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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. SundayVENTURA 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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SAN DIEGO CO.ORANGE CO.Today in Southern California Today in North America
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High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
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.Sunday Downtown readingsMinutes to burn for
sensitive peopleTemperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Today’s rise/setFirst QuarterFull MoonLast QuarterNew MoonSept. 13Sept. 21Sept. 5Los Angeles County August 30Orange 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 95 66 -- 89 66 87 65
Avalon/Catalina 78 61 -- 79 63 77 62
Bakersfield 101 76 -- 102 76 104 75
Barstow 107 74 -- 107 77 109 79
Beaumont 95 66 -- 96 62 96 62
Big Bear Lake xx xx xx 79 48 82 48
Bishop 101 55 -- 102 59 101 61
Burbank 93 66 -- 91 67 90 67
Camarillo 81 62 -- 81 64 80 64
Chatsworth 98 66 -- 93 65 92 65
Chino 99 63 -- 96 63 95 63
Dana Point 76 64 -- 77 65 75 64
Death Valley 116 92 -- 117 94 118 91
Del Mar 74 68 -- 76 66 74 66
Escondido 98 68 -- 89 63 87 62
Eureka 66 55 Tr 69 54 68 55
Fallbrook 96 64 -- 86 61 83 62
Fillmore 94 58 -- 91 63 91 62
Fresno 103 74 -- 104 75 104 75
Fullerton 93 67 -- 89 68 85 67
Hemet 102 64 -- 99 63 99 63
Hesperia 104 65 -- 98 65 99 65
Huntington Beach 79 63 -- 79 67 77 67
Idyllwild 80 67 -- 90 68 92 68
Irvine 87 67 -- 84 66 81 65
L.A. D’ntown/USC89 68 -- 88 66 86 66
L.A. Int’l. Airport 80 68 -- 79 67 78 67Laguna Beach 85 64 -- 79 67 77 67
Lancaster 103 65 -- 103 73 103 72
Long Beach 93 69 -- 86 68 82 67
Mammoth Lakes 88 45 -- 87 49 86 49
Mission Viejo 96 62 -- 86 65 84 65
Monrovia 95 61 -- 88 66 88 65
Monterey 71 59 -- 73 58 74 60
Mt. Wilson 83 69 -- 84 63 84 63
Needles 109 88 -- 112 88 115 89
Newport Beach 76 66 -- 78 67 76 67
Northridge 96 65 -- 94 65 94 65
Oakland 77 60 -- 81 59 79 61
Oceanside 87 61 -- 83 62 80 63
Ojai 91 59 -- 90 60 89 60
Ontario 98 67 -- 95 67 95 67
Oxnard 73 63 -- 75 63 74 63
Palm Springs 105 83 -- 109 84 111 84
Pasadena 96 67 -- 91 66 91 66
Paso Robles 103 58 -- 100 60 99 57
Pomona/Fairplex 97 64 -- 94 63 94 63
Poway 97 64 -- 85 65 81 65
Redding 100 69 -- 107 70 107 71
Rialto 99 69 -- 96 65 96 64
Riverside 100 67 -- 97 62 97 63Sacramento 100 67 -- 100 63 98 63
San Bernardino 100 70 -- 97 65 97 64
San Clemente Pier 92 58 -- 79 64 76 64
San Diego 83 69 -- 80 68 77 67
San Francisco 73 58 -- 80 59 81 62
San Gabriel xx xx -- 93 67 92 66
San Jose 84 61 -- 90 63 89 64
San Luis Obispo 81 55 -- 80 56 82 56
Santa Ana 88 69 -- 84 69 81 69
Santa Barbara 74 60 -- 76 59 74 60
Santa Clarita 96 65 -- 96 64 96 64
Santa Monica Pier 79 65 -- 79 66 78 66
Santa Paula 91 57 -- 88 62 87 63
Santa Rosa 90 55 -- 89 52 87 55
Simi Valley 90 62 -- 91 63 91 63
Tahoe Valley 83 46 -- 86 47 87 49
Temecula 98 65 -- 93 61 92 61
Thousand Oaks 87 64 -- 86 62 86 63
Torrance 82 64 -- 80 65 78 64
UCLA 83 65 -- 83 65 82 65
Van Nuys 97 67 -- 95 68 94 68
Ventura 72 60 -- 74 62 74 63
Whittier Hills 98 63 -- 90 66 87 66
Woodland Hills 99 62 -- 96 64 96 63
Wrightwood 84 61 -- 86 66 87 64
Yorba Linda 97 64 -- 90 64 89 64
Yosemite Valley 94 63 -- 92 64 92 63Warm with some high clouds:An upper-level ridge will remain over California for the next few days.
