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Washington 91/77 New York 90/75 Miami 92/80 Atlanta 92/73 Detroit 91/69 Houston 89/77 Chicago 88/68 Minneapolis 80/65 Kansas City 89/71 El Paso 95/73 Denver 91/59 Billings 86/62 Los Angeles 88/68 San Francisco 76/56 Seattle 82/60 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: THURSDAY 110° 74° FRIDAY 110° 73° Ve ry ho t with sunshine Ve ry ho t SATURDAY 106° 69° Ho t with plenty of sun SUNDAY 99° 66° Sunn y and seasonably warm TODAY 108° 73° Blazing sunshine and hot. Clear tonight. High ..................................................................... 105° Low ........................................................................ 68° Normal high ......................................................... 98° Normal low ........................................................... 66° Record high ........................................... 114° in 1945 Record low .............................................. 57° in 1987 Humidity noon today ........................................ 16% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.00" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.09" Season to date ................................................ 23.37" Normal season to date .................................. 24.00" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .......................................................... Moderate Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ....................... Low Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ........... Moderate 8 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 6:03 a.m. 8:28 p.m. 12:46 a.m. 2:34 p.m. Thursday 6:04 a.m. 8:27 p.m. 1:27 a.m. 3:40 p.m. 14 hr., 25 min. Aug2 New Aug10 First Full Aug18 Last Aug24 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........4.20 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.58 ......+0.08 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.94 ......+0.04 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......239.20 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.90 ......+0.10 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.67 ......+0.07 BlackButte ....................452.64..............60,777 .....42.3% LakeOroville..................821.64.........2,445,493 .....65.4% LakeShasta .................1033.35.........3,618,877 .....79.5% LakeTrinity..................2272.92.........1,167,406 .....44.1% Whiskeytown...............1209.05............238,055 .....98.7% Weather Trivia ™ Do crickets give some indication as to what the temperature is? Yes, crickets chirp faster when it's warm than when it is cold. Today Thursday Anaheim 91/66/s 88/66/s Bakersfield 108/79/s 108/80/s Chula Vista 83/66/pc 82/65/pc Crescent City 63/53/pc 63/54/pc Death Valley 121/95/s 121/97/s Eureka 66/53/pc 66/53/pc Fremont 88/59/pc 86/59/s Fresno 110/77/s 110/77/s Glendale 91/66/s 90/65/s Huntington Beach 80/68/pc 77/67/pc Irvine 86/67/pc 82/66/pc Lake Tahoe 88/46/s 88/50/t Long Beach 87/68/pc 85/68/pc Los Angeles 88/68/pc 86/68/s Mammoth Mountain 91/50/s 91/53/t Modesto 109/72/s 108/71/s Monterey 69/55/pc 68/55/pc Moreno Valley 99/66/s 99/66/s Napa 95/54/s 93/55/s Needles 117/94/pc 119/94/pc Oakland 76/57/pc 75/57/pc Oxnard 75/63/pc 74/63/pc Redding 110/72/s 111/73/s Riverside 100/67/s 99/66/s Sacramento 105/63/s 104/63/s San Bernardino 102/68/s 101/68/s San Diego 79/69/pc 78/68/pc San Francisco 76/56/pc 75/56/pc San Jose 90/61/s 88/61/s San Luis Obispo 82/57/pc 83/56/pc Santa Ana 85/69/pc 82/68/pc Santa Barbara 75/60/pc 73/59/pc Santa Clarita 97/64/s 97/64/s Stockton 107/66/s 106/65/s Ventura 77/62/pc 76/62/pc Yosemite Valley 100/64/s 100/65/pc Today Thursday Albuquerque 92/69/pc 95/69/pc Atlanta 92/73/t 91/72/pc Baltimore 89/72/pc 90/73/t Boston 87/71/s 91/70/pc Buffalo 86/69/pc 87/68/pc Chicago 88/68/pc 80/65/t Cincinnati 87/71/pc 82/68/t Dallas 95/78/t 95/77/t Denver 91/59/t 90/61/t Detroit 91/69/pc 86/66/pc El Paso 95/73/pc 96/74/pc Fargo 78/58/pc 80/58/pc