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Washington 80/66 New York 74/60 Miami 87/77 Atlanta 78/67 Detroit 75/62 Houston 85/72 Chicago 76/60 Minneapolis 71/60 Kansas City 76/63 El Paso 81/60 Den ver 65/42 Billings 61/46 Los Angeles 69/56 San Francisco 63/52 Seattle 67/51 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: SATURDAY 76° 52° SUNDAY 76° 50° Times of clouds and sun Pa rtly sunn y MONDAY 77° 52° Pa rtly sunn y and beautiful TUESDAY 79° 53° Clouds and sun TODAY 72° 50° Cool with times of clouds and sun. Mainly clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 70° Low ........................................................................ 53° Normal high ......................................................... 81° Normal low ........................................................... 54° Record high ........................................... 100° in 1987 Record low .............................................. 39° in 1942 Humidity noon today ........................................ 54% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................ Trace Month to date ................................................... 0.14" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.63" Season to date ................................................ 19.81" Normal season to date .................................. 23.45" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ..................................................... Moderate Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ...................... High Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ................ Absent 6 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 5:54 a.m. 8:17 p.m. 4:25 a.m. 5:44 p.m. Saturday 5:53 a.m. 8:18 p.m. 5:04 a.m. 6:53 p.m. 14 hr., 23 min. May17 New May25 First Full Jun2 Last Jun9 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.60 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.10 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.60 ....... -0.01 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.60 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.30 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.20 ......+0.06 BlackButte ....................455.34..............68,707 .....47.8% LakeOroville..................749.40.........1,671,958 .....44.7% LakeShasta ...................987.08.........2,556,987 .....56.2% LakeTrinity..................2264.51.........1,085,947 .....41.0% Whiskeytown...............1208.61............236,656 .....98.2% Weather Trivia ™ Is steady precipitation more likely ahead of a warm front or cold front? Warm front Today Saturday Anaheim 65/54/r 69/55/pc Bakersfield 69/53/pc 77/56/pc Chula Vista 63/55/r 65/55/pc Crescent City 55/46/c 56/46/c Death Valley 72/49/c 85/61/pc Eureka 57/47/c 56/46/pc Fremont 66/46/pc 68/44/pc Fresno 70/51/pc 75/53/pc Glendale 66/53/r 67/55/pc Huntington Beach 65/57/r 65/57/pc Irvine 72/55/r 66/60/pc Lake Tahoe 49/33/sn 54/33/pc Long Beach 68/56/r 70/58/pc Los Angeles 69/56/r 70/59/pc Mammoth Mountain 50/30/sf 57/34/pc Modesto 73/49/pc 76/50/pc Monterey 59/52/pc 58/51/pc Moreno Valley 59/46/r 68/48/pc Napa 64/46/pc 65/46/pc Needles 67/53/t 81/63/pc Oakland 62/51/pc 62/52/pc Oxnard 68/51/sh 68/54/pc Redding 72/53/pc 77/55/pc Riverside 60/47/r 68/49/pc Sacramento 70/51/pc 73/49/pc San Bernardino 61/43/r 69/47/pc San Diego 66/59/r 66/59/pc San Francisco 63/52/pc 64/52/pc San Jose 65/52/pc 65/51/pc San Luis Obispo 65/47/pc 66/50/pc Santa Ana 67/55/r 68/58/pc Santa Barbara 68/50/sh 69/51/pc Santa Clarita 64/48/r 68/52/pc Stockton 71/49/pc 74/48/pc Ventura 67/51/sh 68/54/pc Yosemite Valley 62/41/sh 65/44/pc Today Saturday Albuquerque 63/42/t 59/42/t Atlanta 78/67/c 83/68/t Baltimore 77/60/s 87/67/t Boston 68/53/pc 73/56/sh Buffalo 70/57/pc 73/60/c Chicago 76/60/pc 78/63/t Cincinnati 85/63/pc 81/63/pc Dallas 79/66/t 81/68/t Denver 65/42/t 61/41/t Detroit 75/62/r 81/65/c El Paso 81/60/pc 76/52/s Fargo 67/55/pc 78/59/t Honolulu 83/70/s 83/69/s Houston 85/72/t 87/74/t Indianapolis 81/65/pc 78/65/pc Kansas City 76/63/t 76/65/pc Las Vegas 67/52/c 77/58/pc Louisville 88/69/pc 83/69/pc Miami 87/77/pc 87/77/t Minneapolis 71/60/pc 83/66/t New Orleans 82/74/t 83/76/t New York City 74/60/pc 82/68/pc Oklahoma City 78/65/t 75/63/t Dry weather and warm sunshine will extend from Maine to the eastern parts of the Carolinas today as high pressure slips off the mid-Atlantic coast. An area of rain is forecast to push eastward over the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes with a swath of warm and humid air behind from the lower Ohio Valley to Texas. Part of the Upper Midwest will dry out. Spotty showers and building humidity are in store for the balance of the South with locally strong and drenching thunderstorms in central and southern Texas to Oklahoma. Areas of rain will affect the West. High .......................... 95° in Andalusia, AL Low ..................... 23° in Saranac Lake, NY High .......... 