Morninglowcloudsandpatchyfogwillbeconfinedtotheimmediatecoastearly,mainlyinSanta
Barbara and L.A. counties on south. Sunshine will be mixed with some high clouds from what was once
Ivo elsewhere today. High temperatures away from the coast will remain above average.Mostly sunny 86/
Mostly sunny 85/
Partly sunny 87/
Partly sunny 87/Mostly sunny 92/
Mostly sunny 91/
Some sun 92/
Partly sunny 93/Partly sunny 78/
Partly sunny 78/
Partly sunny 79/
Partly sunny 79/Mostly sunny 82/
Sunny 80/
Partly sunny 80/
Mostly sunny 81/Mostly sunny 111/
Sunny 109/
Partly sunny 111/
Mostly sunny 112/Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Some sun Mostly sunny Mostly sunnyLos Angeles Basin:Patchy
low clouds and fog early at
the coast; otherwise, mostly
sunny. Warm across the
interior.
Valleys/canyons:Sun
mixing with high clouds;
warm. Mostly clear tonight.
Orange County:Low clouds
and patchy fog at the coastearly; otherwise, mostly
sunny. Sun and some high
clouds inland; warm.
Ventura/Santa Barbara:
Patchy low clouds and fog
earlyatthecoast,then
mostly sunny. Sun mixed
with high clouds elsewhere.
San Diego County:Coastal
low clouds then some sun;sun mixed with some high
clouds and warm inland.
Local mountains:Sun and
patchy clouds with a warm
afternoon. Mainly clear
tonight. Sunshine Tuesday.
High desert:Sun and some
high clouds; remaining hot.
Mostly clear tonight. Sunny
and hot Tuesday.Low desert:Sun mixing
with some high clouds; hot.
Mainly clear tonight. Hot
Tuesday with sunshine.
San Francisco Bay Area:
Patchy low clouds and fog
early; otherwise, mostly
sunny. Mainly clear early
tonight; patchy low clouds
near the coast late.Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
FridayTodayUnsettled across Midwest:Strongtoseverethunderstormswill
target the Midwest. The primary threat will be heavy downpours
and damaging winds. Mainly dry conditions and below-normal
temperatures will persist across the Northeast.High116 in Death Valley
Low30 in Stanley, IdahoInnerwaters:Wind west-northwest at
5-10 knots. Wind waves a foot or less;
west and south-southeast swells 2-
feet.
Surf zone:The rip current risk will be
moderate at Orange County beaches
and low at Santa Barbara County
beaches and high everywhere else.
Morro Bay 4p W4 2/11 61/
Santa Barbara 4p SW4 1/11 68/
Ventura 4p SW4 0/11 69/
Zuma Beach 4p S4 1/10 70/
Marina del Rey 4p SW4 1/10 71/
Hermosa Beach4p SW4 1/10 69/
Cabrillo Beach 4p SW4 1/10 69/
Hunt’n. Beach 4p SW4 1/10 69/
Newport Beach 4p SW4 1/10 69/
Dana Point 4p WSW4 1/10 70/
San Clemente 4p WSW4 1/10 71/
Oceanside 4p WSW4 1/10 71/
Solana Beach 4p W4 1/10 71/
Mission Beach 4p W4 1/10 70/
Avalon 4p WSW4 1/11 70/High/low 89/68 93/67 72/
High/low a year ago 81/67 83/69 74/
Normal high/low for date 85/64 86/65 76/
Record high/date 102/1926 97/2005 83/
Record low/date 52/1909 58/2002 48/24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.
