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Washington 69/47 New York 70/49 Miami 89/72 Atlanta 64/45 Detroit 51/39 Houston 78/55 Chicago 48/37 Minneapolis 46/35 Kansas City 56/42 El Paso 86/59 Denver 73/44 Billings 72/48 Los Angeles 100/67 San Francisco 84/60 Seattle 71/55 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 98° 56° MONDAY 94° 57° Ve ry wa rm with plenty of sun Sunny and hot TUESDAY 91° 58° Sunn y and ve ry wa rm WEDNESDAY 90° 57° Mostly sunn y TODAY 98° 59° Sizzling sunshine and hot. Mainly clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 89° Low ........................................................................ 55° Normal high ......................................................... 85° Normal low ........................................................... 55° Record high ........................................... 103° in 1991 Record low .............................................. 41° in 1940 Humidity noon today ........................................ 22% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.00" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.06" Season to date .................................................. 2.55" Normal season to date .................................... 0.82" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................... Not available Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold ............... Moderate Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ..................... Low 4 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 7:08 a.m. 6:47 p.m. 4:26 p.m. 2:41 a.m. Sunday 7:09 a.m. 6:45 p.m. 5:05 p.m. 3:51 a.m. 11 hr., 39 min. Oct8 Full Oct15 Last New Oct23 First Oct30 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.60 ......+0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.81 ......+0.01 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.48 ....... -0.02 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.20 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.50 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.28 ....... -0.02 BlackButte ....................442.38..............36,266 .....25.2% LakeOroville..................675.29.........1,075,810 .....28.8% LakeShasta ...................898.20.........1,146,349 .....25.2% LakeTrinity..................2202.22............602,089 .....22.7% Whiskeytown...............1208.48............236,242 .....98.0% Weather Trivia ™ What is the record high temperature for the U.S. in October? 116(F). Sentinel, Arizona. Oct. 5, 1917. Today Sunday Anaheim 101/64/s 94/62/s Bakersfield 94/65/s 96/65/s Chula Vista 94/62/s 87/62/s Crescent City 69/55/s 70/54/pc Death Valley 104/72/s 103/66/s Eureka 69/50/s 70/50/pc Fremont 89/57/s 87/56/s Fresno 97/66/s 98/64/s Glendale 103/67/s 94/65/s Huntington Beach 92/65/s 84/64/s Irvine 95/64/s 90/62/s Lake Tahoe 75/35/s 74/37/s Long Beach 97/64/s 91/64/s Los Angeles 100/67/s 93/65/s Mammoth Mountain 78/36/s 76/34/s Modesto 93/58/s 93/57/s Monterey 84/58/s 78/57/s Moreno Valley 102/61/s 99/60/s Napa 91/49/s 88/48/s Needles 100/68/s 100/67/s Oakland 83/56/s 79/55/pc Oxnard 98/59/s 82/60/s Redding 99/59/s 98/56/s Riverside 103/59/s 99/57/s Sacramento 94/58/s 94/57/s San Bernardino 103/58/s 98/57/s San Diego 92/67/s 85/66/s San Francisco 84/60/s 78/58/pc San Jose 90/56/s 87/57/s San Luis Obispo 98/56/s 94/56/s Santa Ana 95/68/s 92/67/s Santa Barbara 91/56/s 84/57/s Santa Clarita 103/62/s 97/60/s Stockton 95/56/s 94/56/s Ventura 97/60/s 87/60/s Yosemite Valley 88/50/s 87/47/s Today Sunday Albuquerque 80/50/s 79/49/s Atlanta 64/45/s 70/53/s Baltimore 67/40/pc 61/43/s Boston 65/50/r 63/47/s Buffalo 54/42/t 53/44/t Chicago 48/37/c 55/44/c Cincinnati 54/37/pc 59/47/pc Dallas 78/58/s 85/66/s Denver 73/44/s 73/44/s Detroit 51/39/sh 54/44/c El Paso 86/59/s 87/58/s Fargo 49/35/pc 54/38/pc Honolulu 89/74/sh 89/74/pc Houston 78/55/s 85/69/s Indianapolis 52/36/pc 59/44/pc Kansas City 56/42/pc 70/50/s Las Vegas 92/66/s 92/64/s Louisville 58/40/pc 65/54/pc Miami 89/72/t 85/72/pc Minneapolis 46/35/pc 53/37/pc New Orleans 74/57/s 79/67/s New York City 70/49/r 62/50/s Oklahoma City 77/50/s 85/56/s A strong cold front will sweep away showers, thunderstorms and humid air from the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic today. Showers and thunder- storms will progress southward over the Florida Peninsula as the front advances, while windswept rain drenches much of New England. Blustery and cold conditions will highlight the day around the Midwest with frequent showers around the Great Lakes. Some wet snow will mix in at times in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. A batch of clouds and showers are forecast to drop in across parts of the Dakotas and Montana. High .......................... 102° in Fullerton, CA Low ............................... 17° in Denton, MT High ....... 