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Washington 51/32 New York 49/32 Miami 78/69 Atlanta 56/37 Detroit 32/20 Houston 62/39 Chicago 26/5 Minneapolis 1/-14 Kansas City 30/14 El Paso 55/34 Denver 35/18 Billings 21/10 Los Angeles 65/50 San Francisco 58/53 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: SUNDAY 58° 51° MONDAY 59° 49° Mainly cloudy , a lit tle rain Breezy with downpours TUESDAY 58° 45° Mostly cloudy , aft ernoon rain WEDNESDAY 59° 48° Mostly cloudy , sho we rs around TODAY 57° 52° Rain tapering to a couple of showers. Mostly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 54° Low ........................................................................ 43° Normal high ......................................................... 55° Normal low ........................................................... 38° Record high ............................................. 80° in 2014 Record low .............................................. 24° in 2007 Humidity noon today ........................................ 83% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.26" Month to date ................................................... 4.90" Normal month to date ..................................... 2.50" Season to date .................................................. 9.68" Normal season to date .................................. 10.72" 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 .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 1 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:29 a.m. 5:08 p.m. 11:36 a.m. none Sunday 7:29 a.m. 5:09 p.m. 12:15 p.m. 12:58 a.m. 9 hr., 39 min. Jan16 First Jan23 Full Last Jan31 New Feb8 aboveBendBridge......................27 .........12.00 ......+5.90 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......133.20 ....... -0.57 atOrdFerry................................114 ......100.60 ....... -0.85 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......243.40 ......+2.60 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......205.70 ......+1.30 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......171.40 ......+0.27 BlackButte ....................444.40..............40,445 .....28.1% LakeOroville..................674.80.........1,072,458 .....28.7% LakeShasta ...................929.71.........1,562,012 .....34.3% LakeTrinity..................2187.50............515,592 .....19.5% Whiskeytown...............1198.76............206,448 .....85.6% Weather Trivia ™ The sun is closet to the Earth during which month: July or January? January. Today Sunday Anaheim 65/47/pc 69/49/pc Bakersfield 64/44/c 67/48/pc Chula Vista 65/48/pc 68/51/pc Crescent City 57/52/sh 56/49/r Death Valley 64/40/c 69/45/pc Eureka 59/52/sh 58/48/r Fremont 61/53/r 61/54/r Fresno 60/44/sh 63/50/pc Glendale 65/45/pc 68/46/pc Huntington Beach 63/52/pc 65/54/pc Irvine 64/48/pc 67/50/pc Lake Tahoe 41/29/sn 43/32/r Long Beach 65/50/pc 67/52/pc Los Angeles 65/50/pc 68/52/pc Mammoth Mountain 45/19/sn 47/29/pc Modesto 60/46/r 61/52/sh Monterey 62/50/r 61/53/sh Moreno Valley 63/39/pc 69/41/pc Napa 59/51/r 59/51/r Needles 65/44/pc 70/48/pc Oakland 59/53/r 60/54/r Oxnard 62/50/pc 63/51/pc Redding 56/50/r 58/50/r Riverside 64/40/pc 70/41/pc Sacramento 58/49/r 59/52/r San Bernardino 65/41/pc 70/44/pc San Diego 64/52/pc 66/54/pc San Francisco 58/53/r 59/54/r San Jose 62/52/r 62/54/sh San Luis Obispo 67/49/c 65/53/pc Santa Ana 63/49/pc 66/51/pc Santa Barbara 67/49/pc 64/50/pc Santa Clarita 66/42/pc 68/46/pc Stockton 59/46/r 59/51/r Ventura 63/47/pc 64/50/pc Yosemite Valley 48/30/r 50/39/pc Today Sunday Albuquerque 42/27/pc 46/26/s Atlanta 56/37/s 50/30/s Baltimore 49/29/pc 40/21/pc Boston 42/28/r 37/25/pc Buffalo 37/21/sn 29/10/sn Chicago 26/5/pc 7/-3/sf Cincinnati 35/18/c 28/3/sf Dallas 48/29/c 55/32/pc Denver 35/18/pc 36/23/c Detroit 32/20/c 23/9/sf El Paso 55/34/s 60/33/s Fargo -8/-20/c -8/-20/s Honolulu 81/65/pc 82/66/pc Houston 62/39/r 58/39/s Indianapolis 33/17/pc 20/-1/sf Kansas City 30/14/pc 15/1/pc Las Vegas 58/40/pc 61/43/pc Louisville 39/25/c 32/10/c Miami 78/69/pc 78/56/t Minneapolis 1/-14/pc -3/-15/pc New Orleans 66/44/pc 56/41/s New York City 49/32/r 38/26/pc Oklahoma City 43/27/sn 39/21/c A dry day is in store for much of the Southeast states in the wake of drenching rain and gusty thunderstorms from today. Another batch of rain will develop from coastal Texas to the southern Plains, before moving eastward along the Gulf Coast on Sunday. A coastal storm will bring rain to southeastern New England with areas of ice and heavy snow farther north. Snow showers will dot the lower Great Lakes and the Appalachians as chilly air moves in aloft. Another blast of arctic air will invade the North Central states with the lowest temperatures of the winter so far. High ............................. 85° in McAllen, TX Low .................... -21° in Clayton Lake, ME High ....... 