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Washington 87/71 New York 79/67 Miami 88/77 Atlanta 83/69 Detroit 79/64 Houston 87/74 Chicago 77/63 Minneapolis 80/66 Kansas City 76/63 El Paso 75/52 Denver 59/41 Billings 48/41 Los Angeles 69/59 San Francisco 63/52 Seattle 62/51 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 77° 53° MONDAY 78° 52° Pleasant with va riable clouds Times of clouds and sun TUESDAY 78° 53° Mostly sunn y WEDNESDAY 80° 55° A sho we r in the afternoon TODAY 76° 52° Partly sunny. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 71° Low ........................................................................ 47° Normal high ......................................................... 81° Normal low ........................................................... 54° Record high ........................................... 104° in 2008 Record low .............................................. 38° in 1943 Humidity noon today ........................................ 46% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.14" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.67" Season to date ................................................ 19.81" Normal season to date .................................. 23.49" 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: Beneficial Grass ...................... High Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ........... Moderate 7 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 5:53 a.m. 8:18 p.m. 5:04 a.m. 6:53 p.m. Sunday 5:52 a.m. 8:19 p.m. 5:47 a.m. 8:01 p.m. 14 hr., 25 min. May17 New May25 First Full Jun2 Last Jun9 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.70 ......+0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.10 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.60 .......none atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.60 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.30 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.20 .......none BlackButte ....................455.37..............68,798 .....47.9% LakeOroville..................748.64.........1,664,896 .....44.5% LakeShasta ...................986.52.........2,545,611 .....55.9% LakeTrinity..................2264.19.........1,082,930 .....40.9% Whiskeytown...............1208.53............236,401 .....98.1% Weather Trivia ™ One inch of water on one acre of land weighs 110 pounds or tons? 110 tons. Today Sunday Anaheim 69/55/pc 70/54/pc Bakersfield 77/55/pc 79/55/pc Chula Vista 65/55/pc 66/56/pc Crescent City 57/47/s 56/47/pc Death Valley 85/60/pc 89/63/c Eureka 58/47/pc 57/47/c Fremont 67/45/pc 64/44/pc Fresno 76/53/pc 76/53/pc Glendale 68/55/pc 68/53/pc Huntington Beach 66/58/pc 65/56/pc Irvine 63/59/pc 65/57/pc Lake Tahoe 55/32/pc 54/32/pc Long Beach 69/58/pc 69/56/pc Los Angeles 69/59/pc 69/56/pc Mammoth Mountain 57/34/pc 55/34/pc Modesto 77/51/pc 74/52/pc Monterey 59/52/pc 60/51/pc Moreno Valley 69/48/pc 72/48/pc Napa 66/46/pc 63/47/pc Needles 83/63/s 88/66/pc Oakland 63/52/pc 61/52/pc Oxnard 67/54/pc 65/53/pc Redding 77/54/pc 79/54/c Riverside 70/50/pc 73/48/pc Sacramento 74/51/pc 71/50/pc San Bernardino 69/48/pc 73/46/pc San Diego 66/59/pc 68/59/pc San Francisco 63/52/pc 64/53/pc San Jose 65/52/pc 65/52/pc San Luis Obispo 66/50/pc 65/49/pc Santa Ana 67/58/pc 67/56/pc Santa Barbara 68/50/pc 66/50/pc Santa Clarita 67/51/pc 69/50/pc Stockton 74/49/pc 71/49/pc Ventura 68/54/pc 65/53/pc Yosemite Valley 67/43/pc 68/45/pc Today Sunday Albuquerque 59/43/t 70/48/s Atlanta 83/69/t 84/70/t Baltimore 85/67/t 85/67/pc Boston 70/57/sh 72/51/pc Buffalo 71/58/c 77/64/c Chicago 77/63/t 78/62/t Cincinnati 77/64/c 82/65/pc Dallas 80/67/t 84/68/t Denver 59/41/t 64/39/c Detroit 79/64/c 82/66/c El Paso 75/52/pc 80/58/pc Fargo 75/61/t 69/37/sh Honolulu 83/70/s 82/69/c Houston 87/74/t 86/74/c Indianapolis 75/65/pc 81/65/pc Kansas City 76/63/pc 81/57/pc Las Vegas 77/59/pc 82/62/pc Louisville 78/69/c 84/69/pc Miami 88/77/t 87/76/pc Minneapolis 80/66/t 77/49/t New Orleans 84/76/t 86/76/t New York City 79/67/pc 85/64/c Oklahoma City 75/61/t 83/63/pc Warm and humid air will expand from the South to more of the Midwest and into much of the North- east today. The uptick in moisture and southerly flow will produce spotty but locally drenching showers and thunderstorms from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and northern Appalachians. Farther west, severe thunderstorms, includ- ing the risk of tornadoes, will affect areas from south-central Texas to North Dakota. The storms can also bring large hail, damaging wind gusts, frequent lightning strikes and flash flooding. Spotty storms will dot the Interior West. High ......................... 95° in Fort Myers, FL Low ............... 22° in Bodie State Park, CA High ................... 