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A10 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2022 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022 TODAY TUESDAY TONIGHT HIGH 39° LOW 14° Cloudy and chilly with snow showers Cloudy and cold with a snow shower around 23° -3° 25° 6° Very cold; a little morning snow Mostly sunny and very cold ALMANAC THURSDAY FRIDAY 40° 19° Partly sunny and not as cold SATURDAY 40° 9° Abundant sunshine and not as cold OREGON WEATHER Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest. EAST: Cloudy and chilly today with snow showers. Mostly cloudy tonight. A couple of snow show- ers tomorrow. CENTRAL: Today: snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the north, with little or no accu- mulation in the south and central parts. WEST: Occasional rain and drizzle today; however, a couple of rain or snow showers in the south. TEMPERATURE PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday Trace Record 1.20" in 1927 Month to date (normal) Trace (0.74") Year to date (normal) 0.84" (2.15") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 29.90" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Rise/Set Today Tue. Sun 6:56am/5:43pm 6:54am/5:44pm Moon 11:39pm/9:26am none/9:52am Mercury 5:52am/3:24pm 5:52am/3:26pm Venus 4:28am/2:18pm 4:27am/2:17pm Mars 5:00am/1:58pm 4:59am/1:57pm Jupiter 7:21am/6:26pm 7:18am/6:23pm Saturn 6:23am/4:19pm 6:20am/4:16pm Uranus 9:35am/11:41pm 9:31am/11:37pm Last New First Full Feb 23 Mar 2 Mar 10 Mar 17 Tonight's sky: Just above the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia, toward neighboring Perseus, look for the Double Cluster. 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: Cloudy and cold today with a couple of snow showers. US 20 at Santiam Pass: Chilly today with snow, accumulating 1-3 inches. US 26 at Gov't Camp: Periods of snow today, accumulating 3-6 inches. US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Cloudy and chilly today and tonight with snow showers. ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Cold today with periods of snow, accumulating 2-4 inches. A little snow at times tonight. ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Cloudy and cold with a little snow and flurries today. SKI REPORT Astoria 46/29 Seaside 46/27 Cannon Beach 46/27 0s 10s Hood River 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday T-storms Yesterday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene 75/45/0.00 Akron 48/14/0.00 Albany 33/9/Tr Albuquerque 62/30/0.00 Anchorage 30/26/0.00 Atlanta 61/35/0.00 Atlantic City 36/21/0.00 Austin 71/32/0.00 Baltimore 43/16/0.00 Billings 45/35/0.15 Birmingham 67/35/0.00 Bismarck 18/18/0.02 Boise 50/31/0.00 Boston 33/16/0.00 Bridgeport, CT 34/17/0.00 Buffalo 46/18/Tr Burlington, VT 29/6/Tr Caribou, ME 15/3/0.02 Charleston, SC 63/38/0.00 Charlotte 55/25/0.00 Chattanooga 61/27/0.00 Cheyenne 56/38/0.00 Chicago 47/16/0.00 Cincinnati 57/20/0.00 Cleveland 49/12/0.00 Colorado Springs 65/38/0.00 Columbia, MO 64/30/0.00 Columbia, SC 61/35/0.00 Columbus, GA 67/32/0.00 Columbus, OH 53/18/0.00 Concord, NH 31/10/Tr Corpus Christi 72/50/0.02 Dallas 68/39/0.00 Dayton 55/18/0.00 Denver 63/33/0.00 Des Moines 63/25/0.00 Detroit 45/12/0.00 Duluth 32/11/Tr El Paso 73/33/0.00 Fairbanks 2/-14/0.00 Fargo 14/10/Tr Flagstaff 52/19/0.00 Grand Rapids 48/12/0.00 Green Bay 50/15/0.00 Greensboro 52/24/0.00 Harrisburg 42/17/0.00 Hartford, CT 34/14/0.00 Helena 40/36/0.07 Honolulu 83/68/Tr Houston 66/44/0.00 Huntsville 63/30/0.00 Indianapolis 56/19/0.00 