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Washington 46/35 New York 43/34 Miami 84/71 Atlanta 60/45 Detroit 30/10 Houston 73/55 Chicago 19/2 Minneapolis 10/1 Kansas City 29/15 El Paso 70/45 Denver 40/14 Billings 14/-2 Los Angeles 67/52 San Francisco 59/53 Seattle 39/28 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 56° 51° THURSDAY 58° 37° Br ee zy w ith ra in Breezy with periods of rain FRIDAY 51° 32° Clouds and sun with a shower SATURDAY 49° 31° Mostly sunn y TODAY 52° 45° Cloudy with periods of rain this a ernoon. Rain tonight. High ....................................................................... 57° Low ........................................................................ 37° Normal high ......................................................... 54° Normal low ........................................................... 38° Record high ............................................. 74° in 1958 Record low .............................................. 25° in 1985 Humidity noon today ........................................ 63% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 1.51" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.44" Season to date .................................................. 8.24" Normal season to date .................................... 5.50" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .......................................................... Moderate Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees .................. Absent Weeds ................ Absent 1 Highest at 10 a.m. Today 7:23 a.m. 4:44 p.m. 5:02 p.m. 6:43 a.m. Wednesday 7:24 a.m. 4:44 p.m. 6:02 p.m. 7:49 a.m. 9 hr., 21 min. Dec13 Full Dec20 Last New Dec28 First Jan5 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........4.60 ....... -3.70 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......132.82 ....... -6.33 atOrdFerry................................114 ......101.37 ....... -6.22 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......239.80 ....... -2.20 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......203.10 ....... -3.20 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......169.83 ....... -4.94 BlackButte ....................445.99..............43,960 .....30.6% LakeOroville..................738.94.........1,576,599 .....42.2% LakeShasta .................1007.14.........2,986,714 .....65.6% LakeTrinity..................2269.32.........1,132,005 .....42.8% Whiskeytown...............1199.24............207,868 .....86.2% Weather Trivia ™ What is a duster? Another name for a brief snow squall that coats the ground Today Wednesday Anaheim 67/50/pc 70/52/pc Bakersfield 68/50/pc 69/51/pc Chula Vista 67/51/pc 68/52/pc Crescent City 54/43/c 56/46/r Death Valley 71/50/pc 72/53/pc Eureka 53/46/c 60/49/r Fremont 60/54/c 65/58/c Fresno 65/46/c 65/51/pc Glendale 67/51/pc 68/53/pc Huntington Beach 63/53/pc 65/56/pc Irvine 66/51/pc 67/54/pc Lake Tahoe 43/38/c 49/42/c Long Beach 66/51/pc 67/54/pc Los Angeles 67/52/pc 68/55/pc Mammoth Mountain 51/32/c 56/35/c Modesto 62/48/c 66/54/c Monterey 61/51/c 63/53/c Moreno Valley 68/45/pc 72/47/pc Napa 55/49/c 60/56/r Needles 74/53/pc 76/54/pc Oakland 60/52/c 63/54/r Oxnard 65/51/pc 65/53/pc Redding 53/43/r 54/49/r Riverside 68/45/pc 73/44/pc Sacramento 54/47/c 61/52/c San Bernardino 69/48/pc 73/50/pc San Diego 66/53/pc 66/54/pc San Francisco 59/53/c 63/56/r San Jose 63/52/c 66/58/r San Luis Obispo 67/50/pc 66/54/pc Santa Ana 65/52/pc 67/54/pc Santa Barbara 66/46/pc 63/48/pc Santa Clarita 68/46/pc 70/50/pc Stockton 59/45/c 65/51/c Ventura 64/49/pc 64/53/pc Yosemite Valley 51/37/c 57/44/c Today Wednesday Albuquerque 57/36/pc 59/37/pc Atlanta 60/45/r 57/31/pc Baltimore 44/29/pc 42/24/pc Boston 41/30/pc 39/21/pc Buffalo 33/15/sn 27/10/sn Chicago 19/2/pc 16/-3/pc Cincinnati 40/18/sn 31/8/pc Dallas 59/38/pc 54/38/c Denver 40/14/c 28/12/c Detroit 30/10/c 21/6/sf El Paso 70/45/pc 70/43/pc Fargo 9/-5/pc 3/-15/s Honolulu 78/67/s 77/66/pc Houston 73/55/c 68/46/pc Indianapolis 34/10/sn 24/4/pc Kansas City 29/15/pc 30/15/s Las Vegas 65/49/pc 66/50/pc Louisville 