A10 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, JULY 5, 2021
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TODAY
TUESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
95°
LOW
59°
Sunshine with near-record
temperatures
Mostly sunny and very hot
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
92°
78° 97° in 2017
47°
46° 29° in 1901
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.55" in 1992
Month to date (normal)
0.00" (0.07")
Year to date (normal)
2.93" (5.79")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.95"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Today
Tue.
5:29am/8:51pm 5:29am/8:51pm
2:24am/5:16pm 2:52am/6:18pm
4:10am/7:06pm 4:09am/7:07pm
7:41am/10:25pm 7:43am/10:25pm
8:06am/10:35pm 8:05am/10:33pm
11:10pm/9:44am 11:06pm/9:40am
10:19pm/8:01am 10:15pm/7:57am
1:50am/4:03pm 1:46am/3:59pm
First
Full
Last
Jul 9
Jul 17
Jul 23
Jul 31
Tonight's sky: Earth is at Aphelion (farthest
from the sun) at 15:27 PDT. The sun-Earth
distance is 1.02 AU.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
9
9
5
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.
POLLEN COUNT
Grasses
Moderate
Trees
Low
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
FRIDAY
87°
54°
Very warm with plenty of
sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
EAST: Sunny
and warm again
Monday. Mainly clear
Monday night. Mostly
sunny and still warm
Tuesday.
CENTRAL: Hot again
on Monday with plenty
of sunshine. Mainly
clear Monday night.
96°
63°
95°
55°
Sunshine with record-tying
temperatures
The temperature near the
record of 98
Astoria
67/55
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
67/58/0.00 67/55/c 69/57/c
La Grande
95/62/0.00 95/56/s 99/62/s
Portland
85/58/0.00 86/58/s 89/61/s
Baker City
96/50/0.00 96/51/s 99/58/s
La Pine
92/44/0.00 92/51/s 95/54/s
Prineville
93/46/0.00 98/54/s 95/58/s
Brookings
62/54/Tr
64/52/s 61/52/s
Medford
99/67/0.00 99/65/s 101/61/s
Redmond
96/50/0.00 97/52/s 100/55/s
Burns
98/61/0.00 97/55/s 100/58/s
Newport
64/55/0.01 63/52/pc 63/55/pc
Roseburg
92/61/0.00 93/59/s 92/57/s
Salem
89/58/0.00 89/57/s 94/57/s
Eugene
91/56/Tr
91/54/s 93/57/s
North Bend
67/56/Tr
66/55/s 66/56/pc
Klamath Falls
94/53/0.00 95/55/s 96/51/s
Ontario
104/72/Tr
104/67/s 107/69/s
Sisters
90/46/0.00 95/55/s 98/62/s
Lakeview
92/53/0.00 94/55/s 97/54/s
Pendleton
96/57/0.00 96/61/s 100/68/s
The Dalles
96/69/0.00 95/64/s 100/68/s
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
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
46827
85%
Wickiup
33157
17%
Crescent Lake
22684
26%
Ochoco Reservoir
7030
16%
Prineville
63835
43%
River flow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
117
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1120
Deschutes R. below Bend
142
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1440
Little Deschutes near La Pine
