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WEATHER
Washington area today
Today
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Cloudy Rain, snow Partly sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny
Cloudy Tuesday, with light precipitation 44° 42° 42° 47° 50°
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THER.
starting late. Rain or snow? There’s a 50 or
33° 30° 28° 31° 34°
60 percent chance of snow north and west
of the Beltway, with a mix of snow and rain
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Wind north-northeast 6-12 mph Wind north 12-25 mph Wind northwest 12-25 mph Wind north-northwest 10-20 mph Wind northwest 10-20 mph
elsewhere. Little accumulation expected. LOCAL
NEWS, TRAFFIC & WE
w
a
shingt
local
Wintry mix could continue Wednesday,
tapering off in the afternoon.
North
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THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY
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Temperature Reagan Dulles BWI
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FOR NOON TODAY
CalgaCCalgaryalgary
High 50° at 3:55 p.m. 49° at 2:21 p.m. 49° at 3:09 p.m.
The Region Today
KEY»
SeattlSSeattleeattle
WinnipeWWinnipeginnipeg
Low
37° at 3:00 a.m. 36° at 1:00 a.m. 32° at 1:46 a.m.
Temperature Normal
50°/33° 50°/27° 49°/29°
Today’s Pollen Index Ultra-Violet Index
100s°+
PortlanPPortlandortland
HelenaHelena
Record high
80° in 1976 77° in 1972 80° in 1972
3 out of 11+, Moderate 90s°
RapidRapid
Record low
13° in 1884 11° in 1980 11° in 1980
Air Quality Index
80s°
Boston
Mold Trees Weeds Grass
Today: Moderate
70s°
CityCiCity OttawaOttawttawa
BBostooston
Precipitation
Yesterday’s main offender: 60s° MplMMpls.-pls.-s.- Past 24 hours 0.01” None 0.01”
Low Low Absent Absent
Particulates, 3
50s° St. PauS
New York
St. Pault. Paul
New Yorew York
The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
40s°
CColumbusolumbus
Total this month 0.00” 0.00” 0.00”
SaltSalt PPhiladelphiahiladelphia
Normal month to date 0.11” 0.11” 0.12”
30s° Total this year
Harrisburg
San FranciscSSan Franciscoan Francisco
LakeLaLakeke
DenverDenveDenver
St. LouiSSt. Louist. Louis
ChiCChicagohicagcago
WashingtoWWashingtonashington
3.68” 6.29” 5.97”
44/31
Philadelphia
20s°
CityCiCity
Normal to date
5.95” 5.93” 6.61”
46/34
10s°
Hagerstown
0s°
Los AngeleLLos Angelesos Angeles Relative humidity
42/30
-0s° Fronts
CharlCCharlestonharlestoeston Max. 66% at 3:00 a.m. 72% at 1:00 a.m. 75% at 1:00 a.m.
-10s°+
Cold
Baltimore
Dover
PhoenixPhoenix
DallaDDallasallas
AtlantAAtlantatlanta
Min. 37% at 4:00 p.m. 42% at 2:00 p.m. 40% at 3:00 p.m.
44/34 46/31
Precipitation
Warm
NNewewew
Barometric pressure
Showers OrlOOrleansrleaneans
High 29.96” 29.97” 29.93”
Washington
Annapolis Rain
Stationary
TampTTampaampa
Low 29.86” 29.87” 29.82”
44/33
46/35
T-Storms HouH
Houstonoustoston
MMiamiiami
Flurries
Pressure
MoMMonterreyonterrenterrey
Temperature trend Actual and f or ecast Normal Record Wind Chill:
Ocean City
Snow
Centers
Charlottesville
30°
44/34
Ice
High Low
100°
(Comfort index com-
42/28
80°
bines temperature
Richmond
Key » s-Sunny, pc-Partly Cloudy, c-Cloudy, r-Rain, sh-Showers, t-Thunderstorms, sf-Snow Flurries, sn-Snow, i-Ice.
and wind.)