45/22/pc 38/15/s Miami 84/71/sh 84/65/pc Minneapolis 10/1/pc 7/-7/s New Orleans 74/58/t 63/44/pc New York City 43/34/pc 41/23/pc Oklahoma City 44/23/pc 44/23/pc A surge of Gulf of Mexico moisture will cause a batch of clouds and rain showers to push north- ward over the Southern states today. Thunder- storms will erupt along the Gulf coast. Farther north, the air will be cold enough for spotty snow from the upper part of the Ohio Valley and central Appalachians to the eastern Great Lakes. As the coldest air of the month blasts across the central and northern Plains, bands of lake-effect snow are forecast to commence over the western part of the Great Lakes region. Spotty rain and snow will affect part of the West. High ........................... 87° in Marathon, FL Low .................................... -20° in Orr, MN High .. 110° in Red Rocks Point, Australia Low ................. -60° in Ikki-Ambar, Russia Bogota 68/43/pc 69/46/pc Buenos Aires 77/48/pc 78/56/s Caracas 87/75/pc 88/76/pc Ensenada 71/49/s 73/49/pc Mexico City 74/44/pc 74/48/pc Montreal 32/21/sf 24/10/sf Rio de Janeiro 87/75/c 83/72/t Tijuana 67/49/s 69/51/pc Toronto 30/13/sn 23/9/sf Vancouver 35/20/s 34/21/pc Orlando 84/60/pc 82/62/pc Philadelphia 42/33/pc 42/26/pc Phoenix 74/51/pc 77/53/pc Pittsburgh 35/18/sn 26/9/pc Portland, ME 36/27/pc 37/17/c Portland, OR 41/31/c 36/31/sn St. Louis 37/17/pc 33/15/s Salt Lake City 42/28/c 43/39/sn Seattle 39/28/s 37/32/pc Tucson 76/48/pc 80/47/pc Washington, DC 46/35/pc 45/27/pc Cairo 70/58/s 63/49/pc Casablanca 67/46/s 68/49/pc Johannesburg 81/58/t 73/56/c Kinshasa 88/74/t 87/73/pc Lagos 91/78/s 90/77/pc Nairobi 76/55/pc 77/57/pc Tripoli 68/48/pc 69/55/pc Baghdad 65/45/pc 68/40/s Beijing 41/17/pc 37/19/s Hong Kong 79/62/pc 74/58/pc Jerusalem 56/45/pc 48/40/t Kabul 51/25/s 55/26/pc Manila 86/77/t 84/76/t Melbourne 92/59/pc 66/52/c New Delhi 78/51/c 76/48/c Seoul 45/23/c 35/16/c Singapore 89/77/c 89/76/c Sydney 97/78/pc 96/66/pc Tehran 53/35/c 55/40/s Tokyo 62/48/r 53/38/r Amsterdam 47/42/c 50/38/sh Athens 55/38/c 48/39/s Belgrade 34/21/s 39/30/pc Berlin 40/37/c 42/31/sh Budapest 34/20/s 34/23/pc Dublin 53/49/c 51/37/sh London 56/44/sh 54/44/pc Madrid 50/35/pc 50/36/s Moscow 14/7/sn 20/8/sn Paris 49/35/pc 48/35/s Rome 58/41/s 57/42/pc Stockholm 35/31/sh 35/23/pc Vienna 34/24/pc 38/29/sh Zurich 36/28/pc 42/27/s 48/39 55/38 52/37 48/38 45/31 54/47 53/47 55/49 51/45 53/47 52/46 36/28 41/32 47/37 53/43 52/45 48/43 53/50 52/49 53/46 51/45 44/34 43/34 54/43 43/36 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 BySarahElDeeband Zeina Karam The Associated Press BEIRUT Syrian rebels re- treated from former strong- holds in eastern Aleppo in a "terrifying" collapse Mon- day, holding onto a small sliver of territory packed with fighters and thousands of civilians as government troops pressed on with their rapid advance. The Syrian military said it had gained control of 99 percent of the former op- position enclave in eastern Aleppo, signaling an im- pending end to the rebels' four-year hold over parts of the city as the final hours of battle played out. "The situation is very, very critical," said Ibrahim al-Haj of the Syrian Civil Defense, volunteer first re- sponders who operate in rebel-held areas. He said he was seeking shelter for him- self and his family, fearing clashes or capture by the government. Retaking Aleppo, which has been divided between rebel- and government-con- trolled zones since 2012, would be President Bashar Assad's biggest victory yet in the country's civil war. But it does not end the con- flict: Significant parts of Syria are still outside gov- ernment control and huge swaths of the country are a devastated waste-land. More than a quarter of a million people have been killed. On Sunday, the Islamic State group re-occupied the ancient town of Pal- myra, taking advantage of the Syrian army and its Russian backers' preoccu- pation with the fighting in Aleppo. On Monday, the Britain-based Syrian Obser- vatory for Human Rights said IS fighters were on the verge of imposing a siege on a nearby army base known as T4. The IS recapture of Pal- myra nine months after it was retaken by Syrian government and Russian troops led to mutual re- criminations between West- ern officials and Moscow. French Foreign Minis- ter Jean-Marc Ayrault ac- cused Russia of "pretend- ing to fight terrorism" while it concentrated on Aleppo, leaving room for the mil- itants to retake Palmyra. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lashed back, accusing the U.S.-led coali- tion of orchestrating the Palmyra takeover "in or- der to give a respite to the bandits sitting in eastern Aleppo." In Aleppo, staff mem- bers of the last remaining clinic in rebel-held terri- tory huddled in a shelter as Syrian government forces pushed in. "Those killed and wounded are left on the streets," said the clin- ic's administrator, Moham- med Abu Rajab. "The collapse is terrify- ing," said Bassam Haj Mus- tafa, a rebel spokesman in contact with fighters in the city. Opposition fighters were "doing their best to defend what is left," he said. Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 60 civilians and fighters were killed in rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo on Monday alone. Russia, a key ally of Assad, refused an Ameri- can proposal for a tempo- rary halt to the fighting to allow the safe departure of those remaining in rebel- held areas, said a U.S. of- ficial, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The proposal came during weekend talks in Geneva between U.S. and Russian experts that had been billed as an 11th-hour attempt to ease Aleppo's endgame. Osama Abo Zayd, a legal adviser to the Free Syrian Army rebel coalition, said some fighters had agreed to evacuate but that the Russians had demanded that all militants surren- der, something he said was impossible. Live footage aired Mon- day on Syrian state TV showed scores of people waving Syrian flags and posters of Assad in the streets of the city's govern- ment controlled sector, cel- ebrating what they called "the victories of the Syr- ian Arab army against ter- rorism." The loss of Aleppo would mark the greatest defeat for the rebels since the conflict began in 2011. The insur- gents still control north- western Idlib province as well as scattered patches of territory elsewhere in the country. Earlier Monday, Syr- ian troops and allied Shi- ite militiamen from Leba- non, Iraq and Iran captured Sheikh Saeed, a sprawling neighborhood in eastern Aleppo. The military also claimed to have retaken al- Fardous, one of the most populous districts. Tens of thousands of ci- vilians have fled to govern- ment-held western Aleppo since the offensive be- gan last month, but tens of thousands of others are believed to remain in the city's east. A rebel fighter, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said most of the remaining civil- ians were massed in two or three neighborhoods, rais- ing the specter of mass ca- sualties if they are targeted by airstrikes or artillery. He said the collapse of the Sheik Saeed neighborhood meant the loss of the rebel enclave's last mill and grain warehouse. A map distributed by the Syrian military showed rebel control limited to a small sliver of territory spread across six neighbor- hoods in the city center. The offensive began on Nov. 26, and followed an intensive aerial campaign that knocked out most of the medical facilities in eastern Aleppo, which has been besieged by govern- ment forces since July. MIDDLE EAST Syria rebels retreat in Aleppo in 'terrifying' collapse SANA A Syrian soldier carries a wounded woman in eastern Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. TIRES•WHEELS•BRAKES•ALIGNMENT•A/C • AUTO REPAIR • & AND MORE REDBLUFF 614 WALNUT ST. 530-529-1612 CORNING 1723 SOLANO ST. 530-824-4929 NowDoingSprayOnBedliners Mon.-Fri. 8am-6pm Sat. 8am-5pm Growney Motors 1160 Main St., Red Bluff (530) 527-1034 LOOKING FOR QUALIFIED MECHANIC 235So.MainSt.,RedBluff 530527-1657 www.thefurnituredepot.net Windermere Lift Chair MON.-FRI.9-6 SAT. 9-5 • SUN. 11-5 Offering the finest in power recline/liftchairs | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2016 8 B