76
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
71
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
0
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
298
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
4
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
9
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
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: USDA Forest Service
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
89/73/0.00
Akron
87/63/0.00
Albany
72/55/0.13
Albuquerque
92/67/0.28
Anchorage
62/53/0.00
Atlanta
87/65/0.00
Atlantic City
77/60/0.03
Austin
83/74/0.64
Baltimore
84/61/0.05
Billings
95/67/0.01
Birmingham
86/61/0.00
Bismarck
98/74/0.00
Boise
101/74/0.00
Boston
68/57/0.57
Bridgeport, CT 73/58/Tr
Buffalo
84/62/0.00
Burlington, VT
71/59/Tr
Caribou, ME
70/52/Tr
Charleston, SC 87/63/0.00
Charlotte
87/58/0.00
Chattanooga
89/63/0.00
Cheyenne
88/59/Tr
Chicago
89/70/0.00
Cincinnati
88/66/0.00
Cleveland
86/65/0.00
Colorado Springs 87/59/1.09
Columbia, MO
87/64/0.00
Columbia, SC
88/61/0.00
Columbus, GA
90/65/0.00
Columbus, OH
88/65/0.00
Concord, NH
72/54/0.66
Corpus Christi
93/74/Tr
Dallas
89/76/0.00
Dayton
88/66/0.00
Denver
92/62/0.00
Des Moines
89/68/0.00
Detroit
90/66/0.00
Duluth
92/68/0.00
El Paso
96/70/0.82
Fairbanks
74/51/0.00
Fargo
93/73/0.00
Flagstaff
83/57/0.55
Grand Rapids
89/66/0.00
Green Bay
89/66/0.00
Greensboro
84/57/0.00
Harrisburg
85/62/0.00
Hartford, CT
76/56/0.17
Helena
95/64/Tr
Honolulu
85/75/0.25
Houston
90/75/0.12
Huntsville
87/59/0.00
Indianapolis
86/64/0.00
Jackson, MS
90/70/0.00
Jacksonville
87/75/0.12
Today
Hi/Lo/W
83/70/t
92/72/t
80/68/pc
91/69/t
58/53/c
90/71/c
80/74/s
85/72/t
89/69/s
84/60/pc
91/71/s
91/61/pc
101/70/s
74/67/pc
77/70/pc
87/73/pc
82/71/pc
80/56/c
89/73/c
92/70/pc
93/70/s
85/57/t
92/74/pc
91/71/c
92/73/pc
84/61/t
89/70/s
93/70/pc
88/71/c
94/72/pc
75/63/pc
90/77/t
90/76/pc
92/72/c
91/62/t
91/71/pc
92/74/pc
89/64/pc
93/73/c
80/57/pc
92/61/pc
78/55/pc
89/72/pc
91/68/t
90/68/s
88/70/pc
78/67/pc
87/59/s
87/75/sh
89/76/t
92/70/s
90/70/c
93/73/t
84/73/t
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
68/61/c
90/74/pc
57/51/s
109/79/pc
99/82/pc
86/69/t
85/77/s
74/61/t
66/47/pc
85/64/pc
56/50/s
88/77/s
95/72/s
63/54/r
89/78/t
65/50/c
64/50/c
82/59/pc
75/46/s
90/81/sh
83/73/s
82/64/s
66/44/s
66/61/pc
77/64/pc
68/57/c
95/65/s
89/80/t
72/61/0.67
89/75/0.00
54/37/0.00
111/86/0.00
100/84/0.00
89/67/0.00
88/77/0.00
80/60/0.04
63/46/0.04
84/55/0.00
57/45/0.00
88/74/0.00
97/75/0.00
64/59/0.49
90/80/0.02
68/55/0.28
68/57/0.50
70/59/0.17
74/43/0.00
91/84/0.02
79/68/0.00
85/68/0.00
69/47/0.00
65/60/0.00
79/63/0.00
68/61/0.38
91/70/0.00
91/77/0.27
The town’s location, author Joann
Green Byrd pointed out in her
book “Calamity: The Heppner
Flood of 1903,” turned out to be “a
natural bull’s-eye for flash floods.”
