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The Associated Press LOSANGELES Bigsurfkept rolling ashore Monday along south-facing sections of the Southern California coast af- ter bodysurfers challenged the towering waves over the weekend and lifeguards were kept busy pulling peo- ple from the water. The highest surf was ex- pected Monday, with some sets up to 12 feet along beaches in Orange and San Diego counties and 10 feet at Malibu and Zuma in Los Angeles County, the Na- tional Weather Service said. By midmorning, 6- to 8-foot waves were reported at Santa Monica. The surf was slighter higher in Ven- ice, forecasters said. Cloudy weather kept crowds at bay at Newport Beach, which saw 55,000 visitors over the weekend. Even so, more lifeguards were on duty Monday than usual because of the ex- pected surf, said Newport Beach Chief Lifeguard Rob Williams. The rough conditions extended north along the coast to San Luis Obispo County. Avalon, Port San Luis, San Simeon and Cayu- cos could see currents ca- pable of dislodging moored vessels and docks, forecast- ers said. "Inexperienced swim- mers should definitely stay out of the water," Seal Beach police Sgt. Ron LaVelle said. Lifeguards pulled 17 peo- ple out of the water over the weekend off Newport Beach, home of the Wedge, a famous surfing spot. It was the busiest weekend for lifeguards since March when 134 people were res- cued during a weekend of big waves. The high tides have been caused by a Southern Hemi- sphere storm. ROUGH CONDITIONS Hugewavesluresurfers,causeminorflooding JOHNANTCZAK—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Big waves challenge surfers at Malibu as a long-period, south swell moved into the Southern California Bight on Sunday. By Janie Harr The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Schol- ars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collec- tion of letters written by Mark Twain when the au- thor was a young newsman in San Francisco. In the letters, the man who would write The Ad- ventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, lik- ened the city's police chief to a dog chasing its tail and accused city govern- ment of rascality. Some of the letters carried his flair for embellishment and may not be entirely true. "This is a very special period in his life, when he's out here in San Francisco," said Bob Hirst, general edi- tor of the Mark Twain Proj- ect on the Berkeley cam- pus. "He's utterly free, he's not encumbered by a mar- riage or much of anything else, and he can speak his mind and does speak his mind. These things are wonderful to read, the ones that survived." Twain was likely 29 years old when he started filing near-daily columns for the Territorial Enter- prise newspaper in Vir- ginia City, Nevada, in 1865. He wrote a 2,000-word story, or "letter," six days a week for a salary of $100 a month, Hirst said. Many of the letters were in back issues lost to fires, but Twain scholars picked through archives of other Western U.S. newspapers for copies. They have found about 110 columns written in 1865 and 1866. COLLECTION OF LETTERS Mark Twain project finds cache of new writing Washington 85/64 New York 80/60 Miami 75/71 Atlanta 82/57 Detroit 63/52 Houston 79/68 Chicago 60/51 Minneapolis 74/57 Kansas City 80/61 El Paso 81/57 Denver 59/45 Billings 79/49 Los Angeles 68/56 San Francisco 65/51 Seattle 57/44 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: WEDNESDAY 82° 54° THURSDAY 79° 54° Some sun, b re ez y and pleasant Mostly sunn y, b re ez y and nice FRIDAY 84° 53° Times of clouds and sun SATURDAY 85° 55° Mostly sunn y TODAY 85° 55° Sunny. Clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 80° Low ........................................................................ 54° Normal high ......................................................... 77° Normal low ........................................................... 51° Record high ........................................... 103° in 1990 Record low .............................................. 37° in 1964 Humidity noon today ........................................ 32% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.00" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.20" Season to date ................................................ 19.67" Normal season to date .................................. 