Honolulu 87/75/s 86/76/s Houston 89/77/t 94/77/t Indianapolis 87/71/pc 86/69/pc Kansas City 89/71/pc 84/67/t Las Vegas 112/89/s 113/91/s Louisville 88/74/t 82/73/t Miami 92/80/pc 91/80/t Minneapolis 80/65/pc 79/62/pc New Orleans 89/78/t 92/79/pc New York City 90/75/s 90/74/pc Oklahoma City 91/71/t 94/70/pc Less humid air will expand from the Great Lakes and the northern Appalachians to the coastal areas of the Northeast today. Meanwhile, humid- ity levels will remain high enough to allow more spotty storms to erupt over the lower part of the mid-Atlantic and the Ohio Valley. Drenching show- ers and thunderstorms will affect areas from the Gulf Coast to parts the lower Mississippi Valley. Enough rain can fall to cause flash flooding, even in areas where drought has persisted in recent weeks. Severe storms will rumble over the central and northern Plains. High ........................... 115° in Needles, CA Low .................. 34° in Boca Reservoir, CA High ........................... 120° in Basrah, Iraq Low ..... -5° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 65/49/pc 65/49/pc Buenos Aires 51/37/s 51/41/pc Caracas 88/78/pc 86/76/pc Ensenada 88/65/pc 89/65/pc Mexico City 73/55/t 72/55/t Montreal 87/67/pc 82/63/pc Rio de Janeiro 85/67/s 72/66/c Tijuana 86/66/pc 84/65/pc Toronto 89/66/pc 85/65/c Vancouver 76/59/s 77/59/s Orlando 96/76/t 97/77/t Philadelphia 91/74/s 93/76/pc Phoenix 112/91/pc 112/90/pc Pittsburgh 88/67/pc 86/68/pc Portland, ME 86/64/pc 86/65/pc Portland, OR 89/63/s 92/64/s St. Louis 88/74/pc 87/71/t Salt Lake City 101/71/s 102/74/s Seattle 82/60/s 85/61/s Tucson 104/81/pc 104/81/t Washington, DC 91/77/pc 92/76/t Cairo 98/76/s 97/76/s Casablanca 87/68/s 87/71/pc Johannesburg 54/33/s 58/34/s Kinshasa 86/63/s 85/66/pc Lagos 85/75/c 83/75/c Nairobi 78/52/s 77/55/pc Tripoli 89/67/s 91/69/s Baghdad 115/81/s 114/82/s Beijing 94/77/pc 93/76/t Hong Kong 93/83/sh 94/83/sh Jerusalem 87/67/s 86/68/s Kabul 93/65/pc 92/64/s Manila 93/77/pc 93/77/t Melbourne 53/46/c 58/52/c New Delhi 87/79/t 86/80/t Seoul 85/75/t 86/73/pc Singapore 87/79/pc 86/78/pc Sydney 65/46/s 65/46/s Tehran 99/71/s 98/73/s Tokyo 82/74/c 83/74/c Amsterdam 70/60/pc 71/60/t Athens 92/77/s 93/75/s Belgrade 86/69/pc 87/68/t Berlin 78/59/t 76/64/pc Budapest 85/66/t 82/64/t Dublin 65/55/sh 67/53/sh London 74/60/t 73/59/t Madrid 100/71/s 101/72/s Moscow 83/65/pc 80/63/sh Paris 77/63/pc 78/62/pc Rome 85/68/s 84/65/s Stockholm 75/60/pc 72/55/t Vienna 83/67/t 81/63/t Zurich 77/57/t 77/58/pc 99/58 104/63 103/65 102/67 105/59 105/63 109/66 95/54 109/60 107/72 108/71 94/55 98/51 100/56 110/72 108/73 101/68 73/56 77/56 66/53 98/56 99/58 101/62 63/53 97/62 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 BySylvieCorbetand Lori Hinnant The Associated Press SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROU- VRAY, FRANCE The Is- lamic State group crossed a new threshold Tuesday in its war against the West, as two of its followers targeted a church in Normandy, slit- ting the throat of an elderly priest celebrating Mass and using hostages as human shields before being shot by police. It was the extremist group's first attack against a church in the West, and fulfills longstanding threats against "crusaders" in what the militants paint as a cen- turies-old battle for power. One of the attackers, who grew up in the town, had tried twice to leave for Syria; the second was not identi- fied. "To attack a church, to kill a priest, is to profane the republic," French Presi- dent Francois Hollande told the nation after speaking with Pope Francis, who con- demned the killing in the strongest terms. The Rev. Jacques Hamel was celebrating Mass for three nuns and two parish- ioners on a quiet summer morning in Saint-Etienne- du-Rouvray when the at- tackers burst in and forced the 85-year-old priest to his knees before slicing his throat, according to au- thorities and a nun who es- caped. She described seeing the attackers film themselves and give a sermon in Arabic around the altar before she