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
86/69/c
92/71/t
87/67/t
88/68/t
58/52/r
86/72/t
83/76/pc
87/71/t
97/73/pc
91/63/s
85/72/t
73/52/r
104/74/s
90/73/pc
89/72/c
84/69/t
87/64/t
76/53/t
87/75/t
91/72/c
92/72/pc
78/55/t
90/72/t
90/71/t
90/72/t
78/58/t
91/69/s
90/72/c
84/71/t
93/72/t
89/67/t
88/74/t
90/75/t
91/72/t
82/59/t
92/68/t
90/71/t
66/50/r
90/72/t
66/50/sh
67/54/r
85/55/c
88/69/t
86/58/t
90/70/c
97/71/pc
93/69/pc
95/62/s
88/74/pc
88/75/t
89/71/t
90/71/s
86/72/t
85/73/t
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
Springfield, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
68/52/0.00
88/67/0.00
90/64/0.00
104/87/Tr
84/61/0.00
90/63/0.00
86/60/0.00
81/65/0.00
89/67/0.00
88/67/0.00
87/65/0.00
92/80/0.00
92/70/0.00
94/74/0.00
90/61/0.00
88/76/0.76
79/60/0.01
84/64/Tr
88/66/0.00
85/64/0.00
91/71/0.00
91/72/0.03
110/87/0.00
87/66/0.00
81/62/0.12
102/79/0.26
84/59/0.00
62/55/1.07
72/55/0.21
84/60/0.00
95/64/0.00
93/70/0.01
86/61/0.00
75/61/0.04
91/59/0.00
90/68/0.00
100/72/0.00
92/76/0.05
74/67/0.00
77/61/0.00
77/59/0.00
93/59/0.18
90/68/0.00
77/57/0.00
97/73/0.00
91/63/0.00
85/65/0.00
89/79/0.00
96/73/0.37
87/69/0.00
85/64/Tr
86/64/0.00
98/62/0.00
106/85/0.00
Today
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
69/51/pc
65/52/c
90/69/s
91/72/pc
91/73/pc
89/69/t
108/87/s 111/90/s
88/69/pc
88/70/s
94/69/s
93/65/t
91/70/pc 92/73/pc
83/63/pc 83/65/pc
93/74/pc
92/74/s
91/71/pc
89/66/t
92/73/s
91/74/t
87/80/t
87/80/r
92/75/pc
87/68/t
95/73/pc
79/56/r
94/72/s
93/72/pc
86/76/t
85/77/t
81/71/pc 94/76/pc
85/72/pc 98/76/pc
91/74/s
94/75/s
86/66/s
87/70/pc
94/72/pc
93/65/t
90/75/t
86/75/t
112/81/s 113/83/s
92/69/pc
91/71/t
87/71/pc 94/75/pc
106/89/s 109/87/s
90/71/t
90/70/t
72/62/pc
87/68/t
73/67/pc 89/71/pc
92/69/s
92/70/pc
92/63/t
76/56/pc
98/67/s
100/66/s
90/70/s
95/73/pc
89/75/pc
88/66/t
92/56/s
90/56/s
93/74/s
94/75/pc
95/71/s
99/75/s
86/76/t
86/74/t
75/65/pc 74/65/pc
72/58/pc 69/58/pc
77/57/pc 76/57/pc
87/60/t
85/60/t
88/74/c
87/74/t
78/58/pc
83/58/s
99/72/pc
83/57/t
92/64/s
95/66/s
88/67/s
90/69/s
92/77/t
85/77/r
97/81/pc 101/79/pc
90/68/s
92/71/pc
89/73/s
96/76/pc
89/66/pc 91/71/pc
98/63/s
99/69/s
108/78/s 110/80/s
68/56/t
92/76/s
61/53/c
112/81/pc
96/80/t
87/70/t
85/76/s
84/65/pc
65/48/pc
91/64/s
59/55/pc
88/76/pc
98/76/s
70/54/c
89/81/t
63/53/r
62/53/r
79/62/t
70/46/s
90/82/t
80/72/c
82/65/s
59/42/pc
66/61/pc
73/60/s
66/55/t
83/57/pc
87/79/t
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
108/89/0.00
72/56/0.09
73/55/0.00
75/60/0.00
72/53/0.00
90/78/0.01
102/84/0.00
87/77/0.08
73/61/0.33
77/54/0.00
72/61/0.54
73/65/0.02
83/68/0.00
68/34/0.00
66/57/0.00
77/62/0.14
78/68/0.08
82/78/0.19
83/73/0.00
79/52/0.00
65/45/0.00
95/79/0.00
87/76/0.00
73/67/0.48
77/63/0.00
72/63/0.00
79/55/0.00
72/63/0.34
107/81/s
72/56/t
82/70/s
75/59/s
72/54/pc
88/79/t
103/88/pc
87/76/r
76/61/t
81/70/t
71/60/r
72/66/pc
85/66/s
69/38/s
68/55/c
66/64/r
82/72/c
93/79/t
86/77/t
76/60/pc
62/45/s
101/83/s
86/74/s
76/73/sh
90/74/c
73/59/s
81/60/t
80/62/pc
109/82/s
71/58/t
83/61/t
78/61/s
72/53/pc
89/79/pc
104/87/pc
86/76/r
70/60/t
84/57/t
70/56/pc
72/63/c
87/68/s
54/33/r
66/53/pc
68/62/r
88/72/c
94/81/pc
87/77/c
76/62/t
60/45/pc
99/83/t
87/75/s
81/75/t
89/68/t
73/60/s
91/67/s
83/64/s
Northwest
disasters
The Pacific Northwest’s deadliest
natural disasters, along with the
just-ended heat wave, include
a 1910 avalanche in Wellington,
Washington, that killed 96 train
passengers and rail workers, the
1980 Mount St. Helens eruption that
took 57 lives, and the 1962 Columbus
Day storm, which killed 46 in Oregon
and Washington.
