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Washington 77/52 New York 75/48 Miami 92/76 Atlanta 77/60 Detr oit 65/41 Houston 80/72 Chicago 63/46 Minneapolis 73/53 Kansas City 67/52 El Paso 87/62 Denver 62/46 Billings 69/46 Los Angeles 67/57 San Francisco 64/55 Seattle 66/52 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 85° 57° SUNDAY 89° 60° Mostly sunn y Pa rtly sunn y MONDAY 87° 58° Sunshine and pat ch y clouds TUESDAY 87° 59° Sunshine and pat ch y clouds TODAY 80° 57° Clouds and sunshine. Mostly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 76° Low ........................................................................ 56° Normal high ......................................................... 83° Normal low ........................................................... 56° Record high ........................................... 104° in 1947 Record low .............................................. 43° in 1960 Humidity noon today ........................................ 50% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.16" Month to date ................................................... 0.30" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.89" Season to date ................................................ 19.97" Normal season to date .................................. 23.71" 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 ............. Moderate Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ..................... Low 7 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 5:48 a.m. 8:24 p.m. 10:10 a.m. none Saturday 5:47 a.m. 8:25 p.m. 11:07 a.m. 12:22 a.m. 14 hr., 36 min. May25 First Jun2 Full Last Jun9 New Jun16 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........3.00 ......+0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.40 ......+0.03 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.91 ......+0.01 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.80 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.50 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.41 ......+0.05 BlackButte ....................455.35..............68,737 .....47.8% LakeOroville..................743.48.........1,617,504 .....43.3% LakeShasta ...................984.31.........2,501,125 .....54.9% LakeTrinity..................2261.96.........1,062,090 .....40.1% Whiskeytown...............1208.85............237,418 .....98.5% Weather Trivia ™ If a warm front reverses its direction, what would it be called then? A cold front. Today Saturday Anaheim 68/56/pc 70/57/pc Bakersfield 70/58/c 80/59/s Chula Vista 66/57/c 66/57/pc Crescent City 58/49/pc 58/48/pc Death Valley 81/61/c 89/61/pc Eureka 58/49/pc 60/47/pc Fremont 66/56/c 66/55/pc Fresno 72/56/c 80/57/s Glendale 67/55/pc 69/57/pc Huntington Beach 66/59/pc 67/58/pc Irvine 66/59/pc 65/60/pc Lake Tahoe 55/39/t 58/35/pc Long Beach 70/59/pc 71/58/pc Los Angeles 67/57/pc 70/57/pc Mammoth Mountain 54/36/t 59/33/pc Modesto 77/53/c 81/56/s Monterey 63/54/c 61/52/pc Moreno Valley 65/50/c 69/51/pc Napa 66/51/c 70/50/pc Needles 81/63/t 86/67/s Oakland 63/55/c 65/53/pc Oxnard 68/54/pc 68/55/pc Redding 80/59/pc 85/58/pc Riverside 65/53/c 69/53/pc Sacramento 74/54/c 78/55/s San Bernardino 65/50/c 69/50/pc San Diego 67/61/c 67/62/pc San Francisco 64/55/c 66/53/pc San Jose 67/55/c 68/54/pc San Luis Obispo 66/51/pc 66/51/pc Santa Ana 68/58/pc 68/59/pc Santa Barbara 68/52/pc 69/52/pc Santa Clarita 65/52/pc 69/53/pc Stockton 74/53/c 79/53/s Ventura 68/54/pc 68/55/pc Yosemite Valley 64/48/t 69/45/pc Today Saturday Albuquerque 73/48/s 69/46/pc Atlanta 77/60/s 82/63/pc Baltimore 76/46/s 72/49/s Boston 68/45/c 64/51/s Buffalo 57/36/pc 59/49/s Chicago 63/46/s 71/56/pc Cincinnati 72/48/s 75/53/pc Dallas 74/65/t 79/68/t Denver 62/46/c 65/45/t Detroit 65/41/pc 71/51/s El Paso 87/62/s 84/58/s Fargo 74/49/pc 67/54/t Honolulu 83/68/pc 82/67/pc Houston 80/72/t 84/72/c Indianapolis 72/50/s 75/56/pc Kansas City 67/52/t 67/60/t Las Vegas 73/58/c 76/63/s Louisville 75/56/s 79/60/pc Miami 92/76/t 89/78/t Minneapolis 73/53/s 69/57/c New Orleans 83/74/t 87/76/pc New York City 75/48/pc 69/54/s Oklahoma City 64/58/r 72/63/t Spotty showers will dot the Northeast today as a cold front swings through, ushering in fresh cool air. Brief warming will occur ahead of the front along the I-95 corridor. High pressure will keep the rest of the eastern third of the nation dry. An afternoon thunderstorm will make the southern Florida Peninsula the exception. A large storm system will be responsible for delivering showers and thunderstorms to the central and southern Plains and most of the West. The thunderstorms threaten to turn severe and across the southern High Plains in the afternoon. High ............. 99° in Fernandina Beach, FL Low ................................. 24° in Custer, SD High ........... 