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AIO THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021 TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY _________ PRECIPITATION_________ 24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday 0.00" Record 0.70" in 1907 Month to date (normal) 0.09" (0.51") Year to date (normal) 1.18" (3.13") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 30.20" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Today Tue. 7:05am/7:20pm 7:03am/7:21pm 12:27pm/3:44am 1:28pm/4:33am 6:28am/5:16pm 6:27am/5:20pm 7:10am/7:12pm 7:09am/7:14pm 9:58am/1:24am 9:56am/1:23am 5:36am/3:43pm 5:32am/3:40pm 5:06am/2:47pm 5:03am/2:43pm 8:29am/10:27pm 8:25am/10:24pm © Mar 28 Apr 4 & April Apr 19 I 50/41 * 1 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 52/33 ““ Tillamook • 52/37 McMinnville 52/34 • Lincoln City , Salem 48/40 * 51/35 Newport 48/37 • WEST: Cloudy and cool on Monday with periods of rain, especially during the morning. Skies clear ing Monday night. • Bandon * Gold Beach • 50/40 4b lit J Grants Pass 54/37 41/19 Beaver Marsh 41/19 54/36 • Ashland 52/36 • 50/39 Tuesday US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Rain and snow showers today; breezy in the afternoon. ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Snow this morn ing, then a rain or snow shower. ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Mostly cloudy and very cold, snow this afternoon. SKI REPORT 55/32 53/25 47/22 Jordan Valley 44/23 • 49/21 • Burns Junction # Paisley 46/28 Klamath ‘Falls • 45/23 Today 54/26 Rome 55/28 Fields Lakeview 44/26 McDermitt .46/26 48/25 Tuesday Today Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Yesterday Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria Baker City Brookings Burns Eugene Klamath Falls Lakeview 47/38/0.16 50/21/0.00 51/36/0.00 50/21/0.00 51/39/0.01 52/14/0.00 48/13/0.00 50/40/pc 46/18/s 56/41/pc 45/19/pc 54/34/pc 50/20/pc 46/22/pc La Grande La Pine Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pendleton 48/33/Tr 46/29/0.00 56/38/0.00 48/37/0.01 51/41/0.01 57/30/0.00 51/37/0.00 Portland Prineville Redmond 51/42/0.03 46/18/0.00 51/20/0.00 53/40/Tr 49/38/0.04 43/34/0.00 50/43/Tr 53/38/sh 51/25/pc 51/21/sn 51/36/sh 51/35/sh 48/27/sn 55/35/pc 56/40/pc 46/26/pc 50/23/pc 54/33/pc 54/36/pc 54/31/pc 58/37/pc 49/39/sh 47/24/sf 50/39/sh 47/22/sn 51/35/sh 45/23/sn 44/26/sn Yesterday Weather(W): s ■sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-: US 26 at Gov't Camp: Chilly with snow, little or no accumulation today. Nyssa Juntura Burns Frenchglen 47/22 45/23 Ontario 53/31 City 44/28/sf 47/24/pc 43/20/sn 46/20/pc 54/36/pc 57/33/pc 48/37/sh 50/37/pc 51/37/sh 53/39/pc 53/31/sh 54/24/s 53/33/sh 55/33/s Salem Sisters The Dalles ■snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as Tuesday of 5 p.m. yesterday NATIONAL WEATHER I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Chilly today with sun; snow showers during the afternoon. US 20 at Santiam Pass: Mostly cloudy and chilly today with rain or snow. • Unity 48/26 45/24 Christmas Valley Silver Lake 