Clearing skies are on tap Tuesday as offshore flow reestablishes. A weak high pressure system will bring a slight warming trend and brings temperatures up to mid 60s and 70s. Fog may be an issue for northern areas for the first few hours, but conditions improve quickly. Some mid-to high clouds will appear,, rather mundane weather day. Enjoy!

A large system over the Pacific Ocean will bring moisture to Northern California Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. This system will reach our area by Wednesday afternoon. Most microclimates will stray dry but a small 10% chance of rain is in the forecast for areas north of Gaviota. Any rain amounts would likely not be measurable. Highs rise into the low 60s and 70s. Clouds will increase in front of this system and winds will be strong at times. Some Wind Advisories may be needed.

High pressure builds back in and brings a more notable warming trend Thursday and into the end of the month. We leave January with mid 70s and welcome in February with sunny skies and 70s also. Rinse and repeat weather will occur through the first week. Enjoy!

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By Jen Christensen, CNN

(CNN) — Terry Sigmond thought it was a cold. She even tried to get out of a New Year’s celebration, but her friend encouraged her to go.

So began her weeks-long flu ordeal, when she dozed to Hallmark Channel movies and swapped bed-rest photos with the same friend she rang in 2026 with.

“We have all these pictures together, and we’re smiling,” Sigmond said. After flu, “we send pictures to each other with tissues stuffed up our noses to catch all the dripping snot.”

“I just laid in bed for days. We have one of those Sleep Number beds that you can crank up the heat on, and I think my husband thought he was in a sauna,” said Sigmond, 64, who said she’s usually a healthy and energetic marketing manager for a home care company in Florida.

Sigmond and her friend are far from alone. A brutal flu season is hitting across the country, sending record levels of people to the doctor.

According to the most recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dozens of cities, states or territories in the US show moderate to very high flu activity, but there are signs the season is coming down off its winter peak. Overall, the CDC estimates that there have been 19 million illnesses, 250 hospitalizations and 10,000 deaths this season — most of them caused by a new strain called subclade K.

When CNN asked for your flu stories, we received hundreds of written responses from people like Sigmond and Jillian Luis, a 36-year-old from the Seattle area who said her family was sick for weeks.

“We just were kind of out of it for a whole month,” she said between coughs.

It started with her 3-year-old, then her 6-year-old. Somehow her husband avoided it.

“I’m glad somebody’s healthy, but man, it’s annoying,” Luis joked.

Luis is one of many who wrote to CNN who described the strain of juggling their regular responsibilities with a miserable illness. The one silver lining, Luis said, is that her 3-year-old became so resourceful, she figured out how to break into the sandwich bread and beef sticks. How does she know? Luis found the too-chewy beef bits in the kitchen and pieces of bread with holes nibbled out of them, “like we had a mouse.”

The next challenge, Luis said, is dialing back all the extra PBS Kids they’ve been watching. “Trying to get back into a routine and limit screen time again, now that will be the battle.”

Many people said they could see how conveniences developed during the Covid-19 pandemic made the flu manageable this year. But there are only so many food deliveries, off-camera Zoom meetings and TV binges to take advantage of when they’re the sickest they’ve ever felt.

Here’s how they managed so far during this record-breaking flu season.

Sleeping through steamy scenes

Lindsay Nelmes says she barely remembers New Year’s — and it wasn’t for fun reasons.

The 43-year-old Florida mother of two describes her family as “normally pretty healthy,” but after traveling to Chicago for the holidays, all of them — including her husband and their two middle-schoolers — caught the flu and developed the same symptoms: dizziness, chills, terrible fatigue and big-time brain fog.

The family spent much of the first week of 2026 in bed.

“We just dropped like flies,” she said.

With everyone being sick, Nelmes says, her kids would come into her bedroom with their iPads and headphones and ask for medicine about every four hours. When they bounced back quicker than the adults, there was a two-day stretch in which she thinks she ordered Instacart or DoorDash six times.

“I’m going to regret looking at my bank statement,” she said.

The flu wiped Nelmes out.

“My husband and I, it was literally three or four days of ju

By Bryan Mena, CNN

Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump could announce his nominee for the next Federal Reserve chair as soon as this week, and has signaled that his pick must push for significant interest rate cuts. But whoever he chooses will face a new policymaking committee — and one that could be even more resistant to slashing rates.

At the beginning of each year, four out of the 12 regional Fed presidents rotate into voting roles on the central bank’s influential rate-setting committee for the next eight policy meetings. This year, it’s Lorie Logan of Dallas, Beth Hammack of Cleveland, Anna Paulson of Philadelphia and Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis. The New York Fed president and all seven members of the Fed’s Board of Governors, including the Fed chair, have a permanent vote.

In their latest public comments, Logan and Hammack have both expressed concern that this is the fifth consecutive year that inflation is hovering above the Fed’s 2% target.

That means they are unlikely to vote for a rate cut in the near future, since that could fuel spending and add to price pressures.

Fed officials convene for their first meeting of the year on Tuesday and Wednesday, and they’re widely expected to keep rates unchanged.

In December, Fed officials projected just one rate cut for 2026.

The so-called inflation hawks

Investors and economists describe central bankers who support policies that are tough on inflation as “hawks,” while those who are more concerned about the labor market are referred to as “doves.” That makes hawks less likely to support rate cuts, unlike the doves on the committee.

The Fed is tasked by Congress to stabilize prices and promote full employment, a balancing act that became complicated after Trump unleashed a sweeping economic agenda last year that threatened both of those goals simultaneously.

While a weaker labor market led to the Fed lowering rates three times last year, Trump’s tariffs — and possibly additional levies — could still push inflation higher, making it difficult to argue the Fed should lower rates more than once this year.