Jackson, MS 69/31/0.00 Jacksonville 70/36/0.00 Today Tuesday Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 81/53/c 73/24/s 55/46/pc 60/37/r 48/33/c 51/48/r 58/34/pc 57/32/c 35/34/sn 37/23/c 64/55/c 75/64/c 49/45/s 54/51/r 82/67/c 83/49/pc 60/44/pc 60/59/r 5/-8/sn -2/-17/c 61/57/sh 75/63/c -3/-13/sn -3/-21/sn 41/25/sf 35/17/c 51/34/pc 50/49/c 47/35/s 49/48/r 47/36/pc 56/37/r 41/26/c 45/41/r 33/3/c 16/16/sn 72/58/pc 76/61/pc 68/55/pc 71/61/c 65/55/pc 70/60/sh 35/-9/sn 4/-9/sn 45/39/c 45/16/r 62/54/pc 62/33/r 54/46/pc 60/31/r 55/9/c 20/-1/sn 67/52/pc 56/14/sh 72/56/pc 78/61/c 66/54/sh 78/61/c 58/50/pc 61/36/r 50/27/pc 45/41/r 81/67/c 88/66/pc 81/63/c 74/31/c 58/52/pc 61/33/r 49/0/sn 8/-1/sn 53/22/c 25/2/sn 43/38/c 53/28/r 7/0/sn 7/-4/sn 68/42/pc 70/44/s 20/19/sn 25/8/sn 1/-7/sn -5/-14/sn 39/26/pc 34/25/sf 41/35/c 43/23/r 22/15/sn 19/8/sn 65/53/pc 68/60/c 61/38/s 60/55/r 52/30/s 50/49/r 10/0/sn 8/-7/c 83/70/pc 82/69/pc 79/67/c 81/64/t 62/55/sh 69/53/sh 57/53/c 60/25/r 71/65/t 80/64/t 76/57/pc 80/57/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 47/40/r 66/51/c 79/62/pc 72/46/pc 85/71/c 36/13/s 65/55/pc 44/37/r 67/48/r 49/36/r 78/65/s 79/54/s 71/54/pc -3/-15/sf 84/74/s 50/44/pc 49/37/pc 44/37/sh 78/62/t 52/50/r 57/49/pc 60/47/pc 83/60/s 75/67/c 67/48/s 52/39/sh 65/33/pc 92/79/c 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. 38/34/Tr 57/27/0.00 48/13/0.00 73/44/0.00 58/22/0.00 67/32/0.00 68/33/0.00 65/49/0.00 63/24/0.00 51/16/0.00 67/37/0.00 79/70/0.21 53/18/0.00 44/21/0.00 64/25/0.00 71/48/0.00 36/21/0.00 37/19/0.00 42/28/0.00 69/37/0.00 66/27/0.00 79/51/0.00 81/55/0.00 50/16/0.00 40/21/0.00 80/51/0.00 48/11/0.00 28/11/0.00 35/16/0.00 54/26/0.00 53/34/0.00 60/29/0.00 48/21/0.00 45/13/Tr 61/43/0.00 66/29/0.00 57/36/0.00 74/41/0.00 63/50/0.00 57/47/0.00 63/42/0.00 56/25/0.00 66/36/0.00 48/38/0.11 57/33/0.00 43/31/Tr 65/35/0.00 82/54/0.00 78/44/0.00 70/44/0.00 43/23/0.00 63/36/0.00 52/26/0.00 79/46/0.00 Today Hi/Lo/W 27/16/pc 68/28/c 43/36/c 66/42/pc 63/54/pc 49/11/c 68/65/t 60/48/c 66/57/pc 35/20/i 65/62/t 79/71/pc 39/31/c 21/8/sn 65/57/pc 75/67/sh 52/41/s 53/37/s 63/51/pc 75/35/c 50/13/c 81/61/s 69/49/pc 54/48/c 58/43/s 69/51/pc 59/44/pc 48/31/pc 51/33/s 68/56/pc 5/-11/sn 40/24/sf 66/52/pc 46/33/c 59/36/s 65/58/pc 37/24/sf 82/64/c 60/52/c 55/45/s 58/43/s 52/29/pc 75/57/pc 43/27/c 23/2/sn 27/8/sf 70/52/pc 83/65/s 67/43/pc 75/43/c 63/49/pc 72/20/pc 40/19/sf 72/46/s Tuesday Hi/Lo/W 27/24/sn 32/7/c 47/22/r 59/41/pc 64/37/r 17/-3/c 70/38/t 58/38/c 67/37/r 25/7/sn 73/40/t 81/72/pc 34/13/sn 11/-2/sn 70/40/t 80/68/t 56/52/r 56/52/r 67/59/c 46/14/pc 17/-3/sn 82/63/s 65/49/c 54/13/r 60/55/r 66/51/pc 60/44/r 42/42/c 52/50/c 72/62/c -3/-21/sf 36/18/sf 66/60/c 53/39/r 55/33/c 61/20/r 38/16/sf 87/59/pc 62/49/sh 52/42/sh 54/34/sh 50/22/pc 79/59/pc 38/22/s 4/-10/sn 21/6/s 57/15/sh 85/66/s 69/44/s 53/14/pc 63/60/r 33/6/c 29/11/s 69/47/s 79/60/0.00 78/49/0.00 27/0/0.01 34/33/0.18 86/63/0.00 79/72/0.02 73/55/0.00 46/37/0.05 30/12/0.12 34/-2/0.03 55/46/0.06 84/74/0.06 61/52/0.00 81/58/0.00 84/68/0.03 30/28/0.29 32/11/0.00 41/25/0.00 89/79/0.13 32/23/0.00 82/66/0.00 52/50/0.63 67/55/0.00 50/41/0.14 43/12/0.00 46/39/0.29 54/30/0.00 41/34/0.15 86/58/pc 78/52/s 33/13/c 36/34/c 85/61/pc 79/69/s 78/54/pc 45/32/sf 35/21/sn 31/18/c 51/41/sh 86/76/t 60/42/t 81/51/c 85/64/t 31/25/sn 39/14/sf 47/36/pc 89/77/c 35/24/sn 83/71/t 59/57/sh 65/54/pc 47/35/s 39/33/pc 42/23/pc 49/39/c 48/36/c 88/66/s 78/54/s 34/30/i 39/34/sn 80/61/t 80/70/s 80/58/pc 46/29/pc 33/27/c 33/28/sn 53/38/c 84/75/t 61/36/s 79/51/s 85/63/pc 31/25/sn 33/12/pc 