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HighTemps –0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Rain T-storm Snow IceTaken at 3 p.m. TuesdayVENTURA CO.LOS ANGELES CO.RIVERSIDE CO.SAN BERNARDINO CO.SANTA
BARBARA CO.Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available
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L.A. Basin Valleys Beaches Mountains DesertsU.S. cities
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Santa Barbara Co.
Height Period DirectionHeight Period DirectionHeight Period DirectionHeight Period DirectionHeight Period DirectionVentura Co.Los Angeles Co.Orange Co.San Diego Co.POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICOWind speed in knots; wave heights in feet/intervals in seconds;
temperatures for sea/airCalifornia cities
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City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi LoStation Time Wind Waves TempL.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.Tuesday downtown readingsMinutes to burn for
sensitive peopleTemperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Today’s rise/setFull MoonLast QuarterNew MoonFirst QuarterOct. 21Oct. 27Oct. 13Los Angeles County Oct. 5Orange CountyVentura CountyCity Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo SkyWorld
Key:Susunny;Pcpartly cloudy;Cycloudy;Fg
foggy;Prcpprecipitation;Drdrizzle;Hz;hazy
Shshowers;Tsthunderstorms;Rrain;Snsnow;
Sfsnow flurries;Iice;Rsrain/snow;Wwindy;
Trtrace.Notes:National extremes are for NWS
stations; excludes Alaska and Hawaii.
Missing data indicated by “xx”.Santa
Barbara
VenturaOxnardOjaiCamarilloSanta PaulaWestlake
Village Woodland
Hills
Santa MonicaTorranceLong
Beach Newport
BeachSanta AnaLaguna
Beach San
ClementeMission ViejoIrvineOceansideEscondidoPowayRamonaSan DiegoTemeculaHemet Palm
SpringsFullertonChino
RiversideOntarioPomona/
Fairplex San BernardinoYucca ValleyHesperiaWhittier
HillsLA DowntownUCLASimi ValleyChatsworth
Burbank MonroviaSanta ClaritaAnaheim 79 55 -- 84 56 87 54
Avalon/Catalina 73 52 -- 69 58 69 58
Bakersfield 72 48 -- 79 51 82 52
Barstow 77 49 -- 83 52 89 55
Beaumont 71 43 -- 82 49 82 46
Big Bear Lake 59 28 -- 64 29 68 28
Bishop 66 36 -- 75 34 80 34
Burbank 73 51 -- 83 55 84 54
Camarillo 74 47 -- 77 52 76 52
Chatsworth 75 50 -- 84 55 88 55
Chino 77 46 -- 87 50 92 49
Dana Point 69 52 -- 74 56 73 54
Death Valley 86 60 -- 90 62 95 58
Del Mar 69 58 -- 72 57 72 56
Escondido 77 53 -- 80 51 85 50
Eureka 58 43 -- 60 45 59 44
Fallbrook 76 52 -- 79 48 83 48
Fillmore 78 44 -- 84 52 88 51
Fresno 73 48 -- 79 52 82 52
Fullerton 76 56 -- 83 57 86 56
Hemet 76 45 -- 87 50 86 47
Hesperia 74 40 -- 79 43 81 45
Huntington Beach 74 53 -- 77 60 75 58
Idyllwild 64 51 -- 71 51 74 51
Irvine 76 58 -- 80 58 77 56
L.A. D’ntown/USC76 59 -- 82 60 82 57