46/21 Chiloquin Medford • Baker City Vale • 54/32 Riley 46/21 Joseph 42/23 47/24 'John Day 44/28 44/23 Fort Rock Enterprise 44/28 Granite 40/25 R1/91 • Cr Crescent Lostine 41/27 Union Mitchell * 43/20 Roseburg Brookings Today 44/28 - 4 S • Camp Sherman Redmond 45/26 51/36 Port Orford • 51/40 Yesterday Meacham 55/31 p pn H|ptnn 41/26 EPm * * ,45/22 • 53/33 La Grande - ^ “ Grove Oakridge 51/35 47/33 51/39 Plan with confidence Get the new app Arlington 59/33^ cipto • . »Prineville JlSterS 51 /25 . Paulina • Eugene «Bend Brothers 44/24 51/35 Sunriver. 48/23 .43/23 Cottag* • 45/24 La Pine * . Hampton Coos Bay 50/36 # Albany 50/34 Florence 50/38 * High: 57° at Ontario Low: 13° at Lakeview V~"f »Wasco The Dalles 51/31 Sandy • 55/35 / 48/36 Government m Maupin • Heppner Camp *56/31 London 48/31 36/26 45/29 50/35 48/38 * OREGON EXTREMES YESTERDAY # 55/33 9 Corvallis Yachats $ AccuWeather 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Umatilla 59/32 • Hermiston Rufus Cannon Beach Hillsboro Portland -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the New snow Anthony Lakes Mtn Hoodoo Ski Area Mt. Ashland Mt. Bachelor Mt. Hood Meadows Mt. Hood Ski Bowl Timberline Lodge Willamette Pass Aspen / Snowmass, CO Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA Squaw Valley, CA Park City Mountain, UT Sun Valley, ID 0-78 0-65 65-71 110-124 0-206 66-92 0-170 0-55 5 0 0 10 0 52-73 80-125 0-132 55-70 56-77 Source: OnTheSnow.com City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene Akron Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Bridgeport, CT Buffalo Burlington, VT Caribou, ME Charleston, SC Charlotte Chattanooga Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Springs Columbia, M0 Columbia, SC Columbus, GA Columbus, OH Concord, NH Corpus Christi Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Green Bay Greensboro Harrisburg Hartford, CT Helena Honolulu Houston Huntsville Indianapolis Jackson, MS Jacksonville 75/49/0.00 65/33/0.00 63/25/0.00 69/44/0.00 22/12/0.00 67/47/0.00 59/35/0.00 75/42/0.00 64/28/0.00 50/32/0.00 66/39/0.00 62/39/0.00 51/31/0.00 58/36/0.00 58/28/0.00 66/30/0.00 64/25/0.00 58/27/0.00 67/46/0.27 66/45/Tr 68/38/0.00 36/32/Tr 65/37/0.00 66/38/0.00 65/29/0.00 52/45/0.05 70/41/0.00 67/45/0.03 68/47/0.01 66/37/0.00 65/21/0.00 75/46/0.00 70/44/0.00 66/32/0.00 43/31/0.02 67/43/0.00 63/27/0.00 59/44/0.03 79/50/0.00 22/12/0.00 51/42/0.02 51/26/Tr 65/28/0.00 63/32/0.00 63/39/Tr 65/28/0.00 65/26/0.00 49/33/0.00 80/69/0.13 71/42/0.00 65/37/0.00 66/31/0.00 70/40/0.00 60/48/0.15 73/44/t 66/41/s 63/32/s 56/35/pc 25/18/pc 70/53/pc 52/45/s 72/55/t 63/40/s 51/32/pc 73/57/s 58/26/pc 49/30/sh 59/37/s 52/36/s 65/40/s 63/37/s 55/31/s 69/53/c 67/48/pc 72/53/s 39/24/pc 64/51/c 67/47/s 65/44/s 39/25/sn 66/49/c 69/51/pc 74/55/pc 66/44/s 64/27/s 76/63/c 65/51 66/44/s 39/25/sn 57/49/r 67/41/pc 51/36/pc 66/45/s 22/7/s 51/32/s 48/18/s 66/46/pc 57/44/r 63/45/pc 67/37/s 63/31/s 48/29/pc 80/66/pc 74/62/c 71/56/pc 65/49/pc 73/59/pc 64/57/pc Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Beirut Berlin Bogota Budapest Buenos Aires Cabo San Lucas Cairo