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Washington 43/12 New York 35/17 Miami 69/48 Atlanta 56/22 Detroit 23/-8 Houston 77/53 Chicago 15/-3 Minneapolis 6/-5 Kansas City 35/10 El Paso 72/47 Denver 69/32 Billings 57/32 Los Angeles 85/58 San Francisco 70/54 Seattle 55/39 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 78° 44° MONDAY 75° 43° Mostly sunn y Mostly sunn y TUESDAY 72° 41° Pa rtly sunn y WEDNESDAY 74° 43° Plenty of sunshine TODAY 75° 45° Warm with sunshine and patchy clouds. Mainly clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 67° Low ........................................................................ 47° Normal high ......................................................... 60° Normal low ........................................................... 41° Record high ............................................. 82° in 1977 Record low .............................................. 27° in 1948 Humidity noon today ........................................ 39% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 1.77" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.89" Season to date ................................................ 18.16" Normal season to date .................................. 15.89" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 3 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:04 a.m. 5:43 p.m. 3:12 a.m. 1:23 p.m. Sunday 7:03 a.m. 5:44 p.m. 4:07 a.m. 2:24 p.m. 10 hr., 39 min. Feb18 New Feb25 First Full Mar5 Last Mar13 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.50 ....... -0.60 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......130.70 ....... -0.60 atOrdFerry................................114 ........98.80 ....... -0.80 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.70 ....... -0.30 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.60 ....... -0.60 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......168.00 ....... -0.60 BlackButte ....................451.84..............58,555 .....40.7% LakeOroville..................746.22.........1,642,549 .....43.9% LakeShasta ...................980.96.........2,434,797 .....53.5% LakeTrinity..................2264.84.........1,089,058 .....41.1% Whiskeytown...............1205.76............227,685 .....94.4% Weather Trivia ™ Which of the lower 48 states is nearest to the Arctic Circle? Minnesota. Today Sunday Anaheim 88/55/s 83/53/s Bakersfield 76/48/s 75/48/s Chula Vista 80/55/s 75/53/s Crescent City 63/48/s 63/48/pc Death Valley 85/56/s 86/56/s Eureka 61/41/s 65/45/pc Fremont 71/48/s 77/48/s Fresno 75/48/s 75/48/s Glendale 85/56/s 84/55/s Huntington Beach 80/59/s 76/56/s Irvine 82/54/s 78/53/s Lake Tahoe 61/31/s 60/29/s Long Beach 84/57/s 81/54/s Los Angeles 85/58/s 81/56/s Mammoth Mountain 65/29/s 63/26/s Modesto 72/45/s 71/48/s Monterey 77/49/s 76/50/s Moreno Valley 86/45/s 83/48/s Napa 70/41/s 72/43/s Needles 84/58/s 84/57/s Oakland 70/47/s 71/49/s Oxnard 77/54/s 74/54/s Redding 77/44/s 79/47/s Riverside 85/44/s 82/44/s Sacramento 71/46/s 71/47/s San Bernardino 83/44/s 82/45/s San Diego 80/58/s 75/57/s San Francisco 70/54/s 72/54/s San Jose 73/48/s 75/47/s San Luis Obispo 81/46/s 79/46/s Santa Ana 86/59/s 82/55/s Santa Barbara 75/49/s 74/51/s Santa Clarita 83/48/s 83/50/s Stockton 70/43/s 70/46/s Ventura 76/54/s 73/52/s Yosemite Valley 70/37/s 70/34/s Today Sunday Albuquerque 67/38/s 69/35/s Atlanta 56/22/s 40/27/s Baltimore 38/7/sf 20/4/pc Boston 27/21/sn 22/0/sn Buffalo 23/-5/sn 0/-9/sf Chicago 15/-3/sf 13/4/sf Cincinnati 30/4/sf 17/5/pc Dallas 74/48/s 62/32/pc Denver 69/32/pc 44/22/pc Detroit 23/-8/sf 5/-8/s El Paso 72/47/pc 76/47/c Fargo -2/-8/pc 12/6/sn Honolulu 79/64/r 79/65/s Houston 77/53/s 70/58/c Indianapolis 27/2/sn 15/5/c Kansas City 35/10/s 18/8/sn Las Vegas 77/52/s 77/54/s Louisville 34/8/sf 24/13/pc Miami 69/48/s 74/56/s Minneapolis 6/-5/s 11/7/sn New Orleans 69/48/s 63/53/pc New York City 35/17/sf 18/6/sn Oklahoma City 69/26/s 37/19/i An Alberta Clipper will strengthen as it moves southeastward across the Northeastern states today. As it does, flurries will develop into lines of heavy snow squalls that will travel from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic coast. Snow will spread eastward across New England. As a new wave of arctic air rushes southeastward, gusty winds will sweep from the Midwest to the Northeast. As frigid air expands over the Central states, the Deep South will remain mild with some sunshine. The cold air and clipper will evolve into a blizzard over New England tonight. High ............................ 89° in Fullerton, CA Low ....................... -32° in Watertown, NY High ................ 