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Washington 62/47 New York 47/41 Miami 79/66 Atlanta 71/39 Detroit 34/19 Houston 80/50 Chicago 30/16 Minneapolis 27/17 Kansas City 45/26 El Paso 79/47 Denver 58/37 Billings 55/38 Los Angeles 81/56 San Francisco 66/51 Seattle 55/45 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 71° 51° THURSDAY 67° 47° A co uple of morning showers Pleasant with partial sunshine FRIDAY 64° 51° An aft ernoon sho we r SATURDAY 59° 48° Hea vy ra in dev eloping; breezy TODAY 69° 48° Rather cloudy. A passing evening shower; otherwise, partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 68° Low ........................................................................ 43° Normal high ......................................................... 63° Normal low ........................................................... 42° Record high ............................................. 80° in 1936 Record low .............................................. 32° in 1948 Humidity noon today ........................................ 47% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.41" Normal month to date ..................................... 4.20" Season to date ................................................ 14.10" Normal season to date .................................. 17.44" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ........... Moderate 3 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 6:42 a.m. 6:01 p.m. 12:41 a.m. 11:05 a.m. Wednesday 6:41 a.m. 6:02 p.m. 1:36 a.m. 11:50 a.m. 11 hr., 19 min. Mar1 Last Mar8 New First Mar15 Full Mar23 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.40 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.40 ....... -0.10 atOrdFerry................................114 ........97.00 .......none atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.10 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.80 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.80 .......none BlackButte ....................448.21..............49,182 .....34.2% LakeOroville..................768.44.........1,855,840 .....49.7% LakeShasta ...................996.74.........2,758,203 .....60.6% LakeTrinity..................2237.30............850,050 .....32.1% Whiskeytown...............1198.87............206,772 .....85.8% Weather Trivia ™ If today's weather roars, what will happen? March will go out like a lamb Today Wednesday Anaheim 82/51/pc 78/50/pc Bakersfield 81/48/s 79/49/pc Chula Vista 78/50/pc 76/50/pc Crescent City 59/47/r 61/52/sh Death Valley 89/42/s 87/49/pc Eureka 62/47/r 65/52/c Fremont 70/49/pc 71/53/pc Fresno 78/49/s 77/50/pc Glendale 81/51/s 77/49/pc Huntington Beach 73/55/pc 70/54/pc Irvine 78/52/pc 75/51/pc Lake Tahoe 56/31/pc 57/37/pc Long Beach 77/55/pc 74/53/pc Los Angeles 81/56/pc 77/55/pc Mammoth Mountain 65/28/pc 65/27/pc Modesto 77/46/pc 77/49/pc Monterey 67/47/pc 67/49/pc Moreno Valley 84/44/s 80/44/pc Napa 70/48/pc 71/52/pc Needles 88/58/s 90/57/s Oakland 68/50/pc 68/53/pc Oxnard 71/52/pc 70/50/pc Redding 67/47/pc 71/50/pc Riverside 85/43/s 82/42/pc Sacramento 74/45/pc 74/50/pc San Bernardino 85/48/s 81/46/pc San Diego 74/58/pc 74/57/pc San Francisco 66/51/pc 66/55/pc San Jose 72/49/pc 73/51/pc San Luis Obispo 80/46/s 73/47/pc Santa Ana 76/55/pc 73/53/pc Santa Barbara 75/47/pc 72/46/pc Santa Clarita 84/49/s 80/46/pc Stockton 76/43/pc 76/48/pc Ventura 73/49/pc 71/47/pc Yosemite Valley 67/36/pc 67/36/pc Today Wednesday Albuquerque 70/40/s 73/41/s Atlanta 71/39/pc 55/36/pc Baltimore 59/46/pc 50/26/pc Boston 43/34/pc 50/19/r Buffalo 35/18/sn 25/8/sn Chicago 30/16/sn 30/23/pc Cincinnati 55/27/t 38/27/pc Dallas 69/41/s 71/57/s Denver 58/37/pc 63/32/pc Detroit 34/19/sn 31/19/c El Paso 79/47/s 83/49/s Fargo 26/18/s 35/22/pc Honolulu 81/64/pc 79/64/s Houston 80/50/t 72/55/s Indianapolis 52/23/r 39/28/pc Kansas City 45/26/c 63/41/s Las Vegas 81/55/s 82/55/pc Louisville 59/30/t 43/32/pc Miami 79/66/pc 83/66/pc Minneapolis 27/17/pc 34/24/pc New Orleans 79/53/t 68/50/s New York City 47/41/pc 51/24/r Oklahoma City 63/36/s 70/44/s Chilly air will settle into New England today, while mild air holds in the Southeast states. A storm will push eastward over the Midwest with a swath of heavy snow just north of the storm track over the lower Great Lakes region. Rain will fall just north of the Ohio River, while strong to locally severe thunderstorms extend farther south to the upper Gulf of Mexico coast. The greatest threat from the storms will be damaging winds and flash flooding. A cold wave will expand over the Plains in the wake of the storm as high pressure builds over the Dakotas. High ............................ 91° in Imperial, CA Low ....................... -11° in Flag Island, MN High ...................... 