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Washington 65/51 New York 58/46 Miami 80/69 Atlanta 70/51 Detroit 40/21 Houston 79/63 Chicago 29 /13 Minneapolis 13/-13 Kansas City 30/16 El Paso 68/43 Denver 38/16 Billings 12/3 Los Angeles 59/46 San Francisco 53/42 Seattle 36/25 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: FRIDAY 58° 34° SATURDAY 58° 36° Mostly sunn y Mostly sunn y SUNDAY 61° 38° Pa rtly sunn y MONDAY 62° 41° Pa rtly sunn y TODAY 56° 35° Intervals of clouds and sun. Clear to partly cloudy and chilly tonight. High ....................................................................... 55° Low ........................................................................ 44° Normal high ......................................................... 54° Normal low ........................................................... 38° Record high ............................................. 75° in 2009 Record low .............................................. 27° in 1968 Humidity noon today ........................................ 56% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.08" Month to date ................................................... 3.70" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.84" Season to date ................................................ 13.66" Normal season to date .................................. 10.06" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ................ Absent 2 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:30 a.m. 5:05 p.m. 5:49 p.m. 7:27 a.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. 5:06 p.m. 6:55 p.m. 8:16 a.m. 9 hr., 35 min. Jan12 Full Jan19 Last New Jan27 First Feb3 aboveBendBridge......................27 .........21.70 ......+8.40 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......143.24 ......+0.70 atOrdFerry................................114 ......112.49 ....... -2.77 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......251.10 ......+6.50 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......214.20 ......+5.50 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......182.37 ......+5.18 BlackButte ....................453.44..............63,058 .....43.9% LakeOroville..................834.62.........2,607,253 .....69.8% LakeShasta .................1035.17.........3,665,857 .....80.5% LakeTrinity..................2289.14.........1,337,690 .....50.5% Whiskeytown...............1199.30............208,046 .....86.3% Weather Trivia ™ What is the common phrase for a mild spell in January? The January thaw. Today Friday Anaheim 58/45/r 60/45/pc Bakersfield 59/43/r 53/41/pc Chula Vista 62/49/r 59/46/c Crescent City 50/35/pc 50/36/s Death Valley 63/49/sh 62/51/pc Eureka 50/32/pc 52/35/s Fremont 53/39/pc 55/38/s Fresno 55/40/r 52/37/pc Glendale 56/44/r 59/47/pc Huntington Beach 59/49/r 59/49/pc Irvine 59/46/r 59/46/sh Lake Tahoe 30/20/sn 33/15/pc Long Beach 59/45/r 60/46/pc Los Angeles 59/46/r 60/47/pc Mammoth Mountain 31/17/sn 32/15/sf Modesto 53/39/r 54/36/s Monterey 52/42/r 56/38/s Moreno Valley 53/39/r 54/41/pc Napa 53/34/pc 59/32/s Needles 63/49/c 61/50/sh Oakland 54/39/pc 55/38/s Oxnard 60/45/r 60/48/pc Redding 56/36/pc 59/36/s Riverside 53/38/r 54/40/pc Sacramento 51/36/sh 55/33/s San Bernardino 54/41/r 56/45/pc San Diego 62/51/r 60/49/sh San Francisco 53/42/pc 54/41/s San Jose 53/39/r 56/37/s San Luis Obispo 56/41/r 60/42/s Santa Ana 59/47/r 59/46/sh Santa Barbara 58/41/r 60/42/pc Santa Clarita 53/38/r 56/43/pc Stockton 51/37/sh 53/33/s Ventura 58/45/r 60/48/pc Yosemite Valley 38/22/sn 42/22/pc Today Friday Albuquerque 57/33/pc 56/41/c Atlanta 70/51/pc 72/51/pc Baltimore 63/49/c 51/29/c Boston 55/42/c 42/18/pc Buffalo 52/23/r 28/16/pc Chicago 29/13/i 25/21/pc Cincinnati 61/28/r 37/29/r Dallas 76/58/pc 67/56/t Denver 38/16/c 35/22/c Detroit 40/21/r 28/19/pc El Paso 68/43/pc 73/50/pc Fargo 5/-21/s 5/1/s Honolulu 83/67/s 83/66/pc Houston 79/63/pc 76/64/pc Indianapolis 58/23/r 36/27/c Kansas City 30/16/pc 22/21/i Las Vegas 57/44/sh 54/43/sh Louisville 67/34/t 41/35/r Miami 80/69/pc 79/69/pc Minneapolis 13/-13/pc 8/0/sn New Orleans 75/61/pc 73/57/pc New York City 58/46/r 46/26/pc Oklahoma City 51/30/pc 34/29/i Warm air will continue to surge northward with locally gusty winds from the lower Mississippi Valley to much of the Atlantic Seaboard today. Areas of rain will accompany the warmth from northeastern Texas and Louisiana to central and southern Maine. As colder air presses eastward around the Great Lakes, a period of snow and ice can make some roads slippery over the Upper Midwest during the day and at night over upstate New York and northwestern New England. A storm from the Southwest will threaten the central and southern Plains with ice starting on Friday. High ............................... 