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Washington 36/25 New York 28/20 Miami 75/56 Atlanta 51/35 Detroit 22/19 Houston 67/43 Chicago 34/30 Minneapolis 42/31 Kansas City 63/42 El Paso 67/49 Denver 60/30 Billings 55/28 Los Angeles 73/54 San Francisco 66/48 Seattle 55/45 AIR QUALITY FORECAST What it means: 0-50: Good; 51-100: Moderate; 101-150: Unhealthy for sensitive people; 151+: Unhealthy for all. Source: Airnow.gov City Today's air quality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast Weather(W): 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 Europe Africa Carson City 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 Pollen levels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) 11+: Extreme 8-10: Very high 6-7: High 3-5: Moderate 0-2: Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hours of sunlight River Levels Sacramento River Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: FRIDAY 76° 45° SATURDAY 78° 44° Mostly sunn y and wa rm Pa rtly sunn y and wa rm SUNDAY 80° 44° Ve ry wa rm with plenty of sun MONDAY 82° 46° Pa rtly sunn y and ve ry warm TODAY 75° 44° Partly sunny. Mostly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 73° Low ........................................................................ 48° Normal high ......................................................... 64° Normal low ........................................................... 43° Record high ............................................. 84° in 2004 Record low .............................................. 30° in 1990 Humidity noon today ........................................ 31% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 1.85" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.59" Season to date ................................................ 10.18" Normal season to date .................................. 19.65" 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 ....................... Low Mold ......................... Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 4 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 7:24 a.m. 7:13 p.m. 4:45 p.m. 5:35 a.m. Friday 7:23 a.m. 7:15 p.m. 5:43 p.m. 6:06 a.m. 11 hr., 49 min. Mar 16 Full Mar 23 Last New Mar 30 First Apr 7 at Bend Bridge 27 2.20 -1.70 at Hamilton City 148 130.90 -2.50 at Ord Ferry 114 99.00 -3.90 at Red Bluff Diversion Dam 253 238.70 -0.90 at Tehama Bridge 213 201.70 -1.40 Lake Shasta...................957.30 1,999,968 43.9% Lake Trinity .................2282.28 1,263,380 47.7% Weather Trivia ™ Why did the blizzard of 1888 produce so much snow? The storm stalled just to the south of New England. Today Friday Anaheim 72/51/pc 73/52/pc Bakersfield 73/47/s 72/49/s Chula Vista 70/52/pc 72/51/pc Crescent City 56/45/pc 57/40/c Death Valley 82/59/s 85/56/s Eureka 55/44/pc 58/39/pc Fremont 69/47/pc 73/48/s Fresno 74/48/s 77/50/s Glendale 72/51/pc 73/51/pc Huntington Beach 67/53/pc 71/54/pc Irvine 71/52/pc 74/53/pc Lake Tahoe 54/22/s 56/21/s Long Beach 71/51/pc 71/53/pc Los Angeles 73/54/pc 75/54/pc Mammoth Mountain 57/27/s 58/23/s Modesto 73/42/s 77/47/s Monterey 65/45/s 67/48/s Moreno Valley 73/47/pc 75/45/s Napa 69/45/pc 74/42/s Needles 77/53/pc 79/54/s Oakland 67/47/pc 70/47/s Oxnard 67/48/pc 69/49/s Redding 76/45/pc 77/47/pc Riverside 73/39/pc 76/41/s Sacramento 72/41/pc 73/45/s San Bernardino 72/48/pc 76/46/s San Diego 67/54/pc 70/55/pc San Francisco 66/48/pc 68/48/s San Jose 75/50/s 75/50/s San Luis Obispo 73/44/s 77/48/s Santa Ana 73/52/pc 75/53/pc Santa Barbara 74/44/s 73/46/s Santa Clarita 72/48/pc 74/51/s Stockton 73/40/s 76/44/s Ventura 68/48/pc 73/49/s Yosemite Valley 66/32/s 68/35/s Today Friday Albuquerque 59/42/pc 59/37/pc Atlanta 51/35/s 63/47/s Baltimore 33/20/s 54/35/s Boston 24/13/sn 39/32/pc Buffalo 16/11/pc 44/29/pc Chicago 34/30/pc 50/28/pc Cincinnati 36/30/s 