Calgary Cancún Dublin Edinburgh Geneva Harare Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima Lisbon London Madrid Manila 45/43/0.12 63/54/0.03 67/55/0.00 82/59/0.00 97/82/0.00 54/30/0.00 73/56/0.00 48/35/0.27 66/41/0.09 43/21/0.06 73/61/0.00 86/59/0.00 88/61/0.00 46/27/Tr 81/61/0.00 54/43/0.04 54/32/0.00 48/35/0.00 79/61/0.00 70/69/0.02 48/44/0.31 80/55/0.00 74/57/0.09 79/68/0.00 63/45/0.00 52/44/0.00 61/28/0.00 92/80/0.02 49/38/c 67/49/pc 72/55/pc 88/67/pc 90/75/t 64/39/s 80/69/r 47/38/c 65/48/sh 48/27/pc 73/64/pc 82/59/pc 92/77/c 42/23/c 80/74/pc 52/42/pc 52/44/pc 50/32/c 78/61/s 71/63/sh 57/42/sh 77/66/c 73/59/1 79/69/c 68/48/s 56/39/pc 63/33/s 95/80/t ft Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. T-storms Rain Yesterday Today Tuesday Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 74/52/s 65/51/c 64/40/s 54/35/c 28/14/pc 66/55/c 54/48/pc 82/54/pc 61/47/pc 45/24/c 67/58/t 57/26/c 53/27/s 56/40/s 55/41/s 66/49/c 64/42/s 57/35/s 68/57/c 65/52/c 65/55/c 37/22/sf 60/50/r 64/55/c 66/52/c 41/27/c 66/45/t 70/56/c 68/56/c 65/54/c 64/32/s 84/65/t 74/53/s 64/54/c 42/27/c 59/44/r 64/51/c 41/38/sn 72/47/pc 17/4/s 50/30/c 41/19/sh 64/52/r 55/48/r 62/49/pc 71/46/pc 63/39/s 43/25/sf 80/69/s 81/61/t 64/57/t 62/55/sh 70/60/t 73/58/pc Juneau Kansas City Lansing Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison, Wl 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 Springfield, M0 Tampa Tucson Tulsa Washington, DC Wichita Yakima Yuma 39/31/0.41 69/47/Tr 66/29/0.00 66/52/0.00 65/33/0.00 65/47/0.00 67/39/0.00 67/49/0.00 69/36/0.00 63/34/0.00 69/42/0.00 78/60/0.00 64/37/0.00 63/41/0.05 69/33/0.00 72/57/0.00 63/42/0.00 63/34/0.00 55/42/0.00 68/43/0.00 67/47/0.00 62/52/Tr 78/54/0.00 66/38/0.00 65/33/0.00 78/59/0.00 64/29/0.00 59/25/0.00 60/30/0.00 66/41/0.00 53/36/Tr 53/27/0.00 65/32/0.00 63/27/0.00 68/42/0.00 70/39/0.00 43/30/0.25 75/45/0.00 64/50/0.00 61/44/0.00 66/40/0.00 66/32/0.00 57/47/1.51 45/41/0.08 62/46/0.00 45/31/0.00 67/42/0.00 64/53/0.00 79/58/0.00 70/47/0.00 64/36/0.00 66/46/Tr 52/42/0.00 78/53/0.00 39/34/sn 62/51 67/45/pc 67/47/pc 67/47/s 51/47/r 69/56/pc 71/51/s 70/52/s 57/45/c 71/59/pc 79/60/s 60/46/pc 56/45/r 71/56/pc 75/64/c 58/41/s 58/40/s 57/48/pc 65/45/t 52/48/r 77/57/pc 80/55/s 64/51/c 62/40/s 74/52/s 67/37/s 55/32/s 58/35/s 65/48/pc 53/28/pc 55/31/pc 63/43/pc 66/37/s 65/45/pc 67/56/pc 48/35/sh 73/56/c 66/57/s 60/49/pc 64/46/pc 52/27/pc 70/54/c 50/37/sh 53/41 47/29/pc 64/47/c 74/60/pc 68/44/s 68/50/t 64/44/s 56/44/r 54/27/s 77/51/s 40/33/r 58/43/r 67/52/r 64/46/pc 65/54/c 53/40/r 74/49/t 73/57/s 66/58/c 57/46/r 70/60/t 82/63/s 52/48/r 54/41 66/58/t 74/67/t 61 /46/s 61/45/s 56/48/c 67/43/pc 56/41 82/60/pc 75/55/s 61/48/r 62/46/pc 68/50/pc 65/48/pc 53/35/s 61/40/s 64/50/c 49/27/c 46/26/s 61/47/pc 65/47/c 67/43/s 66/51 48/33/sh 83/58/pc 65/50/pc 65/52/s 67/46/s 52/30/pc 69/57/pc 53/41/pc 47/36/r 51/33/s 65/41 78/61/s 70/46/s 68/43/pc 62/49/pc 56/37/pc 56/31/pc 74/52/s 96/67/0.00 76/49/Tr 57/32/0.00 32/22/0.23 79/61/0.29 81/70/0.00 93/64/0.00 64/59/1.05 41/34/0.00 59/28/0.00 52/37/0.00 86/75/0.00 57/41/0.00 75/52/0.00 86/68/0.00 