Hammack could be the committee’s most hawkish voice this year, stating in a Wall Street Journal interview from December 21 that rates “can stay here for some period of time until we get clearer evidence that either inflation is coming back down to target or the employment side is weakening more materially.”

“I’m very focused on making sure that we can get inflation back to target. That is one of our primary objectives and it’s important that we complete the job,” she said.

Logan is also considered a hawk, and suggested she would have cast a dissenting vote on the Fed’s December decision to lower its benchmark lending rate for the third consecutive time by a quarter point. She stated in her latest interview on November 21 that “holding rates steady for a time

Análisis por Aaron Blake, CNN

La administración Trump ha señalado un nuevo enfoque en su controvertida ofensiva inmigratoria en Minneapolis, incluyendo el ascenso del zar fronterizo Tom Homan y la marginación del jefe de la Patrulla Fronteriza, Greg Bovino.

Y los funcionarios han indicado que una gran razón para ello es que los altos miembros del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional arruinaron la respuesta a la muerte de Alex Pretti el sábado.

El problema, según fuentes de CNN, fue que esos funcionarios del DHS sugirieron que Pretti era un terrorista empeñado en masacrar personas, lo cual no ayudó dada la dificultad de conciliar las pruebas en video.

Un funcionario declaró a CNN que el presidente Donald Trump había revisado personalmente la cobertura periodística y no estaba satisfecho.

Pero es una justificación realmente curiosa.

Por un lado, funcionarios, incluido Trump, reaccionaron de manera muy similar después de que un agente del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) matara a Renee Nicole Good en Minneapolis hace menos de tres semanas.

La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, lo calificó de “terrorismo interno”, y Trump afirmó falsamente que Good “atropelló deliberada y brutalmente” a un agente de ICE.

La administración suavizó un poco esas afirmaciones en los días y semanas siguientes, al quedar claro que el pueblo estadounidense consideraba que el tiroteo era injustificado.

Pero si a Trump le molesta que sus funcionarios se descuiden al defender a los agentes federales que matan personas, quizá debería considerar el ejemplo que él mismo ha dado.

Tal vez el punto más importante sea éste: este tipo de enfoque maximalista y cuestionador de los hechos no sólo es acorde con quién es Trump, sino con quiénes han demostrado ser los altos funcionarios del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional involucrados.

Esto era algo normal. Y si lo importante era la sobriedad, la constancia y la credibilidad, quizá no fueran las personas indicadas para el puesto.

Bovino es un ejemplo de ello.

Hace apenas dos meses, un juez federal de Illinois determinó que Bovino había “admitido en su declaración que mintió varias veces” sobre un evento en Chicago en el que lanzó gases lacrimógenos contra los manifestantes.

Bovino y el DHS inicialmente afirmaron que una piedra lo impactó en el casco antes de que lanzara el gas lacrimógeno. Luego, en su declaración, señaló que la piedra lo impactó después. Luego, afirmó que la piedra “casi lo impactó” antes. Después, afirmó que se había “equivocado” y que no le habían lanzado ninguna piedra previamente.

El testimonio de Bovino en septiembre en un caso penal en Los Ángeles tampoco fue tan bien.

Cuando un defensor público federal mencionó una reprimenda que Bovino recibió hace años por referirse a los inmigrantes indocumentados como “escoria, suciedad y basura”, el veterano agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza afirmó que se

By Ben Church, CNN

(CNN) — Coco Gauff’s hopes of winning this year’s Australian Open came crashing down in just 59 minutes on Tuesday, as she was beaten in straight sets in the quarterfinals by Ukrainian star Elina Svitolina.

The American had been playing so well in Melbourne that many tipped her to win her first Australian Open and third grand slam overall, but she struggled to find any of that previous form against Svitolina in sweltering conditions.

The Ukrainian, who has also been on a hot streak this year, capitalized on Gauff’s poor performance to win 6-1, 6-2 in less than an hour and booked her place in the semifinal against world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.

Clearly frustrated by her level during the quarterfinal, Gauff was filmed smashing her racket against a concrete ramp after making her way off the court at Rod Laver Arena. It was a moment of frustration that she thought was private.

“I tried to go somewhere where I thought there wasn’t a camera because I don’t necessarily like breaking rackets,” Gauff told reporters after the match.

“I tried to go somewhere where they wouldn’t broadcast it, but obviously, they did. So, yeah, maybe some conversations can be had because I feel like at this tournament the only private place we have is the locker room.”

A lot of Gauff’s frustration likely stemmed from her poor serving performance in the first set, where the world No. 3 produced five double faults that saw her broken in four service games.

While her serving improved in the second set, the 21-year-old still made 12 unforced errors, which saw any hopes of a comeback extinguished.

“I just felt like all the things I do well, I just wasn’t doing well today,” Gauff said. “The backhand wasn’t firing. Forehand wasn’t really firing. Returns.

“There was just a lot that didn’t go well today. I credit it to her because she forced me to play like that. It’s not like I just woke up and, yeah, today was a bad day, but bad days are often caused by your opponent. So she did well.”

Gauff said she doesn’t necessarily regret smashing her racket behind the scenes, knowing the importance of letting off steam after such a frustrating day at the office.

She would much prefer to do that, she said, rather than take it out on her coaching team in the player’s box.

“I don’t want to lash out on my team. They’re good people. They don’t deserve that, and I know I’m emotional,” she added.

“I just took the minute to go and do that. I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Like I said, I don’t try to do it on court in front of kids and things like that, but I do know I need to let out that emotion.

“Otherwise, I’m just going to be snappy with the people around me, and I don’t want to do that because, like I said, they don’t deserve it. They did their best. I did mine. Just need to let the frustration out.”

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