48/37/c 89/76/pc 28/17/c 74/71/r 62/57/r 68/58/pc 48/34/s 44/28/r 37/22/s 48/37/sh 41/30/sn INTERNATIONAL 48 contiguous states) National high: 85° at Naples, FL National low: -14° at Antero Reservoir, CO Precipitation: 1.12" at Stampede Pass, WA Ski resort New snow Base Anthony Lakes Mtn 0 56-56 Hoodoo Ski Area 0 57-57 Mt. Ashland 0 33-36 Mt. Bachelor 0 66-66 Mt. Hood Meadows 4 87-101 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl 0 40-64 Timberline Lodge 0 106-106 Willamette Pass 0 60-60 Aspen / Snowmass, CO 0 41-66 Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA 0 68-130 Palisades Tahoe, CA 0 0-94 Park City Mountain, UT 0 40-58 Sun Valley, ID 0 50-80 Chance for morning snow showers NATIONAL NATIONAL WEATHER -0s More clouds than sun 47° 17° TRAVEL WEATHER 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 49/41/0.33 46/29/r 42/24/s La Grande 41/35/0.02 35/15/sf 21/3/sf Portland 51/41/0.17 45/27/r 40/21/s Baker City 39/25/Tr 33/16/sf 21/3/pc La Pine 37/27/0.01 37/12/sf 24/0/pc Prineville 43/30/0.00 42/14/sf 24/0/s Brookings 50/41/0.00 46/36/sh 49/33/s Medford 51/30/0.01 44/28/sh 46/14/pc Redmond 45/24/Tr 40/15/sf 23/-3/s Burns 41/23/0.02 36/18/sf 29/6/sn Newport 46/41/0.79 43/29/r 41/24/s Roseburg 49/42/0.10 41/32/c 41/19/c Eugene 50/41/0.03 43/28/r 41/16/s North Bend 49/43/0.13 46/33/r 46/23/s Salem 51/42/0.02 45/25/r 40/17/s Klamath Falls 43/23/Tr 37/17/sf 36/6/sn Ontario 50/28/Tr 44/25/sf 37/16/pc Sisters 42/33/0.00 40/11/sn 22/-3/s Lakeview 42/30/0.00 35/18/sf 30/5/sn Pendleton 49/39/0.05 40/17/sf 28/9/s The Dalles 55/44/0.01 49/22/sh 39/17/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 -10s SUNDAY 48° 16° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Umatilla 46/21 Rufus Hermiston 46/19 45/20 49/22 Arlington Hillsboro Portland Meacham Lostine 45/19 45/26 45/27 34/14 Wasco 33/9 Enterprise Pendleton The Dalles Tillamook 31/8 46/19 40/17 Sandy 49/22 McMinnville 46/23 Joseph Heppner La Grande 42/22 Maupin Government 45/26 35/15 30/8 Camp 46/17 Condon 38/12 Union Lincoln City 39/11 33/9 37/17 Salem 44/28 Spray Granite Warm Springs 45/25 Madras 42/11 Albany 27/7 Newport Baker City 43/18 43/17 Mitchell 43/29 44/22 33/16 Camp Sherman 39/16 Redmond Corvallis John Yachats Unity 40/11 40/15 43/23 Day Prineville 42/30 31/9 Ontario Sisters 42/14 Paulina 34/15 44/25 Florence Eugene 40/11 Bend Brothers 37/13 Vale 45/30 43/28 39/14 35/15 Sunriver 43/24 Nyssa 37/11 Hampton Cottage La Pine 46/25 Juntura Oakridge Grove 37/12 36/16 OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay Burns 40/23 38/18 40/25 Fort Rock 44/31 36/18 Riley YESTERDAY Crescent 37/17 35/17 High: 55° 35/14 Bandon Roseburg Christmas Valley Jordan Valley at The Dalles Beaver Frenchglen Silver 46/34 41/32 36/14 33/18 Low: 23° Marsh Lake 34/22 Port Orford 34/10 37/14 at Crater Lake Grants Burns Junction Paisley 47/38 Pass 38/19 Chiloquin 36/18 45/30 Rome Medford 36/14 Gold Beach 44/28 40/21 45/38 Klamath Fields Ashland McDermitt Lakeview Falls Brookings 37/22 42/24 37/17 35/19 46/36 35/18 Yesterday Normal Record 43° 47° 70° in 1977 34° 24° -2° in 2006 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 52/37/1.85 64/45/0.00 75/65/0.00 72/59/0.00 91/81/0.00 38/15/0.00 64/55/0.00 46/35/0.41 68/50/0.00 50/27/0.01 72/70/0.40 75/60/0.00 66/48/0.00 3/1/0.40 82/73/0.00 52/43/1.38 50/39/0.50 52/34/0.22 77/60/0.09 50/49/1.52 54/37/0.00 56/42/0.00 81/58/0.00 75/65/0.00 66/46/0.00 54/45/0.20 63/28/0.00 92/80/0.01 50/40/r 64/47/t 80/63/r 75/50/pc 86/70/pc 35/12/s 67/57/pc 44/39/c 67/49/r 50/31/pc 77/66/pc 76/56/s 