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Washington 54/34 New York 53/36 Miami 78/59 Atlanta 58/38 Detroit 36/27 Houston 61/56 Chicago 30/23 Minneapolis 23/17 Kansas City 35/27 El Paso 62/38 Denver 40/21 Billings 39/25 Los Angeles 62/52 San Francisco 58/50 Seattle 49/41 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 55° 45° FRIDAY 50° 44° Ra in at times Ra ther cloudy SATURDAY 55° 45° Ra ther cloudy SUNDAY 58° 45° Fo g in the a.m.; partly sunny TODAY 53° 42° Mostly cloudy with a shower. Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers tonight. High ....................................................................... 53° Low ........................................................................ 45° Normal high ......................................................... 54° Normal low ........................................................... 37° Record high ............................................. 77° in 1998 Record low .............................................. 22° in 1967 Humidity noon today ........................................ 73% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.89" Month to date ................................................... 8.03" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.98" Season to date ................................................ 14.64" Normal season to date .................................... 6.80" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold ............... Moderate Trees .................. Absent Weeds ................ Absent 1 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:25 a.m. 4:45 p.m. 2:44 a.m. 1:51 p.m. Thursday 7:26 a.m. 4:45 p.m. 3:44 a.m. 2:29 p.m. 9 hr., 20 min. Dec21 New Dec28 First Full Jan4 Last Jan13 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........9.60 ......+6.20 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......134.85 ......+3.05 atOrdFerry................................114 ......102.79 ......+2.69 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......242.40 ......+3.20 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......205.80 ......+3.40 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......172.42 ......+3.42 BlackButte ....................451.86..............58,610 .....40.8% LakeOroville..................686.21.........1,152,442 .....30.8% LakeShasta ...................921.46.........1,444,862 .....31.7% LakeTrinity..................2218.37............708,332 .....26.8% Whiskeytown...............1199.99............210,095 .....87.1% Weather Trivia ™ What are 'aeolian sounds'? These are sounds the wind makes as it encounters objects. Today Thursday Anaheim 64/45/sh 65/45/pc Bakersfield 57/41/c 58/40/pc Chula Vista 65/50/sh 66/46/pc Crescent City 55/46/sh 59/50/c Death Valley 63/43/c 64/40/pc Eureka 55/43/sh 57/49/c Fremont 57/46/c 60/47/c Fresno 57/42/c 55/40/pc Glendale 63/45/sh 63/46/pc Huntington Beach 63/51/sh 64/51/pc Irvine 63/47/sh 63/46/pc Lake Tahoe 38/19/sf 41/23/c Long Beach 64/47/sh 64/46/pc Los Angeles 62/52/sh 63/48/pc Mammoth Mountain 36/15/sf 37/16/pc Modesto 55/42/c 55/43/c Monterey 59/44/c 61/47/pc Moreno Valley 57/40/sh 61/39/pc Napa 57/43/c 57/45/c Needles 59/46/sh 61/42/pc Oakland 57/46/c 58/49/c Oxnard 64/47/sh 65/49/pc Redding 51/43/c 53/45/c Riverside 57/42/sh 59/38/pc Sacramento 55/43/c 55/45/c San Bernardino 58/38/sh 62/36/pc San Diego 64/53/sh 64/50/pc San Francisco 58/50/c 60/52/c San Jose 57/43/c 58/46/c San Luis Obispo 61/43/c 65/42/pc Santa Ana 66/50/sh 66/49/pc Santa Barbara 64/43/sh 64/44/pc Santa Clarita 59/40/sh 62/40/pc Stockton 56/41/c 56/44/c Ventura 62/46/sh 64/47/pc Yosemite Valley 45/31/sh 46/30/c Today Thursday Albuquerque 49/30/c 47/28/c Atlanta 58/38/s 60/40/pc Baltimore 52/31/pc 43/30/pc Boston 48/36/r 45/32/s Buffalo 41/31/sf 35/28/sf Chicago 30/23/pc 31/24/pc Cincinnati 39/27/s 36/26/c Dallas 47/41/r 61/44/r Denver 40/21/c 41/20/c Detroit 36/27/c 36/28/pc El Paso 62/38/pc 59/36/r Fargo 19/9/pc 23/16/pc Honolulu 82/71/pc 82/70/s Houston 61/56/c 72/61/r Indianapolis 33/25/s 32/24/c Kansas City 35/27/pc 34/27/sn Las Vegas 50/39/sh 54/37/pc Louisville 42/31/s 38/29/c Miami 78/59/s 78/63/s Minneapolis 23/17/pc 26/20/pc New Orleans 62/47/s 71/57/c New York City 53/36/pc 45/34/s Oklahoma City 41/37/sh 49/35/r Rain and snow will fall on northern New England and upstate New York, before a change to snow over interior areas today. Chilly air is forecast to flow from the Upper Midwest to the central Appalachians. Much of the area from the northern Plains to Florida is forecast to be dry with at least partial sunshine. Cool air, clouds and showers are in the offing for a large part of Texas and the southern Plains. Farther west, an area of spotty snow will affect some of the higher terrain in the Four Corners region. Rain will soak much of California. High ............. 79° in Fernandina Beach, FL Low ............................ -6° in Big Trails, WY High .......... 112° in Paraburdoo, Australia Low ............ -66° in Sebyan-Kyuel', Russia Bogota 67/48/pc 66/47/sh Buenos Aires 84/63/pc 85/70/s Caracas 87/72/pc 86/72/pc Ensenada 60/49/pc 63/47/s Mexico City 72/46/pc 74/45/pc Montreal 36/30/sn 33/20/sn Rio de Janeiro 83/70/pc 89/74/s Tijuana 63/50/pc 64/46/s Toronto 41/30/sn 36/27/sf Vancouver 46/39/sh 47/41/c Orlando 71/46/pc 71/48/s Philadelphia 52/34/pc 44/33/s Phoenix 60/49/sh 63/44/c Pittsburgh 39/27/c 34/28/c Portland, ME 46/34/r 41/29/c Portland, OR 47/39/c 51/43/c St. Louis 38/31/pc 36/30/sn Salt Lake City 44/28/c 43/28/pc Seattle 49/41/c 51/44/c Tucson 60/45/sh 56/37/c Washington, DC 54/34/pc 46/34/pc Cairo 72/56/pc 71/55/pc Casablanca 65/46/pc 64/45/s Johannesburg 70/56/t 74/57/t Kinshasa 90/72/t 88/72/t Lagos 91/76/pc 90/75/sh Nairobi 81/58/s 82/59/s Tripoli 64/47/s 63/48/s Baghdad 66/46/s 64/48/pc Beijing 41/18/s 39/20/pc Hong Kong 62/54/s 64/55/s Jerusalem 62/47/pc 63/47/pc Kabul 61/23/s 55/26/pc Manila 82/75/r 83/75/c Melbourne 70/52/pc 74/52/sh New Delhi 69/44/pc 70/43/pc Seoul 20/14/s 26/15/s Singapore 86/77/t 87/76/t Sydney 75/66/s 79/64/s Tehran 52/36/pc 51/38/s Tokyo 46/35/s 47/39/s Amsterdam 51/48/r 55/49/sh Athens 62/49/r 61/48/pc Belgrade 49/35/c 47/36/s Berlin 40/39/sh 53/49/c Budapest 44/31/r 45/40/pc Dublin 54/51/r 55/39/r London 55/53/sh 56/52/c Madrid 56/35/pc 57/33/s Moscow 36/31/sn 34/28/sf Paris 52/52/r 55/47/c Rome 59/44/c 60/42/s Stockholm 33/26/c 38/34/r Vienna 42/36/pc 50/47/sh Zurich 43/42/r 51/46/r 44/25 47/25 43/22 44/25 45/18 55/43 55/41 57/43 53/43 53/41 54/42 39/24 40/23 42/26 51/43 53/42 48/38 55/49 54/50 55/43 52/42 43/30 46/30 55/46 47/32 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 The Associated Press SACRAMENTO California's unfunded obligation to pay for the health and dental care of retired state work- ers grew by 11 percent in the most recent fiscal year to nearly $72 billion. In a report issued Tues- day, state Controller John Chiang proposed a five- year plan to start pre-fund- ing the benefit, which is rare in the private sector. Retiree health care is an obligation of state govern- ment similar to public em- ployee pensions, a system that also is badly under- funded. Unlike pensions, however, the cost of pro- viding health care to retir- ees is handled annually on a pay-as-you-go basis. Longer life spans are one reason the cost has soared by $24 billion in just the past eight years. The con- troller says doing nothing about it "will be sowing the seeds of a future crisis." SOARING COSTS Stateretireehealthcaregapreaches$72billion The Associated Press SANFRANCISCO In a newly released email, a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. executive says a state official offered to write the utility a favorable opinion for a proposed gas rate hike. PG&E Vice President Brian Cherry says in the Jan. 14 email that Califor- nia Public Utilities Com- mission member Mike Flo- rio said he would write the opinion if PG&E did not like one written by another member of the commission, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. PG&E disclosed the email Friday. It is the latest in a series of emails released by the utility and others, many of them also from January, that allegedly show PG&E executives privately nego- tiating with state utilities commission officials. Florio said he recalls the conversation with Cherry differently. "Mr. Cherry's internal summary of his conversa- tion with me does not ac- curately reflect my own rec- ollection of that same con- versation," he wrote. PG&E said in a state- ment it has reported viola- tions, held senior-level offi- cers accountable and made significant changes "to pre- vent this from happening again." "In addition to respond- ing to the CPUC, we're also continuing to cooper- ate fully with law enforce- ment investigations and have provided them with all emails and information they have requested," PG&E spokesman Keith Stephens said. Previous emails released by PG&E show company ex- ecutives sought — and ob- tained —the administrative law judge they wanted in the gas rate hike case. The president of the state util- ities commission, Michael Peevey, and Florio also were included in those email ne- gotiations. PROPOSED RATE HIKE PG&E email alleges offer by regulator The Associated Press SHELTER COVE A North- ern California man is fac- ing life in prison following his conviction in the shoot- ing of a sheriff's deputy who was wearing a bulletproof vest that saved his life. Prosecutors told the Times-Standard of Eureka a Humboldt County jury found 56-year-old William Lloyd Nelson guilty Mon- day of attempted murder. Authorities say Nelson shot Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputy Bang Cao on May 6 when Cao and a sheriff's sergeant were serving a court-ordered eviction no- tice at Nelson's Shelter Cove home. Cao was shot in the chest, but the round was stopped by his bulletproof vest. Nelson is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 15. BULLETPROOF VEST Man guilty of shooting deputy 235So.MainSt.,RedBluff 527-1657 FurnitureDepot MON.-FRI.9:00-6:00 SAT. 9:00-5:00 • SUN. 11:00-5:00 all Recliners SPECIALS SPECIALS Continue Beautyrest mattress sets $ 200 OFF $ 100 OFF | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014 8 B