116° in Leonora, Australia Low ... -78° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 67/49/pc 70/48/pc Buenos Aires 77/65/pc 81/68/s Caracas 92/77/s 90/77/s Ensenada 77/56/pc 76/51/pc Mexico City 69/45/pc 70/46/pc Montreal 13/1/sn 4/-12/pc Rio de Janeiro 94/78/pc 94/77/t Tijuana 81/53/pc 77/51/pc Toronto 21/-9/sn -1/-11/pc Vancouver 52/37/pc 52/40/pc Orlando 63/45/s 68/44/s Philadelphia 37/12/sf 19/5/pc Phoenix 84/58/pc 82/54/pc Pittsburgh 26/0/sn 5/-2/pc Portland, ME 21/18/sn 19/0/sn Portland, OR 56/36/pc 58/39/pc St. Louis 34/8/sn 22/14/pc Salt Lake City 63/37/pc 56/34/pc Seattle 55/39/pc 53/40/pc Tucson 79/55/pc 78/52/pc Washington, DC 43/12/sf 24/10/s Cairo 63/51/s 61/48/r Casablanca 62/41/s 64/47/s Johannesburg 85/56/s 84/57/s Kinshasa 85/71/t 89/72/t Lagos 91/79/t 92/79/t Nairobi 89/59/s 86/61/pc Tripoli 60/47/sh 62/50/pc Baghdad 69/44/s 69/51/pc Beijing 55/28/s 52/32/c Hong Kong 70/65/pc 72/65/c Jerusalem 50/36/pc 51/38/c Kabul 61/34/s 58/39/c Manila 82/75/sh 87/74/pc Melbourne 83/64/t 95/66/sh New Delhi 80/53/s 79/57/pc Seoul 48/35/pc 51/37/pc Singapore 87/75/pc 89/76/pc Sydney 80/70/pc 84/70/sh Tehran 57/42/pc 55/40/c Tokyo 49/39/s 52/38/pc Amsterdam 49/37/c 46/32/c Athens 53/41/c 54/41/pc Belgrade 48/30/s 48/31/s Berlin 41/31/s 43/33/s Budapest 45/27/s 46/28/s Dublin 46/37/c 46/36/r London 48/39/sh 48/36/c Madrid 54/43/c 56/37/pc Moscow 28/23/c 28/7/sf Paris 46/37/r 46/35/r Rome 55/45/t 56/46/sh Stockholm 34/27/c 34/27/pc Vienna 44/34/pc 47/32/s Zurich 43/29/r 43/30/c 66/37 71/31 66/34 66/37 67/26 71/46 69/43 70/41 76/41 73/44 74/46 61/24 61/24 64/30 77/44 75/45 73/39 61/47 69/49 61/41 70/41 62/34 63/32 63/48 64/36 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 BySethBorenstein The Associated Press SAN JOSE Astronomers have their own version of the single person's dilemma: Do you wait by the phone for a call from that certain some- one? Or do you make the call yourself and risk get- ting shot down? Instead of love, of course, astronomers are looking for alien life, and for decades, they have sat by their tele- scopes, waiting to hear from E.T. It didn't happen, and so now some of them want to beam messages out into the void and invite the closest few thousand worlds to chat or even visit. Others scientists, in- cluding Stephen Hawking, think that's crazy, warn- ing that instead of sweet and gentle E.T., we may get something like the planet- conquering aliens from "In- dependence Day." The con- sequences, they say, could be catastrophic. But calling out there our- selves may be the only way to find out if we are not alone, and humanity may benefit from alien intelli- gence, said Douglas A. Va- koch, whose title — for real — is director of interstel- lar message composition at the SETI Institute in Moun- tain View, California. SETI stands for Search for Extra- terrestrial Intelligence, and until now it's been mostly a listening-type thing. This dispute — which mixes astronomy, science fiction, philosophy, the law, mathematics and a touch of silliness — broke out Thurs- day and Friday at a conven- tion in San Jose of the Amer- ican Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. And this week several prominent space experts, including Space X founder Elon Musk and planet hunter Geoff Marcy, started a petition cautioning against sending out such messages, saying it is im- possible to predict whether extraterrestrial life will be benign or hostile. Vakoch is hosting a sepa- rate conference Saturday at the SETI Institute on the call- ing-all-aliens proposal and whatthemessagesshouldsay. The idea is called active SETI, and according to Va- kochwouldinvolvethebeam- ingofmessagesviaradarand perhaps eventually lasers. We've been inadvertently sending radio and TV sig- nals out to the cosmos for some 70 years — though less now, with cable and satellite sending shows directly down to Earth. In fact, each day a new far-off planet may be just now catching the latest episodeofthe1950ssitcom"I Love Lucy," said astronomer SethShostak,aseniorastron- omer at the SETI Institute. There have been a few small and unlikely-to-work efforts to beam messages out there in the past, in- cluding NASA sending the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into the cosmos in 2008. NASA's Voyager probe recently left the so- lar system with a "golden record" created by Carl Sa- gan with a message, and the space agency's New Ho- rizon probe will also have greetings on it by the time it exits the solar system. But what scientists are now talking about is a co- ordinated and sustained million-dollar-a-year effort with approval from some kind of science or interna- tional body and a message that people agree on. 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