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ByCarolynThompson The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. Several feet of lake-effect snow para- lyzed the Buffalo area Tues- day, forcing state troop- ers to deliver blankets and other supplies to motorists stranded on the New York State Thruway and adding an ominous note to a wintry season that's already snarl- ing travel and numbing fin- gers from the Midwest to the Carolinas. In a region accustomed to regular highway-chok- ing, school-closing snow- storms, this one is being called one of the worst in recent memory. The snow blown by strong winds forced the closure of a 132- mile stretch of the Thruway, the main highway across New York state, where state police said dozens of motor- ists were stranded. Troopers used all-terrain vehicles to deliver supplies, state police Capt. Ed Ken- nedy said. Erie County Ex- ecutive Mark Poloncarz said about 140 motorists were stranded. Many chose to stay with their cars, while others left them, he said. "Other than wishing they weren't stuck in traf- fic, they're warm and safe in their vehicles," Kennedy said. The wintry blast that in- cluded bitter cold in spots created havoc across a wide swath of the country. In New Hampshire and else- where, icy roads led to ac- cidents. Lake-effect storms in Michigan produced gale- force winds and as much as 18 inches of snow and can- celed several flights at the Grand Rapids airport. Schools closed in the North Carolina mountains amid blustery winds and ice-coated roads. In Indi- ana, three firefighters were hurt when a semitrailer hit a fire truck on a snowy highway. In Buffalo, Brian Krze- minski watched the snow pile up outside the south Buffalo convenience store where he worked overnight and served free coffee to the motorists and pedes- trians who came in off the city streets to get out of the blinding snow. "There are people that came out to get a few things. We had some people who came in just to get a 30- pack of beer, which is kind of odd," he said. "We've had EMTs whose ambulance got stuck. I'm constantly seeing cars get stuck." The National Weather Service warned that the snow, generated by cold air blowing over the warmer Great Lakes, would con- tinue through Wednesday and could eventually total 6 feet in places. "We have tried to get out of our house, and we are lucky to be able to shovel so we can open the door. Basically, that's it, open the door," said Linda Oakley of Buffalo. "We're just think- ing that in case of an emer- gency we can at least get out the door. We can't go any further." "All around us, it's a solid four feet of snow that is so thick and so heavy you can hardly move it with a shovel," said Oakley, whose son Todd was with her, un- able to make it to work just three miles away. TRAVEL SNARLED Early winter pummels much of country, strands cars JOELBISSELL—THEGRANDRAPIDSPRESS People try to move a vehicle out of the middle of the road along Lake Michigan Drive, Tuesday in Grand Rapids., Mich. The Associated Press SANFRANCISCO Gov. Jerry Brown appointed two new members to the University of California Board of Re- gents on the eve of what is expected to be a conten- tious vote over the system's plan to raise tuition. Assembly Speaker Emer- itus John A. Perez and Long Beach City College Superin- tendent-President Eloy Or- tiz Oakley were named to the posts on Monday. Perez and Oakley would be able to vote on the up- coming tuition hike pro- posal, though they still await confirmation by the state Senate. Brown said both men have shown a deep com- mitment to the students of California, have a wealth of experience, and "an ex- traordinary capacity to dig into the complexities of our great university system." The appointments came as the regents are set to consider a tuition increase this week of as much as 5 percent in each of the