L.A. Int’l. Airport 75 59 -- 77 58 75 57Laguna Beach 77 51 -- 75 60 73 59
Lancaster 75 47 -- 80 41 83 46
Long Beach 75 57 -- 80 58 78 57
Mammoth Lakes 55 25 -- 65 27 66 26
Mission Viejo 76 51 -- 81 56 85 55
Monrovia 75 50 -- 78 58 84 57
Monterey 66 50 -- 67 49 66 48
Mt. Wilson 58 41 -- 71 49 71 49
Needles 86 58 -- 88 61 94 64
Newport Beach 71 60 -- 76 61 73 59
Northridge 77 50 -- 85 56 88 54
Oakland 71 46 -- 73 51 71 50
Oceanside 75 48 -- 78 49 77 47
Ojai 75 38 -- 81 51 80 51
Ontario 76 52 -- 85 56 90 55
Oxnard 72 52 -- 75 56 73 55
Palm Springs 86 59 -- 91 65 94 65
Pasadena 77 54 -- 83 59 85 58
Paso Robles 73 37 -- 81 39 84 41
Pomona/Fairplex 76 48 -- 86 54 91 52
Poway 78 48 -- 77 54 83 53
Redding 73 45 -- 78 47 77 47
Rialto 76 53 -- 85 55 84 54
Riverside 78 50 -- 85 46 84 46Sacramento 74 45 -- 79 47 79 47
San Bernardino 77 50 -- 86 54 85 53
San Clemente Pier 67 60 -- 75 55 74 52
San Diego 72 60 -- 74 59 74 57
San Francisco 69 50 -- 71 52 70 53
San Gabriel xx 52 -- 85 58 88 57
San Jose 71 45 -- 76 48 73 48
San Luis Obispo 74 49 -- 80 46 78 46
Santa Ana 75 61 -- 80 60 77 58
Santa Barbara 72 47 -- 74 49 72 50
Santa Clarita 74 45 -- 85 53 84 53
Santa Monica Pier 73 56 -- 77 56 75 54
Santa Paula 77 45 -- 81 51 80 50
Santa Rosa 73 37 -- 76 40 78 41
Simi Valley 75 50 -- 84 52 88 51
Tahoe Valley 49 21 -- 61 29 61 28
Temecula 76 47 -- 83 47 83 47
Thousand Oaks 72 52 -- 81 53 79 52
Torrance 73 54 -- 77 57 75 54
UCLA 73 57 -- 79 57 77 55
Van Nuys 76 58 -- 85 55 90 54
Ventura 72 55 -- 74 55 72 54
Whittier Hills 80 50 -- 84 59 88 57
Woodland Hills 76 46 -- 86 55 84 53
Wrightwood 57 35 -- 67 48 70 47
Yorba Linda 78 53 -- 84 54 89 53
Yosemite Valley 65 37 -- 70 43 69 41Sunny and warmer:Asanupper-leveltroughslidestotheeast,atransientridgewilldevelopacrossthe
West, raising temperatures by several degrees. This warming trend will be brought to an end by Friday
as an upper-level trough swings through the Pacific Northwest. Warming will resume over the weekend
when a stronger ridge builds offshore.Sunny 82/
Sunny 82/
Sunny 86/
Sunny 86/Sunny 88/
Sunny 84/
Sunny 88/
Sunny 89/Sunny 75/
Mostly sunny 76/
Sunny 80/
Mostly sunny 79/Sunny 68/
Sunny 67/
Sunny 69/
Sunny 69/Sunny 94/
Sunny 95/
Sunny 97/
Sunny 99/Sunny Sunny Sunny Sunny, cool SunnyLos Angeles Basin:Mostly
sunny and warmer. Clear
tonight. Mostly sunny on
Thursday.
Valleys/canyons:Mostly
sunny and warmer. Clear
overnight. Sunny and
slightly cooler on Thursday.
Orange County:Sunny andwarmer. Clear tonight.
Sunny and cooler on
Thursday.
Ventura/Santa Barbara:
Sunny and warmer. Mostly
clear tonight. Warmer on
Thursday.
San Diego County:Sunny.
Clear tonight. Sunny andwarmer on Thursday.
Local mountains:Sunny
and warmer. Clear tonight.
Mostly sunny on Thursday.
High desert:Mostly sunny
and warmer. Clear tonight.
Sunny on Thursday.