Season total (since Oct. 1) 18.82 17.22 18.
Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 4.72 3.11 6.
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date)14.68 13.65 16.
Humidity (high/low) 87/26 84/32 90/Sunday Today Tuesday Sunday Today TuesdaySunday TodaySunday Today TuesdayForecasts provided by
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6:43p 6.0 Hi 12:28p 2.6 Lo
Tue. 8:36a 4.1 Hi 2:03a -0.4 Lo
7:34p 6.5 Hi 1:22p 2.2 LoPrecipitationSun 6:22a/7:27p
Moon 2:00a/4:43pSun 6:21a/7:26p
Moon 1:59a/4:41pSun 6:26a/7:32p
Moon 2:04a/4:48pLas Vegas, 25
Los Angeles, 25
Phoenix, 25
San Francisco, 30Albuquerque 97 65 -- 97 67 Su
Amarillo 95 69 -- 95 61 Su
Anchorage 67 51 -- 68 50 Pc
Atlanta 78 67 Tr 80 70 Cy
Atlantic City 73 66 .05 74 68 W
Austin 100 75 Tr 101 78 Su
Baltimore 80 60 -- 77 66 Cy
Billings 84 62 .09 75 51 Pc
Birmingham 82 74 .06 79 72 Ts
Boise 86 59 -- 85 54 Su
Boston 71 62 Tr 70 57 Pc
Brownsville 100 82 -- 99 82 Ts
Buffalo 77 53 -- 78 64 Pc
Burlington, Vt. 78 53 -- 78 54 Su
Casper 92 54 -- 75 42 Pc
Charleston, S.C. 82 68 Tr 85 71 Cy
Charleston, W.Va. 78 57 -- 78 64 Pc
Charlotte 79 63 -- 80 66 Pc
Chicago 78 61 -- 75 67 Ts
Cincinnati 81 60 -- 70 67 Ts
Cleveland 79 58 -- 78 67 Pc
Colo. Springs 96 53 -- 81 54 Su
Columbia, S.C. 81 66 -- 83 69 Cy
Columbus 81 56 -- 72 66 Sh
Concord, N.H. 73 54 -- 74 45 Pc
Dallas/Ft.Worth 98 75 -- 101 78 Su
Denver 97 63 -- 80 55 Su
Des Moines 70 62 Tr 75 60 Ts
Detroit 77 61 -- 75 66 Sh
Duluth 74 54 -- 68 58 R
El Paso 103 76 -- 104 77 Su
Eugene 84 54 -- 88 53 Su
Fairbanks 66 33 -- 64 44 Cy
Fargo 68 63 Tr 73 55 Pc
Flagstaff 86 53 -- 87 54 Su
Grand Junction 99 62 -- 96 58 Su
Grand Rapids 78 54 -- 71 65 Ts
Green Bay 75 51 -- 70 62 Cy
Hartford 76 57 -- 76 51 Pc
Helena 78 54 -- 75 47 Pc
Honolulu 89 79 .01 92 78 Pc
Houston 96 80 1.50 97 79 Pc
Indianapolis 81 60 -- 74 69 Ts
Jacksonville, Fla. 89 76 -- 88 75 Ts
Kansas City 69 66 .97 82 60 Ts
Las Vegas 107 82 -- 108 85 Su
Little Rock 85 74 .04 88 74 Pc
Louisville 85 62 -- 75 70 Ts
Medford 93 57 -- 98 60 Su
Memphis 83 74 .59 85 75 Ts
Miami 90 80 .34 90 78 Pc
Milwaukee 75 64 -- 72 65 Ts
Minneapolis 75 62 .01 70 59 R
Nashville 85 71 .24 78 71 R
New Orleans 86 77 .06 84 77 Ts
New York 77 63 -- 73 62 Pc
Oklahoma City 86 67 1.36 97 69 Pc
Omaha 73 66 -- 77 60 Ts
Orlando 93 77 -- 92 76 Ts
Philadelphia 78 62 -- 77 63 Pc
Phoenix 103 85 -- 108 86 Su
Pittsburgh 75 53 -- 77 64 Pc