109° in Dammam, Saudi Arabia Low ... -35° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 68/48/t 66/49/c Buenos Aires 68/61/pc 65/58/r Caracas 87/77/t 88/78/pc Ensenada 88/64/s 85/61/s Mexico City 71/53/t 72/52/t Montreal 60/42/r 57/40/pc Rio de Janeiro 72/63/pc 72/64/c Tijuana 88/60/s 87/59/s Toronto 55/39/sh 55/47/pc Vancouver 65/54/c 65/53/pc Orlando 85/60/t 78/58/s Philadelphia 71/46/r 62/47/s Phoenix 98/69/s 94/68/s Pittsburgh 51/37/c 54/43/pc Portland, ME 60/49/r 62/39/pc Portland, OR 79/56/pc 78/55/pc St. Louis 56/41/pc 71/52/pc Salt Lake City 71/48/s 71/49/s Seattle 71/55/c 71/56/pc Tucson 98/64/s 93/62/s Washington, DC 69/47/pc 65/50/s Cairo 85/67/s 85/67/s Casablanca 81/64/pc 80/61/pc Johannesburg 71/48/s 73/50/s Kinshasa 90/72/t 90/71/t Lagos 84/73/t 85/73/t Nairobi 75/57/t 80/58/pc Tripoli 95/72/s 91/69/s Baghdad 96/71/s 98/73/s Beijing 63/52/r 68/48/s Hong Kong 89/76/r 89/75/pc Jerusalem 77/57/s 76/56/s Kabul 86/53/s 83/53/s Manila 88/77/t 87/76/t Melbourne 75/53/s 66/47/pc New Delhi 97/76/s 99/76/pc Seoul 73/53/s 72/50/pc Singapore 86/78/t 86/77/t Sydney 75/57/s 88/62/s Tehran 81/65/s 83/64/s Tokyo 75/62/c 66/64/r Amsterdam 69/50/c 61/46/c Athens 73/61/pc 72/61/t Belgrade 66/49/pc 65/49/pc Berlin 64/48/s 64/49/s Budapest 61/49/pc 63/46/pc Dublin 56/44/sh 59/49/sh London 64/42/r 60/51/c Madrid 80/55/pc 77/53/c Moscow 46/33/c 42/35/r Paris 73/46/r 61/44/c Rome 75/58/pc 76/58/s Stockholm 61/50/pc 57/44/pc Vienna 60/50/pc 62/48/pc Zurich 68/50/s 66/49/r 81/43 83/49 82/44 81/42 80/36 94/58 93/55 91/49 96/51 93/60 95/61 81/33 84/34 82/38 99/59 98/59 89/54 69/52 79/56 69/50 90/51 85/43 86/46 69/55 86/50 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 ByChristopherS. Rugaber The Associated Press WASHINGTON A surge in hiring last month helped drive the nation's unem- ployment rate down to a six-year low of 5.9 percent — within striking distance of what economists consider a healthy level. The encouraging num- bers — contained in the last government report on unemployment before the midterm elections — pushed the Dow Jones aver- age up 209 points to 17,010 and could give an impor- tant boost at the polls to Democrats and to incum- bents in general. U.S. employers added a robust 248,000 jobs in September and generated 69,000 more jobs in July and August than previously reported, the government said Friday. That helped bring unemployment down from 6.1 percent in August. The jobless rate now stands at the lowest level since July 2008, in the mid- dle of the Great Recession, and is getting close to the roughly 5.5 percent that the Federal Reserve considers consistent with a healthy economy. In a speech in Princeton, Indiana, President Barack Obama exulted over the numbers, noting that busi- nesses have added jobs for 55 months in a row, the lon- gest such stretch on record. He credited "the drive and determination of the American people," and added: "It's also got a little bit to do with some deci- sions we made pretty early on in my administration." Nevertheless, other gauges of the job market still bear scars from the re- cession. Wages aren't rising. And the number of people out of a job for more than six months or stuck in part- time jobs when they want full-time ones remains ele- vated. An Associated Press-GfK poll found that the econ- omy is the top issue in vot- ers' minds as the Nov. 4 elections near, and while most signs point toward improvement, 62 percent of likely voters still con- sider the economy "poor," little changed from two years earlier. Given the latest condi- tions, the Fed may not move up its timetable for raising interest rates to control inflation, economists say. Most expect the Fed won't act until the middle of next year. Friday's data "are gen- erally consistent with the Fed's economic forecasts and therefore should not change their thinking," Doug Handler, an econo- mist at IHS Global Insight, said in a note to clients. The Fed has kept its benchmark interest rate near zero for almost six years in an effort to encour- age more borrowing, spend- ing and growth. When the Fed begins raising the rate, the ef- fects will ripple through- out the economy and could have a profound impact on businesses and consumers. Rates for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards will probably rise. Businesses may cut back on borrow- ing. And stock markets fre- quently drop when rates rise. Lower unemployment usually forces up wages as employers bid for a dwin- dling supply of job-hunt- ers. Higher paychecks can also push up prices. Some Fed policymakers have al- ready warned that unem- ployment is low enough to spur higher inflation. But Fed Chair Janet Yel- len has said the unemploy- ment rate may exagger- ate the strength of the job market. For example, there were 7.1 million people working part-time jobs last month even though they want full- time work. That figure is up from just 4.6 million before the recession. And among the 9.3 mil- lion unemployed, 3 million have been out of work for more than six months. That figure has declined in the past three years but is still more than twice its preces- sion level. Another example: The share of adults working or looking for work fell to just under 63 percent last month, the lowest level in 36 years. That's down from 66 percent before the reces- sion. About half that decline has occurred because of increasing retirements by baby boomers and other de- mographic changes, econo- mists say. But much of the rest has occurred because many of the unemployed have gotten discouraged and have given up looking for work. Average hourly pay fell a penny last month to $24.53. ECONOMY Su rg e of h ir in g cu ts U S jo bl es s ra te t o 5. 9 pe rc en t THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Illinois Department of Corrections employment recruiter Forrest Ashby, le , speaks to students attending The Foot in the Door Career Fair at the University of Illinois in Springfield, Ill. LikeNew1657Sq.Ft.Splitfloorplan,sweepingcornerlot. Built in 2006. 3 Bed, 2 Baths, front and rear landscaped RV access.TakeLutherwest,rightonPaskenta,rt.onAloha, rt. on Springtime. JUST LISTED!Offeredat $219,750 2405HilltopDrive Redding, CA 96002 OPENHOUSESat.Noonto3:00at475Springtime RE/MAXFiveStar Don D. 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