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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. WednesdayVENTURA 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
5-day forecasts
High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
L.A. Basin Valleys Beaches Mountains DesertsU.S. cities
Surf and sea
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
Tides
Almanac
UV index
Sun and moon
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.Wednesday Downtown readingsMinutes to burn for
sensitive peopleTemperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Today’s rise/setLast QuarterNew MoonFirst QuarterFull MoonAugust 30Sept. 5August 23Los Angeles County August 15Orange 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 MonicaTorrance
Long
Beach Newport
BeachSanta AnaLaguna
Beach San
ClementeMission ViejoIrvineOceansideEscondidoPowayRamonaSan DiegoTemeculaHemet Palm
SpringsFullertonChino
RiversideOntarioPomona/
Fairplex San BernardinoYucca ValleyHesperiaWhittier
HillsLA DowntownUCLASimi ValleyChatsworth
Burbank MonroviaSanta ClaritaAnaheim 86 62 -- 84 63 84 62
Avalon/Catalina 74 62 -- 73 59 72 60
Bakersfield 10276 -- 9666 9166
Barstow 106 79 -- 104 70 102 68
Beaumont 93 66 -- 93 55 90 53
Big Bear Lake 77 59 -- 76 41 74 40
Bishop 98 61 Tr 91 53 94 51
Burbank 85 65 Tr 86 61 85 61
Camarillo 75 62 -- 75 57 75 58
Chatsworth 92 65 -- 89 60 88 61
Chino 92 63 -- 92 59 91 58
Dana Point 69 64 -- 73 62 73 61
Death Valley 119 91 -- 114 93 111 85
Del Mar 69 67 -- 71 65 72 63
Escondido 86 67 -- 84 60 85 57
Eureka 64 58 Tr 65 54 66 59
Fallbrook 84 64 -- 80 59 81 56
Fillmore 86 56 -- 86 56 84 57
Fresno 10173 -- 9663 9263
Fullerton 82 66 -- 82 64 82 63
Hemet 98 67 -- 96 56 94 53
Hesperia 95 73 -- 94 57 91 55
Huntington Beach 75 66 -- 75 64 76 65
Idyllwild 86 62 -- 87 59 84 57
Irvine 77 68 -- 79 64 79 62
L.A. D’ntown/USC83 66 -- 83 62 82 62
L.A. Int’l. Airport 73 64 -- 73 61 73 62Laguna Beach 78 67 -- 75 65 75 64
Lancaster 98 72 Tr 97 63 93 62
Long Beach 80 68 -- 80 64 80 64
Mammoth Lakes 80 56 .06 74 40 76 35
Mission Viejo 86 65 -- 81 63 81 61
Monrovia 89 64 -- 84 62 83 61
Monterey 68 58 -- 67 56 72 61
Mt. Wilson 82 70 -- 78 58 77 57
Needles 109 88 Tr 110 88 111 86
Newport Beach 76 66 -- 74 65 75 65
Northridge 91 64 -- 91 60 90 59
Oakland 71 60 -- 70 59 74 64
Oceanside 76 66 -- 78 62 78 60
Ojai 88 56 -- 85 56 82 57
Ontario 92 66 -- 92 62 92 62
Oxnard 70 60 -- 71 58 71 58
Palm Springs 107 86 -- 108 79 107 75
Pasadena 89 65 -- 87 62 86 61
Paso Robles 92 55 -- 90 53 90 56
Pomona/Fairplex 91 64 -- 91 60 90 58
Poway 87 65 -- 79 63 80 61
Redding 100 66 -- 93 62 87 62
Rialto 93 68 -- 93 61 92 59
Riverside 94 66 -- 93 55 92 54Sacramento 92 60 -- 85 60 85 62
San Bernardino 97 69 -- 94 60 93 58
San Clemente Pier68 65 -- 75 62 75 61
San Diego 75 67 -- 74 65 74 64
San Francisco 70 59 -- 70 59 76 64
San Gabriel 85 66 -- 89 63 88 62
San Jose 78 59 -- 76 58 80 63
San Luis Obispo 80 55 -- 75 53 77 56
Santa Ana 78 68 -- 78 65 79 66
Santa Barbara 71 58 -- 72 54 73 56
Santa Clarita 87 62 -- 92 59 89 60
Santa Monica Pier76 64 -- 75 63 75 62
Santa Paula 83 56 -- 83 57 80 58
Santa Rosa 85 49 -- 81 53 78 57
Simi Valley 84 59 -- 87 58 86 58
Tahoe Valley 82 53 Tr 76 43 72 42
Temecula 92 66 -- 89 56 88 54