116° in Atar, Mauritania Low ... -23° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 67/49/t 68/51/t Buenos Aires 74/64/s 75/65/t Caracas 87/73/pc 87/73/t Ensenada 65/49/pc 67/48/pc Mexico City 74/56/t 77/56/t Montreal 72/53/c 77/54/s Rio de Janeiro 77/68/pc 78/69/c Tijuana 66/54/pc 67/55/pc Toronto 76/51/c 73/55/c Vancouver 63/50/pc 66/52/c Orlando 87/72/t 89/71/t Philadelphia 85/68/pc 85/66/c Phoenix 78/63/pc 86/66/s Pittsburgh 79/63/pc 81/65/t Portland, ME 65/51/sh 75/49/pc Portland, OR 64/51/pc 75/54/pc St. Louis 81/71/t 85/69/t Salt Lake City 55/47/sh 61/49/c Seattle 62/51/pc 70/54/t Tucson 73/57/pc 83/59/s Washington, DC 87/71/t 88/71/pc Cairo 88/63/s 92/67/s Casablanca 84/61/pc 88/63/s Johannesburg 78/51/s 76/50/pc Kinshasa 90/74/t 89/73/t Lagos 90/77/t 88/77/t Nairobi 78/61/pc 80/60/pc Tripoli 87/61/r 77/61/s Baghdad 94/70/s 99/73/s Beijing 85/62/s 89/63/t Hong Kong 91/81/sh 89/81/t Jerusalem 85/59/s 91/63/s Kabul 85/54/pc 84/52/t Manila 96/80/s 96/80/s Melbourne 62/42/s 67/43/s New Delhi 102/79/pc 106/81/pc Seoul 75/49/s 74/52/pc Singapore 88/80/t 90/80/t Sydney 65/56/sh 68/55/pc Tehran 81/61/s 83/64/s Tokyo 74/65/r 75/65/pc Amsterdam 58/47/sh 59/49/pc Athens 81/63/pc 82/63/pc Belgrade 76/56/pc 78/54/pc Berlin 63/45/pc 60/44/pc Budapest 72/49/pc 73/44/pc Dublin 54/44/pc 55/43/sh London 62/45/pc 62/47/pc Madrid 82/53/s 85/57/s Moscow 50/42/r 52/41/r Paris 64/45/pc 65/46/pc Rome 71/59/pc 82/60/t Stockholm 56/40/pc 50/38/sh Vienna 71/57/pc 68/48/pc Zurich 68/48/pc 67/46/pc 62/38 65/42 65/44 64/41 65/39 74/51 75/51 66/46 72/49 75/53 74/53 61/33 62/36 63/41 77/54 76/52 70/47 60/50 63/49 58/47 67/46 67/41 69/40 57/47 66/40 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByEricTuckerand Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press WASHINGTON A decade- old oil leak where an off- shore platform toppled dur- ing a hurricane could con- tinue spilling crude into the Gulf of Mexico for a century or more if left unchecked, according to government estimates obtained by The Associated Press that pro- vide new details about the scope of the problem. Taylor Energy Company, which owned the platform and a cluster of oil wells, has played down the extent and environmental impact of the leak. The company also maintains that nothing can be done to completely eliminate the chronic oil slicks that often stretch for miles off the coast of Lou- isiana. Taylor has tried to bro- ker a deal with the govern- ment to resolve its financial obligations for the leak, but authorities have rebuffed those overtures and have ordered additional work by the company, according to Justice Department offi- cials. Those officials were not authorized to comment publicly by name and spoke only on condition of ano- nymity. "There is still more that can be done by Taylor to control and contain the oil that is discharging" from the site, says an Interior Department fact sheet ob- tained by AP. Federal regulators sus- pect oil is still leaking from at least one of 25 wells that remain buried under mounds of sediment from an underwater mud- slide triggered by waves whipped up by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. A Taylor contractor drilled new wells to inter- cept and plug nine wells deemed capable of leaking oil. But a company official has asserted that experts agree the "best course of ac- tion ... is to not take any af- firmative action" due to the risks of additional drilling. An AP investigation last month revealed evidence that the leak is far worse than Taylor, or the govern- ment, has publicly reported during a secretive response to the slow-motion spill. The AP's review of more than 2,300 Coast Guard pollution reports since 2008 showed a dramatic spike in sheen sizes and oil volumes since Sept. 1, 2014. That reported in- crease came just after federal regulators held a workshop last August to improve the accuracy of Taylor's slick estimates and started sending gov- ernment observers on a Taylor contractor's daily flights over the site. Presented with AP's findings, the Coast Guard provided a new leak esti- mate that is about 20 times greater than one recently touted by the company. In a February 2015 court filing, Taylor cited a year-old es- timate that oil was leaking at a rate of less than 4 gal- lons per day. A Coast Guard fact sheet says sheens as large as 1.5 miles wide and 14 miles long have been spotted by Taylor since the workshop. Since last September, the estimated daily volume of oil discharged from the site has ranged from roughly 42 gallons to 2,329 gallons, with a daily average of more than 84 gallons. Some experts have given far greater estimates of the leak's extent. Based on sat- ellite imagery and pollu- tion reports, the watch- dog group SkyTruth esti- mates between 300,000 and 1.4 million gallons have spilled from the site since 2004, with an annual aver- age daily leak rate between 37 and 900 gallons. DECADE-OLD LEAK Federal government: Gulf oil spill could last 100 years JOHNBAZEMORE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Waves crash against a sailboat lodged under a bridge in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., a er Hurricane Ivan struck the gulf coast. Federal regulators believe a persistent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began a er a drilling platform was toppled during Hurricane Ivan in 2004will continue for 100years or more if le unchecked. FURNITUREDEPOT 235So.MainSt.,RedBluff 527-1657 MON.-FRI.9:00-6:00 SAT. 9:00-5:00 • SUN. 11:00-5:00 TakeAn EXTRA 20% OFF EVERYTHING IN STOCK Pre SALE SALE | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015 12 A