50/31/0.39 50/41/0.00 58/45/0.00 91/77/0.00 42/36/0.00 69/68/1.36 62/59/0.16 81/58/0.00 68/55/0.65 59/32/0.00 45/41/0.18 36/23/0.17 35/27/0.18 98/67/s 79/52/s 54/32/s 36/24/sn 81/61/c 80/66/s 90/68/pc 56/39/sh 44/29/pc 59/35/s 50/37/c 88/76/pc 59/39/pc 83/53/s 86/67/pc 43/34/sh 52/36/s 60/41/pc 90/78/sh 47/33/pc 72/67/r 58/56/sh 85/75/c 56/45/sh 60/36/pc 49/37/s 44/31/c 43/28/pc 102/70/s 80/51/s 56/39/c 34/22/pc 80/60/t 81 /72/s 86/63/pc 58/43/s 47/35/pc 61/38/pc 55/36/s 86/75/s 57/34/pc 81 /53/s 88/68/s 47/40/s 60/42/pc 62/51/pc 86/77/t 53/39/pc 72/68/r 68/61/pc 89/63/c 57/48/s 56/44/c 48/42/pc 47/37/pc 47/30/pc ft ft ft ft ft ft INTERNATIONAL National high: 86° at Zapata, TX National low: 12° at Stanley, ID Precipitation: 2.16" at Savannah, GA Base 0 3 0 2 6 5 8 1 NATIONAL Tuesday Today Hi/Lo/W 48 contiguous states) In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday Ski resort Partial sunshine TRAVEL WEATHER Seaside 50/41 UVINDEX TODAY 2 Mostly sunny Yesterday CENTRAL: Cloudy with a few showers on Monday. Drying out Monday evening with decreasing clouds overnight. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI 2 Partly sunny, a couple of showers possible Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. EAST: Mostly cloudy and chilly with a few showers on Monday. Decreasing clouds Monday night. Tonight's sky: Before midnight, nearly overhead is Perseus, the Hero. 1 A couple of showers possible OREGON WEATHER Yesterday Normal Record High 50° 52° 78° in 1939 Low 25° 28° 4° in 1917 Last New First ° A bit of morning snow, then a little rain Partly sunny ALMANAC _________ TEMPERATURE_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ° ° Partly cloudy Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest. 58 frP* 31 V V 26 ° Full SATURDAY 52 23 Rise/Set Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus FRIDAY 0 Ç. <0 LOW Rain and snow showers in the morning Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front 3 I \ \ \ v| I* * -I I* . * . 1 k ^ -4 V V — W~ Warm Front Stationary Front m V m 53/41/pc 54/44/r 73/56/s 86/70/pc 94/77/s 66/45/s 82/58/c 49/39/pc 65/51 52/34/pc 72/65/pc 76/54/pc 87/58/c 44/28/pc 83/78/pc 53/39/pc 53/40/pc 53/33/pc 76/59/pc 72/64/pc 45/37/r 84/54/pc 73/57/t 77/70/pc 67/48/s 54/44/pc 66/36/s 92/79/pc ft Portland: 15 days above WHO guidelines for fine particulate matter 6b 200 [jg/m3 fine particulate matter (PM2.5), daily average o 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 On Sept. 13, Portland saw PM2.5 levels 10 times higher than the limit recommended by the World Health Organization rolling average Daily guidelines for fine particulate exposure 25 0 March Jan. 2020 May July San Francisco: 24 days Los Angeles: 48 days Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin file June 100 (jg/m3 Aug. Jan. 2021 Sept. Seattle: 12 days o o Traffic and pedestrians travel through the haze at the intersection of Third Street and Greenwood Avenue in Bend on Sept. 11. Air quality cantly contributed to air pollution in Australia, Siberia, South America, In Continued from A1 donesia and Africa. While