Low desert:Mostly sunnyand warmer. Clear tonight.
Mostly sunny on Thursday.
San Francisco Bay Area:
Sunny and warmer. Clear
overnight. Sunny and
breezy on Thursday.Thursday
Friday
Saturday
SundayTodaySharp contrast:Northofaslow-movingfront,anareafromthe
northernPlainstoNewEnglandwillbechilly.Southofthefront,
unusual heat will prevail. Rain and storms will affect the northern
and central Plains. The Southwest will be sunny and warm.High105 in Marion, Ala.
Low1 in Cut Bank, Mont.Innerwaters:North winds becoming
west at 10-15 knots. Wind waves 2-5 feet
with a mixed swell of 2-3 feet.
Surf zone:The potential for strong rip
currentsishigh,exceptatbeachesin
southern Santa Barbara County, where
it is low.
Morro Bay 4p NNW5 4/16 60/
Santa Barbara 4p W3 2/16 64/
Ventura 4p W4 2/16 66/
Zuma Beach 4p SW4 2/16 67/
Marina del Rey 4p WSW4 2/16 68/
Hermosa Beach4p WSW4 2/16 68/
Cabrillo Beach 4p W4 2/16 69/
Hunt’n. Beach 4p W4 1/16 69/
Newport Beach 4p W4 1/16 69/
Dana Point 4p W4 1/16 70/
San Clemente 4p WNW3 2/15 70/
Oceanside 4p WNW3 2/15 70/
Solana Beach 4p WNW4 2/15 69/
Mission Beach 4p WNW4 2/15 69/
Avalon 4p W4 2/16 69/High/low 76/59 76/56 72/
High/low a year ago 90/66 91/70 74/
Normal high/low for date 81/61 81/61 75/
Record high/date 100/2008 105/2012 95/
Record low/date 49/1901 55/2009 46/24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.
Season total (since Oct. 1) 0.00 0.00 0.
Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 0.00 0.00 0.
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 0.01 0.02 0.
Humidity (high/low) 61/36 66/38 71/Tuesday Today Thursday Tuesday Today ThursdayTuesday TodayTuesday Today ThursdayForecasts provided by
AccuWeather, Inc.©Today12:25a 4.5 Hi 5:50a 1.7 Lo
12:09p 5.9 Hi 7:13p 0.3 Lo
Thu. 1:38a 3.9 Hi 6:32a 2.4 Lo
12:57p 5.5 Hi 8:28p 0.5 LoPrecipitationSun 6:48a/6:37p
Moon 11:07a/9:45pSun 6:47a/6:35p
Moon 11:06a/9:44pSun 6:52a/6:41p
Moon 11:12a/9:49pLas Vegas, 45
Los Angeles, 45
Phoenix, 30
San Francisco, 45Albuquerque 76 66 -- 79 54 Pc
Amarillo 76 63 1.74 78 54 Ts
Anchorage 51 46 .51 51 40 Su
Atlanta 93 74 -- 95 75 Su
Atlantic City 73 65 -- 89 68 Su
Austin 96 77 -- 96 72 Pc
Baltimore 90 64 Tr 95 70 Su
Billings 36 28 .05 47 31 Pc
Birmingham 99 70 -- 97 71 Su
Boise 57 38 -- 61 40 Su
Boston 72 57 .05 75 49 R
Brownsville 92 78 .12 91 75 Pc
Buffalo 81 62 .35 65 47 R
Burlington, Vt. 73 57 .22 60 38 Cy
Casper 40 34 .22 50 27 Sh
Charleston, S.C. 89 73 -- 91 70 Su
Charleston, W.Va. 93 68 Tr 94 67 Su
Charlotte 92 72 -- 96 68 Su
Chicago 86 73 -- 71 60 R
Cincinnati 95 67 -- 93 68 Cy
