO 8 46-65 Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA 0 70-115 Squaw Valley, CA 2 0-123 Park City Mountain, UT 2 60-70 Sun Valley, ID 0 88-107 Mostly sunny TRAVEL WEATHER Umatilla 58/38 Rufus Hermiston 52/38 58/38 55/37 Arlington Hillsboro Portland Meacham Lostine 55/36 53/37 53/40 42/29 Wasco 44/27 Enterprise Pendleton The Dalles CENTRAL: Cloudy with Tillamook 43/25 53/35 48/35 Sandy 54/39 McMinnville 52/41 a few showers across Joseph Heppner La Grande 49/39 Maupin Government 54/39 the north; remaining 45/30 43/24 Camp 54/35 Condon 55/34 Union Lincoln City dry to the south with 51/30 40/30 44/30 Salem 51/44 Spray some sunshine. Granite Warm Springs 53/37 Madras 55/29 Albany 42/26 Newport Baker City 56/30 58/31 Mitchell 50/41 52/37 42/27 WEST: Cloudy with Camp Sherman 53/27 Redmond Corvallis John Unity periods of rain across Yachats 51/29 57/27 53/37 Day Prineville 46/27 the north; clouds and 49/42 Ontario Sisters 59/27 Paulina 50/27 42/29 some sun with spotty Florence Eugene 54/26 Bend Brothers 49/24 Vale showers over the 51/40 54/37 56/28 49/22 Sunriver 43/31 south. Nyssa 52/25 Hampton Cottage La Pine 45/31 Juntura Oakridge Grove 49/21 49/22 OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay Burns 49/27 52/32 54/38 Fort Rock 52/39 48/25 Riley YESTERDAY Crescent 53/22 49/25 High: 54° 48/20 Bandon Roseburg Christmas Valley Jordan Valley at The Dalles Beaver Frenchglen Silver 52/42 58/38 53/25 44/27 Low: 13° Marsh Lake 50/26 Port Orford 47/17 52/23 at Lakeview Grants Burns Junction Paisley 53/41 Pass 56/35 Chiloquin 53/24 61/36 Rome Medford 54/26 Gold Beach 57/36 57/36 52/40 Klamath Fields Ashland McDermitt Lakeview Falls Brookings 51/28 57/36 53/23 44/25 54/41 45/21 Seaside 49/41 Cannon Beach 48/42 49° 28° Partly sunny Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Astoria 50/41 SUNDAY 44° 24° OREGON WEATHER Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest. High Low WEDNESDAY 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 61/46/0.00 54/46/0.04 76/61/0.00 62/45/0.00 91/72/0.00 77/24/0.00 60/41/0.00 62/40/0.00 64/52/0.03 48/34/0.01 82/69/0.00 77/58/0.00 66/45/0.00 46/30/0.01 79/70/0.02 54/44/0.00 52/46/0.00 57/32/0.00 78/62/0.07 75/64/0.00 48/36/0.00 55/38/0.00 86/65/0.00 77/66/0.00 55/48/0.19 55/50/0.06 55/48/0.38 82/72/0.03 61/51/s 66/47/s 76/64/pc 65/40/s 93/76/c 42/22/pc 68/54/s 61/43/s 66/47/t 52/34/pc 78/66/s 82/61/pc 64/52/t 34/12/sn 82/74/pc 55/49/r 54/50/sh 60/40/s 79/59/t 76/66/s 54/40/s 57/47/sh 76/62/t 74/66/pc 61/49/pc 56/51/pc 56/36/s 86/77/pc 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 Find it all online bendbulletin.com COVID-19 | Number of infections SHOWCASING HOMES, LAND, AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE IN CENTRAL OREGON Could recent brutal surge get us to herd immunity? SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA AND RONG-GONG LIN II Los Angeles Times As coronavirus cases plum- met nationwide and vaccina- tions total 1.7 million Amer- icans a day and rising, health experts are increasingly strik- ing a new tone in their pan- demic assessments: optimism. “I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’re going to see a big fourth surge,” said Dr. Paul Of- fit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I think we’ve seen the worst of it.” Many epidemiologists and other scientists, while still cau- tious, say they feel increasingly hopeful the rest of 2021 will not replay the nightmare of last year. The arrival of spring will likely aid the ongoing precipi- tous drop in coronavirus cases, as warmer weather allows peo- ple to spend more time out- doors and creates a less hos- pitable environment for the virus, experts say. But the biggest factor, para- doxically, is something the na- tion spent the last year trying to prevent. While 12% of Americans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, far more people — approximately 35% of the nation’s popula- tion — have already been in- fected with the coronavirus, Offit estimated. Studies have found that people who survive COVID-19 have immunity for several months, though it likely lasts even longer. University of California, San Francisco, epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford said one of the reasons cases are dropping so fast in