Thousand Oaks 76 59 -- 82 59 81 58
Torrance 78 65 -- 76 61 75 62
UCLA 77 63 -- 78 62 79 61
Van Nuys 90 66 -- 90 61 89 62
Ventura 69 59 -- 71 59 71 59
Whittier Hills 88 65 -- 85 63 84 63
Woodland Hills 92 62 -- 92 59 91 57
Wrightwood 83 65 -- 81 58 78 54
Yorba Linda 88 64 -- 86 62 86 60
Yosemite Valley 94 63 -- 82 54 79 50Coastal clouds yielding to sun:Anuppertroughoffshorewilldrawnearertothecoasttoday,whichwill
push monsoon moisture away to the east. This results in a sunnier day, though coastal areas and the
Basin will see morning low clouds. The trough will push by to the north Friday into Saturday, leading
to lower temperatures with morning clouds for the coast and Basin; otherwise, sun both days.Partly sunny 82/
Partly sunny 82/
Mostly sunny 85/
Sunny 86/Sunny 87/
Sunny 89/
Sunny 92/
Sunny 92/Afternoon sun 75/
Partly sunny 76/
Partly sunny 78/
Partly sunny 78/Sunny 74/
Sunny 73/
Sunny 74/
Sunny 77/Sunny; warm 107/
Sunny 105/
Sunny; warm 108/
Sunny; warm 108/Partly sunny Mainly sunny Low clouds, then sun Sunny Sunny and hotLos Angeles Basin:Low
clouds clear for sun by
morning in most places;
otherwise, mostly sunny
today. Clear tonight.
Valleys/canyons:Mainly
sunny today with
seasonable warmth. Mainly
clear tonight. Mainly sunny
and slightly cooler Friday.Orange County:Coastal
clouds will clear by midday;
otherwise, sunny. Clear
tonight except at the coast.
Ventura/Santa Barbara:
Lowcloudsalongthe
immediate coast, then
sunshine. Low clouds later
tonight along the coast.
San Diego County:Lowclouds along the coast, then
sun. A clear evening; low
clouds late along the coast.
Local mountains:Sunny to
partly cloudy today. Mostly
clear tonight. Mainly sunny
and cooler Friday.
High desert:Mostly sunny
today with seasonable heat.
Mainly clear tonight. Sunand clouds Friday with
typical August heat.
Low desert:Sunny with
seasonable heat today.
Mainly clear tonight. Mostly
sunnyandhotFriday.
San Francisco Bay Area:
Morning low clouds will
clearforsun.Lowclouds
will return late tonight.Friday
Saturday
Sunday
MondayTodayThunderstorms Plains and East Coast:Showers and locally severe
thunderstorms, will rumble across the interior Northeast. Clusters
of thunderstorms will develop in the Central Plains and the
Southeast, while extreme heat continues to build across Texas.High119 in Death Valley
Low36 in Stanley, IdahoInner waters:Wind variable, becoming
west at 10-15 knots. Wind waves 1-
feet; west swell 2-3 feet.
Surf zone:The risk for rip currents will
be high for L.A. and Ventura county
beachesm , low in Santa Barbara
County and moderate in Orange and
S.D. counties.
Morro Bay 4p W7 6/13 58/
Santa Barbara 4p SW5 3/15 62/
Ventura 4p WSW4 3/15 64/
Zuma Beach 4p SW4 2/15 67/
Marina del Rey 4p SW4 2/15 69/
Hermosa Beach4p SW4 2/15 67/
Cabrillo Beach 4p SW4 3/15 65/
Hunt’n. Beach 4p SW4 3/15 63/
Newport Beach 4p SSW4 3/15 67/
Dana Point 4p SW4 4/15 68/
San Clemente 4p WSW4 4/15 69/
Oceanside 4p WSW4 3/15 64/
Solana Beach 4p WSW4 4/15 69/
Mission Beach 4p W4 3/15 60/
Avalon 4p WSW3 1/15 67/High/low 83/66 82/66 69/
High/low a year ago 96/71 97/71 84/
Normal high/low for date 84/64 85/65 75/
Record high/date 99/1884 97/2018 97/
Record low/date 54/1894 60/2011 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)14.66 13.63 16.