Cleveland 93 70 -- 82 61 Pc
Colo. Springs 68 48 -- 75 40 Su
Columbia, S.C. 90 74 .30 95 71 Su
Columbus 94 67 -- 91 68 Pc
Concord, N.H. 69 51 .11 67 36 R
Dallas/Ft.Worth 95 76 -- 95 75 Su
Denver 52 46 .03 70 39 Su
Des Moines 83 73 2.05 63 49 R
Detroit 89 67 -- 74 54 R
Duluth 58 47 .20 50 40 Cy
El Paso 83 67 .38 78 64 Pc
Eugene 62 35 -- 63 49 Pc
Fairbanks 50 31 .05 41 31 Sh
Fargo 47 41 -- 49 36 R
Flagstaff 63 38 -- 67 33 Su
Grand Junction 76 39 Tr 71 38 Su
Grand Rapids 77 69 .29 65 50 R
Green Bay 73 72 .97 58 49 R
Hartford 75 57 .19 80 46 Ts
Helena 50 24 -- 49 29 Su
Honolulu 88 77 .16 87 75 Sh
Houston 91 75 -- 92 74 Su
Indianapolis 92 68 -- 89 67 Pc
Jacksonville, Fla. 90 74 .11 88 67 Pc
Kansas City 88 73 -- 78 51 R
Las Vegas 79 57 -- 80 58 Su
Little Rock 93 68 -- 94 70 Su
Louisville 97 72 -- 97 72 Pc
Medford 64 37 -- 68 46 Su
Memphis 96 73 -- 97 72 Su
Miami 89 80 .01 87 78 Pc
Milwaukee 76 73 .66 62 55 R
Minneapolis 56 54 .60 56 45 R
Nashville 98 70 -- 97 68 Su
New Orleans 95 74 -- 94 76 Su
New York 81 63 -- 90 57 Pc
Oklahoma City 87 73 -- 89 63 Su
Omaha 65 64 1.56 59 44 R
Orlando 90 75 .09 89 70 Su
Philadelphia 84 65 -- 93 62 Su
Phoenix 91 66 -- 90 68 Su
Pittsburgh 88 67 -- 86 65 Pc
Portland, Maine 64 52 .20 67 39 Sh
Portland, Ore. 65 37 -- 64 51 Cy
Providence 73 57 Tr 80 49 Ts
Pueblo 73 57 -- 80 46 Su
Raleigh 89 67 -- 95 70 Su
Rapid City 39 38 .05 42 30 Sh
Reno 58 36 -- 67 39 Su
Richmond 88 69 -- 98 72 Su
St. Louis 94 75 -- 92 69 Cy
Salt Lake City 59 39 -- 59 39 Su
San Antonio 94 77 -- 94 73 Pc
San Juan, P.R. 93 79 .09 92 78 Pc
Santa Fe 76 60 -- 76 41 Pc
Seattle 62 40 -- 63 50 CySpokane 52 30 -- 56 38 Su
Springfield, Mo. 90 71 -- 90 63 Pc
Tallahassee 95 72 .01 95 68 Su
Tampa 91 76 -- 92 73 Su
Tucson 88 60 -- 89 64 Pc
Tulsa 92 69 Tr 90 65 Pc
Washington, D.C. 87 69 Tr 96 74 Su
Wichita 91 75 .03 84 55 R
Yuma 89 60 -- 90 61 SuAcapulco 90 74 .10 87 76 Ts
Amsterdam 66 57 1.41 56 48 Ts
Athens 85 66 -- 82 68 Su
Baghdad 104 70 -- 107 76 Su
Bangkok 91 81 .37 92 78 Ts
Barbados 88 79 .03 88 81 Su
Beijing 86 64 -- 87 61 Hz
Berlin 63 50 .43 56 41 R
Buenos Aires 61 50 .88 62 42 Pc
Cabo San Lucas 86 70 .12 85 72 Pc
Cairo 88 70 -- 90 73 Su
Calgary 39 21 .01 46 28 Pc
Cancun 86 79 .16 88 76 Ts
Copenhagen 52 46 .16 55 45 Sh
Dublin 51 50 1.00 53 41 Pc
Edinburgh 54 46 .03 55 37 Pc
Frankfurt 66 52 .24 59 42 Pc
Geneva 79 46 .46 63 42 Sh
Havana 88 68 -- 88 71 Ts
Ho Chi Minh City 90 77 .16 90 77 Ts
Hong Kong 94 81 -- 90 79 Hz
Istanbul 82 60 -- 81 65 Su
Jerusalem 84 65 -- 80 62 Su
Johannesburg 67 44 -- 68 45 Pc
