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Washington 53/34 New York 54/35 Miami 81/63 Atla nta 59/41 Detroit 35/20 Houston 79/49 Chicago 37/25 Minneapolis 35/13 Kansas City 47/26 El Paso 74/40 Denver 59/34 Billings 58/35 Los Angeles 89/58 San Francisco 72/57 Seattle 55/46 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: WEDNESDAY 63° 46° THURSDAY 60° 46° Cloudy , a lit tle ra in; breezy Cooler with periods of rain FRIDAY 57° 44° Br ee zy w ith periods of rain SATURDAY 64° 43° Pa rtly sunn y and wa rmer TODAY 76° 53° Partly sunny. Mostly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 81° Low ........................................................................ 52° Normal high ......................................................... 60° Normal low ........................................................... 41° Record high ............................................. 79° in 1977 Record low .............................................. 28° in 1990 Humidity noon today ........................................ 46% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.01" Normal month to date ..................................... 2.16" Season to date ................................................ 13.70" Normal season to date .................................. 15.40" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ..................................................... Moderate Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................N.A. Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 3 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:02 a.m. 5:45 p.m. 12:29 p.m. 2:07 a.m. Wednesday 7:00 a.m. 5:46 p.m. 1:21 p.m. 3:06 a.m. 10 hr., 43 min. Feb22 Full Mar1 Last New Mar8 First Mar15 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.50 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.50 ....... -0.10 atOrdFerry................................114 ........97.10 ....... -0.10 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.10 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.80 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.80 ....... -0.10 BlackButte ....................447.21..............46,784 .....32.6% LakeOroville..................752.40.........1,700,042 .....45.5% LakeShasta ...................986.75.........2,550,286 .....56.0% LakeTrinity..................2224.79............754,539 .....28.5% Whiskeytown...............1198.83............206,654 .....85.7% Weather Trivia ™ What are ice flowers? Ice crystals that form on calm, slow-freezing water. Today Wednesday Anaheim 88/53/s 74/55/pc Bakersfield 80/52/s 73/48/pc Chula Vista 84/54/s 74/58/pc Crescent City 59/48/pc 57/46/r Death Valley 84/48/s 85/60/pc Eureka 61/50/pc 62/49/r Fremont 77/58/s 66/52/r Fresno 77/54/s 65/48/pc Glendale 86/56/s 73/54/pc Huntington Beach 80/57/s 70/58/pc Irvine 85/54/s 73/57/pc Lake Tahoe 60/40/pc 47/30/r Long Beach 84/56/s 72/56/pc Los Angeles 89/58/s 75/57/pc Mammoth Mountain 64/29/s 50/27/r Modesto 76/56/s 69/48/r Monterey 75/54/s 66/50/sh Moreno Valley 86/47/s 76/52/pc Napa 76/53/s 62/48/r Needles 84/54/s 87/62/pc Oakland 73/56/s 65/51/r Oxnard 82/56/s 69/55/pc Redding 77/50/pc 64/45/r Riverside 87/44/s 77/48/pc Sacramento 76/55/s 67/49/r San Bernardino 87/52/s 76/52/pc San Diego 83/58/s 73/60/pc San Francisco 72/57/s 63/51/r San Jose 80/56/s 67/50/r San Luis Obispo 84/55/s 68/50/pc Santa Ana 83/56/s 72/58/pc Santa Barbara 78/53/s 65/51/pc Santa Clarita 85/52/s 73/51/pc Stockton 76/55/s 68/48/r Ventura 82/56/s 69/54/pc Yosemite Valley 73/45/s 58/42/r Today Wednesday Albuquerque 67/35/pc 72/39/s Atlanta 59/41/pc 58/36/s Baltimore 54/32/r 46/27/c Boston 53/36/r 46/28/c Buffalo 35/21/sn 32/7/sn Chicago 37/25/sf 31/19/c Cincinnati 40/24/c 39/24/sf Dallas 72/41/s 74/52/s Denver 59/34/s 64/41/pc Detroit 35/20/c 34/12/pc El Paso 74/40/s 80/46/s Fargo 21/4/c 24/19/c Honolulu 82/70/sh 80/69/c Houston 79/49/s 75/51/s Indianapolis 39/24/c 37/24/c Kansas City 47/26/pc 56/39/pc Las Vegas 76/50/s 80/57/pc Louisville 43/30/c 43/29/c Miami 81/63/pc 79/58/pc Minneapolis 35/13/sn 26/18/s New Orleans 71/50/s 68/47/s New York City 54/35/r 44/29/c Oklahoma City 63/36/s 71/49/s Heavy rain and embedded thunderstorms will sweep northward along the Atlantic coast today. The rain will be accompanied by a surge of warmth that will send temperatures 40 to 70 de- grees Fahrenheit higher, when compared to Sun- day morning. Not only will there be a risk of urban flooding from rain and melting snow, but also coastal flooding. Showers and storms will depart the Florida Peninsula. Farther inland, heavy snow will fall around the eastern Great Lakes. Another batch of snow and rain is forecast to move across the Ohio Valley and part of the Great Lakes. High ............................ 93° in Fullerton, CA Low ................... -26° in Saranac Lake, NY High ........... 