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Washington 74/65 New York 70/61 Miami 87/75 Atlanta 85/68 Detroit 79/56 Houston 91/69 Chicago 65/52 Minneapolis 77/58 Kansas City 82/65 El Paso 94/73 Denver 70/55 Billings 73/56 Los Angeles 70/59 San Francisco 68/56 Seattle 77/54 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 96° 67° SUNDAY 98° 70° Mostly sunn y and ho t A t‑storm around in the p.m. MONDAY 102° 71° A co uple of aft ernoon t‑storms TUESDAY 102° 69° Mostly sunn y and ho t TODAY 94° 65° Some sun with a thunderstorm late this a ernoon. A t‑storm in spots early; otherwise, partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 90° Low ........................................................................ 64° Normal high ......................................................... 87° Normal low ........................................................... 59° Record high ........................................... 107° in 1970 Record low .............................................. 46° in 1999 Humidity noon today ........................................ 24% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................ Trace Month to date .................................................. Trace Normal month to date ..................................... 0.10" Season to date ................................................ 19.97" Normal season to date .................................. 24.14" 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 .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ........... Moderate 7 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 5:40 a.m. 8:35 p.m. 11:14 p.m. 8:48 a.m. Saturday 5:40 a.m. 8:35 p.m. 11:57 p.m. 9:53 a.m. 14 hr., 55 min. Jun9 Last Jun16 New First Jun24 Full Jul1 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.40 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.08 ....... -0.07 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.62 ....... -0.09 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.60 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.30 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.13 ....... -0.01 BlackButte ....................455.59..............69,412 .....48.3% LakeOroville..................736.01.........1,550,589 .....41.5% LakeShasta ...................978.32.........2,383,362 .....52.4% LakeTrinity..................2256.89.........1,015,801 .....38.4% Whiskeytown...............1208.81............237,291 .....98.4% Weather Trivia ™ What was the most costly weather disaster in the U.S. during June? Hurricane Agnes. $2.1 billion in damage. Today Saturday Anaheim 71/56/pc 74/58/pc Bakersfield 87/63/pc 89/67/pc Chula Vista 68/57/pc 70/60/pc Crescent City 63/53/pc 62/53/pc Death Valley 97/67/t 99/68/t Eureka 64/51/pc 63/53/pc Fremont 72/58/pc 71/59/pc Fresno 87/61/t 89/64/t Glendale 71/56/pc 74/59/pc Huntington Beach 67/58/pc 68/59/pc Irvine 65/58/pc 68/59/pc Lake Tahoe 65/44/c 67/43/t Long Beach 71/59/pc 73/60/pc Los Angeles 70/59/pc 72/60/pc Mammoth Mountain 65/40/t 65/40/t Modesto 89/61/t 89/62/t Monterey 66/56/pc 67/56/pc Moreno Valley 73/51/pc 79/53/pc Napa 75/54/pc 71/55/pc Needles 95/71/pc 95/72/pc Oakland 70/57/pc 69/58/pc Oxnard 69/57/pc 67/57/pc Redding 96/67/t 99/68/t Riverside 73/53/pc 79/55/pc Sacramento 87/59/t 84/59/t San Bernardino 73/48/pc 79/51/pc San Diego 69/59/pc 71/62/pc San Francisco 68/56/pc 69/57/pc San Jose 74/58/pc 74/59/pc San Luis Obispo 69/54/pc 71/54/pc Santa Ana 70/58/pc 72/60/pc Santa Barbara 68/53/pc 67/54/pc Santa Clarita 71/54/pc 76/57/pc Stockton 88/59/t 87/59/t Ventura 71/57/pc 67/56/pc Yosemite Valley 79/51/t 80/53/t Today Saturday Albuquerque 83/62/t 85/62/pc Atlanta 85/68/t 87/70/t Baltimore 73/60/pc 81/61/t Boston 64/56/pc 68/50/pc Buffalo 77/54/t 69/49/pc Chicago 65/52/c 70/55/pc Cincinnati 82/63/t 79/61/pc Dallas 90/67/s 93/68/s Denver 70/55/t 75/54/c Detroit 79/56/pc 72/53/pc El Paso 94/73/pc 95/72/pc Fargo 73/58/pc 70/57/t Honolulu 87/72/pc 87/72/pc Houston 91/69/pc 92/69/s Indianapolis 80/59/t 78/61/pc Kansas City 82/65/t 84/70/c Las Vegas 88/63/pc 88/67/pc Louisville 83/66/c 82/66/pc Miami 87/75/t 86/73/t Minneapolis 77/58/pc 74/63/t New Orleans 91/74/pc 92/76/s New York City 70/61/pc 79/57/pc Oklahoma City 89/66/pc 89/67/pc Rain and drizzle are forecast to move over the southern part of the mid-Atlantic today. Very spot- ty showers and storms will affect the Southeast states as warm, humid air builds over the region. Showers and thunderstorms are forecast to focus along a cool front slicing across the Midwest and interior Northeast. Repeating showers and strong thunderstorms over the central Plains will raise the risk of flooding. North of this zone, cooler air will expand eastward. South of the zone, a hot, humid and sunny day is on tap for Texas and the southern Plains. High ........................... 102° in Presidio, TX Low .......................... 26° in Bellemont, AZ High ......................... 