Humidity (high/low) 86/54 84/48 93/Wed. Today Friday Wed. Today FridayWednesday TodayWed. Today FridayForecasts provided by
AccuWeather, Inc.©Today 4:57a 3.4 Hi 10:01a 2.0 Lo
4:53p 5.4 Hi ------ Lo
Fri. 6:41a 3.4 Hi 12:17a 0.7 Lo
5:53p 5.6 Hi 11:16a 2.4 LoPrecipitationSun 6:09a/7:48p
Moon 2:28p/12:33aSun 6:08a/7:46p
Moon 2:27p/12:32aSun 6:13a/7:52p
Moon 2:33p/12:37aLas Vegas, 25
Los Angeles, 25
Phoenix, 10
San Francisco, 25Albuquerque 91 66 -- 92 70 Pc
Amarillo 104 71 Tr 99 71 Cy
Anchorage 75 61 -- 75 57 Pc
Atlanta 95 75 -- 92 74 Pc
Atlantic City 83 74 .30 85 73 Pc
Austin 98 75 -- 102 78 Pc
Baltimore 92 69 .52 90 69 Pc
Billings 87 64 -- 96 70 Pc
Birmingham 97 74 .16 93 74 Pc
Boise 99 74 -- 87 65 Su
Boston 86 69 .04 86 70 Ts
Brownsville 96 82 -- 98 81 Su
Buffalo 78 67 .13 78 61 Ts
Burlington, Vt. 85 71 .12 84 64 Ts
Casper 92 54 .05 86 58 Pc
Charleston, S.C. 94 77 -- 96 76 Ts
Charleston, W.Va. 85 66 .58 88 65 Pc
Charlotte 93 72 .02 92 69 Su
Chicago 88 66 -- 84 62 Pc
Cincinnati 86 67 1.12 88 66 Ts
Cleveland 82 67 .04 84 63 Ts
Colo. Springs 89 59 Tr 82 59 Ts
Columbia, S.C. 97 74 -- 96 72 Su
Columbus 85 67 Tr 87 63 Ts
Concord, N.H. 85 64 .96 86 61 Ts
Dallas/Ft.Worth 100 81 -- 100 82 Pc
Denver 92 68 -- 84 61 Pc
Des Moines 90 65 -- 78 61 Pc
Detroit 86 67 -- 85 59 Ts
Duluth 79 64 .40 75 52 Su
El Paso 103 82 Tr 99 76 Pc
Eugene 73 60 -- 78 54 Pc
Fairbanks 66 56 .45 68 54 Pc
Fargo 76 63 -- 75 52 Su
Flagstaff 78 57 .13 77 53 Ts
Grand Junction 93 72 Tr 91 64 Pc
Grand Rapids 88 63 -- 81 57 Pc
Green Bay 86 62 1.22 78 55 Su
Hartford 90 68 1.84 87 64 Ts
Helena 92 60 -- 92 61 Pc
Honolulu 89 79 .31 89 74 Pc
Houston 99 80 -- 98 80 Pc
Indianapolis 88 66 -- 88 66 Ts
Jacksonville, Fla. 93 75 Tr 96 76 Ts
Kansas City 84 68 .36 80 68 Ts
Las Vegas 106 84 .01 104 83 Su
Little Rock 99 75 Tr 93 77 Ts
Louisville 91 71 Tr 92 73 Pc
Medford 95 67 -- 87 61 Pc
Memphis 95 77 .08 91 78 Ts
Miami 91 78 1.07 91 77 Ts
Milwaukee 87 65 -- 81 60 Su
Minneapolis 88 69 -- 78 58 Su
Nashville 91 67 .60 90 74 Pc
New Orleans 93 80 Tr 91 79 Ts
New York 84 74 1.22 86 70 Pc
Oklahoma City 102 74 -- 98 76 Pc
Omaha 90 71 .02 82 66 Pc
Orlando 90 74 1.02 89 76 Ts
Philadelphia 91 75 1.63 88 71 Pc
Phoenix 107 88 -- 105 86 Pc
Pittsburgh 82 65 .23 82 61 Ts
Portland, Maine 79 66 .09 81 64 Ts
Portland, Ore. 76 61 -- 75 61 Pc
Providence 87 65 Tr 85 68 Pc
Pueblo 99 63 Tr 90 64 Pc
Raleigh 91 73 .30 92 69 Su
Rapid City 82 59 -- 79 62 Ts