113° in Marble Bar, Australia Low ................. -68° in Ikki-Ambar, Russia Bogota 72/47/pc 72/47/c Buenos Aires 91/73/pc 88/71/t Caracas 86/76/pc 86/76/pc Ensenada 83/51/s 76/55/s Mexico City 74/38/s 75/35/s Montreal 42/25/i 32/8/c Rio de Janeiro 91/78/t 90/78/t Tijuana 86/51/s 76/56/s Toronto 35/21/sn 33/1/sn Vancouver 51/40/pc 51/41/sh Orlando 78/50/c 75/49/s Philadelphia 59/34/r 47/28/c Phoenix 87/57/s 90/60/s Pittsburgh 38/23/r 35/13/sn Portland, ME 49/32/r 44/22/c Portland, OR 58/46/r 60/45/r St. Louis 43/31/c 43/33/c Salt Lake City 53/34/pc 55/43/pc Seattle 55/46/sh 56/44/r Tucson 87/49/s 91/52/s Washington, DC 53/34/r 48/29/pc Cairo 86/60/s 87/65/pc Casablanca 57/42/s 61/43/pc Johannesburg 88/61/s 82/60/c Kinshasa 90/76/pc 92/76/t Lagos 90/80/pc 90/79/pc Nairobi 80/55/s 83/59/pc Tripoli 68/52/c 67/53/s Baghdad 77/51/s 80/51/s Beijing 46/24/s 48/30/s Hong Kong 61/55/c 63/58/pc Jerusalem 73/57/s 74/58/s Kabul 49/21/s 50/25/s Manila 87/77/s 88/76/pc Melbourne 64/58/c 69/61/c New Delhi 75/53/pc 78/59/pc Seoul 38/22/sf 40/24/s Singapore 89/77/pc 89/78/c Sydney 80/64/s 77/66/s Tehran 57/34/s 54/34/s Tokyo 49/38/pc 52/38/s Amsterdam 41/25/s 38/29/pc Athens 73/53/pc 71/55/pc Belgrade 54/46/c 66/46/s Berlin 38/28/pc 39/32/sn Budapest 48/38/r 52/39/pc Dublin 49/37/r 43/31/pc London 45/35/pc 43/36/r Madrid 46/24/s 48/34/pc Moscow 37/19/i 27/14/sn Paris 41/24/s 39/29/pc Rome 62/50/sh 59/45/r Stockholm 34/24/s 36/26/pc Vienna 45/37/sh 43/34/sn Zurich 39/33/sn 39/28/c 65/37 69/36 70/44 68/38 67/32 76/55 74/56 76/53 78/51 74/55 75/53 57/35 63/40 66/41 77/50 76/53 72/52 65/56 68/54 61/50 71/50 68/44 63/44 59/48 66/47 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 ByVladimirIsachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW Moscow joined the fight in Syria to re- turn to relevance in inter- national diplomacy. It has succeeded by anyone's mea- sure — and Russia hopes to use its air power to dictate the terms of a cease-fire and prospective peace talks. Russian warplanes have helped the Syrian army make broad advances and close in on the country's biggest city, Aleppo. Mean- while, the Western-backed opposition is fractured and weakened. So as talk turns to a cease-fire, Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow's sole ally in the region, is in a stronger position than he has been in years. What's more, Russia has cast itself as an indis- pensable global player that holds the key to the settle- ment of a nearly five-year conflict that has flooded Europe with refugees. And the United States can't hope to push forward its agenda of ending the war without overtures to Russia. Not that there aren't challenges ahead for Rus- sian President Vladimir Putin. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other regional players that have backed Assad's foes are loath to see the Syr- ian ruler strengthen his grip on power. They have been mulling the deploy- ment of ground troops to Syria, which could trigger broader hostilities and raise the threat of confrontation between their forces and the Russian military. For its part, the U.S. sees Assad as the chief obstacle to peace and has been reluc- tant to engage in any mil- itary-to-military dialogue with Russia. Still, Putin appears eager to raise the stakes, hoping that Assad's siege of Aleppo will further strengthen Russia's hand. The impact of Moscow's air strikes appears particu- larly significant given the modest size of the Russian force — just a few dozen jets. But they have operated at a frenetic pace, each fly- ing several sorties a day for a total of more than 6,000 combat missions in 4½ months. The campaign, Russia's first military operation outside the former Soviet Union since the 1991 Soviet collapse, has demonstrated the new capability of the nation's resurgent military and allowed Russia to test its latest weapons in com- bat for the first time. In one example, the mil- itary tested its new long- range cruise missiles, fir- ing them from all possible launch platforms — strate- gic bombers, surface war- ships in the Caspian Sea and a submarine near Syria. Moscow has denied any intention to open more air bases in Syria in ad- dition to the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, the well-protected heartland of Assad's Alawite sect. The Russian military says it makes little sense to al- locate extra assets since it takes just 15 minutes for Russian warplanes from Hemeimeem to reach any area in Syria. Russia has deployed an unidentified number of ad- visers to train Syrian troops to use Russian weapons and help coordinate air attacks, but Putin has firmly ruled out ground action. By operating from He- meimeem, which lies deep inside government-con- trolled territory, Moscow has minimized the risk of casualties from militant in- cursions. So far, the Russian military has lost three men in Syria: a pilot killed when his warplane was downed by a Turkish jet in Novem- ber, a marine who died on a mission to rescue that pi- lot's crewmate, and a Rus- sian military adviser who died in mortar shelling at the front line. By limiting its presence in Syria, the Kremlin has been able to keep spending on its military action to an estimated $2 million to $4 million a day, an amount easily sustainable even for the crisis-stricken Russian economy. At such costs, the Kremlin could maintain its air campaign indefinitely. 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