119° in Amarah, Iraq Low ... -17° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 64/49/pc 66/48/c Buenos Aires 75/61/pc 70/52/pc Caracas 88/75/t 88/75/t Ensenada 66/49/pc 71/54/pc Mexico City 75/58/t 74/58/t Montreal 74/47/r 69/47/s Rio de Janeiro 79/66/s 81/68/s Tijuana 72/56/pc 73/60/pc Toronto 76/52/t 67/49/pc Vancouver 72/54/s 74/56/s Orlando 90/71/t 88/70/t Philadelphia 74/60/pc 83/59/t Phoenix 96/73/t 96/71/pc Pittsburgh 78/62/pc 80/60/pc Portland, ME 63/49/pc 74/46/s Portland, OR 83/59/s 90/61/s St. Louis 83/65/t 82/70/pc Salt Lake City 77/57/pc 72/55/t Seattle 77/54/s 83/57/s Tucson 93/70/t 96/66/pc Washington, DC 74/65/pc 82/66/t Cairo 87/69/s 90/70/pc Casablanca 90/71/s 95/75/c Johannesburg 59/38/s 56/38/s Kinshasa 86/70/c 88/69/pc Lagos 85/74/t 84/74/t Nairobi 74/61/r 73/60/r Tripoli 85/63/pc 83/65/pc Baghdad 115/84/s 110/81/s Beijing 90/64/s 87/61/pc Hong Kong 90/83/t 90/83/c Jerusalem 80/55/s 84/59/s Kabul 85/53/s 89/55/s Manila 94/80/s 95/80/s Melbourne 57/46/pc 61/49/c New Delhi 102/81/pc 103/83/pc Seoul 75/57/c 82/60/s Singapore 89/79/sh 88/79/t Sydney 59/50/pc 65/50/s Tehran 99/82/s 100/80/s Tokyo 76/62/pc 74/66/c Amsterdam 85/59/pc 64/52/s Athens 81/67/s 78/67/t Belgrade 82/61/pc 84/60/s Berlin 81/61/s 89/55/t Budapest 78/56/s 83/61/s Dublin 61/45/sh 58/43/sh London 73/49/t 65/47/s Madrid 90/63/s 92/64/pc Moscow 61/45/pc 64/47/pc Paris 90/57/t 72/48/s Rome 86/65/s 84/65/s Stockholm 65/48/s 65/47/pc Vienna 79/60/s 83/62/s Zurich 87/64/t 84/62/t 72/49 76/51 78/56 76/52 78/55 87/59 91/61 75/54 91/57 90/65 93/66 76/52 77/49 77/53 96/67 94/65 91/59 69/54 72/53 64/51 84/57 79/53 85/53 63/53 83/53 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByMatthewDaly The Associated Press WASHINGTON Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environ- mental Protection Agency said Thursday in a report that also warned of poten- tial contamination of wa- ter supplies if safeguards are not maintained. A draft study issued by the agency found specific instances where poorly con- structed drilling wells or improper wastewater man- agement affected drinking water, but said the number of cases was small com- pared to the large number of wells that use hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. T he EPA a ssess- ment tracked water used throughout the fracking process, from acquiring the water to mixing chemicals at the well site and inject- ing so-called "fracking flu- ids" into wells, to collection of wastewater, wastewater treatment and disposal. The report identified several vulnerabilities to drinking water resources, including fracking's effect on drought-stricken areas; inadequately cased or ce- mented wells resulting in below-ground migration of gases and liquids; inad- equately treated wastewa- ter discharged into drink- ing water resources; and spills of hydraulic fluids and wastewater. Congress ordered the long-awaited report in 2010, as a surge in fracking fueled a nationwide boom in pro- duction of oil and natural gas. Fracking wells have sprouted up in recent years from California to Pennsyl- vania, as energy companies take advantage of improved technology to gain access to vast stores of oil and nat- ural gas underneath states from coast to coast. Fracking involves pump- ing huge volumes of water, sand and chemicals under- ground to split open rock formations so oil and gas will flow. The practice has spurred an ongoing en- ergy boom but has raised widespread concerns that it might lead to ground- water contamination, in- creased air pollution and even earthquakes. Industry groups hailed the EPA study as proof that fracking is safe, while en- vironmental groups seized on the report's identifica- tion of cases where frack- ing-related activities pol- luted drinking water. "After more than five years and millions of dol- lars, the evidence gathered by EPA confirms what the agency has already ac- knowledged and what the oil and gas industry has known: hydraulic fractur- ing is being done safely un- der the strong environmen- tal stewardship of state regulators and industry- best practices," said Erik Milito, upstream group director of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's top lobbying group. But Lauren Pagel, pol- icy director of the environ- mental group Earthworks, said, "Today EPA confirmed what communities living with fracking have known for years: Fracking pollutes drinking water." EPA officials said the re- port was not intended to prove whether fracking is safe, but instead was aimed at how state regu- lators, tribes, local com- munities and industry can best protect drink- ing water and reduce the risks of fracking. The re- port has cost $29 million since 2010, the EPA said, with another $4 million expected this year. "It's not a question of safe or unsafe," Tom Burke, dep- uty assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Research and Development, said in a conference call with re- porters. The issue for the EPA is "how do we best reduce vul- nerabilities so we can best protect our water and wa- ter resources?" Burke said. ENERGY DEVELOPMENT EPA: No widespread harm to drinking water from fracking KEITHSRAKOCIC—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE A crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2015 10 A