60°
46/32
Nation World
40°
City Today Tomorrow City Today Tomorrow City Today Tomorrow City Today Tomorrow
Heating
20°
degree days
Norfolk
Albany, NY 38/27/c 38/24/sn Little Rock 50/31/pc 54/29/s Addis Ababa 74/56/t 74/58/t Lisbon 61/52/r 57/50/r 0°
Virginia Beach
An index of fuel con-
Albuquerque 58/35/pc 61/36/s Los Angeles 66/52/r 64/52/sh Amsterdam 43/37/s 48/34/pc London 48/37/s 45/34/pc
44/35
-20° sumption indicating
43/36 Anchorage 34/26/sf 34/23/sf Louisville 44/29/c 44/28/sf Athens 68/53/s 60/47/pc Madrid 53/39/sh 54/34/sh
PAST TEN DAYS TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST how many degrees
Atlanta 40/30/r 46/31/pc Memphis 46/32/c 51/32/s Auckland 72/64/sh 71/59/sh Manila 91/73/s 89/75/s
Recreational Forecast
the average tempera-
Austin 58/34/s 65/39/s Miami 82/54/t 69/48/pc Baghdad 65/48/pc 71/52/s Mexico City 75/43/pc 77/45/pc
ture fell below 65 for
Baltimore 44/34/pc 40/30/c Milwaukee 32/22/c 33/22/pc Bangkok 96/78/pc 97/78/s Montreal 37/30/pc 36/23/c
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010
Blue Ridge Atlantic beaches
the day. If a day’s
Billings, MT 50/31/s 51/29/pc Minneapolis 32/16/pc 32/14/pc Beijing 43/25/s 41/28/c Moscow 36/24/sn 30/18/c
10" average temperature
Today, cloudy, afternoon Today, increasingly
Birmingham 42/29/r 47/29/pc Nashville 44/29/c 44/28/c Berlin 39/24/sf 35/20/c Mumbai 87/75/s 89/73/s
Actual Normal
were 45, there would
snow. High 30-44. Wind cloudy, rain in the south.
Bismarck, ND 36/15/c 38/15/s New Orleans 52/34/pc 56/37/s Bogota 68/48/c 70/47/sh Nairobi 74/65/t 83/63/t 8" be 20 ‘degree days’
north-northeast 3-6 mph. High 42-46. Wind north-
Boise 54/38/c 54/35/sh New York City 42/34/c 38/30/sn Brussels 46/29/pc 47/26/c New Delhi 93/59/s 88/61/c for the date.
Boston 42/31/c 36/28/sn Norfolk 44/35/r 42/33/sn Buenos Aires 82/64/pc 84/68/c Oslo 28/20/s 22/11/c
6"
Monday .............. 21
Tonight, snow accu- northeast 6-12 mph.
Buffalo 36/26/sn 33/21/sn Oklahoma City 50/30/s 51/31/pc Cairo 81/63/s 78/58/s Ottawa 35/25/pc 30/25/c
This month......... 21
mulating a coating to 1 Tonight, rain, snow
Burlington, VT 38/27/c 36/18/c Omaha 36/16/pc 38/18/pc Caracas 84/74/pc 85/75/pc Paris 50/38/pc 49/45/c
4"
This season .... 3219
inch. Low 19-30. Wind accumulating a coating Charleston, SC 52/35/r 50/32/pc Orlando 72/44/t 63/40/pc Copenhagen 36/33/sf 38/32/pc Prague 42/25/pc 44/31/c
2"
Normal to
north-northwest 4-8 mph. to 1 inch in the north. Charleston, WV 38/28/sf 38/25/sn Philadelphia 46/34/pc 40/29/sn Dakar 77/66/s 78/66/s Rio de Janeiro 81/74/sh 83/73/sh
yesterday ...... 3158
Wednesday, cloudy, Low 32-36. Wind north-
Charlotte 40/28/sn 48/27/pc Phoenix 74/53/pc 75/52/s Dublin 46/36/pc 43/34/sh Riyadh 76/53/s 75/58/s 0"
Last season .... 3285
breezy, snow. Total accu- northeast 15-25 mph.