Kabul 86 51 -- 79 53 Su
Kingston 88 77 .47 88 80 Ts
London 70 59 .59 58 40 Pc
Madrid 82 52 -- 76 48 Pc
Manila 88 81 .01 87 77 Ts
Mecca 99 83 .35 100 79 Ts
Mexico City 76 54 .12 73 54 Ts
Montreal 68 48 .64 57 39 Cy
Moscow 61 53 .19 59 52 Cy
Mumbai 88 81 -- 88 77 Hz
New Delhi 91 75 -- 91 74 Hz
Oslo 54 34 .04 50 36 R
Paris 70 61 .13 62 40 Pc
Rio de Janeiro 82 68 -- 82 66 Pc
Rome 79 68 .01 74 59 Ts
Seoul 82 61 .03 77 70 R
Stockholm 51 36 -- 46 39 R
Sydney 69 57 .02 75 56 Su
Taipei City 89 73 -- 93 74 Cy
Tehran 89 66 -- 88 63 Su
Tokyo 82 71 -- 80 71 Pc
Toronto 88 59 .01 61 46 R
Vancouver 59 41 -- 58 49 R
Vienna 77 50 -- 66 47 Sh
Winnipeg 43 34 .03 46 36 Cy
Zurich 72 45 .47 62 39 Ts74/81/74/75/81/77/82/54 86/77/80/
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85/56 86/80/1-3’ 16 sec SSW3-5’ 16 sec SSW3-5’ 16 sec SSW2-4’ 16 sec SSW2-4’ 15 sec SSW(^82) / (^6083) / (^5677) / (^5664) / (^2991) / 65
Las Vegas
80/
Seattle
63/
Los Angeles
82/
Denver
70/
Houston
92/
Miami
87/
New York
90/
Chicago
71/
Anchorage
51/
not about taking away the
safety and security of our
neighborhoods.”
Supervisor Kathryn
Barger, who is perhaps the
board’s strongest law-en-
forcement voice, said she too
had concerns that the
budget shortfall was not ad-
dressed sooner.
“We should have been ac-
tively working to address
this before it hit this
amount,” said Barger, whose
husband is a retired sheriff ’s
deputy.
Villanueva pushed back
Tuesday, calling his depart-
ment “the most under-
staffed law enforcement
agency” in the nation, with
816 vacant sworn positions.
Villanueva said he assumed
a $47-million deficit from his
predecessor and asked the
board to fund the true cost of
running the department,
which he said would require
potentially hundreds of mil-
lions more than his $3.5-bil-
lion budget.
Villanueva said he had
one-on-one meetings Mon-
day with three of the five su-
pervisors. He also met with
the county’s chief executive
on Friday.
“Our operations are an
open book,” Villanueva said.
“We’re open to constructive
criticism and a collaborative
effort in delivering public
safety services effectively
and cost-consciously.”
Sheriff ’s officials attrib-
uted Villanueva’s inherited
deficit largely to unfunded
retirement and workers’
compensation claim costs.
The department said super-
visors annually underfund
its budget and noted that it
has a $70-million shortfall
alone in providing security
for L.A. County’s courthous-
es and that criminal cases
with multiple defendants
now require multiple bailiffs,
which drive up the costs.
