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Washington 28/18 New York 29/24 Miami 65/52 Atlanta 39/25 Detroit 23/12 Houston 68/53 Chicago 16/11 Minneapolis 9/6 Kansas City 24/16 El Paso 66/38 Denver 37/23 Billings 38/26 Los Angeles 65/55 San Francisco 59/49 Seattle 48/43 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: WEDNESDAY 59° 47° THURSDAY 59° 53° Cloudy with a to uch of rain A lit tle ra in in the afternoon FRIDAY 58° 48° Br ee zy w ith ra in SATURDAY 57° 43° Mostly cloudy , ra in possible TODAY 57° 48° Breezy with periods of rain; watch for flooding. Clouds breaking tonight. High ....................................................................... 59° Low ........................................................................ 53° Normal high ......................................................... 55° Normal low ........................................................... 38° Record high ............................................. 75° in 2011 Record low .............................................. 23° in 1947 Humidity noon today ........................................ 85% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 1.40" Month to date ................................................... 6.30" Normal month to date ..................................... 2.99" Season to date ................................................ 11.08" Normal season to date .................................. 11.21" 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 ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 1 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:28 a.m. 5:12 p.m. 1:41 p.m. 3:10 a.m. Wednesday 7:27 a.m. 5:13 p.m. 2:31 p.m. 4:13 a.m. 9 hr., 44 min. Jan23 Full Jan31 Last New Feb8 First Feb14 aboveBendBridge......................27 .........19.80 ........ N.A. atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......140.20 ......+5.60 atOrdFerry................................114 ......106.70 ......+4.30 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......249.20 ......+8.00 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......211.80 ......+7.00 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......179.20 ......+7.30 BlackButte ....................448.02..............48,721 .....33.9% LakeOroville..................681.05.........1,115,768 .....29.9% LakeShasta ...................936.46.........1,662,692 .....36.5% LakeTrinity..................2191.90............540,430 .....20.4% Whiskeytown...............1199.65............209,086 .....86.7% Weather Trivia ™ What is considered a warm summer day at the South Pole? Minus 35 F Today Wednesday Anaheim 65/54/sh 66/48/pc Bakersfield 63/51/sh 65/46/pc Chula Vista 66/55/c 67/50/pc Crescent City 56/45/r 57/52/r Death Valley 65/40/c 69/40/pc Eureka 57/44/r 56/53/r Fremont 60/48/r 62/49/c Fresno 56/47/r 63/46/pc Glendale 63/52/sh 67/47/pc Huntington Beach 64/57/sh 64/53/pc Irvine 64/56/sh 65/49/pc Lake Tahoe 39/28/sn 43/28/c Long Beach 64/56/sh 67/50/pc Los Angeles 65/55/sh 67/52/pc Mammoth Mountain 40/24/sn 47/21/pc Modesto 56/46/r 63/48/pc Monterey 61/49/r 61/49/c Moreno Valley 63/48/sh 65/42/pc Napa 58/46/r 59/48/c Needles 68/48/pc 72/49/s Oakland 60/47/r 61/50/c Oxnard 62/53/sh 63/49/pc Redding 57/47/r 57/47/r Riverside 64/46/sh 65/41/pc Sacramento 57/47/r 61/46/c San Bernardino 65/48/sh 67/45/pc San Diego 65/57/c 67/53/pc San Francisco 59/49/r 60/51/c San Jose 61/49/r 63/50/c San Luis Obispo 63/53/r 68/48/pc Santa Ana 64/55/sh 65/50/pc Santa Barbara 62/51/sh 66/46/pc Santa Clarita 63/49/sh 67/45/pc Stockton 56/45/r 62/46/c Ventura 62/51/sh 63/49/pc Yosemite Valley 45/35/r 52/36/pc Today Wednesday Albuquerque 49/31/pc 52/30/s Atlanta 39/25/s 45/38/r Baltimore 28/17/s 36/22/pc Boston 26/19/s 32/21/s Buffalo 23/16/sf 25/13/sf Chicago 16/11/pc 23/15/sn Cincinnati 18/11/pc 28/15/sn Dallas 65/35/c 56/45/pc Denver 37/23/sn 44/22/c Detroit 23/12/pc 23/13/sn El Paso 66/38/s 67/41/s Fargo 11/7/c 23/7/c Honolulu 82/65/s 80/66/r Houston 68/53/pc 70/59/sh Indianapolis 17/11/pc 25/16/sn Kansas City 24/16/sn 31/25/c Las Vegas 61/45/pc 65/42/pc Louisville 24/18/pc 35/22/sn