Cheyenne, WY 46/23/s 47/23/pc Pittsburgh 34/26/c 34/24/sn Edinburgh 40/33/pc 40/23/pc Rome 61/44/s 57/50/r
M A M J J A S O N D J F
mulation 1-3 inches.
Chicago 37/22/c 38/22/pc Portland, ME 40/27/c 36/24/c Frankfurt 46/32/pc 46/27/s Santiago 75/50/pc 81/54/s
Cincinnati 40/26/c 40/23/sf Portland, OR 57/40/r 58/40/sh Geneva 50/37/pc 49/40/c San Salvador 89/71/pc 91/71/s Today’s tides High tides are in bold face
Cleveland 32/24/sf 31/22/sf Providence, RI 44/32/c 36/27/c Ham., Bermuda 64/60/c 68/56/r Sarajevo 44/21/r 52/34/c
Dallas 55/37/s 58/41/s Raleigh, NC 44/31/sn 46/27/pc Helsinki 32/23/sn 28/19/sf Seoul 45/34/r 46/37/pc
Washington 3:41 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 4:16 p.m. 9:29 p.m.
Denver 52/26/s 55/25/pc Reno, NV 52/32/r 44/27/sn Ho Chi Minh City 97/74/pc 95/74/c Shanghai 52/43/r 52/41/r
Annapolis 6:03 a.m. 12:35 p.m. 6:32 p.m. none
Des Moines 34/16/pc 34/16/pc Richmond 46/32/r 41/29/c Hong Kong 77/72/pc 79/72/s Singapore 91/79/pc 92/77/s Ocean City 2:21 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 2:42 p.m. 8:53 p.m.
Boating Forecast » Upper Potomac River: Today, increas-
Detroit 35/24/sf 35/20/sf Sacramento 60/46/r 57/39/r Islamabad 81/52/s 77/57/sh Stockholm 28/19/sn 27/21/sf
ingly cloudy. Wind north 4-8 knots. Waves 2 feet. Visibility unrestrict-
Norfolk 4:19 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 4:36 p.m. 10:55 p.m.
El Paso 63/41/s 72/45/s St. Louis 40/25/c 43/26/pc Istanbul 60/46/r 49/38/pc Sydney 73/66/r 77/70/pc
ed. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, increasingly
Fairbanks, AK 22/1/sf 25/3/pc St. Thomas, VI 84/76/s 84/75/s Jerusalem 62/50/s 62/50/c Taipei 83/70/sh 86/72/c
Point Lookout 2:07 a.m. 8:43 a.m. 2:36 p.m. 8:44 p.m.
cloudy. Wind north-northeast 4-8 knots. Waves 2 feet on the Lower
Fargo, ND 30/13/pc 31/13/s Salt Lake City 50/33/c 51/33/c Johannesburg 81/56/t 72/55/t Tehran 57/42/t 57/46/s
Potomac, Chesapeake Bay.
Hartford, CT 40/28/c 38/24/sn San Diego 65/55/pc 64/53/c Kabul 61/36/pc 46/34/r Tokyo 54/46/c 59/46/pc
Moon phases
River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 5.2 feet today, Honolulu 80/69/s 81/69/s San Francisco 59/49/r 59/44/r Kingston, Jam. 85/77/sh 83/74/sh Toronto 38/28/sf 34/27/c
holding steady Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Houston 59/38/pc 65/43/s San Juan, PR 89/75/s 91/75/s Kolkata 96/76/s 97/78/pc Vienna 45/34/c 47/36/pc
Last Quarter New First Quarter Full
Indianapolis 40/23/c 38/23/sf Seattle 53/41/r 54/40/c Lagos 92/78/pc 91/77/pc Warsaw 38/20/c 35/30/sn
March 7 March 15 March 23 March 29
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Jackson, MS 48/31/c 52/29/s Spokane, WA 54/36/c 51/34/c Lima 87/68/pc 86/67/c Yerevan 57/36/sh 59/37/sh
Jacksonville, FL 62/37/r 59/32/s Syracuse 36/27/sn 37/21/sn
Solar system
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Kansas City, MO 40/23/pc 41/21/pc Tampa 66/45/r 59/40/pc
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High: 84° Brownsville, Texas High: 110° Linguere, Senegal
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Set 6:02 p.m. 7:22 a.m. 5:06 p.m. 6:58 p.m. 5:11 a.m. 5:50 p.m. 7:50 a.m. 7:07 p.m.