Reno 96 68 Tr 86 58 Su
Richmond 90 72 .02 91 69 Pc
St. Louis 87 70 -- 88 70 Pc
Salt Lake City 87 82 Tr 89 67 Pc
San Antonio 99 78 -- 102 80 Pc
San Juan, P.R. 88 81 .10 89 80 Pc
Santa Fe 88 57 -- 88 63 Ts
Seattle 78 58 -- 72 58 PcSpokane 98 68 -- 95 65 Pc
Springfield, Mo. 79 69 .18 83 71 Ts
Tallahassee 97 75 -- 95 77 Ts
Tampa 92 80 .53 90 78 Ts
Tucson 100 78 Tr 99 76 Ts
Tulsa 99 75 -- 89 75 Ts
Washington, D.C. 94 76 .90 91 73 Su
Wichita 90 74 -- 85 72 Ts
Yuma 102 85 .02 107 80 PcAcapulco 92 80 .35 89 80 Ts
Amsterdam 72 63 .70 72 59 Pc
Athens 95 72 -- 95 75 Su
Baghdad 114 81 -- 110 81 Su
Bangkok 90 79 .28 91 80 Ts
Barbados 87 80 .30 87 81 Sh
Beijing 85 74 .04 91 73 Pc
Berlin 77 61 .13 80 57 Pc
Buenos Aires 61 50 -- 57 43 Pc
Cabo San Lucas 95 77 .04 89 78 Ts
Cairo 94 77 -- 96 77 Su
Calgary 73 52 .18 79 54 Su
Cancun 91 79 .04 90 80 Pc
Copenhagen 69 57 .02 72 59 Ts
Dublin 68 55 .17 65 59 Pc
Edinburgh 70 55 .65 66 56 Pc
Frankfurt 73 63 .30 78 60 Pc
Geneva 75 63 .48 81 61 Pc
Havana 91 73 .04 92 74 Pc
Ho Chi Minh City 84 75 .43 85 75 Sh
Hong Kong 92 81 -- 93 84 Pc
Istanbul 86 73 -- 88 72 Su
Jerusalem 83 67 -- 83 66 Su
Johannesburg 76 51 -- 77 47 Su
Kabul 106 66 -- 100 67 Su
Kingston 91 82 .03 91 79 Pc
London 75 58 .17 77 64 Pc
Madrid 86 77 -- 93 71 Su
Manila 82 78 .26 88 80 Ts
Mecca 101 84 -- 107 77 Su
Mexico City 74 57 .44 77 57 Ts
Montreal 75 72 .06 84 62 Pc
Moscow 70 50 .08 76 57 R
Mumbai 85 81 .42 86 82 Ts
New Delhi 93 81 .06 93 82 Ts
Oslo 68 55 .33 69 54 Ts
Paris 79 63 -- 84 69 Pc
Rio de Janeiro 81 66 -- 82 66 Su
Rome 90 66 -- 87 70 Pc
Seoul 88 75 -- 90 76 Cy
Stockholm 72 55 .02 69 54 Ts
Sydney 71 46 -- 70 53 Su
Taipei City 93 82 .56 88 81 R
Tehran 99 72 -- 101 78 Pc
Tokyo 91 80 -- 91 80 Pc
Toronto 82 70 .01 79 59 Ts
Vancouver 77 57 -- 72 57 Su
Vienna 88 66 .15 83 63 Pc
Winnipeg 73 55 .02 72 50 Pc
Zurich 69 61 .52 80 57 Pc72/85/71/71/83/75/85/57 92/76/80/
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Las Vegas
104/
Seattle
72/
Los Angeles
83/
Denver
84/
Houston
98/
Miami
91/
New York
86/
Chicago
84/
Anchorage
75/
Most Republicans and
many moderate Democrats
are scared silly and timidly
vote against virtually all
meaningful gun controls.
That is, unless the congres-
sional leader is a Republi-
can, such as Senate Major-
ity Leader Mitch McConnell
of Kentucky. Then the
frightened politicians are
spared from voting at all
because the leader blocks
the bill from the floor.