74/58/pc -2/-16/pc 84/74/pc 50/39/r 49/38/r 47/36/c 80/61/t 54/50/r 60/48/pc 63/53/pc 80/58/t 77/67/c 71/49/s 56/36/sh 68/37/s 90/78/c 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 UKRAINE CRISIS U.S. agrees to meet as Russia rescinds troop vow BY LORI HINNANT, JIM HEINTZ AND ZEKE MILLER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Sunday rescinded earlier pledges to pull tens of thousands of its troops back from Ukraine’s northern border, a move that U.S. leaders said put Russia an- other step closer to what they said was the planned invasion of Ukraine. Resi- dents of Ukraine’s capital filled a gold- domed cathedral to pray for peace. Russia’s action extends what it said were military exercises, originally set to end Sunday, that brought an estimated 30,000 Russian forces to Belarus, Ukraine’s neighbor to the north. They are among at least 150,000 Russian troops now deployed outside Ukraine’s borders, along with tanks, warplanes, artillery and other war materiel. The continued deployment of the Russian forces in Belarus raised concern that Russia could send those troops to sweep down on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people less than a three- hour drive away. In what appeared to be a last-ditch diplomatic gambit brokered with the aid of French President Emmanuel Macron, the White House said U.S. President Joe Biden has agreed “in principle” to a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as long as he holds off on launching an assault that U.S. officials warn appears increas- ingly more likely. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration has been clear that “we are committed to pursuing diplomacy until the moment an invasion begins.” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are set to meet on Thursday in Europe — as long as Russia does not send its troops into Ukraine beforehand. “We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia in- stead choose war,” Psaki said in state- ment. “And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full- scale assault on Ukraine very soon.” ‘We all love life’ In Kyiv, life outwardly continued as usual for many on a mild winter Sunday, with brunches and church services, ahead of what Biden said late last week was an already decid- ed-upon Russian attack. Emilio Morenatti/AP Demonstrators holding a huge Ukrainian flag march along the street in Odessa, Ukraine, on Sunday. Thousands of people marked the date on which, eight years ago, more than a hundred people were killed during Ukraine’s Maidan revolution. preparations for an attack. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive intelligence. The U.S. and many European coun- tries have charged for weeks that Putin has built up the forces he needs to in- vade Ukraine — a westward-looking democracy that has sought to move out of Russia’s orbit — and is now try- ing to create pretexts to invade. Western nations have threatened massive sanctions if Putin does. Vadim Ghirda/AP A Ukrainian serviceman leaves a command post to start his shift in eastern Ukraine on Sunday. Russia has extended military drills amid increased fears that two days of sus- tained shelling along the contact line between soldiers and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine could spark an invasion. Katerina Spanchak, who fled a re- gion of eastern Ukraine when it was taken over by Russian-allied separatists, was among worshippers crowded into the capital’s St. Michael’s monastery, smoky with the candles burned by the faithful, to pray that Ukraine be