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CARMEL JCT. 8756, ' 5(870 KANAB ft " vTfiJP 8657 MEXICAN ft Hat 9158 ' 8950 8858 5.9 million -r" -i acres have been by wildfires so far this year, is 70 percent more than the average for the same period during the previous 10 years, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center. In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicated that between 28 and 37 percent of the peanut, spring wheat, sorghum, and cotton crops were in poor or yery poor condition nationally, compared to between 5 and 17 percent of the same crops at. this time . last year. Fully half of the nation's pastures and rangelands were in poor or very poor condition, a proportion exceeded only once since weekly growing season records were first gathered in May 1995. Some areas reported a large proportion of their corn andor soybean crops in poor or very poor condition, but on a national scale, the proportion was similar to this time last year." than New S flurries,srj-snow- 8350 8349 ESCALANTE-- ST.GKRC New Orleans . TODAY Hilo Pr. MQNTICELLO, ,PANGUITCH 854? BONNP Montgomery Nashville 8362 s . CANYWiwDS", 9058' - 9262 62 "M n.nJl.., 'S562 f ARCHES Minneapolis Mobile pc t 9256 8666 9269 8856 8266 8873 8868 8366 8254 Juneau Kansas 91S" 8651 stv, 8751 T "CRESCENtt MS Milwaukee t tr Jacksonville Indianapolis Jackson. Midland s 7553 s , PRICE pc 0.12 97J9 8361 9975 9270 8454. v 8764 8055 9474 8560 8356 S659 7755 0.03 8977 Harrisburg Helena Memphis Miami 9074 t 8566 s 8451 Bay Honolulu ... FREMONT II ft' t BEAVER. I 8649 LAS CRUCES ft 8754 ft E 8656, rwiN . mt, tt HELPER SAUNA 18651.' 9458 Green 8653 BILLMORE PUEBLO SUMMIT MANTJ, , ' EPHRAIM . ' , 8652 NEPHI ff V "746 8651 ft 8753 8550 VERNAL ROOSEVELT FRUITLAND 8555 OINOSAW . 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Karachi 17.99 10.16 High: Low: 27 at Boca Reservoir, CA pc Kabul 0.54 0.48 17.09 0.91 NATIONAL r Halifax Hanoi 0.65 0.00 s 7765 Grand Cayman August Normal 0.00 High: 99 at St. George Low: 42 at Bryce Canyon sh F.Ji .Guadalapra Guam Season Normal To Date To Date' pc Edinburgh Edmonton Dublin 56 WiMiHtlWiiYl UTAH .9379 8466 t 8266 pc 10068 Shown is Extremes pc 8574 pc. 6454 sh 6654 sh 7245 pc Dakar QJ pc pc ..'60 8554 Month To Date Rainfall year: s Caracas .8452 9066 8957 Spanish Fork Richfield s 7049 Calgary to Sunny partly cloudy and nice Albuquerque 9259 9158 8963 9058 8948 " ' 9060 9058 8851 9269 Ogden HeberCity Orem - Utah Lake 57.37 per 10275 Cairo 56 Qg SUNDAY IANCE Yesterday Precip. HighLow 9162 9166 9570 Provo - Airport Salt Lake City pc 8877 pc 8864 s' 8777 s 9764 s Normal Yesterday HighLow Provo-BY- 6147 Beijing ' pc 86 Auckland Mostly sunny Mostly SATURDAY Regional almanac HiLo W E J Albany TODAY CITY EEE" I M FRIDAY The West & OFFANYEHtREE ij TODAY World cities Thursday. August 17, 2006 AccuWeatrier, Inc. 2006 ft- MHZ - JOT, Weather history .'.M.i Aug.'l 7: In 1883, a flood in Spanish Fork Canyon swept away a lumber mill and some cabins. In 1959, gale force winds and a cloudburst hit ProvO. A baby had to be evacuated out a window ,when 3 feet of wa-ter blocked the'doore of the home. 1 New First quarter Aug. 31 Aug. 23 Full Last quarter Sept. 7 ' Sept, 14 IE SETS RISES SUN 6:39 am. MOON 12:30 a m. MilM'.'l RISES SETS p.m 6:40 a.m. 8:20 p.m. 4:33 p.m. 1:18 a.m. 5:33 p.m. 8:21 Sunshine is in store for much of both the Northeast and. Pacific Coast today. Thunderstorms will drench portions of the Southeast and Southwest, but sunshine will bake the lower Mississippi Valley again. Sky watch O Q Q V National forecast Sun & moon O ? i . R Tonight's Sky: On Friday, from rising to setting, the moon is above the horizon for 16.6 hours, about an hour longer than the sun on the longest day of the year, at the summer solstice! Source: lim Todd. Oregon Mirteurr and 'ndustry of Scnce MERCURY VENUS MARS JUPITER SATURN RISES 5:26 a m 5:04 a.m. 8:29 am. 1:10 p.m. 5:56 a.m. SETS 7:44 p.m. 7:29 p.m. 9:18 p.m 11.36pm. 8:01 p.m Afghanistan headed for record year of opium cultivation Fisnik Abrashi ' ;ATEL iVs', KABUL, Afghanistan Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels up by more than 40 percent from 2005 despite s hundreds of millions in money. Western officials told The Associated Press. The increase could have seri- ous repercussions for an already grave security situation, wim drug lords joining the Taliban-lefight against Afghan and interna-tiona- l forces. ofA Western ficial in Kabul said about 370.650 acres of opium poppy, was cultivated this season up from 257,000 acres in 2005 citing their preliminary crop projections. counter-narcotic- ' d The previous record was 323,700 acres in 2004, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It is a significant increase from last year ... unfortunately, it is a record year," said a senior U.S. government official based in Kabul, who like the other Western officials would speak only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive topic. Final figures, and an estimate of the yield of opium resin from , the poppies, will be clear only when the U.N. agency completes its assessment of the crop, based on satellite imagery and ground surveys. Its report is due in Sep- tember. The U.N. reported last year that Afghanistan produced an estimated 4,500 tonsof opium enough to make 430 tons of nearly 90 percent of world supply. This year's preliminary findings indicate a failure in attempts, to eradicate poppy cultivation and continuing corruption among provincial officials and police problems acknowledged by President heroin Hamid Karzai. Karzai told Fortune magazine in a recent interview that "lots of people" in.his administration profited from the narcotics trade and that he had unflerestimated the difficulty of eradicating opium production. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimate that opium accounted for 52 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product in 2005. vv hi f RODRIQO A man smokes opium ABDAssociated Press at the oldcity in Kabul, Afghanistan. Preliminary surveys show levels this year, up by more opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record-breakin-g than 40 percent on 2005, despite hundreds of millions in aid aimed at stopping the nanon s suae inro narco-aepenaenc- |