113° in Nguigmi, Niger Low ....................... -56° in Delinde, Russia Bogota 73/49/pc 73/51/c Buenos Aires 77/59/pc 74/61/pc Caracas 84/75/pc 84/74/pc Ensenada 82/48/s 81/48/s Mexico City 69/51/pc 64/47/pc Montreal 17/14/pc 23/-3/sn Rio de Janeiro 79/69/t 79/72/t Tijuana 80/49/s 78/51/s Toronto 26/15/sn 25/1/sn Vancouver 51/42/r 51/42/r Orlando 82/58/s 82/55/pc Philadelphia 57/46/pc 51/26/r Phoenix 89/59/s 90/60/s Pittsburgh 59/28/r 31/19/sf Portland, ME 36/26/pc 49/12/r Portland, OR 56/43/r 58/46/c St. Louis 53/27/r 50/41/pc Salt Lake City 63/42/pc 60/38/s Seattle 55/45/r 55/45/c Tucson 86/50/s 87/51/s Washington, DC 62/47/pc 49/29/pc Cairo 92/68/s 91/61/pc Casablanca 66/42/s 69/45/s Johannesburg 83/57/s 83/58/s Kinshasa 93/77/c 89/76/c Lagos 91/82/t 91/81/pc Nairobi 78/59/pc 81/61/pc Tripoli 68/49/s 61/50/pc Baghdad 79/52/s 81/55/s Beijing 54/27/s 66/31/s Hong Kong 66/58/s 67/60/s Jerusalem 75/59/s 77/56/pc Kabul 60/42/c 61/41/c Manila 84/77/pc 83/77/c Melbourne 90/65/pc 91/63/s New Delhi 88/63/pc 89/62/pc Seoul 38/28/s 49/33/s Singapore 89/79/pc 90/78/c Sydney 81/70/s 84/71/pc Tehran 61/43/s 61/42/s Tokyo 47/37/pc 50/41/s Amsterdam 45/40/r 46/34/sh Athens 68/50/s 65/49/pc Belgrade 57/36/sh 50/37/pc Berlin 40/32/pc 47/33/r Budapest 47/32/sh 48/34/c Dublin 51/35/sh 46/35/sh London 54/39/r 47/39/sh Madrid 59/35/s 63/37/s Moscow 29/25/c 39/32/i Paris 47/41/r 49/38/sh Rome 63/42/s 60/49/pc Stockholm 35/26/pc 33/29/c Vienna 44/34/sh 50/39/c Zurich 39/34/c 46/33/r 62/31 74/32 69/36 68/31 71/33 74/45 72/46 70/48 66/48 70/47 70/47 56/33 61/34 62/31 67/47 69/48 60/44 60/54 60/54 62/47 60/43 55/38 59/35 59/47 59/37 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 ByAlisonNoonand Jonathan J. Cooper TheAssociatedPress SACRAMENTO California lawmakers approved a tax package Monday that pre- serves $1.1 billion in fed- eral funding for the state's health care program for the poor and gives about $300 million in funding to pro- vide services for the devel- opmentally disabled. The package of three bills approved in the state Sen- ate and Assembly are the outcome of a special leg- islative session Gov. Jerry Brown called last year to adjust taxes on health in- surance plans. California has long taxed Medi-Cal providers, using the money to draw down federal matching dollars, but faced a financing cut- off from President Barack Obama's administration this July unless California's tax on managed care orga- nizations was extended to all health insurance com- panies. The bills passed after two Republican senators and 11 Republicans in the Assem- bly joined majority Demo- crats in passing three bills "This is a good deal for the state of California," said Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Azusa, who carried the main bill. The industry as a whole is expected to pay about $100 million less in taxes, even as the state increases its revenue thanks to the federal matching dollars. But each insurer will be af- fected differently depend- ing on its corporate struc- ture and client base. Most of the state's insurers and their lobbying group, the California Association of Health Plans, supported the arrangement. To prevent providers from passing the price hike on to consumers, Brown agreed to eliminate other taxes paid by insurers. Still, many Republicans view the package as tax in- crease, and a majority did not vote for it. To win Republicans' sup- port, the deal includes more than $300 million for ser- vices for people with devel- opmental disabilities, much of it to increase payments to care providers, who will get a 7.5 percent increase in wages and benefits. The funding has been hailed as a lifeline to peo- ple with disabilities and their caregivers. It has also become a political touch- stone this year as lawmak- ers from both parties ar- gued it was one of only a few programs that have not seen funding increases fol- lowing deep cuts made dur- ing the recession. The tax package also in- cludes hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives for reluctant lawmakers whose votes are needed to reach a two-thirds majority re- quired to approve taxes: • $173 million to repay transportation loans. • $240 million for future retiree health care costs. • $123 million in relief from prior rate cuts for hos- pitals with skilled nursing facilities. • $105 million for fire re- covery and debris removal in Lake and Calaveras coun- ties. SACRAMENTO La wm ak er s OK r ev am pe d health insurance tax The Associated Press YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK Authorities are scheduled to formally change the names of some of Yosemite Na- tional Park's most iconic attractions unless an 11th hour settlement to a bitter legal dispute is reached by midnight Monday. The park service an- nounced last year that it would change the names of Curry Village, the Ah- wahnee Hotel, Badger Pass Ski Resort and many other attractions after failing to reach agreement with the company that says it owns the trademarks to those at- tractions. The company, Delaware North, has served as the park's concessionaire since 1993, running numerous park operations until losing the contract to Aramark, which is scheduled to take over at midnight. Delaware North and the Park Service have been unable to agree on the value of the trade- marks and the Buffalo, New York-based company filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit. The dispute prompted the Park Service to an- nounce the name changes. Starting at midnight, Park Service employees will be- gin placing temporary signs over road signs directing visitors to the attractions while Aramark will be re- sponsible for changing the names of the attractions. Park Service spokesman Scott Gediman said tempo- rary signs are being used in the hope that a settlement will be reached with Dela- ware North. An historic sign welcom- ing visitors to the park's Ah- wahnee Hotel was stolen sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning, Gedi- man said. "It's part of the park's his- toric fabric," Gediman said. "And we are taking this se- riously." The Ahwahnee Hotel is to be renamed the Majestic Yosemite Hotel. YOSEMITE Park attractions set for name changes | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016 8 A