next five years at the university system's 10 campuses. UC President Janet Na- politano says the increase is needed, as state support for the university system has dwindled. The plan has received a cool reception from some state leaders, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Brown has proposed state funds for UC go up by 4 percent each year over the next two years if tu- ition rates remain frozen through June of 2017. In his announcement, Brown said Perez has been a longtime advocate for af- fordable higher education. He authored a bill signed in 2013 to reduce student fees for some middle-class students at the University of California and Califor- nia State University, Brown said. TUITION VOTE AHEAD Br ow n ap po in ts 2 n ew U C re ge nt s Washington 38/34 New York 34/32 Miami 71/64 Atlanta 49/33 Detroit 32/20 Houston 65/48 Chicago 28/15 Minneapolis 21/5 Kansas City 35/1 7 El Paso 60/37 Denver 46/23 Billings 35/21 Los An geles 75/57 San Francisco 66/55 Seattle 51/42 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: THURSDAY 57° 43° FRIDAY 58° 49° Cloudy Mostly cloudy , ra in SATURDAY 60° 42° Mostly cloudy , a lit tle rain SUNDAY 59° 40° Clouds and sun TODAY 58° 45° Rather cloudy; a little a.m. rain, then a shower. An evening shower; otherwise, mostly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 61° Low ........................................................................ 34° Normal high ......................................................... 61° Normal low ........................................................... 42° Record high ............................................. 89° in 1936 Record low .............................................. 26° in 1985 Humidity noon today ........................................ 67% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................ Trace Month to date ................................................... 0.55" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.60" Season to date .................................................. 4.30" Normal season to date .................................... 3.57" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .......................................................... Moderate Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ............................................. Not available Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ........... Moderate 1 Highest at 10 a.m. Today 6:59 a.m. 4:49 p.m. 3:59 a.m. 3:20 p.m. Thursday 7:00 a.m. 4:49 p.m. 5:00 a.m. 3:56 p.m. 9 hr., 50 min. Nov22 New Nov29 First Full Dec6 Last Dec14 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.40 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.97 ....... -0.07 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.63 ....... -0.04 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.10 ....... -0.20 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.40 ....... -0.10 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.30 ....... -0.07 BlackButte ....................438.36..............28,793 .....20.0% LakeOroville..................648.72............904,166 .....24.2% LakeShasta ...................890.22.........1,054,184 .....23.2% LakeTrinity..................2194.30............554,333 .....20.9% Whiskeytown...............1198.32............205,152 .....85.1% Weather Trivia ™ On the Celsius scale, what are the freezing and boiling points? Zero is freezing and 100 is boiling. Today Thursday Anaheim 73/51/pc 69/52/pc Bakersfield 69/52/pc 67/50/pc Chula Vista 73/53/pc 70/57/pc Crescent City 58/50/r 59/49/r Death Valley 76/42/pc 77/53/pc Eureka 59/49/r 58/46/r Fremont 65/52/sh 61/50/r Fresno 67/50/c 64/48/sh Glendale 75/51/pc 69/53/pc Huntington Beach 70/56/pc 67/57/pc Irvine 71/52/pc 68/53/pc Lake Tahoe 50/27/sh 47/22/sh Long Beach 71/54/pc 68/54/pc Los Angeles 75/57/pc 69/57/pc