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Wa shin gton 81/54 New York 76/49 Miami 89/75 Atlanta 75/65 Detroit 69/42 Houston 77/64 Chicago 64/47 Minneapolis 70/50 Kansas City 68/55 El Paso 76/53 Denve r 50/32 Billings 61 /35 Los Angeles 76/56 San Francisco 69/51 Seattle 65/46 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans:0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast s-sunny,pc-partly cloudy,c-cloudy,sh-showers,t-thunderstorms,r-rain,sf-snow flurries,sn-snow,i-ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Africa CarsonCity Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: SUNDAY 91° 55° MONDAY 91° 56° Mostly sunn y Mostly sunn y TUESDAY 84° 54° No t as ho t with clouds and sun WEDNESDAY 74° 52° Ra ther cloudy , sho we rs around TODAY 90° 58° Sunshine. Partly cloudy and mild tonight. High ....................................................................... 84° Low ........................................................................ 49° Normal high ......................................................... 71° Normal low ........................................................... 47° Record high ............................................. 94° in 1954 Record low .............................................. 36° in 2006 Humidity noon today ........................................ 25% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.68" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.87" Season to date ................................................ 19.55" Normal season to date .................................. 22.13" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass ............. Moderate Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ..................... Low 7 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 6:27 a.m. 7:50 p.m. 6:31 a.m. 8:06 p.m. Sunday 6:26 a.m. 7:51 p.m. 7:13 a.m. 9:16 p.m. 13 hr., 23 min. Apr18 New Apr25 First Full May3 Last May11 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.10 ......+0.30 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.30 ....... -0.10 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.00 .......none atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.80 ......+0.30 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.40 ......+0.20 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......165.70 .......none BlackButte ....................454.15..............65,131 .....45.3% LakeOroville..................763.98.........1,811,557 .....48.5% LakeShasta ...................995.04.........2,721,996 .....59.8% LakeTrinity..................2276.32.........1,201,607 .....45.4% Whiskeytown...............1200.11............210,454 .....87.3% Weather Trivia ™ Where is the world's driest place? The Atacama Desert in Chile where rain almost never falls. Today Sunday Anaheim 78/53/s 75/53/pc Bakersfield 88/57/s 90/60/s Chula Vista 74/53/s 71/53/pc Crescent City 62/48/pc 62/47/s Death Valley 94/62/s 95/61/s Eureka 62/45/pc 63/47/s Fremont 82/50/pc 82/49/pc Fresno 88/56/s 90/58/s Glendale 78/55/s 76/55/pc Huntington Beach 71/56/s 68/56/pc Irvine 74/54/s 71/54/pc Lake Tahoe 66/31/pc 66/31/pc Long Beach 76/56/s 72/56/pc Los Angeles 76/56/s 73/56/pc Mammoth Mountain 66/33/s 66/30/pc Modesto 87/54/s 88/55/s Monterey 65/46/pc 64/47/pc Moreno Valley 82/45/s 81/46/s Napa 76/44/pc 76/44/pc Needles 92/63/s 94/63/s Oakland 71/50/pc 70/50/pc Oxnard 70/51/s 66/50/pc Redding 91/58/s 92/55/s Riverside 83/44/s 83/45/s Sacramento 87/51/s 87/51/s San Bernardino 83/46/s 83/46/s San Diego 74/59/s 71/58/pc San Francisco 69/51/pc 69/51/pc San Jose 81/51/s 79/51/pc San Luis Obispo 76/47/pc 70/47/pc Santa Ana 74/56/s 71/55/pc Santa Barbara 69/51/s 67/50/pc Santa Clarita 80/50/s 78/50/s Stockton 88/52/s 88/51/s Ventura 69/50/s 66/50/pc Yosemite Valley 79/48/pc 79/47/pc Today Sunday Albuquerque 65/43/c 68/43/c Atlanta 75/65/t 76/64/r Baltimore 79/47/s 63/49/pc Boston 64/44/sh 54/40/s Buffalo 63/37/s 65/48/pc Chicago 64/47/pc 55/47/r Cincinnati 78/55/s 69/55/t Dallas 79/60/t 80/52/s Denver 50/32/sh 50/29/c Detroit 69/42/s 58/51/r El Paso 76/53/s 81/53/s Fargo 71/45/sh 57/31/r Honolulu 83/71/pc 83/70/pc Houston 77/64/t 88/62/pc Indianapolis 78/55/pc 67/53/t Kansas City 68/55/r 64/42/r Las Vegas 84/61/s 85/62/s Louisville 81/61/pc 76/60/t Miami 89/75/t 89/76/pc Minneapolis 70/50/pc 60/38/r New Orleans 77/69/r 83/69/t New York City 76/49/s 60/46/s Oklahoma City 75/56/t 71/44/s A small storm system will bring a batch of rain to northern New England with wet snowflakes over some of the highest elevations today. Much of the area from the Great Lakes to the Carolina coast can expect at least partial sunshine with an area of high pressure over the southern Appalachians and a second high over Ontario. A storm will begin to move out of the Rockies. A large swath of showers and drenching thunderstorms will extend from the central Plains to the western and central Gulf Coast. Snow will wind down over the central Rockies. High ............................ 90° in Thermal, CA Low ........................... 9° in Angel Fire, NM High ........... 113° in Nawabshah, Pakistan Low ........ -32° in Chaunskaya Bay, Russia Bogota 63/50/t 65/51/t Buenos Aires 72/59/s 77/56/s Caracas 85/75/pc 85/74/pc Ensenada 75/52/s 73/51/s Mexico City 79/50/pc 79/48/pc Montreal 54/34/sh 56/36/s Rio de Janeiro 85/76/t 85/75/t Tijuana 75/52/s 73/53/s Toronto 63/34/s 52/41/pc Vancouver 61/42/s 64/44/s Orlando 86/70/t 89/71/t Philadelphia 78/49/s 63/50/pc Phoenix 89/64/s 92/64/s Pittsburgh 75/47/s 64/51/sh Portland, ME 55/37/sh 58/37/s Portland, OR 73/46/s 76/48/s St. Louis 79/59/t 70/52/t Salt Lake City 64/42/pc 66/43/pc Seattle 65/46/s 68/47/s Tucson 83/54/s 86/55/s Washington, DC 81/54/s 66/55/pc Cairo 80/58/s 85/64/s Casablanca 69/52/pc 69/50/s Johannesburg 67/51/t 65/49/t Kinshasa 91/72/t 89/73/t Lagos 92/76/t 91/77/t Nairobi 82/59/t 82/60/t Tripoli 91/74/s 97/63/pc Baghdad 87/61/s 88/61/s Beijing 67/50/c 72/49/c Hong Kong 81/76/c 83/75/pc Jerusalem 65/50/s 69/54/s Kabul 72/46/c 65/49/r Manila 92/80/c 93/80/c Melbourne 70/45/c 56/44/sh New Delhi 100/75/pc 102/77/pc Seoul 69/51/pc 62/47/r Singapore 90/80/t 90/79/t Sydney 82/64/pc 70/59/r Tehran 70/54/s 75/58/s Tokyo 65/52/s 68/56/r Amsterdam 57/39/s 55/39/pc Athens 75/56/s 73/55/pc Belgrade 56/41/t 59/37/s Berlin 53/36/pc 58/41/pc Budapest 57/34/pc 57/37/pc Dublin 52/37/s 52/37/s London 59/40/s 55/40/pc Madrid 66/41/pc 66/44/pc Moscow 48/27/r 41/27/c Paris 61/41/pc 63/42/s Rome 67/51/pc 65/49/t Stockholm 50/37/pc 55/40/pc Vienna 53/35/pc 55/39/s Zurich 56/36/pc 61/36/s 73/38 75/41 75/42 73/40 74/33 87/51 86/51 76/44 86/50 88/55 89/57 69/29 73/27 74/38 91/58 90/58 85/51 65/49 68/50 62/45 79/45 76/40 79/40 62/48 78/41 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByJoanLowy The Associated Press WASHINGTON An emer- gency order requiring trains hauling crude oil and other flammable liquids to slow down as they pass through urban areas and a series of other steps to improve the safety were announced Fri- day by the Department of Transportation. The Obama administra- tion has been under intense pressure from members of Congress as well as state and local officials to ensure the safety of oil trains that traverse the country after leaving the Bakken region of North Dakota. To get to refineries on the East and West coasts and the Gulf of Mexico, oil shipments travel through more than 400 counties, including major metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia, Seattle, Chi- cago, Newark and dozens of other cities. There have been a series of fiery oil train explosions in the U.S. and Canada in recent years, including one just across the border in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people. Major freight railroads have already limited oil trains to no more 40 mph in "high threat" urban areas under a voluntary agree- ment reached last year with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. But Friday's order makes the speed lim- itation a requirement and extends it to trains carry- ing other flammable liquids like ethanol. However, investigators have said the trains in most of the recent accidents were traveling at less than 40 mph but still derailed. The voluntary agree- ment also applied only to trains that used older tank cars that are easily rup- tured in crashes. The new order includes tank cars constructed since 2011 that were designed to replace the older cars, but which have also repeatedly rup- tured in crashes, spilling their contents. So far this year there have been four oil train derailments re- sulting in huge fireballs — two in the U.S. and two in Canada. All involved the newer tank cars known as 1232 cars. The department has also issued an advisory to rail- roads to strengthen its pro- cedures for checking for flaws in train wheels that can cause a crash. A broken train wheel is suspected of causing the March 5 derail- ment near Galena, Illinois, of a train hauling 103 cars of Bakken crude. The department also wants inspectors with the highest qualifications to conduct brake and me- chanical inspections be- fore trains carrying oil and other hazardous liquids de- part. Railroads were also asked to put a system in place to quickly provide in- vestigators with key infor- mation on trains and their contents in the event of an accident. Railroads were also notified that the de- partment is working on regulations requiring them to provide more detailed information on the trains and their contents than currently required, includ- ing any testing and analysis of the crude oil before the tank cars were filled. Tests results of crude from the Bakken region show it is often far more volatile and likely to ignite than other types of crude oil. However, the American Petroleum Institute says Bakken crude is similar to other light, sweet crudes. The new directives "build on the many practices and protocols the industry has applied for years for safely moving and handling haz- ardous materials by rail, in- cluding flammable liquids," Edward Hamberger, presi- dent of the Association of American Railroads, said in a statement. Besides the steps an- nounced Friday, the depart- ment has a proposed a more comprehensive series of reg- ulations to address oil train safety, including a stronger tank car design and better train braking systems. TRANSPORTATION Officialsissueoiltrainsafetymeasures THECANADIANPRESS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil a er derailing in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, in 2013. WelcomeRodeoFans! 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