Portland, Maine 68 54 -- 71 51 Pc
Portland, Ore. 79 59 -- 86 60 Su
Providence 71 59 .02 73 53 Fg
Pueblo 102 57 -- 87 60 Su
Raleigh 76 63 .04 79 64 Cy
Rapid City 88 55 .03 70 49 Pc
Reno 96 62 -- 96 64 Su
Richmond 81 65 -- 77 67 Sh
St. Louis 74 68 .26 84 68 Ts
Salt Lake City 94 71 -- 85 58 Su
San Antonio 99 77 .01 101 78 Su
San Juan, P.R. 90 81 .04 91 80 Su
Santa Fe 96 50 -- 95 57 Su
Seattle 74 61 -- 77 58 SuSpokane 78 55 -- 80 52 Su
Springfield, Mo. 78 68 .50 87 65 Pc
Tallahassee 90 75 .09 88 74 Ts
Tampa 96 79 -- 90 79 Ts
Tucson 97 77 -- 102 78 Su
Tulsa 87 67 .65 93 69 Pc
Washington, D.C. 80 65 Tr 78 68 Cy
Wichita 83 64 2.05 89 64 Pc
Yuma 102 80 -- 106 79 SuAcapulco 93 79 .10 88 79 Ts
Amsterdam 88 59 -- 87 65 Su
Athens 95 81 -- 93 77 Su
Baghdad 117 89 -- 118 86 Su
Bangkok 91 80 .38 89 78 Ts
Barbados 88 80 .05 89 81 Sh
Beijing 88 68 -- 85 65 Cy
Berlin 90 66 -- 90 67 Pc
Buenos Aires 64 50 -- 72 56 Cy
Cabo San Lucas 93 75 .04 90 77 Pc
Cairo 97 79 -- 98 77 Su
Calgary 64 48 .08 61 41 Sh
Cancun 90 77 .04 90 80 Pc
Copenhagen 79 61 -- 77 64 Su
Dublin 68 52 .01 67 51 Pc
Edinburgh 72 54 -- 73 52 Pc
Frankfurt 88 66 -- 88 66 Ts
Geneva 82 55 -- 82 57 Pc
Havana 93 73 .04 92 72 Ts
Ho Chi Minh City 89 79 .01 91 77 Ts
Hong Kong 87 84 1.02 89 82 Sh
Istanbul 91 75 -- 89 75 Su
Jerusalem 88 70 -- 88 66 Su
Johannesburg 74 46 -- 77 50 Su
Kabul 94 67 -- 92 62 Su
Kingston 90 82 -- 91 78 W
London 91 61 -- 89 63 Pc
Madrid 93 66 -- 86 62 Pc
Manila 85 77 .26 88 78 Ts
Mecca 106 87 -- 109 76 Pc
Mexico City 83 57 .10 75 58 Ts
Montreal 77 55 -- 80 56 Su
Moscow 68 52 -- 70 58 Cy
Mumbai 86 79 .24 86 79 Cy
New Delhi 90 81 .02 90 79 Ts
Oslo 73 57 -- 75 53 Su
Paris 90 61 -- 91 66 Pc
Rio de Janeiro 73 66 Tr 76 63 Pc
Rome 84 68 -- 85 68 Pc
Seoul 84 66 -- 86 71 Pc
Stockholm 72 55 -- 77 56 Pc
Sydney 68 50 .10 60 55 Sh
Taipei City 90 79 -- 91 78 Ts
Tehran 101 77 -- 95 73 Su
Tokyo 86 73 .18 82 72 Pc
Toronto 73 57 -- 75 64 Pc
Vancouver 68 59 -- 70 57 Su
Vienna 81 64 .72 83 65 Ts
Winnipeg 68 61 1.21 68 52 R
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raise special taxes from a
two-thirds supermajority to
55% if the money is used for
infrastructure projects,
including affordable hous-
ing.
School construction
bonds already can be
passed with a 55% vote.
That was approved by vot-
ers in 2000. Before that, all
local bonds needed a two-
thirds vote — dating back to
the 1800s.