Disaster
Continued from A1
Heppner is proud of its proximity
to the Blue Mountains, embracing the
nickname “Gateway to the Blues.”
In 1903, that gate swung the wrong
way.
Willow Creek emerges from the
Blue Mountains southeast of Hep-
pner. In the summer there’s usually
not much water in the creek, which
winds through the town. It trickles
and meanders. Typically, notes The
Oregon Encyclopedia, it “runs only
ankle-deep by mid-June.”
Spring had been particularly warm
and dry in the region that year. So
while “cloudbursts” were known to
occur in the semi-arid area during
the summer, no one on Sunday, June
14, 1903, expected the skies to sud-
denly darken and then open up with
rain and — despite 90-degree weather
— hail over an area “of at least 40
square miles and continuing with the
Very hot with blazing
sunshine
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 119°
at Death Valley, CA
National low: 38°
at Leadville, CO
Precipitation: 2.43"
at Spring, TX
FIRE INDEX
High
Extreme
Very high
Extreme
Very high
95°
56°
NATIONAL
Umatilla
100/64
Rufus
Hermiston
87/61
100/64
95/65
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
99/65
85/53 86/58
93/49
Wasco
94/53 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
93/53
92/62
96/61
Sandy
95/64
McMinnville
69/52
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
82/55
Maupin
Government
88/53
95/56
93/55
Camp
94/61 Condon 93/64
Union
Lincoln City
91/60
75/55
96/53
Salem
66/55
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
89/57
Madras
98/62
Albany
87/52
Newport
Baker City
96/55
98/55
Mitchell
63/52
88/56
96/51
WEST: Mostly
Camp Sherman
94/60
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
sunny and still warm Yachats
93/55
97/52
87/55
Day
Prineville
94/53
Monday. Mainly clear 63/53
Ontario
Sisters
98/54
Paulina
96/60
104/67
Monday night. Mostly Florence
Eugene 95/55
Bend Brothers 94/55
Vale
sunny Tuesday.
66/54
91/54
95/59
92/53
Sunriver
104/68
Nyssa
93/55
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
104/67
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
92/51
94/54
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
101/60
90/54
91/57
Fort
Rock
67/54
97/55
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
95/52
95/53
High: 104°
91/49
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Ontario
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
65/55
93/59
95/53
94/62
Low: 43°
Marsh
Lake
97/59
Port Orford
92/50
95/52
at Meacham
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
68/56
Pass
99/64
Chiloquin
97/54
99/63
Rome
Medford
92/54
Gold Beach
99/65
101/64
65/54
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
99/64
95/65
95/55
96/63
64/52
94/55
Seaside
67/55
Cannon Beach
67/56
SUNDAY
TRAVEL WEATHER
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
SATURDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Rise/Set
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
New
THURSDAY
87°
51°
98°
61°
Clear and warm
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
WEDNESDAY
The Oregonian
A dam now helps protect Heppner from flooding. The death toll from the 1903 disaster is somewhere between 238 and 251.
utmost intensity for more than hour.”
Water and debris roared down dry,
overgrazed rangeland and poured
into Willow Creek, speeding it toward
Heppner. The result, the Heppner Ga-
zette later reported, was a “foaming
wall of water” hitting the prosperous
county seat at 5 o’clock in the after-
noon.