The sheriff ’s budget is
roughly 10% of the county’s
$36-billion overall spending
plan, and much of Vil-
lanueva’s expenditures are
fixed by contractually obli-
gated costs for salaries and
health and retirement ben-
efits — which have been
steadily rising into what he
calls a “structural deficit.”
The board also raised
concerns about the depart-
ment bringing in millions of
dollars less in revenue from
fines and fees than expected,
extending the shortfall. The
memo said more study is
needed to understand what
caused the decrease.
The dispute between the
sheriff, who defeated incum-
bent Jim McDonnell in an
upset in November, and the
board has been building for
months. Budget officials in
the county’s chief executive
office, which manages
spending plans for the
board, have grown increas-
ingly alarmed as the sheriff ’s
spending outpaces expecta-
tions.
They repeatedly warned
the department to slow or
reverse the trend and it only
grew, according to a memo
obtained by The Times.
County officials said the
deficit is largely fueled by
deputy overtime, despite the
department’s strides in fill-
ing vacancies. Average an-
nual overtime per employee
increased from $4,600 in 2013
to $15,500 last year — a
change of more than 230%,
according to a Times analy-
sis of employee payroll data
released by the county.
“Once the department
identified a potential year-
end deficit, a financial plan
should have been imple-
mented with fiscal staff
closely monitoring and ad-
justing spending as needed,”
the memo stated, referring
to the sheriff ’s budget offi-
cials. “If early signs indi-
cated that the plan would
not fully address the proj-
ected deficit, the depart-
ment should have reached
out to our office to collabora-
tively develop a more robust
plan.”
County officials said that
didn’t happen as they
worked to finish the fall
budget update, which super-
visors considered Tuesday.
The officials said they re-
main concerned about a
similar trend continuing
through the remaining nine
months of the fiscal year.
The memo argued that
the board should step in, de-
spite the typical deference
given to public safety ex-
penditures and, more gener-
ally, the sheriff ’s position as
an independently elected of-
ficial with power over day-
to-day management of the
department.
At the meeting, the su-
pervisors took a cooperative
tone with the sheriff and sug-
gested a collaborative ap-
proach to fixing the deficit.
“I don’t have a feud with
you,” Supervisor Janice
Hahn told Villanueva. “I
hope you see this more as an
opportunity for us to really
work together.”
The supervisors’ action
freezes money already given
to the department until it
agrees to a plan to control its
spending. Roughly $143 mil-
lion that had been desig-
nated for supplies and capi-
tal expenses was placed out-
side Villanueva’s control un-
til then.
Det. Ron Hernandez,
president of the Assn. for
Los Angeles Deputy Sher-
iffs, called the move irre-
sponsible.
“Cutting public safety is
dangerous” and forces
choices like “who will or will
not get service when they
call 911, which deputy will or
won’t get critical training,”
he said.
The board has previously
clashed with the sheriff over
his hiring decisions and
oversight. In August, a judge
overturned Villanueva’s
controversial decision to re-
instate a deputy who had
been fired for violating de-
partment policies on do-
mestic violence and lying —
a dispute that sparked a rare
legal battle with the supervi-
sors.
The legal case resulted
from the highly unusual step
taken by the supervisors to
sue Villanueva and the de-
partment, saying the rehir-
ing had been unlawful.
More recently, Villanueva
has faced criticism for what
county Inspector General
Max Huntsman has called
“very troubling” hiring prac-
tices, including scaling back
the scope of background
checks and relaxing poly-
graph exams. The sheriff,
meanwhile, launched an in-
vestigation into allegations
that the oversight agency
unlawfully obtained internal
records.
Sheriff ’s $63-million deficit raises concerns
SUPERVISORSKathryn Barger, left, and Hilda Solis struck a cooperative tone
with the sheriff and suggested a collaborative approach to fixing the deficit.
Al SeibLos Angeles Times
[Sheriff,from B1]