California “is because of naturally acquired immu- nity, mostly in Southern Cali- fornia.” He estimated that 50% of Los Angeles County resi- dents have been infected with the virus at some point. “We’re really talking some- thing starting to sound and look like herd immunity — al- though that true herd immu- nity is a ways off in the future,” Rutherford said recently. What is herd immunity? Herd immunity is reached when so many people have im- munity that a virus cannot find new hosts and stops spreading, resulting in communitywide protection. Scientists believe that in the case of the corona- virus, the threshold could be as high as 90%. The United States has not met this threshold, but each step toward it slows trans- mission, experts say. The effects may be great- est in places that endured the worst COVID-19 surges, in- cluding Los Angeles. After a horrific autumn and winter wave that has killed more than 12,000 people, an estimated 33% to 55% of L.A. County residents have already been in- fected with the coronavirus, ac- cording to USC researchers. Those past infections have blunted transmission of the coronavirus so significantly that they have changed the current trajectory of the outbreak in the county, where new daily cases have been falling for five weeks, said Dr. Roger Lewis, director of COVID-19 hospital demand modeling for the L.A. County Department of Health Services. “If you had the exact same behavior and type of virus cir- culating that we have right now, but we were at the begin- ning of the pandemic and no one was immune yet … we’d be in the midst of an ongoing surge,” he said. “The fact that cases are going down right now, as opposed to going up, is because approximately a third of everybody in Los Angeles County is immune to COVID.” But experts caution that the battle is not yet won. New coronavirus variants could undermine these projec- tions, either by proving more resistant to existing vaccines or by finding a way to spread more easily. Shifts in behavior could also render this good news moot, as it holds only if people stick to the precautions they have been taking thus far, experts say. “I don’t want to provide a false sense of assurance here,” said L.A. County chief science officer Dr. Paul Simon. “Unless they’ve had vaccination, they continue to be susceptible. I think we need to continue to be vigilant.” Nationwide, coronavirus cases have dropped to levels not seen since late October, accord- ing to federal officials. Since the pandemic began, nearly 30 million Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus, but the true number who have contracted the virus is likely three or four times higher due to low levels of testing and the fact that many people who are infected never develop symp- toms, experts say. The large number of infec- tions has come at a high cost. Allowing COVID-19 to run rampant to quickly achieve herd immunity, as some had promoted early in the pan- demic, would have led to even more deaths and chronic health problems, experts say. It remains unclear exactly what the threshold for herd immunity is with this virus, with some scientists estimating that it may be achieved when 50% of people are immune, while others believe the thresh- old is closer to 90%, Simon said. The uneven geographical distribution of infections may also leave some pockets of the county more vulnerable than others, he said. “We don’t know quite yet what level of vaccination and protection would be required to get herd immunity across (L.A.) county,” Simon said Friday. • Reach local consumers with discretionary income and put your listing in front of those buying or selling homes with an advertisement in Central Oregon Homes & Business. • Featuring homes, land, and commercial property for sale in Central Oregon on a monthly basis. ALSO APPEARING ONLINE • CENTRAL OREGON HOMES & BUSINESS features weblinks directing readers to your website. • Expand your reach through The Bulletin’s circulation to put your listings in front of those buying or selling homes. • Publishing the second Saturday of the month with the Real Estate section. • Over 2300 additional copies distributed in racks throughout Central Oregon. • Showcase your home on the cover page! 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