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Washington 77/56 New York 70/56 Miami 89/75 Atlanta 90/65 Detroit 70/50 Houston 88/69 Chicago 70/46 Minneapolis 77/57 Kansas City 79/62 El Paso 87/65 Denver 74/52 Billings 84/58 Los Angeles 72/60 San Francisco 68/56 Seattle 66/51 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: SATURDAY 94° 61° SUNDAY 99° 60° Mostly sunn y and ho t Pa rtly sunn y and ho t MONDAY 98° 58° Pa rtly sunn y TUESDAY 89° 55° Wa rm with plenty of sunshine TODAY 93° 66° Sunny and hot. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 86° Low ........................................................................ 57° Normal high ......................................................... 83° Normal low ........................................................... 56° Record high ........................................... 103° in 1941 Record low .............................................. 37° in 2010 Humidity noon today ........................................ 29% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.61" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.93" Season to date ................................................ 12.41" Normal season to date .................................. 23.75" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ............. Moderate Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ........... Moderate 8 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 5:47 a.m. 8:25 p.m. 2:45 a.m. 3:24 p.m. Saturday 5:46 a.m. 8:26 p.m. 3:19 a.m. 4:29 p.m. 14 hr., 38 min. May28 New Jun5 First Full Jun12 Last Jun19 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.80 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.00 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.60 ....... -0.10 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.80 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.30 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.20 .......none BlackButte ....................461.68..............89,662 .....62.4% LakeOroville..................760.80.........1,780,453 .....47.6% LakeShasta ...................972.58.........2,274,073 .....50.0% LakeTrinity..................2279.61.........1,235,409 .....46.7% Whiskeytown...............1209.10............238,215 .....98.8% Weather Trivia ™ What would a macintosh protect you from? Rain; it was the first raincoat and was invented in 1823. Today Saturday Anaheim 74/57/pc 75/62/pc Bakersfield 87/68/s 90/70/s Chula Vista 71/59/pc 71/63/pc Crescent City 64/51/pc 62/49/pc Death Valley 102/79/s 105/76/s Eureka 64/49/pc 64/47/pc Fremont 74/56/s 77/57/pc Fresno 94/66/s 96/67/s Glendale 74/57/pc 76/58/pc Huntington Beach 67/57/pc 68/60/pc Irvine 67/58/pc 69/61/pc Lake Tahoe 70/40/pc 71/40/pc Long Beach 68/60/pc 69/61/pc Los Angeles 72/60/pc 72/60/pc Mammoth Mountain 72/42/s 73/44/s Modesto 91/64/s 93/62/s Monterey 62/52/pc 64/53/pc Moreno Valley 76/54/pc 79/59/pc Napa 79/55/s 83/51/s Needles 92/72/pc 95/75/s Oakland 71/54/pc 72/56/pc Oxnard 65/56/pc 65/57/pc Redding 93/66/s 93/62/pc Riverside 75/58/pc 79/57/pc Sacramento 89/58/s 92/58/s San Bernardino 77/55/pc 80/58/pc San Diego 68/63/pc 68/63/pc San Francisco 68/56/pc 69/55/pc San Jose 79/57/s 79/58/pc San Luis Obispo 73/50/pc 75/52/pc Santa Ana 71/61/pc 72/61/pc Santa Barbara 67/55/pc 67/56/pc Santa Clarita 78/57/s 80/59/s Stockton 90/61/s 93/58/s Ventura 68/56/pc 68/57/pc Yosemite Valley 83/52/pc 84/54/s Today Saturday Albuquerque 78/54/c 73/52/t Atlanta 90/65/s 87/66/pc Baltimore 74/52/pc 76/54/pc Boston 58/49/c 66/50/pc Buffalo 61/52/sh 69/52/pc Chicago 70/46/s 74/51/s Cincinnati 74/51/s 77/55/s Dallas 87/68/pc 88/68/pc Denver 74/52/t 75/50/t Detroit 70/50/pc 74/54/s El Paso 87/65/s 86/61/t Fargo 81/58/s 81/62/pc Honolulu 86/74/sh 