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Washington 51/37 New York 51/40 Miami 81/70 Atlanta 55/36 Detroit 45/31 Houston 61/39 Chicago 41/28 Minneapolis 37/20 Kansas City 47/27 El Paso 59/35 Denver 47/27 Billings 42/33 Los Angeles 75/52 San Francisco 60/48 Seattle 53/43 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: FRIDAY 57° 38° SATURDAY 56° 43° Sun thr ough high clouds Pa rtly sunn y SUNDAY 53° 43° A lit tle morning ra in MONDAY 61° 44° Wa rmer with sun, t hen clouds TODAY 55° 43° Breezy with periods of rain. Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers tonight. High ....................................................................... 57° Low ........................................................................ 44° Normal high ......................................................... 57° Normal low ........................................................... 39° Record high ............................................. 81° in 1958 Record low .............................................. 31° in 2009 Humidity noon today ........................................ 77% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.01" Month to date ................................................... 0.01" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.23" Season to date .................................................. 1.38" Normal season to date .................................... 4.29" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ..................................................... Moderate Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees .................. Absent Weeds ................ Absent 1 Highest at 10 a.m. Today 7:14 a.m. 4:44 p.m. none 12:45 p.m. Friday 7:15 a.m. 4:43 p.m. 12:44 a.m. 1:14 p.m. 9 hr., 30 min. Dec11 New Dec18 First Full Dec25 Last Jan1 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.21 ......+0.01 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.69 ......+0.04 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.27 ......+0.03 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.90 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.52 ......+0.02 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.21 .......none BlackButte ....................437.03..............26,618 .....18.5% LakeOroville..................652.49............927,294 .....24.8% LakeShasta ...................912.56.........1,325,026 .....29.1% LakeTrinity..................2180.46............477,194 .....18.0% Whiskeytown...............1198.32............205,152 .....85.1% Weather Trivia ™ What is the record low temperature for the lower 48 states in December? -59(F) at West Yellowstone, Mont., on Dec. 19, 1924. Today Friday Anaheim 76/44/pc 71/44/pc Bakersfield 72/47/c 61/38/pc Chula Vista 76/49/s 69/48/pc Crescent City 55/46/r 55/47/pc Death Valley 67/41/pc 69/39/pc Eureka 57/47/r 57/48/c Fremont 61/45/r 60/40/pc Fresno 68/47/r 61/38/pc Glendale 75/48/pc 70/45/pc Huntington Beach 71/52/pc 68/51/pc Irvine 73/46/pc 69/45/pc Lake Tahoe 49/27/sn 39/17/c Long Beach 75/52/pc 70/48/pc Los Angeles 75/52/pc 71/49/pc Mammoth Mountain 51/23/sn 45/12/sf Modesto 64/43/r 61/37/pc Monterey 62/47/r 60/41/pc Moreno Valley 76/38/pc 68/38/pc Napa 57/41/r 59/36/pc Needles 71/46/pc 71/45/pc Oakland 59/44/r 60/40/pc Oxnard 71/49/pc 69/52/pc Redding 53/43/r 54/39/sh Riverside 77/38/pc 70/37/pc Sacramento 60/44/r 60/37/pc San Bernardino 77/40/pc 69/44/pc San Diego 74/55/s 69/51/pc San Francisco 60/48/r 60/45/pc San Jose 61/44/r 60/40/pc San Luis Obispo 68/49/pc 70/45/pc Santa Ana 73/50/pc 68/48/pc Santa Barbara 70/46/pc 72/42/pc Santa Clarita 73/43/pc 67/44/pc Stockton 63/43/r 61/35/pc Ventura 70/49/pc 69/50/pc Yosemite Valley 57/30/r 48/15/sf Today Friday Albuquerque 53/27/s 55/30/s Atlanta 55/36/s 57/38/s Baltimore 50/33/pc 52/33/s Boston 49/37/c 48/35/pc Buffalo 44/36/sf 45/33/pc Chicago 41/28/pc 46/29/pc Cincinnati 43/26/s 48/28/s Dallas 60/37/s 60/38/s Denver 47/27/s 54/27/pc Detroit 45/31/pc 47/28/s El Paso 59/35/s 64/37/s Fargo 38/22/s 42/31/s Honolulu 84/72/pc 83/73/pc Houston 61/39/s 61/36/s Indianapolis 42/27/s 48/28/pc Kansas City 47/27/s 53/35/pc Las Vegas 61/41/pc 65/40/pc Louisville 47/30/s 51/30/s Miami 81/70/t 78/71/r Minneapolis 37/20/pc 41/32/pc New Orleans 61/44/s 60/48/s New York City 51/40/pc 51/39/s Oklahoma City 55/32/s 57/36/s Rain that drenched much of the Atlantic Seaboard from Wednesday will push out to sea today. However, showers and spotty thunderstorms will linger over central and South Florida. As colder air catches up with the storm, rain will end as snow over northern New England and western and northern upstate New York. Several inches of snow will fall on parts of the area. High pressure and sunshine will extend from the western Great Lakes, southward to the central Gulf Coast and westward to the Great Basin and the Southwest. A storm will blast the Northwest. High ........................... 86° in Marathon, FL Low ........... -17° in West Yellowstone, MT High .......... 