Miami 65/52/pc 71/59/pc Minneapolis 9/6/c 21/15/c New Orleans 59/51/s 69/57/c New York City 29/24/s 37/26/pc Oklahoma City 53/25/c 47/30/c Another very cold day is in store for the midwest- ern and eastern United States today. Bands of heavy snow will continue downwind of the Great Lakes. Most areas from the New England coast to the Gulf Coast will be dry and sunny. A storm will spread a swath of accumulating snow across the central and northern Plains with rain showers over the southern Plains. This same storm will spread snow to the Ohio Valley on Wednesday. Snow will diminish over the central Rockies. More rain and mountain snow will arrive along the upper West Coast. High .......................... 74° in Harlingen, TX Low ....................... -34° in Embarrass, MN High ............... 107° in Wudinna, Australia Low .............. -55° in Verkhoyansk, Russia Bogota 73/42/pc 74/45/pc Buenos Aires 85/69/pc 89/69/t Caracas 86/71/s 85/73/s Ensenada 69/50/pc 70/46/pc Mexico City 69/44/pc 68/39/s Montreal 15/8/sf 17/2/s Rio de Janeiro 82/71/pc 82/72/t Tijuana 68/53/pc 68/50/pc Toronto 24/19/sf 25/16/c Vancouver 49/37/pc 46/38/c Orlando 55/36/pc 65/47/pc Philadelphia 29/22/s 38/26/pc Phoenix 70/48/pc 70/48/s Pittsburgh 18/8/pc 24/12/sn Portland, ME 21/16/s 27/12/s Portland, OR 47/41/r 51/45/sh St. Louis 26/21/sn 32/24/c Salt Lake City 42/35/sn 38/22/sn Seattle 48/43/r 52/44/sh Tucson 71/43/pc 70/42/s Washington, DC 28/18/s 35/25/pc Cairo 62/47/s 64/49/pc Casablanca 67/43/pc 69/53/c Johannesburg 77/59/t 75/59/c Kinshasa 89/73/c 91/73/t Lagos 89/76/pc 90/76/pc Nairobi 75/62/c 73/61/c Tripoli 63/45/pc 60/44/pc Baghdad 65/45/s 65/43/s Beijing 29/7/s 28/11/c Hong Kong 65/60/pc 66/63/r Jerusalem 48/41/sh 49/38/c Kabul 48/17/s 52/21/s Manila 89/78/s 88/78/c Melbourne 92/67/pc 84/64/pc New Delhi 68/45/c 68/43/pc Seoul 18/8/pc 25/11/pc Singapore 87/77/t 87/79/pc Sydney 86/69/s 91/72/pc Tehran 56/41/s 56/37/s Tokyo 45/36/s 49/37/s Amsterdam 37/30/pc 41/28/sh Athens 46/38/sh 50/42/sh Belgrade 30/18/s 35/24/s Berlin 27/22/pc 29/18/sf Budapest 29/16/pc 30/22/pc Dublin 45/33/sh 43/39/c London 38/27/s 39/31/s Madrid 48/36/pc 48/37/sh Moscow 16/11/sn 15/9/sn Paris 35/25/c 39/25/s Rome 47/29/r 48/38/c Stockholm 19/9/c 15/6/c Vienna 29/19/c 31/23/sf Zurich 35/31/sn 37/24/sf 45/30 47/24 49/34 46/33 46/27 57/47 56/49 58/46 57/40 55/49 56/48 38/26 43/31 43/34 57/47 57/48 53/38 57/48 57/47 57/44 56/40 45/34 50/32 56/45 50/34 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 BySusannahGeorge The Associated Press BAGHDAD The abduction of three Americans from a Baghdad apartment over the weekend is the latest in a series of brazen high-pro- file kidnappings undermin- ing confidence in the Iraqi government's ability to con- trol state-sanctioned Shiite militias that have grown in strength as Iraqi security forces battle the Islamic State group. Witnesses said men in uniform carried out the kid- napping in broad daylight Saturday, 100 yards (me- ters) from a police station. "Gunmen in military uniforms came in five or six SUVs, they entered the building and then left al- most immediately," said Mohammad Jabar, 35, who runs a shop down the street from the three-story apart- ment building where the Americans had been invited by their Iraqi interpreter. "A few hours later we heard that three foreign- ers had been kidnapped by these gunmen," Jaber said. The three were abducted in Dora, a mixed neighbor- hood that is home to both Shiites and Sunnis. How- ever, they were then taken to Sadr City, a vast and densely populated Shiite district to the east, and there "all communication ceased," an Iraqi intelli- gence official told The As- sociated Press. The official spoke on condition of ano- nymity because he was not authorized to speak to re- porters. A similar scene unfolded in September, when masked men in military uniforms abducted 18 Turkish work- ers from a construction site in a Shiite neighborhood. A hostage video later showed the men standing before a banner that read "Death Squads" and "Oh, Hussein," a Shiite religious slogan. The workers were released later that month. In December, gunmen