Low: -9° Devils Lake, N.D. Low: -54° Verkhoyansk, Russia
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PETULA DVORAK
Md., Va. weigh first-offender bills
interlock from B1
Ignition interlock laws
someone who gets caught driving
More states are enacting drunken-driving laws that require the
drunk almost certainly has es- installation of an automobile ignition breathalyzer for first-time
caped detection many times.
offenders. A breakdown of state laws on ignition interlocks:
“First-time offenders probably
are chronic offenders,” said Lon Mandatory for Discretionary No interlock First-time offender
Anderson of AAA Mid-Atlantic, all convictions law interlock bills
which backs the idea. pending in 2010
Maryland Del. William A. Bron-
WA
rott (D-Montgomery) said opposi-
NH
MT ND
ME
tion would come from those in
VT
OR
MN
“the alcohol beverage industry,
ID
MA
SD WI NY
RI
who think this is going to hurt
WY MI
their business.”
PA
CT
IA
NV
NE
OH
NJ
Indeed, they do. The ABI says
UT
IL IN
DE
CA
CO
that requiring first-time offenders
KS
WV
MO
VA
KY
MD
to use the devices will inhibit res-
TN
NC
DC
taurant patrons from having a
AZ
NM
OK
AR SC
second glass of wine with dinner MS AL GA
or a beer at a ballgame. TX
LA
“We don’t think that they
AK
FL
should be punished to the same
HI
PETULA DVORAK/THE WASHINGTON POST
degree as somebody who has 10
“It’s so big. And important,” one of the 15 teenagers said of the White House. drinks and then drives,” said Sa-
If first-time drunken driving offenders in Colorado don’t install an ignition breathalyzer, their license
rah Longwell, ABI’s managing di-
suspension is longer. In California, the ignition breathalyzer is mandatory for all convictions in Alameda,
Los Angeles, Tulare and Sacramento counties; mandatory for high blood alcohol content conviction in
Homeless visit nation’s most important home
rector. “There’s nobody who
Florida, New Hampshire, Kansas and Virginia; mandatory for two offenses or higher in Massachussetts;
thinks it’s okay to drive drunk,
mandatory for repeat conviction in Missouri; mandatory upon reinstatement in Oregon; mandatory for
repeat convictions or first-time offenders with a blood alcohol content at or above 0.15 in New Jersey;
but a judge should have discre- mandatory for a repeat conviction in South Carolina and Texas; mandatory for 0.15 or higher blood
dvorak from B1
“Even though I
what we want.” tion.”
alcohol content conviction in West Virginia; judicial discretion on third or subsequent offense in Rhode
Island. The mandatory law in Hawaii is expected to be effective in 2011.
Another teen said this about She points out that a driver
Washington, had never seen the
live in a shelter
Obama’s message of “change we ticketed for going 30 mph over
SOURCE: MADD THE WASHINGTON POST
White House. can believe in”: “I like change a the speed limit is punished more
They are members of 192
. . . I am still
lot, but sometimes it’s hard to severely than one going 5 mph Highway Safety found that almost that responsible drinking cam-
homeless families living in
determined to
get used to all the time.” above the limit. two-thirds of those surveyed sup- paigns worked.”
shelters on D.C. General’s Kristina, who is waiting to Although the ABI opposes ported universal installation, but Said Adrian Lund, president of
campus, according to the
get into college.”