110° in Augrabies, South Africa Low .............. -49° in Verkhoyansk, Russia Bogota 75/42/pc 76/46/pc Buenos Aires 92/71/pc 93/66/pc Caracas 84/72/s 85/71/s Ensenada 66/47/pc 71/50/s Mexico City 70/40/s 72/41/s Montreal 33/10/sn 17/11/pc Rio de Janeiro 82/72/t 83/73/t Tijuana 66/46/pc 70/51/s Toronto 35/21/c 27/11/sf Vancouver 46/43/r 47/40/r Orlando 77/59/pc 69/45/r Philadelphia 50/30/pc 42/27/pc Phoenix 63/44/pc 69/46/s Pittsburgh 35/21/sf 30/7/sf Portland, ME 35/23/i 35/19/pc Portland, OR 52/44/r 50/42/r St. Louis 35/20/pc 22/5/c Salt Lake City 39/31/sn 40/31/s Seattle 53/43/r 51/42/r Tucson 62/39/s 67/40/s Washington, DC 51/32/pc 41/23/pc Cairo 67/52/s 71/51/s Casablanca 69/40/s 74/49/pc Johannesburg 74/57/t 77/56/c Kinshasa 90/72/t 90/73/c Lagos 90/77/s 90/77/pc Nairobi 77/61/t 73/62/t Tripoli 59/45/r 54/46/pc Baghdad 63/43/s 64/44/s Beijing 33/16/pc 26/8/s Hong Kong 69/64/r 69/56/r Jerusalem 60/45/s 62/46/s Kabul 53/21/s 49/20/pc Manila 90/76/c 90/75/s Melbourne 76/56/s 88/69/pc New Delhi 70/44/pc 71/44/pc Seoul 40/27/pc 43/21/pc Singapore 88/77/t 88/78/t Sydney 71/64/sh 76/65/pc Tehran 51/31/s 51/32/s Tokyo 50/39/pc 49/42/r Amsterdam 42/31/sh 37/26/s Athens 62/52/r 57/41/sh Belgrade 37/24/s 29/23/sn Berlin 32/25/sf 30/20/c Budapest 37/20/s 30/18/c Dublin 40/36/s 46/41/c London 39/27/s 39/34/s Madrid 47/26/s 47/33/pc Moscow 19/17/sn 27/5/sn Paris 41/27/pc 39/25/s Rome 51/33/c 46/31/s Stockholm 12/8/c 18/14/pc Vienna 33/22/pc 29/21/c Zurich 34/26/sn 32/13/sf 47/28 50/23 50/33 46/28 46/24 58/49 56/51 59/51 58/51 56/51 55/51 38/31 40/33 44/34 56/50 57/52 55/48 58/55 57/54 59/52 58/49 44/39 50/35 57/52 51/40 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 ByMatthewDaly The Associated Press WASHINGTON TheObama administration is imposing a moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands, ar- guing that the program has remained largely un- changed for more than 30 years and requires a com- prehensive review. The coal leasing pro- gram must be modernized to ensure a fair financial return to American tax- payers and account for cli- mate change, Interior Sec- retary Sally Jewell said Fri- day in announcing the halt. The move drew praise from environmental groups and Democrats, but condemna- tion from Republicans who called it another volley in what they assert is a "war on coal" being waged by President Barack Obama. "It is abundantly clear that times are different than they were 30 years ago, and the time for review (of the coal leasing program) is now," Jewell told reporters in a conference call. She called the morato- rium, effective immedi- ately and expected to last through the remainder of Obama's final year in of- fice, a "prudent step to hit pause." The federal program to lease coal-mining rights to a single bidder has remained largely unchanged for more than 30 years, despite com- plaints that low royalty rates and a near-total lack of competition have cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars a year. More than 40 percent of U.S. coal production, or about 450 million tons a year, comes from public lands in Wyoming, Mon- tana and other Western states, bringing in more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Nearly 90 percent of coal tracts leased by the Interior Department receive just a single bid, and royalty rates have remain unchanged since 1976. The lack of com- petition and other prob- lems in the leasing program have cost the government as much as $200 million a year in lost revenue, accord- ing to a 2014 report by the Government Accountabil- ity Office. Coal reserves already un- der lease can continue to be mined, and a limited num- ber of sales will be allowed, Jewell said. It's unclear what impact the moratorium will have on U.S. coal production, given declining domestic demand and the closure of numerous coal-fired power plants around the coun- try. Coal companies have already stockpiled billions of tons of coal on existing leases in Wyoming, Mon- tana, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. Even so, environmen- tal groups cheered the an- nouncement. The groups have long said the govern- ment's 12.5 percent roy- alty rate for coal mining on federal land encouraged production of a "dirty" fuel that contributes to global warming. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D- Wash., said taxpayers are being shortchanged on royalties that do not re- flect the true costs of min- ing, both in terms of its eco- nomic value to mining com- panies and its impact on the environment. Getting royalty rates right is espe- cially important "given how much coal comes off federal land," said Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate En- ergy and Natural Resources Committee. "I'm glad to see the pres- ident take this action. We need to stop the sweet deal (mining companies) have been getting," Cantwell said. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the announce- ment "just the latest front in an ideological war on coal" that has contributed to the loss of thousands of jobs in coal-producing states. "Americans want this administration to focus on building opportunity for them, not advancing some regressive war that attacks middle-class jobs and pun- ishes the poor," McConnell said. MORATORIUM Obama administration halts new coal leases on federal land MEADGRUVER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE A house-sized dump truck hauls dirt and rock at the Black Thunder coal mine in northeast Wyoming's Powder River Basin near Wright, Wyo. 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