86/74/sh Houston 88/69/pc 88/70/pc Indianapolis 72/52/s 78/57/s Kansas City 79/62/t 80/64/pc Las Vegas 86/73/s 89/76/s Louisville 78/56/pc 81/59/pc Miami 89/75/s 90/77/s Minneapolis 77/57/s 79/61/s New Orleans 88/68/s 88/68/pc New York City 70/56/t 71/56/pc Oklahoma City 84/65/t 85/64/t Showers and thunderstorms will affect the North- east today even as a push of cooler, less humid air begins. While a severe weather outbreak is not expected, a few storms can be briefly heavy and gusty in the afternoon. Sunshine and low humidity will be centered on the Midwest with a zone of high pressure settling toward Indiana. Warm and humid air will hold over much of the Deep South, while the hot air builds over the northern Rockies to the Plains of Montana. In between, a large zone of unsettled weather is in store from central Texas to the central Rockies. High ........................ 95° in Bainbridge, GA Low .................... 21° in Bryce Canyon, UT High ............ 117° in Jacobabad, Pakistan Low ... -19° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 69/47/pc 69/43/c Buenos Aires 55/39/s 59/45/s Caracas 89/75/s 88/74/s Ensenada 69/54/pc 75/57/pc Mexico City 79/57/t 74/54/t Montreal 66/54/sh 70/57/t Rio de Janeiro 81/71/c 75/69/r Tijuana 70/59/pc 70/59/pc Toronto 66/51/sh 71/53/pc Vancouver 65/50/r 64/50/pc Orlando 95/70/s 96/72/s Philadelphia 74/55/t 72/58/pc Phoenix 88/71/s 92/75/pc Pittsburgh 66/47/pc 74/48/pc Portland, ME 58/46/c 61/46/pc Portland, OR 73/54/sh 71/52/pc St. Louis 81/60/pc 81/64/pc Salt Lake City 78/58/s 78/54/pc Seattle 66/51/r 66/50/pc Tucson 84/61/s 86/64/s Washington, DC 77/56/pc 75/60/pc Cairo 89/67/s 89/67/s Casablanca 69/54/s 69/52/r Johannesburg 67/41/s 68/43/s Kinshasa 92/73/t 92/74/t Lagos 87/75/t 89/76/c Nairobi 78/56/c 79/56/c Tripoli 103/75/s 105/72/pc Baghdad 106/73/s 109/80/s Beijing 93/69/pc 77/65/r Hong Kong 86/79/c 86/77/t Jerusalem 76/59/s 76/58/s Kabul 79/51/s 79/53/s Manila 95/81/t 96/80/s Melbourne 66/52/pc 63/51/c New Delhi 106/79/pc 108/81/pc Seoul 84/57/s 81/60/pc Singapore 90/79/t 90/79/t Sydney 78/59/pc 75/57/s Tehran 81/68/pc 85/71/s Tokyo 73/61/pc 77/66/s Amsterdam 64/53/pc 66/53/sh Athens 85/62/s 83/60/pc Belgrade 85/62/s 80/63/t Berlin 79/61/t 72/54/pc Budapest 84/59/s 82/60/pc Dublin 55/45/sh 57/49/r London 67/51/pc 62/51/r Madrid 68/46/pc 73/48/pc Moscow 80/56/s 85/59/s Paris 66/50/r 64/48/sh Rome 70/57/r 75/55/s Stockholm 75/55/s 75/55/s Vienna 82/64/s 73/60/t Zurich 68/47/r 72/48/t 80/49 84/55 83/57 84/50 85/57 89/58 92/64 79/55 88/52 92/66 93/67 76/47 80/45 81/49 93/66 93/66 83/48 65/51 66/52 64/49 81/51 81/48 85/50 64/51 81/46 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 ByBrianSkoloff The Associated Press KACHINA VILLAGE, ARIZ. Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday to hold off a wildfire that started in a scenic canyon in north- ern Arizona, prompting res- idents of outlying areas of Flagstaff to prepare to flee and blanketing the city in smoke. The human-caused Slide Fire started Tuesday and had burned 7.5 square miles in and around Oak Creek Canyon, a scenic recreation area along a highway be- tween Sedona and Flagstaff. Fire incident commander Tony Sciacca said the fire was 3 to 3 miles away from the residential areas of For- est Highlands and Kachina Village, where 3,200 resi- dents remained under pre- evacuation warnings. Fire- fighters had no contain- ment on the blaze, but were pleased that it only grew a couple hundred acres over- night after increasing ten- fold in size the previous day. A primary focus of fire- fighting efforts will be to pinch off the fire where it has reached the top of the can- yon's northeast corner to keep it from burning north- ward toward the residential areas, said Dick Fleishman, a spokesman for fire man- agers. "This