driving SUVs raided a re- mote camp for falconry hunting in Iraq's over- whelmingly Shiite south, kidnapping 26 Qataris, who are still being held. Iraq's Interior Ministry said at the time that the abduction was "to achieve political and media goals," without pro- viding further details. Baghdad authorities said in a statement that the three Americans were kid- napped from a "suspicious apartment" without elabo- rating, and have provided no other details. The U.S. Embassy con- firmed Sunday that "sev- eral" Americans went miss- ing in Iraq, after local me- dia reported that three Americans had been kid- napped in the Iraqi capi- tal. U.S. officials have de- clined to provide further details, and have neither identified the Americans nor said what they were do- ing in Iraq. There were no immedi- ate claims of responsibil- ity. Besides Shiite militias, the perpetrators of kidnap- pings in Iraq have included the Islamic State group, as well as criminal gangs de- manding ransom payments or disgruntled employees seeking to resolve work- place disputes. The kidnapping of the Americans comes at a time of deteriorating security in and around the Iraqi cap- ital after months of rela- tive calm. Last week two Iraqi journalists were killed within sight of a police checkpoint in Diyala prov- ince north of Baghdad. DAYLIGHT KIDNAPPING AbductionofAmericansin Iraq raises fears about security KHALIDMOHAMMED—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Iraqi security forces deploy in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday. Iraqi security forces fanned out across the Baghdad neighborhood Monday morning where three Americans were reportedly kidnapped over the weekend. By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON In its first official account of Iran's seizure and subsequent release of 10 U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said Mon- day the only items found missing from their two recovered boats were SIM cards for two satel- lite phones. But key questions, such as why the sailors had de- viated from their planned route to enter Iranian ter- ritorial waters, remain un- answered in the account released by U.S. Central Command. It's calling the description a preliminary timeline of the events of Jan. 12-13. "A Navy command in- vestigation initiated Jan. 14 will provide a more complete accounting of events," Central Command said. The investigation will focus on the U.S. sailors' treatment while in cus- tody, including any inter- rogation by Iranian per- sonnel, the command said. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said last week while visiting Central Command headquarters in Florida that the boat crews had "misnavigated." He did not say how that mistake happened or provide other substantial details about an episode that posed a po- tential complication to ef- forts by Washington and Tehran to establish better relations. The boat seizure hap- pened just hours before President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address and just days before implementa- tion of the Iran nuclear deal with the West. The implementation triggered the end of crippling inter- national sanctions on Iran and a U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange. The timeline released Monday said the U.S. sail- ors were not mistreated during approximately 15 hours in Iranian hands. It said a post-recovery in- ventory of the boats found that all weapons, ammu- nition and communica- tions gear was accounted for, minus two SIM cards apparently removed from two hand-held satellite phones. The sailors were travel- ing in small armed vessels known as riverine com- mand boats, headed from Kuwait to Bahrain, which is the location of the Navy's 5th Fleet. "The planned transit path for the mission was down the middle of the Gulf and not through the territorial waters of any country other than Kuwait and Bahrain," the account said. The boats were seized by Iran and escorted at gunpoint to Farsi Island, which is in the middle of the Gulf and home to an Iranian military facility. 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