At least, that’s the way it
has always been.
There was one grand
exception, in California in
- Republican Gov.
George Deukmejian bucked
the NRA and signed the
nation’s first assault weap-
ons ban.
“Iron Duke” acted after a
young, racist drifter armed
with an AK-47 assault rifle
shot up a schoolyard in
Stockton, killing five South-
east Asian immigrant chil-
dren. The gunman fired
more than 100 rounds,
wounding 30 other kids —
mostly minorities — and
one teacher before killing
himself.
That set California on a
three-decade path of enact-
ing arguably the toughest
gun controls in the nation —
thanks largely to increasing
Democratic power in Sacra-
mento and at the ballot
box.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Fein-
stein (D-Calif.) managed to
pass the first nationwide
assault weapons ban in 1994
and have the bill signed by
Democratic President
Clinton. But the ban expired
10 years later when Republi-
can George W. Bush was
president and was never
renewed.
Feinstein paid a steep
political price for angering
the gun worshipers. She
barely won reelection that
year.
One campaign episode
illustrated the hostility of
single-issue, pro-gun voters
toward politicians who push
for firearms regulation.
On a Chico sidewalk in
the Sacramento Valley,
there was a white male in
jeans and a girl of around 8,
presumably his daughter.
As Feinstein stepped out ofa car, the man took the child
by the hand, kneeled beside
her and pointed up close at
the senator:
“Look,” he told the girl,
“that’s what you don’t want
to grow up to be like.”
Several dozen gun devo-
tees were nearby protesting
the assault weapons ban.
That’s the nasty environ-
ment long faced by politi-
cians who dare vote for gun
control.
But some politicos say
they detect a changing
atmosphere after the latest
mass shootings at the
Gilroy Garlic Festival, an
El Paso Walmart and a strip
of Dayton, Ohio, nightclubsthat left at least 34 dead and
dozens more injured. Again,
the guns used were military-
style assault weapons.
Longtime Democratic
strategist Bob Shrum,
director of the Jesse M.
Unruh Institute of Politics
at USC, notes that Ohio’s
Republican Gov. Mike
DeWine called on the GOP-
led state Legislature on
Tuesday to pass a bill re-
quiring background checks
for nearly all gun sales.
“If Mike DeWine is call-
ing for background checks,
that tells me the political
calculus is changing,”
Shrum says.
Republican consultantMike Murphy, who has
worked on six presidential
campaigns, says “the NRA’s
bite in primary elections
isn’t what it used to be. They
benefit from a reputation a
little different than reality.”
Murphy says it would be
smart politically for Mc-
Connell to call the Senate
back from summer vacation
and allow it to vote on a
House-passed bill to
strengthen federal back-
ground checks. President
Trump has vaguely hinted
that he might support the
legislation.
If Congress doesn’t pass
a background-check bill,
Murphy says, Democratswill hammer Republicans
on the issue in the 2020
election.
Pollster Mark Baldas-
sare, who heads the nonpar-
tisan Public Policy Institute
of California, believes that
the repetition of horrific
mass shootings is “begin-
ning to have a cumulative
effect” on voters and hard-
ening their support for gun
controls.
“When people feel vul-
nerable about their own
safety, then it becomes a
top-tier issue,” the pollster
says. “That’s when people
demand change....
“But I don’t know that
we’re there yet.”
Right. We’ve heard all
this optimistic talk before
after mass shootings and
nothing has happened in
Congress.
Voters need to demand
change — on policy and,
when necessary, congres-
sional membership.
“If you want to change
votes in the House and
Senate, you’re going to need
to change who’s in the
House and Senate,” says
Garen J. Wintemute, an
emergency room physician
and UC Davis firearms
researcher.
“That’s exactly what you
have to do,” Shrum says.
“Voters have to say, ‘Good-
bye. I don’t care if I agree
with you on something else,
you need to go.’ ”
That’s a single-issue
voter. Until there are more
of them on the gun control
side, mass killings will con-
tinue semiautomatically.To change gun laws, voters have to change
POLICE OFFICERSescort people after the deadly shooting in Gilroy, Calif. National firearm policy is driven
by single-issue advocates of broad gun rights. The other side has never made the cause a top-tier priority.Noah BergerAssociated Press[Skelton, from B1]