spared. “We all love life, and we are all united by our love of life,” Spanchak said, pausing to compose herself. “We should appreciate it every day. That’s why I think everything will be fine.” “Our joint prayers will help to elude this tragedy, which is advancing,” said another worshipper, who identified himself only by his first name, Oleh. A U.S. official said Sunday that Biden’s assertion that Putin has made the decision to roll Russian forces into Ukraine was based on intelligence that Russian front-line commanders have been given orders to begin final Why no sanctions yet? U.S. officials on Sunday defended their decision to hold off on their planned financial punishments of Russia ahead of any invasion, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel- enskyy called passionately Saturday for the West to do more. “If you pull the trigger on that de- terrent, well then, it doesn’t exist anymore as a deterrent,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Fox on Washington’s sanctions threat. Russia held nuclear drills Saturday as well as the conventional exercises in Belarus, and has ongoing naval drills off the coast in the Black Sea. The announcement that Russia was reversing its pledge to withdraw its forces from Belarus came after two days of sustained shelling along a con- tact line between Ukraine’s soldiers and Russian-allied separatists in east- ern Ukraine, an area that Ukraine and the West worry could be the flash- point in igniting conflict. Biden convened the National Se- curity Council at the White House on Russia’s military buildup around Ukraine. White House officials re- leased no immediate details of their roughly two hours of discussion. ”We’re talking about the potential for war in Europe,” Vice President Kamala Harris said earlier Sunday at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that saw urgent consultations among world leaders on the crisis. “It’s been over 70 years, and through those 70 years ... there has been peace and security.” Zelenskyy on Sunday appealed on Twitter for a cease-fire. Russia has de- nied plans to invade, but the Kremlin did not respond to Zelenskyy’s offer Saturday to meet with Putin. After a call with Macron, Putin blamed Ukraine — incorrectly, ac- cording to observers there — for the escalation of shelling along the con- tact line and NATO for “pumping modern weapons and ammunition” into Ukraine. Macron, a leader in European ef- forts to broker a peaceful resolution with Russia, also spoke separately to Zelenskyy, to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and to Biden. Blinken intentionally raised the prospect of a Biden-Putin summit in interviews with U.S. television net- works Sunday, in a bid to keep diplo- macy alive, a senior U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of an- onymity to discuss U.S. reasoning. Blinken said that Biden was “pre- pared to meet President Putin at any time in any format if that can help prevent a war” and the U.S. official said Macron had then conveyed the offer of talks to Putin — conditioned on Russia not invading — in his phone calls with the Russian leader. Tensions mounted further, however. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued an advisory urging greater caution by Americans in Russia overall. “Have evacuation plans that do not rely on U.S. government assistance,” it warned. Immediate worries focused on east- ern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting the pro-Russia rebels since 2014 in a conflict that has killed some 14,000 people.