Mammoth Mountain 53/20/pc 53/23/pc Modesto 64/48/c 62/47/sh Monterey 66/53/sh 62/50/sh Moreno Valley 74/43/pc 67/48/pc Napa 60/46/sh 59/43/r Needles 73/47/pc 74/51/s Oakland 63/51/sh 61/48/r Oxnard 69/54/pc 66/54/pc Redding 58/44/r 56/42/r Riverside 73/41/pc 66/47/pc Sacramento 62/49/sh 59/45/r San Bernardino 73/43/pc 67/47/pc San Diego 70/58/pc 69/60/pc San Francisco 66/55/sh 62/54/r San Jose 64/52/sh 62/48/sh San Luis Obispo 69/52/sh 64/50/pc Santa Ana 73/57/pc 71/57/pc Santa Barbara 72/49/pc 69/50/pc Santa Clarita 74/47/pc 68/47/pc Stockton 64/48/c 63/46/sh Ventura 69/53/pc 66/53/pc Yosemite Valley 60/40/c 57/37/sh Today Thursday Albuquerque 51/31/pc 56/31/pc Atlanta 49/33/s 56/34/s Baltimore 34/30/s 46/24/s Boston 36/29/s 45/27/s Buffalo 28/26/sf 28/21/sn Chicago 28/15/sn 23/9/pc Cincinnati 39/17/pc 30/13/pc Dallas 60/39/s 65/54/c Denver 46/23/pc 48/25/pc Detroit 32/20/sn 27/15/sf El Paso 60/37/s 66/39/s Fargo 21/5/sf 17/6/pc Honolulu 85/74/s 85/75/pc Houston 65/48/pc 70/59/r Indianapolis 35/15/pc 27/10/pc Kansas City 35/17/s 40/23/s Las Vegas 64/42/pc 66/46/s Louisville 43/22/pc 36/21/pc Miami 71/64/pc 78/69/c Minneapolis 21/5/sf 17/2/s New Orleans 60/44/s 69/52/pc New York City 34/32/s 44/27/s Oklahoma City 51/26/s 57/42/pc Very cold air for the middle of November will hold from the northern Plains through the Midwest, Deep South and Atlantic coast today. Much of this area will be dry and sunny. However, bands of intense snow are projected to continue downwind of the Great Lakes. These bands will tend to shift around as the day progresses. A weak Alberta Clipper storm will produce some light snow outside of the heavy snow bands from the Upper Midwest to part of the Ohio Valley. Much of the area from Texas and the Rockies to the interior West Coast states will be sunny. High ........................ 83° in Homestead, FL Low ........................ -23° in Angel Fire, NM High ....... 110° in Century Mine, Australia Low .............. -48° in Verkhoyansk, Russia Bogota 64/49/t 65/47/r Buenos Aires 76/60/t 77/60/pc Caracas 88/76/sh 88/76/t Ensenada 73/50/s 71/51/pc Mexico City 71/48/c 71/51/pc Montreal 29/22/s 33/21/sf Rio de Janeiro 83/67/s 84/69/s Tijuana 73/51/s 70/55/pc Toronto 28/23/sn 27/19/pc Vancouver 49/39/c 50/38/pc Orlando 65/44/pc 69/49/pc Philadelphia 33/32/s 46/27/s Phoenix 74/49/pc 73/53/s Pittsburgh 34/24/sf 27/16/sf Portland, ME 37/24/pc 43/23/s Portland, OR 47/40/c 52/41/sh St. Louis 40/22/pc 38/23/s Salt Lake City 45/30/pc 47/27/c Seattle 51/42/c 53/41/sh Tucson 74/42/pc 73/45/s Washington, DC 38/34/s 49/29/s Cairo 78/61/pc 78/59/s Casablanca 79/58/pc 78/60/t Johannesburg 70/52/pc 73/55/s Kinshasa 85/72/t 84/72/t Lagos 87/75/t 89/75/t Nairobi 77/60/t 77/60/t Tripoli 77/54/s 77/55/s Baghdad 75/51/s 75/53/pc Beijing 50/30/c 55/27/pc Hong Kong 75/68/s 77/70/s Jerusalem 69/50/pc 68/49/pc Kabul 62/32/s 61/31/s Manila 89/77/pc 89/77/pc Melbourne 82/64/s 84/58/sh New Delhi 80/52/s 80/52/s Seoul 52/33/pc 55/38/s Singapore 88/76/t 88/76/t Sydney 75/65/pc 86/70/pc Tehran 58/43/s 57/40/pc Tokyo 59/47/s 54/50/sh Amsterdam 47/38/pc 46/36/pc Athens 72/58/pc 67/51/s Belgrade 56/42/c 50/40/pc Berlin 42/39/c 43/38/pc Budapest 49/37/sh 49/34/s Dublin 51/46/r 52/45/pc London 51/43/pc 52/44/pc Madrid 60/42/pc 66/44/pc Moscow 25/14/s 27/17/s Paris 51/40/pc 50/41/pc Rome 65/45/pc 64/44/s Stockholm 38/33/pc 39/35/sh Vienna 49/40/pc 47/36/pc Zurich 49/32/pc 45/35/s 55/31 59/33 55/32 53/32 51/24 62/49 60/47 60/46 58/46 60/46 59/45 48/27 50/31 51/32 58/44 58/45 54/41 59/52 58/52 59/49 57/46 46/33 52/33 58/50 52/38 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 RUNNINGS ROOFING SheetMetalRoofing ResidentialCommercial • Composition • Shingle • Single Ply Membrane Ownerisonsiteoneveryjob ServingTehamaCounty 530-527-5789 530-209-5367 No Money Down! 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