58/40/pc Dallas 67/47/s 67/55/c Denver 60/30/s 57/32/pc Detroit 22/19/s 43/27/pc El Paso 67/49/s 70/47/pc Fargo 45/26/pc 38/7/pc Honolulu 82/68/pc 83/71/s Houston 67/43/s 68/60/c Indianapolis 37/33/s 56/35/pc Kansas City 63/42/s 61/38/s Las Vegas 69/53/pc 72/54/s Louisville 43/37/s 62/45/pc Miami 75/56/s 74/65/pc Minneapolis 42/31/pc 41/18/s New Orleans 61/46/s 69/60/pc New York City 28/20/sf 46/39/pc Oklahoma City 67/41/s 67/46/pc Another push of arctic cold will bring winter- like temperatures back to eastern parts of the country today. Blustery winds combined with the cold will make it feel like it is below zero degrees Fahrenheit across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, while below-average temperatures sink into the Southeast. A bit of snow from the retreating storm will linger in New England, especially during the morning as conditions improve throughout the day. Areas from the Carolinas to the Gulf Coast will feel chilly, despite the ample sunshine throughout the day. High ................ 88° in Pompano Beach, FL Low ...................... -15° in Crane Lake, MN High ........... 110° in Roebourne, Australia Low ... -61° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 63/50/t 63/50/sh Buenos Aires 79/66/s 77/63/t Caracas 89/74/s 89/73/s Ensenada 70/50/s 73/52/s Mexico City 75/52/pc 76/48/pc Montreal 19/3/sn 27/25/sn Rio de Janeiro 87/75/t 89/76/pc Tijuana 72/51/s 73/50/s Toronto 20/17/pc 40/28/pc Vancouver 51/43/c 49/40/r Orlando 67/45/s 72/54/s Philadelphia 29/20/pc 50/37/s Phoenix 78/57/pc 78/54/s Pittsburgh 23/18/pc 55/36/s Portland, ME 22/3/sn 31/28/pc Portland, OR 60/44/pc 60/40/c St. Louis 61/43/s 65/42/pc Salt Lake City 55/34/s 58/38/s Seattle 55/45/c 55/41/sh Tucson 77/50/s 73/47/s Washington, DC 36/25/s 58/40/s Cairo 65/52/pc 67/47/pc Casablanca 67/45/s 67/48/s Johannesburg 71/53/pc 70/54/c Kinshasa 92/71/pc 93/74/c Lagos 92/78/pc 89/77/t Nairobi 85/60/pc 83/61/t Tripoli 71/53/sh 76/52/s Baghdad 68/52/pc 69/50/sh Beijing 56/37/c 62/43/s Hong Kong 73/61/c 64/60/c Jerusalem 50/42/sh 46/39/sh Kabul 60/41/pc 56/45/sh Manila 90/76/s 89/77/pc Melbourne 75/56/pc 82/62/pc New Delhi 79/55/pc 82/57/pc Seoul 51/31/c 49/31/pc Singapore 91/77/pc 90/77/pc Sydney 79/68/r 84/68/s Tehran 54/43/sh 55/44/pc Tokyo 63/45/r 52/37/r Amsterdam 57/38/s 55/45/pc Athens 58/46/pc 61/44/s Belgrade 58/34/s 62/37/s Berlin 61/37/s 59/42/pc Budapest 55/35/s 61/41/s Dublin 54/45/s 56/41/pc London 61/41/s 59/45/pc Madrid 59/37/pc 63/41/s Moscow 46/36/c 48/33/pc Paris 62/40/pc 61/42/pc Rome 64/43/s 64/45/s Stockholm 52/36/s 48/36/pc Vienna 61/39/s 64/50/s Zurich 61/34/s 63/39/pc 62/32 63/38 63/32 64/33 61/24 72/41 72/44 69/45 72/39 74/46 75/46 58/30 61/27 63/33 76/45 75/44 69/37 59/46 59/47 55/44 70/41 65/34 67/34 56/45 66/33 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 By Frazier Moore The Associated Press NEW YORK » "Jeopardy!" champ Arthur Chu, who won big money while taking heat for his renegade style, has been defeated. Chu finished in third place with zero dollars on Wednes - day's edition of the syndi- cated quiz show. He had reigned for 12 days. His to- tal winnings were $297,200. "A great run," summed up host Alex Trebek. Chu was unseated by Di - ana Peloquin of Ann Arbor, Mich., who led for the day with $15,700. Chu had struggled for much of the show when, in Final Jeopardy, he risked, and lost, his entire day's bankroll — $6,400 — on the question: "He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales." Only Peloquin had the cor - rect response: George VI. The 30 -year-old Chu, a resident of Broadview Heights, Ohio, has described himself on Twitter as "mad genius, comedian, actor and freelance voiceover artist." He applied a "mad ge - nius" approach to "Jeop- ardy!" brinkmanship. He ditched the time-honored practice of polishing off each category's questions