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Washington 59/41 New York 58/41 Miami 87/74 Atlanta 61/37 Detroit 47/34 Houston 66/49 Chicago 46/26 Minneapolis 44/32 Kansas City 58/40 El Paso 69/47 Denver 51/28 Billings 54/39 Los Angeles 81/53 San Francisco 65/48 Seattle 57/46 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 65° 48° SUNDAY 60° 36° Clearing, a s ho we r Pa rtly sunn y MONDAY 58° 43° Mostly cloudy TUESDAY 61° 42° Mostly cloudy TODAY 67° 39° Plenty of sunshine. Clear to partly cloudy and chilly tonight. High ....................................................................... 69° Low ........................................................................ 35° Normal high ......................................................... 64° Normal low ........................................................... 43° Record high ............................................. 82° in 1990 Record low .............................................. 25° in 1938 Humidity noon today ........................................ 36% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.52" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.02" Season to date .................................................. 0.74" Normal season to date .................................... 2.23" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .......................................................... Moderate Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ........... Moderate 2 Highest at 10 a.m. Today 6:52 a.m. 4:54 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 6:45 p.m. Saturday 6:53 a.m. 4:53 p.m. 9:24 a.m. 7:35 p.m. 10 hr., 02 min. Nov18 First Nov25 Full Last Dec2 New Dec11 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.50 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.94 ....... -0.04 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.49 ....... -0.04 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.10 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.70 ....... -0.10 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.52 ....... -0.04 BlackButte ....................437.12..............26,759 .....18.6% LakeOroville..................659.37............970,534 .....26.0% LakeShasta ...................916.38.........1,375,614 .....30.2% LakeTrinity..................2183.82............495,319 .....18.7% Whiskeytown...............1198.22............204,857 .....85.0% Weather Trivia ™ Snow can be wet or dry; which is hardest to shovel? Wet snow because it contains much more water. Today Saturday Anaheim 82/45/s 78/47/s Bakersfield 68/42/s 74/44/s Chula Vista 78/50/s 75/53/s Crescent City 60/50/s 60/46/r Death Valley 74/39/s 73/39/s Eureka 59/47/s 62/47/c Fremont 67/43/s 65/51/s Fresno 67/42/s 69/44/s Glendale 79/49/s 76/46/s Huntington Beach 76/51/s 73/52/s Irvine 78/47/s 76/49/s Lake Tahoe 53/28/s 54/32/s Long Beach 80/52/s 77/53/s Los Angeles 81/53/s 79/53/s Mammoth Mountain 54/16/s 52/24/s Modesto 67/39/s 69/46/s Monterey 67/44/s 63/49/s Moreno Valley 77/40/s 75/39/s Napa 68/39/s 66/47/s Needles 75/49/s 76/48/s Oakland 67/44/s 64/50/s Oxnard 78/50/s 75/50/s Redding 70/39/s 65/46/pc Riverside 78/38/s 76/37/s Sacramento 66/40/s 68/48/s San Bernardino 78/44/s 76/40/s San Diego 77/53/s 75/56/s San Francisco 65/48/s 63/50/s San Jose 69/43/s 67/48/s San Luis Obispo 79/42/s 75/46/s Santa Ana 77/51/s 75/52/s Santa Barbara 75/44/s 74/44/s Santa Clarita 75/43/s 75/42/s Stockton 67/39/s 69/45/s Ventura 77/51/s 74/46/s Yosemite Valley 62/28/s 59/27/s Today Saturday Albuquerque 58/34/s 60/39/s Atlanta 61/37/s 58/38/s Baltimore 57/35/pc 52/32/pc Boston 61/40/pc 50/36/s Buffalo 48/35/sh 45/38/c Chicago 46/26/pc 55/40/s Cincinnati 53/30/pc 51/34/s Dallas 68/47/pc 64/50/c Denver 51/28/s 60/30/s Detroit 47/34/sn 51/38/pc El Paso 69/47/pc 73/53/c Fargo 45/33/s 57/34/pc Honolulu 85/75/pc 85/75/sh Houston 66/49/c 64/49/c Indianapolis 52/28/pc 54/36/s Kansas City 58/40/s 66/45/s Las Vegas 67/45/s 67/44/s Louisville 55/33/pc 55/36/s Miami 87/74/pc 83/74/sh Minneapolis 44/32/pc 55/40/pc New Orleans 68/54/c 65/54/pc New York City 58/41/pc 49/40/pc Oklahoma City 65/39/s 64/45/s Wind will remain strong and gusty from the east- ern Great Lakes and into the central and northern Appalachians today as chilly air moves in with rain and snow showers. Coastal areas of the Northwest will be blustery and cooler. Cooler, drier air will mix into the Southeast states, while clouds and showers linger in South Florida. Winds are forecast to ease over the Upper Midwest to the central and northern Plains. Most areas from the southern Atlantic Seaboard to the Plains, Rockies and Southwest can expect plenty of sunshine with a warmer afternoon. High ..................... 90° in Marco Island, FL Low ................. 2° in Bodie State Park, CA High ............. 