fled. Paris prosecutor Fran- cois Molins said the other hostages were used as hu- man shields to block police from entering. One elderly parishioner was wounded. The two attackers were killed by police as they rushed from the building shouting "Allahu Akbar," Molins said. One had three knives and a fake explo- sives belt; the other carried a kitchen timer wrapped in aluminum foil and had fake explosives in his backpack. One of the assailants was identified as Adel Kermi- che, a 19-year-old who tried to travel to Syria twice last year using family members' identity documents, but was arrested outside France and handed preliminary ter- rorism charges. Kermiche had an electronic surveil- lance bracelet after a judge overruled prosecutors and agreed to free him, Molins said. A statement published by the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said Tuesday's attack was carried out by "two sol- diers of the Islamic State" who acted in response to calls to target nations in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the extremist group in Iraq and Syria. Haras Rafiq, managing director of the Quilliam Foundation, described the attack as a turning point. "What these two people to- day have done is ... shifted the tactical attack to the at- tack on Rome ... an attack on Christianity," he said. He warned that it could "radicalize people from both sides of the communities. Muslim and non-Muslim." As Europe becomes pain- fully inured to a summer of repeated bloodshed, the extremists are looking for greater ways to shock, Rafiq said. "This is going into a house of God. This is attack- ing and killing a priest." "We'vebeentalkingabout the danger of the global ji- hadist insurgency. This is what it looks like," he said. The increasing speed with which IS has claimed responsibility and the grow- ing number of attacks this summer have left Europe alarmed and fearful. Targeting a church in the rural Normandy heartland resonatedwithFrance'slead- ership and Christians across Europe. While France is offi- cially secular and church at- tendance is low, the country has deep Catholic roots. Is- lamic State extremists have urged followers to attack French churches and the group is believed to have planned at least one earlier churchattackthatwasfoiled whentheassailantshothim- self in the leg. The slain priest had been at the church for the past de- cade and "was always ready to help," said Rouen diocese official Philippe Maheut. "His desire was to spread a message for which he con- secrated his life," Mahut told The Associated Press. "And hecertainlydidn'tthinkthat consecrating his life would mean for him to die while celebrating Mass, which is a message of love." A nun who escaped said the priest was forced to the groundbeforehisthroatwas slit. "They forced him to his knees. He wanted to defend himself. And that's when the tragedy happened," said the woman, identified as Sister Danielle, speaking on BFM television. She said the attackers filmedthemselves."Theydid a sort of sermon around the altar,inArabic.It'sahorror." One person, a minor, was arrested in the investiga- tion. Molins said he is be- lieved to be the 16-year-old younger brother of some- one wanted by authorities for trying to go to Syria or Iraq in 2015. Hollande, visiting the scene of Tuesday's slaying, denounced what he called "a vile terrorist attack" and one more sign that France is at war with the Islamic State group, which has claimed multiple attacks on France over the past year and a half, andtwoinGermanyoverthe past week. The pope condemned the attack in the strongest terms. The Vatican spokes- man, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said in a state- ment that Pope Francis ex- pressed his "pain and hor- ror for this absurd violence, with the strongest condem- nation for every form of ha- tred and prayer for those af- fected." WAR AGAINST WEST IS g ro up c la im s at ta ck t ha t ki ll ed 85 -y ea r- old pr ie st | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 6 B