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Washington 67/46 New York 60/43 Miami 85/74 Atlanta 81/60 Detroit 61/49 Houston 82/70 Chicago 67/61 Minneapolis 59/47 Kansas City 74/51 El Paso 74/50 Denver 61/35 Billings 59/37 Los Angeles 82/63 San Francisco 74/55 Seattle 58/47 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 81° 49° SUNDAY 77° 51° Times of sun and clouds Pa rtial sunshine MONDAY 78° 49° Brilliant sunshine TUESDAY 78° 51° Pa rtly sunn y TODAY 81° 50° Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Patchy clouds tonight. High ....................................................................... 86° Low ........................................................................ 55° Normal high ......................................................... 75° Normal low ........................................................... 49° Record high ............................................. 92° in 1988 Record low .............................................. 38° in 1996 Humidity noon today ........................................ 27% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.17" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.69" Season to date .................................................. 0.17" Normal season to date .................................... 0.69" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ............................................. Not available Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ................ Absent 3 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 7:28 a.m. 6:18 p.m. 4:07 p.m. 2:48 a.m. Saturday 7:29 a.m. 6:17 p.m. 4:45 p.m. 3:58 a.m. 10 hr., 50 min. Oct27 Full Nov3 Last New Nov11 First Nov18 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.00 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.30 ....... -0.09 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.80 ....... -0.15 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.30 ....... -0.10 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.00 ....... -0.10 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.80 ....... -0.10 BlackButte ....................438.68..............29,343 .....20.4% LakeOroville..................669.28.........1,035,196 .....27.7% LakeShasta ...................921.93.........1,451,357 .....31.9% LakeTrinity..................2186.54............510,261 .....19.3% Whiskeytown...............1204.01............222,269 .....92.2% Weather Trivia ™ A one-inch-square piece of the sun is as bright as 5, 50 or 500 light bulbs? Approximately 500 60-watt bulbs. Today Saturday Anaheim 83/61/pc 90/64/pc Bakersfield 84/58/s 85/60/pc Chula Vista 79/62/pc 86/63/pc Crescent City 63/49/pc 64/52/c Death Valley 87/58/s 87/57/pc Eureka 65/50/pc 66/53/pc Fremont 78/54/pc 77/54/pc Fresno 82/56/pc 83/59/pc Glendale 83/61/pc 88/64/pc Huntington Beach 77/64/pc 83/67/pc Irvine 79/62/pc 88/64/pc Lake Tahoe 62/33/pc 65/37/pc Long Beach 83/63/pc 89/67/pc Los Angeles 82/63/pc 88/66/pc Mammoth Mountain 62/28/pc 65/33/pc Modesto 82/54/pc 85/57/pc Monterey 73/54/pc 71/54/pc Moreno Valley 83/55/s 86/57/pc Napa 80/48/pc 78/49/pc Needles 89/64/s 90/65/s Oakland 75/52/pc 74/54/pc Oxnard 76/60/pc 82/62/pc Redding 82/49/pc 80/49/pc Riverside 84/52/s 87/55/pc Sacramento 81/51/pc 83/52/pc San Bernardino 85/57/s 88/60/pc San Diego 78/65/pc 83/67/pc San Francisco 74/55/pc 72/56/pc San Jose 79/55/pc 79/56/pc San Luis Obispo 82/54/pc 85/57/pc Santa Ana 80/63/pc 86/66/pc Santa Barbara 78/56/pc 81/57/pc Santa Clarita 84/56/s 87/60/pc Stockton 83/51/pc 85/53/pc Ventura 76/57/pc 81/61/pc Yosemite Valley 71/34/pc 73/35/pc Today Saturday Albuquerque 65/45/pc 65/43/s Atlanta 81/60/s 78/60/pc Baltimore 64/40/s 62/51/pc Boston 53/40/s 53/47/pc Buffalo 51/38/s 62/49/sh Chicago 67/61/r 66/43/pc Cincinnati 75/58/pc 74/51/sh Dallas 79/65/r 71/57/r Denver 61/35/pc 65/39/s Detroit 61/49/s 69/48/r El Paso 74/50/s 74/49/s Fargo 55/39/r 59/34/c Honolulu 88/75/s 89/74/s Houston 82/70/t 78/65/r Indianapolis 77/62/pc 71/48/t Kansas City 74/51/r 65/40/c Las Vegas 79/59/s 80/60/s Louisville 81/64/pc 74/57/sh Miami 85/74/pc 85/76/pc Minneapolis 59/47/r 56/38/pc New Orleans 83/70/pc 83/69/c New York City 60/43/s 59/53/pc Oklahoma City 81/56/c 69/47/c High pressure building into the Northeast today will dry the region and bring plenty of sunshine. Temperatures will be noticeably cooler than yesterday as air filters down from the north. This cooldown, however, will pale in comparison to last weekend's taste of winter. The Southeast will remain dry and warm. Rough surf is forecast along the east coast of Florida as a persistent easterly wind remains in place. Rain will gather to the point of bringing flooding to the southern Plains. Lesser rain is in store farther north over the Plains. High ............................... 91° in Laredo, TX Low ............... 11° in Bodie State Park, CA High ........... 