113° in Shark Bay, Australia Low ... -51° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 69/50/pc 67/49/t Buenos Aires 72/52/pc 80/61/s Caracas 88/78/t 88/79/t Ensenada 76/49/s 76/48/s Mexico City 68/50/pc 66/53/pc Montreal 50/32/sh 42/30/pc Rio de Janeiro 86/76/t 91/74/t Tijuana 79/46/s 76/48/s Toronto 47/30/pc 44/36/pc Vancouver 53/46/r 48/40/c Orlando 86/60/s 79/62/s Philadelphia 57/42/pc 52/38/pc Phoenix 80/51/s 79/55/pc Pittsburgh 47/35/pc 46/34/c Portland, ME 58/36/pc 47/30/pc Portland, OR 59/52/r 59/42/r St. Louis 57/37/s 65/43/s Salt Lake City 51/31/s 56/38/s Seattle 57/46/r 52/41/r Tucson 78/46/s 80/55/c Washington, DC 59/41/pc 53/38/s Cairo 80/62/s 83/63/pc Casablanca 75/53/pc 76/53/s Johannesburg 92/64/c 83/58/t Kinshasa 91/73/t 90/73/t Lagos 89/77/t 89/77/pc Nairobi 78/60/t 76/61/t Tripoli 72/57/c 73/60/sh Baghdad 73/52/s 75/51/s Beijing 49/40/c 52/39/c Hong Kong 80/72/t 81/75/c Jerusalem 69/55/s 71/58/s Kabul 57/32/pc 56/28/s Manila 92/78/s 92/79/s Melbourne 65/50/pc 64/50/r New Delhi 86/62/pc 85/62/pc Seoul 57/47/r 60/44/pc Singapore 89/79/t 89/77/t Sydney 81/62/t 69/61/sh Tehran 58/38/s 58/37/s Tokyo 61/56/c 63/57/r Amsterdam 56/46/sh 53/49/sh Athens 73/55/s 71/57/pc Belgrade 66/46/pc 60/39/pc Berlin 57/44/sh 48/43/sh Budapest 60/41/pc 56/38/pc Dublin 47/41/sh 55/53/r London 52/44/sh 54/52/r Madrid 71/44/s 66/41/s Moscow 36/25/c 32/29/c Paris 58/44/c 53/49/pc Rome 65/48/s 65/47/s Stockholm 48/36/r 42/31/pc Vienna 57/47/pc 53/44/pc Zurich 55/41/c 50/41/pc 52/23 55/26 50/28 47/21 51/22 66/40 65/40 68/39 69/40 66/41 67/37 54/28 52/28 50/22 70/39 67/39 65/41 62/48 62/49 59/47 66/39 61/34 58/31 60/50 58/34 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByBrianMelley TheAssociatedPress LOS ANGELES California's death penalty survived a legal challenge Thursday when a federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had found it was unconstitutional because of excessive delays. Without discussing the merits of a murderer's claims, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the lower court was barred from considering a novel constitutional theory that found delays in carrying out executions amounted to cruel and unusual pun- ishment. U.S. District Judge Cor- mac Carney, an appointee ofPresidentGeorgeW.Bush, ruled last year that Califor- nia's death penalty was an empty promise with unpre- dictable delaysthat ledto ar- bitrary and rare executions that violated the Constitu- tion's Eighth Amendment. More than 900 people have been sentenced to death in California since 1978, but only 13 have been executed. The appeals court did not address the validity of claims by a Los Angeles man sentenced to die for the 1992 rape and murder of his girlfriend's mother because the lower court ap- plied a new constitutional theory instead of federal law that existed at the time of his conviction. "Many agree ... that Cali- fornia's capital punishment system is dysfunctional and that the delay between sen- tencing and execution in California is extraordinary," Justice Susan Graber wrote. "But 'the purpose of federal (review) is to ensure that state convictions comply with the federal law in ex- istence at the time the con- viction became final, and not to provide a mechanism for the continuing re-exam- ination of final judgments based upon later emerging legal doctrine." The unanimous ruling by three justices appointed by Democrats comes as the state revamps its execution procedures and supporters and opponents of the death penalty take to the streets to get dueling referendums on the state ballot next year. Inmate Ernest DeWayne Jones can still seek review fromalargerpanelof9thCir- cuitjustices,theU.S.Supreme Court or even return to state courts with his appeal. While Carney's decision will not set a precedent, it could have an impact on other judges' reasoning, said Loyola Law School pro- fessor Laurie Levenson. It could also be the basis for appeals by killers con- victed in the future, which might force an appellate court to consider whether the California death pen- alty is unconstitutional. The court sidestepped that issue in the Jones case by focusing on procedural grounds. "They stay as far away from the merits of this case as they can," Levenson said. "This doesn't answer the question of whether we have a system that violates the Eighth Amendment." Attorney Michael Lau- rence argued on behalf of Jones that inmates can lin- ger on death row 30 to 40 years and it's random which ones are executed, quoting a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that said being put to death was "as unusual as being struck by lightning." The state attorney gen- eral's office argued that de- lays in carrying out execu- tions were necessary to en- sure fairness. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Appeals court rejects challenge to California's death penalty By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Two well- known Republican state lawmakers submitted lan- guage Thursday for a bal- lot initiative that would ask California voters to re- direct about $8 billion in bond money from the state's high-speed rail project to build water storage. Board of Equalization member George Runner and Sen. Bob Huff of San Dimas, the former Senate minority leader, said they filed language for the initia- tive with the attorney gen- eral's office. The ballot proposal would also authorize shift- ing $2.7 billion in unspent water bond money to wa- ter storage construction and amend the state con- stitution to give drinking water and irrigation prior- ity from California's limited water supply. "This initiative secures our water future by build- ing long-overdue expan- sions of existing facilities and new projects to store, deliver and recycle water for our families, farms and businesses," Huff said in a statement. The California High- Speed Rail Authority did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Voters in 2008 approved selling nearly $10 billion in bonds for the project to link Northern and South- ern California by high- speed trains, but many have now soured on it and have questioned whether it will cost the $68 billion that has been projected. Proj- ect leaders have faced crit- icism for its planned route, engineering proposals and insufficient federal funding dedicated to it. BALLOT QUESTION Proposal would divert rail money to water | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015 10 A