118° in Nawabshah, Pakistan Low ... -26° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 67/49/t 68/48/c Buenos Aires 75/61/pc 65/48/r Caracas 86/75/t 87/75/t Ensenada 61/50/pc 63/49/pc Mexico City 76/55/t 75/57/t Montreal 57/34/c 63/49/s Rio de Janeiro 79/67/s 80/68/c Tijuana 66/57/pc 66/57/pc Toronto 56/34/pc 66/47/s Vancouver 66/55/pc 63/54/c Orlando 94/73/pc 90/73/t Philadelphia 75/49/pc 72/52/s Phoenix 83/63/pc 83/65/s Pittsburgh 65/36/pc 68/43/s Portland, ME 70/39/c 62/47/pc Portland, OR 70/54/c 67/54/c St. Louis 76/58/pc 75/61/c Salt Lake City 64/51/c 59/47/pc Seattle 66/52/c 64/52/c Tucson 84/56/pc 81/57/s Washington, DC 77/52/s 75/56/s Cairo 90/69/s 96/75/s Casablanca 81/59/s 80/60/pc Johannesburg 75/47/s 70/48/s Kinshasa 90/72/t 89/72/t Lagos 88/76/t 86/75/t Nairobi 77/58/pc 78/59/t Tripoli 74/58/s 78/60/s Baghdad 111/77/pc 99/74/s Beijing 87/60/pc 92/63/s Hong Kong 83/79/t 86/78/r Jerusalem 80/57/s 83/59/s Kabul 81/52/pc 82/50/pc Manila 94/82/t 92/81/t Melbourne 57/45/c 57/38/pc New Delhi 108/79/pc 107/78/pc Seoul 77/53/pc 78/54/pc Singapore 89/80/t 89/80/t Sydney 63/57/r 64/51/sh Tehran 89/70/s 88/70/t Tokyo 76/64/pc 78/65/s Amsterdam 65/51/pc 60/42/pc Athens 80/66/pc 82/65/pc Belgrade 77/60/t 76/55/t Berlin 65/48/c 65/44/c Budapest 67/53/t 71/51/t Dublin 61/44/c 61/50/pc London 68/52/t 63/49/pc Madrid 73/47/s 75/50/pc Moscow 75/57/t 67/52/r Paris 66/49/c 69/52/c Rome 70/56/sh 69/56/sh Stockholm 60/46/pc 59/40/pc Vienna 61/52/sh 59/52/r Zurich 62/45/c 64/46/c 61/45 64/46 66/53 65/48 68/51 74/54 76/54 66/51 75/50 77/56 78/57 60/40 62/42 65/47 80/59 80/57 74/50 61/51 64/50 58/49 71/48 67/44 72/41 58/49 69/42 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByBrianMelleyand Christopher Weber The Associated Press GOLETA The oil spill this week on the Santa Barbara coast is just a drop in the bucket compared with the catastrophic blowout here in 1969, but it has become a new rallying point for envi- ronmentalists in their bat- tle against drilling and fos- sil fuels. No one expects damage on the order of the '69 disas- ter, which helped give rise to the modern environmen- tal movement and led to pas- sage of some of the nation's most important environ- mental laws. Nevertheless, the new spill from a ruptured under- ground pipe is being held up as another reason to oppose such things as fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas, the moving of crude by train, and drilling in far- flung places. "What we see from this event is that the industry still poses enormous risks to an area we cannot afford to lose," said Joel Reynolds of the Natural Resources De- fense Council. The timing of the leak — days after a federal agency approved Shell's plan for drilling in the Arctic, and while the Obama adminis- tration considers opening the Atlantic to exploration — could work to the advantage of environmental groups. Closer to home, it could galvanize opposition to plans for new drilling in the Santa Barbara Chan- nel, where Union Oil's oil platform blew out 46 years ago, spewing an estimated 3 million gallons of crude along 30 miles of coast. Some 9,000 birds died. Tuesday's spill involved an estimated 105,000 gal- lons of crude; about 21,000 is believed to have made it to the sea and split into slicks that stretched 9 miles along the same stretch of coast fouled in 1969. As of Thursday, more than 7,700 gallons had been raked, skimmed and vacuumed up, officials said. The thick, powerful-smell- ing crude coated rocks and sand, but only five oil-coated pelicans had been reported. There was no estimate on the cost of the cleanup or how long it might take. The 24-inch pipe, built in 1987, had no previous prob- lems and was thoroughly in- spected in 2012, according to its operator, Plains All Amer- ican Pipeline. The pipe un- derwent similar tests about two weeks ago, though the results had not been ana- lyzed yet. The 1969 spill was a wa- tershed event in the area and also for the nation. Artist Bud Bottoms re- members yelling, "We've got to get oil out!" thus coining what became a rallying cry and the name of the organi- zation he founded, Get Oil Out, or GOO! "We made so much noise about the oil spill in our pris- tine Santa Barbara coast that it was called the 'envi- ronmental shot heard 'round the world,'" Bottoms said. The stench was terri- ble, and he remembers peo- ple crying at the sight of the beaches. Inmates were brought in to help spread bales of straw to sop up the mess. His group helped gather 200,000 signatures to get the oil rigs removed off the coast. That never happened, but over the next few years significant legislation was passed to protect endan- gered species and the air and water. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Sean Anderson, environ- mental professor at Califor- nia State University, Chan- nel Islands, said he doesn't think this week's spill will have any effect on policies or regulations, mostly be- cause there are so many al- ready in place. "The 1969 spill created a panoply of federal, state and county level regulations and laws," he said "From that watershed event, a huge ar- ray of policy and procedural tools emerged." ENVIRONMENT Industry critics seize on latest Santa Barbara oil spill KENNTHSONG—THENEWS-PRESS An oil slick washes up on the shore on Tuesday near Goleta. | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 10 A