114° in Bandar-E-Dayyer, Iran Low ... -25° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 68/47/t 68/49/c Buenos Aires 71/61/pc 73/63/s Caracas 87/74/pc 87/73/pc Ensenada 58/50/r 65/49/pc Mexico City 73/57/t 76/56/t Montreal 70/50/pc 72/53/c Rio de Janeiro 77/66/c 78/67/pc Tijuana 64/54/r 68/54/pc Toronto 61/53/pc 75/54/c Vancouver 65/52/s 62/50/pc Orlando 87/71/t 87/71/t Philadelphia 75/61/pc 86/69/pc Phoenix 74/59/t 75/61/c Pittsburgh 80/63/sh 82/64/pc Portland, ME 68/48/pc 61/50/sh Portland, OR 67/52/pc 65/51/c St. Louis 83/69/t 82/70/t Salt Lake City 61/46/t 60/48/sh Seattle 67/51/pc 61/50/c Tucson 75/55/t 72/54/pc Washington, DC 80/66/s 88/71/t Cairo 84/63/s 85/65/s Casablanca 78/56/s 86/60/s Johannesburg 78/53/s 75/49/pc Kinshasa 89/73/t 89/73/t Lagos 87/75/t 86/75/r Nairobi 81/62/pc 79/60/pc Tripoli 96/71/s 81/64/s Baghdad 94/69/s 94/70/s Beijing 78/51/s 84/61/s Hong Kong 91/82/pc 90/83/sh Jerusalem 77/52/s 83/58/s Kabul 86/53/s 86/55/pc Manila 94/80/pc 96/81/s Melbourne 57/45/pc 62/41/s New Delhi 99/76/s 103/79/pc Seoul 73/50/pc 74/48/s Singapore 90/80/t 90/80/t Sydney 65/58/pc 67/57/sh Tehran 82/62/c 80/61/s Tokyo 80/66/c 77/65/r Amsterdam 58/43/pc 58/46/sh Athens 83/64/pc 81/63/pc Belgrade 74/56/r 77/55/pc Berlin 64/43/pc 65/45/pc Budapest 66/50/sh 72/48/pc Dublin 59/44/pc 54/43/pc London 63/53/pc 63/45/pc Madrid 75/49/s 82/54/s Moscow 57/43/r 53/43/r Paris 62/44/pc 64/46/pc Rome 77/57/pc 72/58/t Stockholm 50/36/pc 57/42/pc Vienna 63/51/r 72/56/pc Zurich 54/47/r 69/49/pc 53/38 56/42 55/44 53/42 57/44 70/51 73/51 64/46 70/47 70/53 72/52 51/34 51/35 55/41 72/53 72/50 69/46 59/49 63/48 57/47 65/46 59/39 64/38 55/46 62/39 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByMaryClareJalonick The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Agri- culture Department has de- veloped a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingre- dients. USDA's move comes as some consumer groups push for mandatory label- ing of the genetically mod- ified organisms, or GMOs. The certification is the first of its kind, would be voluntary — and compa- nies would have to pay for it. If approved, the foods would be able to carry a "USDA Process Verified" la- bel along with a claim that they are free of GMOs. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack outlined the new certification in a May 1 letter to USDA employ- ees, saying it was being done at the request of a "leading global company," which he did not identify. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Associ- ated Press. A USDA spokesman con- firmed that Vilsack sent the letter but declined to com- ment on the certification program. Vilsack said in the letter that the certification "will be announced soon, and other companies are al- ready lining up to take ad- vantage of this service." Companies can already put their own GMO-free la- bels on foods, but there are no government labels that only certify a food as GMO- free. Many companies use a private label developed by a nonprofit called the Non- GMO Project. The USDA organic label also certifies that foods are free of genet- ically modified ingredients, but many non-GMO foods aren't organic. Vilsack said the USDA certification is being cre- ated through the depart- ment's Agriculture Mar- keting Service, which works with interested companies to certify the accuracy of the claims they are making on food packages — think "humanely raised" or "no antibiotics ever." Compa- nies pay the Agricultural Marketing Service to ver- ify a claim, and if approved, they can market the foods with the USDA process ver- ified label. "Recently, a leading global company asked AMS to help verify that the corn and soybeans it uses in its products are not genetically engineered so that the com- pany could label the prod- ucts as such," Vilsack wrote in the letter. "AMS worked with the company to de- velop testing and verifica- tion processes to verify the non-GE claim." Genetically modified foods come from seeds that are originally engineered in laboratories to have cer- tain traits, like resistance to herbicides. The majority of the country's corn and soy- bean crop is now geneti- cally modified, with much of that going to animal feed. GMO corn and soybeans are also made into popular pro- cessed food ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and soybean oil. The government says GMOs on the market now are safe so mandatory la- bels aren't needed. Con- sumer advocates pushing for mandatory labeling say shoppers still have a right to know what is in their food, arguing that not enough is known about the effects of the technology. They have supported several state ef- forts to require labeling, with the eventual goal of having a federal manda- tory label set by the Food and Drug Administration. An Associated Press-GfK poll in December showed that two thirds of Ameri- cans support the labeling, while fewer said geneti- cally modified ingredients are important in judging whether a food is healthy. Some of the respondents said their support of la- beling was more about ac- countability in the food in- dustry than the safety of GMOs. Vermont became the first state to require the labeling in 2014, and that law will go into effect next year if it survives a legal challenge from the food in- dustry. The USDA label is simi- lar to what is proposed in a GOP House bill introduced earlier this year that is de- signed to block such man- datory GMO labeling ef- forts around the country. The bill, introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., pro- vides for voluntary USDA certification and would override any state laws that require the labeling. The food industry has strongly backed Pompeo's bill, ar- guing labels would be mis- leading because GMOs are safe. FOOD USDAcreatesnewcertificationforGMO-free JOHNMILLER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE A genetically engineered potato pokes through the soil of a planting pot inside J.R. Simplot's lab in southwestern Idaho. | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 12 A