88° in Cotulla, TX Low ................................ -34° in Loma, MT High .................. 115° in Bourke, Australia Low ... -70° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 66/48/r 65/49/c Buenos Aires 90/75/s 90/61/pc Caracas 85/72/pc 82/68/pc Ensenada 61/51/r 60/47/r Mexico City 73/43/pc 72/44/pc Montreal 42/24/r 25/-3/pc Rio de Janeiro 87/77/t 85/77/c Tijuana 64/50/r 61/48/r Toronto 42/22/sh 27/12/pc Vancouver 32/20/s 35/27/c Orlando 79/59/s 78/59/s Philadelphia 61/48/c 48/29/pc Phoenix 67/52/pc 65/49/c Pittsburgh 60/28/r 35/23/c Portland, ME 50/37/c 39/7/pc Portland, OR 32/16/pc 31/19/s St. Louis 42/25/c 33/31/i Salt Lake City 35/22/sn 30/16/pc Seattle 36/25/s 38/28/pc Tucson 73/46/pc 68/46/c Washington, DC 65/51/c 52/32/c Cairo 68/48/pc 68/54/pc Casablanca 69/43/s 64/43/pc Johannesburg 79/60/pc 80/61/c Kinshasa 87/74/t 90/73/t Lagos 89/76/s 89/76/pc Nairobi 81/51/pc 83/54/s Tripoli 63/44/s 63/44/s Baghdad 63/38/pc 62/41/s Beijing 42/18/s 38/12/s Hong Kong 69/60/c 68/60/c Jerusalem 58/42/pc 53/44/pc Kabul 42/14/s 36/18/pc Manila 88/75/c 87/76/pc Melbourne 79/62/s 80/56/r New Delhi 63/39/c 64/40/c Seoul 34/15/s 30/12/pc Singapore 88/77/t 88/77/t Sydney 81/72/pc 90/80/pc Tehran 51/30/s 47/31/pc Tokyo 51/42/s 51/37/s Amsterdam 43/34/sn 41/34/sn Athens 54/40/s 55/46/pc Belgrade 33/22/pc 44/29/r Berlin 37/29/sn 35/24/sn Budapest 35/27/c 38/24/sn Dublin 38/32/sh 39/34/pc London 43/31/r 41/32/pc Madrid 57/35/pc 51/27/pc Moscow 22/20/sn 27/24/sn Paris 45/34/r 40/31/c Rome 53/49/sh 58/34/sh Stockholm 36/29/pc 34/25/sf Vienna 39/30/sn 37/26/c Zurich 39/32/c 35/27/c 34/22 38/27 37/25 35/21 37/21 51/36 51/34 53/34 52/30 52/35 55/36 28/5 31/4 35/15 56/36 56/35 49/29 52/39 51/41 50/32 52/29 38/18 36/14 50/35 38/20 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 ByMarciaDunn APAerospaceWriter CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. It turns out the moon is older than many scientists sus- pected: a ripe 4.51 billion years old. That's the newest esti- mate, thanks to rocks and soil collected by the Apollo 14 moonwalkers in 1971. A research team reported Wednesday that the moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the so- lar system. Previous esti- mates ranged within 100 million years, all the way out to 200 million years af- ter the solar system's cre- ation, not quite 4.6 billion years ago. The scientists conducted uranium-lead dating on fragments of the min- eral zircon extracted from Apollo 14 lunar samples. The pieces of zircon were minuscule — no bigger than a grain of sand. "Size doesn't matter, they record amazing informa- tion nonetheless!" lead au- thor Melanie Barboni of the University of Califor- nia, Los Angeles, said in an email. She noted that the moon holds "so much magic ... the key to understand how our beautiful Earth formed and evolved." Some of the eight zircon samples were used in a pre- vious study, also conducted at UCLA. Barboni said she is studying more zircons from Apollo 14 samples, but doesn't expect it to change her estimate of 4.51 billion years for the moon's age, possibly 4.52 billion years at the most. "It would be more a dou- ble-checking than anything else," she explained. She and her colleagues — whose work appeared Wednesday in the journal Science Ad- vances — are eager to learn more about the moon's his- tory and, in turn, the evolu- tion of early Earth and the entire solar system. Apollo 11's Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell col- lected 92 pounds of rocks and used tubes to dig up soil while exploring the moon's Fra Mauro high- lands in February 1971. They conducted two space- walks, spending nine hours altogether out on the lunar surface. It's the second major moon study this week. AGE Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old NASAVIAAP Apollo 14astronaut Alan B. 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