no fine-particle pollution is During a fire, the concentration of considered to be safe, the World Health tiny pollution particles soars and in Organizations about target is 10 parts creases the risk of acute respiratory per cubic meter or less. In 2020, the problems such as asthma attacks. U.S. average was 9.6, and 38% of U.S. “You might get up to a thousand cities exceeded the target level com (parts per million) in some of these pared to 21% in 2019. places that are just downwind of a re The country’s worst annual average ally bad fire in California,” said Jeffrey was in Yosemite Lakes, California, 37.8 Pierce, an associate professor at Col micrograms per cubic orado State University Fire was notjust a U.S. who studies the health meter. The highest U.S. reading was 4,709.3 effects of wildfire smoke. problem. Wildfires during heavy smoke in “But generally those Weed, California, on only last for a few days and agricultural Sept. 13. or few weeks at most. fires significantly In September, 24 of What we don’t know is, the worlds top 25 most if you get hit by really contributed to air polluted cities were in high concentrations, is pollution in Australia, California and Oregon, it the same as if you just took that and averaged the report said Lead Siberia, South America, it over a long period of ing the list was Happy Camp, California, with Indonesia and Africa. time?” For example, per a monthly average of 154.4 micrograms per haps one large fire raises cubic meter. The city with the low the annual average in an area from est fine pollution levels recorded was 10 to 20 micrograms per cubic meter. Epidemiologists are trying to figure Waimea, Hawaii, with 2.2. out whether that is more — or less — Worldwide, fine-particle pollution harmful to a person’s long-term health dropped in 84% of countries and 65% of than year-round exposure to 20. cities included in the analysis. The com The working hypothesis is that they pany measured air quality at ground- are the same, Pierce said. based monitoring stations in 106 coun Now that wildfires are becoming tries. About half of all European cities larger and more common while fos- still missed the WHO target. sil-fuel emissions have trended down The country with the worst air qual ward in the United States for decades, ity was Bangladesh, with an annual a better question may be which type of average of 77.1 micrograms per cubic pollution is more toxic. Unfortunately, meter. All but one of the worlds 50 new research from the Scripps Insti most polluted cities are in Bangladesh, tution of Oceanography suggests that China, India and Pakistan. wildfire smoke may be significantly Fire was not just a U.S. problem. worse. Wildfires and agricultural fires signifi- Jan. 2021 Jan. 2020 Washington, D.C.: 4 days July Jan. 2021 Jan. 2020 Boston: 2 days July Phoenix: 2 days 100 |jg/m3 Ian. 2020 July Jan. 2021 July Jan. 2021 Jan. 2020 July Change in pollution levels from 2019 to : Cleaner air More polluted ■50 -10 10 50 100 329% ioston Minneapolis 5 Akron Denver lite Lakes Washii Angçle: Phoenix Houston Miami Graphics: The Washington Post