23.02" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ...................... High Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ..................... Low 7 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 6:04 a.m. 8:08 p.m. 9:51 p.m. 7:20 a.m. Wednesday 6:03 a.m. 8:09 p.m. 10:47 p.m. 8:07 a.m. 14 hr., 04 min. May11 Last May17 New First May25 Full Jun2 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.60 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.10 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.60 .......none atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.60 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.30 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.20 .......none BlackButte ....................455.09..............67,945 .....47.3% LakeOroville..................759.04.........1,763,385 .....47.2% LakeShasta ...................991.05.........2,638,339 .....58.0% LakeTrinity..................2273.25.........1,170,697 .....44.2% Whiskeytown...............1208.31............235,702 .....97.8% Weather Trivia ™ How long is the average life span of a tornado? 10 to 15 minutes Today Wednesday Anaheim 70/54/pc 69/55/pc Bakersfield 84/55/s 81/53/s Chula Vista 68/57/pc 66/57/pc Crescent City 56/44/s 56/45/s Death Valley 94/66/pc 91/64/pc Eureka 57/43/s 58/43/s Fremont 73/45/pc 72/45/s Fresno 84/52/s 80/52/s Glendale 69/55/pc 68/54/pc Huntington Beach 66/57/pc 66/57/pc Irvine 66/56/pc 67/58/pc Lake Tahoe 64/30/t 56/30/t Long Beach 70/57/pc 70/57/pc Los Angeles 68/56/pc 68/56/pc Mammoth Mountain 64/30/t 63/32/t Modesto 82/51/s 79/52/s Monterey 60/49/pc 60/49/s Moreno Valley 71/49/pc 70/49/pc Napa 69/44/pc 71/47/s Needles 91/67/pc 89/62/pc Oakland 65/50/pc 67/50/s Oxnard 65/53/pc 65/50/pc Redding 86/56/s 81/55/s Riverside 73/51/pc 70/50/pc Sacramento 80/49/s 78/51/s San Bernardino 73/47/pc 71/49/pc San Diego 68/61/pc 67/59/pc San Francisco 65/51/pc 66/52/s San Jose 68/48/pc 70/49/s San Luis Obispo 66/50/pc 64/50/s Santa Ana 68/58/pc 67/58/pc Santa Barbara 67/50/pc 68/50/s Santa Clarita 70/51/s 68/49/s Stockton 79/47/s 79/50/s Ventura 66/53/pc 66/50/pc Yosemite Valley 74/41/s 70/40/t Today Wednesday Albuquerque 68/48/t 73/48/s Atlanta 82/57/s 84/58/s Baltimore 82/59/s 76/55/t Boston 71/55/t 71/54/pc Buffalo 69/47/c 73/52/pc Chicago 60/51/t 77/59/sh Cincinnati 82/59/pc 83/61/pc Dallas 76/64/t 80/66/t Denver 59/45/t 67/44/t Detroit 63/52/r 72/55/pc El Paso 81/57/s 84/57/s Fargo 78/56/pc 77/60/t Honolulu 82/69/pc 81/70/pc Houston 79/68/c 84/69/pc Indianapolis 82/61/pc 82/60/pc Kansas City 80/61/pc 73/63/t Las Vegas 87/63/pc 84/60/pc Louisville 86/62/pc 87/63/pc Miami 75/71/t 86/72/t Minneapolis 74/57/c 78/64/t New Orleans 82/64/pc 83/66/pc New York City 80/60/t 74/56/pc Oklahoma City 76/63/pc 78/64/t Warmth will continue to build from the lower Mis- sissippi Valley to the southern Atlantic Seaboard under some sunshine today. An area of showers and thunderstorms just southeast of Florida will continue to slowly organize and could become a tropical system later in the week as it drifts northward. As cooler air pushes southward, a zone of showers and spotty thunderstorms will extend from coastal New England to the lower Great Lakes and central Plains. Some of the thun- derstorms over the Central states and Southwest can become locally severe. High ............................. 92° in Presidio, TX Low ................................. 24° in Olney, MT High .................... 114° in Turbat, Pakistan Low ... -38° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 70/49/pc 69/50/c Buenos Aires 68/48/s 62/45/pc Caracas 89/76/s 88/75/pc Ensenada 67/49/pc 64/47/pc Mexico City 79/55/pc 79/54/pc Montreal 69/44/s 72/48/c Rio de Janeiro 78/71/t 76/69/t Tijuana 68/61/pc 68/59/pc Toronto 64/44/pc 70/46/s Vancouver 57/42/sh 58/42/s Orlando 83/68/t 87/66/t Philadelphia 84/61/pc 74/55/c Phoenix 86/67/pc 89/64/pc Pittsburgh 76/57/t 77/58/pc Portland, ME 74/46/sh 72/49/s Portland, OR 60/46/t 63/45/pc St. Louis 85/64/pc 85/65/pc Salt Lake City 72/51/t 65/48/t Seattle 57/44/t 62/43/pc Tucson 83/60/t 86/57/s Washington, DC 85/64/s 81/61/t Cairo 85/64/s 86/63/s Casablanca 72/56/c 78/57/s Johannesburg 78/53/s 78/48/s Kinshasa 88/72/t 89/73/t Lagos 87/77/t 87/79/t Nairobi 76/60/pc 79/60/pc Tripoli 100/72/s 97/70/s Baghdad 94/63/pc 95/70/pc Beijing 80/50/pc 74/50/c Hong Kong 87/80/r 88/80/pc Jerusalem 75/57/s 79/59/pc Kabul 81/49/pc 85/51/t Manila 94/81/t 96/81/s Melbourne 63/47/pc 61/46/pc New Delhi 106/80/pc 107/82/pc Seoul 67/49/s 70/49/c Singapore 90/79/t 91/79/t Sydney 79/53/s 67/52/s Tehran 85/66/pc 81/64/t Tokyo 68/60/pc 73/64/pc Amsterdam 68/50/t 59/46/c Athens 80/64/s 82/64/s Belgrade 87/64/pc 91/61/pc Berlin 79/54/pc 67/48/pc Budapest 81/56/pc 80/54/pc Dublin 55/40/t 55/37/sh London 62/49/pc 59/47/sh Madrid 69/45/pc 73/51/pc Moscow 59/38/pc 59/36/s Paris 63/48/pc 63/46/pc Rome 79/59/s 75/58/pc Stockholm 60/48/pc 64/43/pc Vienna 80/62/pc 69/53/t Zurich 73/53/t 66/45/t 72/38 74/46 75/43 74/40 78/43 80/49 81/50 69/44 76/46 82/54 83/55 67/31 69/29 72/38 86/56 85/55 74/42 61/48 62/47 57/43 68/42 68/36 68/34 56/44 66/36 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 530-366-3166 www.redbluffdodge.com 545 Adobe Rd., Red Bluff, CA YOURNO-HASSLE BENNY BROWN'S RED BLUFF DODGE•JEEP•CHRYSLER•RAM ISN'T PLAYING! 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