109° in Marble Bar, Australia Low ... -55° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 69/48/pc 66/48/c Buenos Aires 64/46/pc 63/53/pc Caracas 87/76/t 83/75/t Ensenada 81/61/s 87/64/s Mexico City 72/56/t 73/52/t Montreal 49/31/pc 53/47/c Rio de Janeiro 85/72/t 78/69/t Tijuana 80/58/s 87/62/s Toronto 48/40/s 60/48/c Vancouver 55/42/pc 56/44/c Orlando 85/67/pc 86/68/pc Philadelphia 63/42/s 61/52/pc Phoenix 83/62/s 88/67/s Pittsburgh 63/47/s 68/54/sh Portland, ME 51/32/pc 51/42/pc Portland, OR 65/46/pc 65/48/c St. Louis 73/62/r 70/49/c Salt Lake City 63/43/pc 68/46/pc Seattle 58/47/pc 59/48/c Tucson 77/54/s 85/61/s Washington, DC 67/46/s 63/53/pc Cairo 95/72/pc 93/74/s Casablanca 80/63/c 75/61/sh Johannesburg 80/58/s 84/59/s Kinshasa 83/71/t 87/73/pc Lagos 86/77/pc 85/77/t Nairobi 76/60/c 80/60/pc Tripoli 72/64/pc 72/62/sh Baghdad 90/67/pc 93/68/pc Beijing 65/45/s 65/38/s Hong Kong 86/77/s 85/77/s Jerusalem 84/68/pc 83/69/pc Kabul 70/45/pc 57/42/sh Manila 87/77/pc 89/78/c Melbourne 63/43/s 72/52/s New Delhi 91/66/s 91/68/pc Seoul 69/55/c 71/49/s Singapore 90/79/pc 90/79/pc Sydney 70/59/pc 74/61/s Tehran 70/51/s 72/50/pc Tokyo 68/62/pc 73/57/pc Amsterdam 57/46/pc 56/48/c Athens 68/60/t 63/58/c Belgrade 56/42/s 58/42/s Berlin 55/41/pc 57/44/pc Budapest 58/37/pc 57/38/s Dublin 58/43/c 52/42/pc London 58/49/c 59/42/sh Madrid 70/49/pc 69/50/c Moscow 37/34/r 42/34/c Paris 57/45/c 59/44/c Rome 68/47/s 68/47/s Stockholm 56/34/pc 51/41/c Vienna 55/39/pc 55/41/s Zurich 56/39/pc 58/44/pc 66/33 68/38 70/39 67/38 66/32 81/51 79/51 80/48 85/46 80/54 80/49 65/31 69/32 67/37 82/49 81/50 78/54 68/52 70/52 65/50 75/48 70/38 69/33 63/49 71/42 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByMatthewBrown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. Govern- ment investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency Thursday for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, trig- gering the very blowout it hoped to avoid. The spill that fouled riv- ers in three states would have been avoided had the EPA team checked on wa- ter levels inside the Gold King Mine before digging into a collapsed and leak- ing mine entrance, Interior Department investigators concluded. The technical report on the causes of the Aug. 5 spill has implications across the United States, where similar disasters could lurk among the hun- dreds of thousands of aban- doned mines that have yet to be cleaned up. Some es- timates put the total cost of containing this mining in- dustry mess at more than $50 billion. The report says the root causes of the Colorado acci- dent began decades earlier, when mining companies altered the flow of water through a series of inter- connected tunnels in the extensively mined Upper Animas River watershed. EPA documents show its officials knew of the po- tential for a major blowout from the Gold King Mine near Silverton as early as June 2014. After the spill, EPA officials described the blowout as "likely inevi- table" because millions of gallons of pressurized wa- ter had been bottling up in- side the mine. The Interior report di- rectly refutes that asser- tion. It says the cleanup team could have used a drill rig to bore into the shaft from above, safely gauging the danger of a blowout and planning the excavation ac- cordingly. Instead, the EPA crew, with the agreement of Colorado mining officials, assumed the shaft was only partially inundated. "This error resulted in development of a plan to open the mine in a man- ner that appeared to guard against blowout, but in- stead led directly to the failure," according to en- gineers from Interior's Bu- reau of Reclamation, who spent two months evaluat- ing the technical circum- stances. The blowout fouled rivers in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, temporarily shut- ting down drinking water supplies and cropland irri- gation. The report stops short of assigning fault to any individuals, despite prior claims from EPA Adminis- trator Gina McCarthy that it would determine fault and any negligence. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official whose review of the conclusions was included in the report expressed "serious reserva- tions" over the EPA's fail- ure to explain exactly how its communications broke down and why its officials were so insistent on start- ing work without more in- formation about the com- plexities involved. Richard Olsen, a senior geotechnical engineer with the Corps, also questioned why a change in the EPA field coordinator for Gold King led to an "urgency to start digging" even though another EPA official had ex- pressed some uncertainty about the potential risks. That second EPA official in July asked for an out- side review of the agency's plans by one of the Bureau of Reclamation engineers involved in Thursday's re- port. A meeting between the EPA and the engineer had been scheduled for Aug. 14 — nine days after the blowout. EPA officials pointed out that the mine plug already was leaking and could have eventually blown out any- way, and the Interior report acknowledged that this was possible. EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said the report "will help inform EPA's ongoing efforts to work safely and effectively at mine sites as we carry out our mission to protect human health and the en- vironment." A separate investiga- tion into the spill is pend- ing from the EPA Inspector General's Office. COLORADO In te ri or fi nd s EP A ca us ed mine spill it hoped to avoid GEOFFLIESIK—THEDESERETNEWS,FILE Waste water streams out of the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colo. | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015 10 A