is an hour-by-hour deal," Sciacca said. Sciacca said 500 firefight- ers were assigned to the fire Thursday, with an additional 200personnelexpectedlater in the day as more crews and engines arrive. The weather may help, with weaker wind and slightly higher humidity expected Thursday and a chance of rain by Friday, Fleishman said. As smoke billowed over their homes, residents threatened by the flames filled their vehicles with clothes, heirlooms, medica- tion, legal documents and family pictures. "I'm a Korean War vet- eran. There's not much that worries me," said 82-year- old Dick Summit, who de- cided to leave town and ar- ranged to stay with a friend in nearby Flagstaff. "It's pretty bad, we're all ready," said Ken Patrick, a Flagstaff city worker whose home was among those threatened by the fire. Elsewhere in this village of about 1,400 off Interstate 17, residents were clear- ing brush away from their homes and hosing down the landscape. Search and rescue crews with the Co- conino County Sheriff's Office were going door to door while pre-evacuation warnings were in place. For those who they knew were safe, they placed a yellow ribbon on their mailboxes. The fire broke out at the start of the tourist season and closed the main road between Sedona and Flag- staff. It's burning near Slide Rock State Park, a popular recreation area because of its natural rock water slides. There were no reports so far of injuries or structures burned. The fire forced the evac- uations of 100 threatened businesses and homes in a 2-mile stretch north of the state park. ARIZONA CrewsworkingtokeepwildfirefromFlagstaffarea By Ramit Plushnick- Masti The Associated Press HOUSTON Oil equals boom — especially in population right now. And Texas, in the midst of a significant energy rush, is seeing its towns and cities burst at the seams. Three of the nation's five fastest-growing cities — and seven of the top 15 — are in the Lone Star State, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, part of a trend across the West largely fueled by an oil boom. Most of the cities are West of the Mississippi. Cityplannersfrazzled Now these cities need to have enough roads, schools, water and infrastructure to keep up — the growing pains of a surging popula- tion. And while it is viewed as opportunity, city plan- ners are frazzled. Odessa, Texas, smack- dab in the middle of the oil- rich Permian Basin, is No. 11 on the Census Bureau list. People are flooding the oil fields, booming thanks to new hydraulic fractur- ing technologies that allow drillers access to once out- of-reach resources. People are lured by higher-than-average sal- aries, but developers can't build homes quickly enough, the schools are rap- idly filling and an overbur- dened water supply, made worse by a long drought, is stretched thin. "It's a challenge to con- tinue to provide services to the rising population when you're competing with the same workforce and labor that the oil field is. So that means that the municipali- ties have to adjust their pay scale ... to try to attract the labor," said Richard Mor- ton, Odessa's city manager. "We're growing, but we're not growing fast enough." The Texas cities of San Marcos, Frisco and Ce- dar Park were No. 1, 2 and 4 in percentage population growth between 2012 and 2013, each growing by at least 5 percent in that time span. Utah had two of the top five: South Jordan, at No. 3, and Lehi, at No. 5. San Marcos — a city be- tween Austin and San Anto- nio — has topped the list of expanding cities with more than 50,000 people for the second year in a row, show- ing growth of 8 percent be- tween July 2012 and 2013 to 54,076 people. CENSUS Texas has 3 of nation's 5 fastest-growing cities | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014 10 A