Proposition 13, however,
required voter approval of
all local tax increases. Previ-
ously, city councils or local
boards could impose them.
And the measure mandated
that special taxes for specif-
ic projects be passed by a
two-thirds vote.
Assemblywoman Cecilia
Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters),
author of ACA 1, argued that
her measure isn’t a tax
increase. The proposal
merely would allow voters to
decide whether it should be
easier for local people to sell
bonds and hike taxes to pay
for community public works
projects.
Assemblyman Todd
Gloria (D-San Diego) put it
this way:
“Something is wrong in
this country when Donald
Trump can get elected
president of the United
States with 46% of the vote,
but California can’t get
something built with 58%.”
He was referring to a San
Diego bond that failed to
pass with a 58% vote, which
in most elections would be
considered a near-landslide.
But many of his fellow
Democrats still fear Pro-
position 13 as a political
third rail and couldn’t be
persuaded.
“If a legislator votes to
change Proposition 13,
they’re going to pay the
ultimate price at the ballot
box,” says Rob Lapsley,
president of the California
Business Roundtable. He’s
part of a big-bucks coalition
that opposes ACA 1 and is
gearing up to fight the ballot
initiative.
That’s tough talk and
obviously many Democratic
legislators believe it. They
hold a supermajority in each
house, including 61 of 80
seats in the Assembly.
Aguiar-Curry needed 54
votes for her constitutional
amendment, but could only
muster 44. Five Democrats
voted “no” and 12 ducked
the vote.
That tells us two things:
First, the Democrats’
vaunted supermajority
control of the Legislature is
overrated because, on the
toughest issues, they shy
away from using it. They’re
leery of messing with Pro-
position 13 or, for that mat-
ter, any major tax. ACA 1
was not a top priority for
legislative leaders or Gov.
Gavin Newsom.
And if it had passed the
Assembly, the insiders’
expectation was the mea-
sure would die quietly in the
Senate because leader Toni
Atkins (D-San Diego) ap-
parently is determined to
avoid floor votes on taxes.
Second, Proposition 13
may be practically untouch-
able. Legislators who must
run for reelection in com-
petitive districts fear danger
in venturing near it, except
to serve as protectors. Pre-
sumably their read on the
districts they represent is
that voters are saying hands
off 13.
Former Gov. Jerry
Brown understood that as
well as anyone. Before he
was elected to a third guber-
natorial term in 2010, Brown
told me: “Messing with 13 is
a big fat loser.” And he
didn’t.
One veteran Democratic
consultant, who has run
many initiative campaigns
but is not involved in the
attempt to overhaul Pro-
position 13, expressed as-
tonishment over ACA 1’s
failure in the Assembly.
“I was shocked,” the
consultant said, asking for
anonymity. “It’s really an
ominous sign” for the initia-
tive.
The political guru pre-
dicted opponents will suc-
cessfully make the “slippery
slope” argument that re-
formers will next try to raise
home property taxes. The
strategist added that voters
are already bitter about
taxes because California’s
are so high and the state
just raised gas levies and
vehicle registration fees a
heap. The consultant also
asked, “Why would they
bring up [ACA 1 in the As-
sembly] if they couldn’t get
the vote?”
Aguiar-Curry replies
that four more Democrats
were willing to vote for the
measure if it would have
assured passage. But first
the vote count needed to
reach 50. It got only to 47,
then three peeled off.
“They were watching
their backs,” she says. “Poli-
tics instead of policy. I have
to honor that. But some-
times you have to take a
risk.... If it doesn’t happen
this session, I’ll keep work-
ing on it until I retire.”
She isn’t termed out
until 2028. It may take at
least that long. That’s unfor-
tunate because 55% should
be enough support for any
local project, whether a
school or affordable hous-
ing.
Prop. 13 reform advocates face uphill battle with voters
GOV. JERRY BROWN, left, and Howard Jarvis, the tax policy activist largely responsible for the passage of
Proposition 13 in 1978, inform the media that they favor voluntary rent control in Los Angeles in July 1978.
Associated Press
[Skelton,from B1]