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While those vacationing in states below the snow belt enjoyed unseasonably warm weather, heavy snow and rain in the Northwest and Midwest forced some Harvard students to alter their plans...
...another nasty winter? It's still autumn, but last week a "pineapple express" of soggy Pacific air dumped 2 ft. of snow and drenching rainfall over large portions of the Northwest. The previous week, unseasonably cold air barreling across the Great Lakes picked up moisture and buried shoreside communities in "lake effect" snow. What will happen when winter actually gets here? "More cold. More snow" is the sure-bet prediction of WJW-TV weatherman Dick Goddard in Cleveland, Ohio. Other prognostications...
...FARMER'S ALMANAC Forecast: "Snowfall is expected to be above normal in much of the eastern and central parts of the country...Snowfall in the Rocky Mountains and Northwest will generally be below normal..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
Locke, who spent two years as a manager at the Hanford Reservation's Pacific Northwest National Lab, has alleged that opponent Richard Hastings didn't object forcefully enough to an implicit threat by presidential candidate Bob Dole to cut funding for the Lab if he is elected. But in a district that generally leans Republican, it remains to be seen if he can break Hastings' hold...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Any strategy we have for diversifying our economy has to be built around the [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory]...It's a huge, wonderful $70 million complex, and to threaten the resources there would be wasteful...