110° in Skukuza, South Africa Low ................. -53° in Ikki-Ambar, Russia Bogota 66/50/c 68/49/c Buenos Aires 79/64/t 84/63/t Caracas 86/77/pc 86/78/t Ensenada 76/47/s 72/48/pc Mexico City 65/48/c 66/48/c Montreal 39/26/sn 38/25/c Rio de Janeiro 79/72/r 80/72/t Tijuana 77/47/s 70/46/pc Toronto 45/34/pc 45/28/pc Vancouver 50/41/r 48/41/sh Orlando 73/62/c 74/66/c Philadelphia 52/37/pc 52/36/s Phoenix 73/46/s 74/45/s Pittsburgh 45/33/c 48/28/s Portland, ME 45/28/c 45/27/pc Portland, OR 52/43/r 52/42/sh St. Louis 48/30/s 55/33/s Salt Lake City 46/32/pc 45/28/c Seattle 53/43/r 51/42/sh Tucson 75/42/s 77/40/s Washington, DC 51/37/pc 53/37/s Cairo 73/55/pc 69/53/pc Casablanca 74/47/s 73/47/pc Johannesburg 80/59/t 79/59/t Kinshasa 88/72/t 87/72/t Lagos 90/76/pc 92/75/s Nairobi 74/61/pc 75/60/c Tripoli 68/47/s 67/50/pc Baghdad 71/40/s 56/37/s Beijing 34/23/s 39/26/s Hong Kong 74/64/c 73/65/pc Jerusalem 56/41/sh 55/39/s Kabul 65/32/s 65/35/pc Manila 89/78/s 90/79/s Melbourne 72/51/s 86/61/s New Delhi 79/53/pc 79/52/pc Seoul 37/28/sf 39/33/pc Singapore 89/77/t 89/76/t Sydney 73/61/pc 77/62/s Tehran 57/40/pc 47/32/pc Tokyo 60/49/r 57/48/s Amsterdam 51/45/c 51/43/r Athens 64/50/s 62/50/s Belgrade 55/39/pc 54/38/s Berlin 49/41/pc 50/41/sh Budapest 51/35/pc 46/37/c Dublin 45/38/r 52/48/pc London 57/44/r 53/49/pc Madrid 61/36/s 63/39/pc Moscow 29/22/pc 36/33/r Paris 51/43/pc 51/39/c Rome 59/43/pc 60/43/s Stockholm 43/34/c 44/34/r Vienna 50/40/pc 48/37/c Zurich 44/29/pc 50/37/sh 51/29 57/26 53/33 50/32 52/29 60/44 56/47 57/41 55/40 54/46 53/45 45/33 46/33 47/32 53/43 55/43 51/42 56/49 56/47 57/47 54/45 41/34 48/33 55/46 49/38 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByGosiaWozniacka The Associated Press PORTLAND, ORE. The pro- cess to relicense the hydro- electric dam system on the Klamath River will move forward if Congress fails to act by the end of the year on historic settlement agree- ments to remove four of the dams. The Klamath River ba- sin, which straddles Ore- gon and California, has long been the site of intense po- litical fights over the shar- ing of scarce water between farms and fish. The agree- ments to remove the dams, hammered out by farm- ers, tribes, environmental- ists and states, were a com- promise to restore the river for imperiled salmon and steelhead, and give farmers greater certainty about irri- gation water. Congress must pass leg- islation to implement the agreements, but House Re- publicans have blocked it for years, fearing it would set a precedent for dam re- moval. In October, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden — a staunch dam re- moval opponent whose Or- egon district includes one of the dams — said he was close to drafting a bill in the House. He has not released any details. His office this week said the lawmaker would convene a meeting Thursday with key Congres- sional leaders to discuss "a way forward" on Klamath Basin water issues. If there's no legislation by the end of the year, several parties indicated they might abandon the settlement. "It's not that we don't be- lieve in the deal, it's that we've tried for years... and have not been able to get support in Congress," said Craig Tucker, Klamath co- ordinator with the Karuk Tribe, one of four federally recognized tribes that sup- port the agreements. "If we can get tribal leaders and ranchers to come to an agreement to share water, it's shocking that we can't bring our Congressmen along with us." Relicensing of the Klam- ath dams with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- sion, which licenses hydro- power projects for 30 to 50 years, has been on hold for several years while groups negotiated for a federal bill. As part of the relicensing process, the dams' owner and operator — PacifiCorps — must apply for water qual- ity certifications in Califor- nia and Oregon. This week, the California State Water Resources Control Board announced the public pro- cess was restarting; scop- ing meetings are scheduled for January. California's pro- cess formally resumed in 2013, when the water board started working with Pacif- iCorps on an updated appli- cation — but no public meet- ings have been held. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said its process remains on hold. If the federal government were to issue a new license to the utility, it would im- pose mitigation measures to reduce environmental impacts,includingmodifica- tions to the aging dams' in- frastructure and operations such as fish ladders or water quality improvements. Those measures are needed because the dams thwart salmon migration, degrade water quality, alter water flows, and contrib- ute to fish disease problems and algae bloom problems. Three tribes depend on the fish for subsistence and cer- emonial needs, and a fourth hopes fish will return once the dams are removed. One of the tribes already has obtained water rights through the courts, and the others could pursue that process, further limiting water to irrigators — which is partly why farmers and ranchers support the agree- ments. Klamath Basin ag- riculture is valued at about $670 million annually. Dam removal under the agreement is also a bet- ter option for PacifiCorp, spokesman Bob Gravely said. It's less expensive, of- fers the utility liability pro- tection and caps the costs to PacifiCorps customers, he said. 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