The town’s location, author Joann
Green Byrd pointed out in her book
“Calamity: The Heppner Flood of
1903,” turned out to be “a natural
bull’s-eye for flash floods.” (A dam to
head off flooding was finally com-
pleted in 1983.)
Devastation from the flood on
that broiling Sunday was apocalyptic.
Trees and telegraph lines fell. Houses
crumpled and floated away. All es-
cape routes, survivors said, had disap-
peared in an instant. The roar of the
water and debris blotted out towns-
people’s cries for help.
The death toll from the disaster
ranges in accounts between 238 and
251 — in a town of about 1,400 peo-
ple. Three of the victims were former
Morrow County sheriffs.
The day after the Heppner flood,
a correspondent for The Oregonian
arrived to survey the scene. The re-
sulting account called Heppner “a city
of the dead” and described rotting
corpses strewn about the town and
washed miles away.
“Meantime,” the reporter added,
“Willow Creek, as if to mock the dead,
has returned to a purling brooklet.”
Tropical storm barrels toward Florida; Cuba evacuates 180,000
BY ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
Associated Press
HAVANA — Cuba evacuated
180,000 people amid fears Sunday
that Tropical Storm Elsa could un-
leash heavy flooding after battering
several Caribbean islands, killing at
least three people.
The Cuban government had
opened shelters and moved to protect
sugarcane and cocoa crops ahead of
the storm. Most of those evacuated
went to relatives’ homes, while some
people sheltered at government facili-
ties. Hundreds living in mountainous
areas took refuge in natural caves that
had been prepared for the emergency.
The storm’s next target was Florida,
where Gov. Ron DeSantis declared
a state of emergency in 15 counties,
including in Miami-Dade County
where the high-rise condominium
building collapsed last week.
On Sunday afternoon, Elsa was lo-
cated about 40 miles south-southeast
of Cabo Cruz, Cuba and was heading
northwest at 14 mph. It had maxi-
Joseph Odelyn/AP
Antony Exilien secures the roof of his house in response to Tropical Storm Elsa in Port-
au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday. Elsa brushed past Haiti and the Dominican Republic be-
fore taking aim at Cuba and Florida.
mum sustained winds of about 60
mph, according to the National Hur-
ricane Center in Miami.
The center said the storm is ex-
pected to gradually weaken as it
moves across Cuba on Monday.
“After Elsa emerges over the Florida
Straits and the southeastern Gulf of
Mexico, some slight restrengthening
is possible,’’ it said.
The storm killed one person in St.
Lucia, according to the Caribbean
Disaster Emergency Management
Agency. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy
and a 75-year-old woman died Satur-
day in separate events in the Domin-
ican Republic after walls collapsed on
them, according to a statement from
the Emergency Operations Center.
Elsa was a Category 1 hurricane
up until Saturday morning, causing
widespread damage in several eastern
Caribbean islands on Friday as the
first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
Among the hardest hit was Barba-
dos, where more than 1,100 people
reported damaged houses, including
62 homes that completely collapsed
as the government promised to find
and fund temporary housing to avoid
clustering people in shelters amid the
pandemic.
Downed trees also were reported in
Haiti, which is especially vulnerable to
floods and landslides because of wide-
spread erosion and deforestation.
A tropical storm warning was in ef-
fect for Jamaica and from the Haitian
capital of Port-au-Prince to the south-
ern border with the Dominican Re-
public. A hurricane watch was issued
for the Cuban provinces of Camaguey,
Granma, Guantanamo, Holguin, Las
Tunas, and Santiago de Cuba. Some of
those provinces have reported a high
number of COVID-19 infections,
raising concerns that the storm could
force large groups of people to seek
shelter together.
Elsa is the earliest fifth-named
storm on record and also broke the
record as the tropic’s fastest-moving
hurricane, clocking in at 31 mph on
Saturday morning, according to Brian
McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at
the University of Miami.
It is forecast to drop 4 to 8 inches
of rain with maximum totals of 15
inches across portions of southern
Hispaniola and Jamaica.