one by one. Instead, he took a hop - scotch approach to his cat- egory choices, which tended to keep his opponents off-kil- ter. He also concluded that the bottom rows of the game board are most likely to con - tain the hidden Daily Dou- bles, and he played accord- ingly. Chu's strategy fueled in- dignation from "Jeopardy!" traditionalists, who con- tended that such an aggres- sive style was somehow un- sportsmanlike and exhib- ited a lack of respect for the game. Chu "rejected the unwrit- ten rule that the guy or gal with the most facts wins," said "On the Media" host Brooke Gladstone on an epi - sode of the public radio show last month, "and replaced it with the appalling idea that you can outwit your oppo - nent with the wily applica- tion of game theory." It was a style much dif- ferent from that of legend- ary know-it-all Ken Jen- nings, who a decade ago set a "Jeopardy!" record with 74 consecutive victories while winning $2.5 million. 'Mad gENius' 'Jeopardy!' champion with odd style unseated By Tom Krisher The Associated Press dETROiT » General Motors is offering free loaner cars and $500 toward a new GM vehicle to more than a mil - lion owners of compact cars that are being recalled for a deadly ignition switch de- fect. But the owners have to ask in order to get the ben- efits. The offers, disclosed in a document posted Wednes- day on the National High- way Traffic Safety Admin- istration's website, are ef- fective immediately. Owners will be able to use the loaner cars until parts arrive at dealerships to replace the faulty switches. They are expected around April 7, GM said. The $500 cash allowance offer runs through April 30. GM la st month a n - nounced the recall of 1.6 mil- lion older small cars world- wide because faulty igni- tions can shut off engines unexpectedly. If the engines shut off, drivers can lose power steering and power brakes, and the air bags may not inflate if there's a crash. GM now counts 12 people as having died in crashes linked to the problem. The company said Wednesday that one victim had been double-counted. GM is facing a Depart - ment of Justice investiga- tion, as well as investiga- tions from two congressio- nal committees and federal safety regulators over its handling of the recall. The company has admitted that it knew about the problem a decade ago. Committees in the House and Senate also want to know why the government's road safety watchdog, the National Highway Traf - fic Safety Administration, didn't take action sooner. The loaner/rebate pro- gram is part of GM's dam- age control efforts. Last week, CEO Mary Barra promised that an inter- nal review would bring im- provements and prevent similar problems in the fu- ture. She also said current management is intent on "taking great care of our customers and showing that it really is a new day at GM." On Feb. 13, GM an - nounced the recall of more than 780,000 Cobalts and Pontiac G5s (model years 2005 -2007). Two weeks later it added 842,000 Sat - urn Ion compacts (2003- 2007), and Chevrolet HHR SUVs and Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky sports cars (2006-2007). In a document released Wednesday night, GM tried to explain why the Ion, HHR, Solstice and Sky weren't in - cluded in the Feb. 13 recall, even though they have the same ignition switches as the Cobalt and G5. Engineers examining the four models in 2011 inexplicably did not look at crash data for the 2004 Ion. But early this year, another inquiry found four crashes involving 2004 Ions in which four people were killed. Air bags did not inflate. The document says GM employees were told of most of these crashes within two weeks of when they oc - curred. GM spokesman Greg Martin said he could not comment on why the 2004 Ion crashes were excluded from the 2011 inquiry. 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