hear whether she has been mandating interlocks for first- more than half of people who the Insurance Institute for High-
Community Partnership for the accepted to Harvard, dashed off time offenders, Longwell said re- drive to work said they didn’t way Safety: “When MADD came
Prevention of Homelessness. It — Kristina Richbow her essay in about 10 minutes search supports the need to re- want one in their next car. along, they changed that by show-
is over capacity this winter, full and included quotes from quire their long-term use for Drunken-driving fatalities ing the faces [of victims]. It
beyond anything the city had Jamila Larson, the social presidents Calvin Coolidge and “hard-core” repeat offenders and dropped dramatically in the first changed the culture of how peo-
planned for, and grew by 50 worker who runs the Homeless Woodrow Wilson. those caught well over the legal 15 years after a national move- ple saw drunk driving.”
families in the past month alone. Children’s Playtime Project, said “Even though I live in a limit of a 0.08 blood alcohol level. ment was launched in the early The faces of the victims were
The Washington Legal Clinic she is haunted by the teens, who shelter and might not have the The National Highway Traffic 1980s. After 1997, the number hit again on display when MADD ral-
said it is overwhelmed by are far more aware of their resources of other people,” she Safety Administration said last a plateau around 13,000, until the lied in front of the Maryland Gen-
complaints about shelter access plight than their younger wrote, “I am still determined to year that studies suggest inter- recession reduced the overall eral Assembly on Feb. 24 and the
and violations of city siblings. Many of them wanted get into college so that I can locks “may be necessary as a long- amount of miles traveled and mother of an 18-year-old killed by
regulations. to tell me their stories, but not become a doctor.” term or permanent condition of prompted a drop. a drunk driver shared her grief.
The 300 or so kids there have all of their friends at school At lunch at the Occidental driving for repeat offenders.” “Mothers Against Drunk Driv- And those who mourn the victims
little to do. know they are homeless, so few Grill, they took pictures of the Longwell, who plans to testify ing came on to the scene in the will be in the audience when
There is no longer a recreation wanted their names in the cloakroom and the restrooms. this week at legislative hearings early ’80s and eliminated this hearings are held Wednesday in
room — that was filled just last paper. “I’ve never seen a bathroom in Maryland and Virginia, said idea that it was okay to drive Richmond and Annapolis.
week with three more families. The trip was organized and like that — could you believe initial support for first-time of- drunk,” Longwell said. “Now it’s Meanwhile, tucked in one ver-
And the cafeteria looks like an funded by the playtime project that?” said Bianca Root, 18, who fender bills tends to wane after been narrowed down to a much sion of a proposed $500 billion,
evacuation center after a natural and its volunteers, who have also decided that she could lawmakers hear the other side of smaller group of hard-core alco- six-year federal transportation re-
disaster, with rows of cots. Last Washington connections and never work in the White House. the argument. holics who don’t respond to pub- authorization bill is a provision
week, some of the families began generous friends. The kids had “It’s just too much. It’s so big. “We’re going another notch lic opinion.” requiring states to mandate igni-
sleeping in the hallways. to write essays explaining how And important. Just too much.” down the slippery slope,” she said. From the start of the campaign tion interlocks for first-time of-
These are mostly families that they are similar to three U.S. She wants to be a nurse. “They are going to push until to curb drunken driving, success fenders.
have lost jobs and homes in the presidents to get on the tour. At the fancy restaurant, they there is one installed in every car has hinged on public opinion cre- “We expect that to be included
past year. Most of them spent Most of the kids said they can unfolded napkins and held up and it’s set on 0.00. It’s a backdoor ating political momentum for in the [final] bill,” said Jonathan
months moving from one relate to President Obama, but their stemmed water glasses for approach to Prohibition that will change. Adkins, a spokesman for the Gov-
relative’s cramped house to their observations were complex a toast: “For stepping out of the shift the entire way we socialize.” “Drunk driving in 1980 was a ernors Highway Safety Associa-
another or staying in cheap and moving. shelter and into the White Installing the next generation perfectly normal behavior. That tion. “If both the Senate and
hotels before they ended up One boy said it’s not because House!” of interlocks in all cars has been was how people got home,” said House go Republican, it’s possible
here, in an abandoned hospital, of “my skin color or anything I just wish they didn’t have to discussed by advocates in inter- Chuck Hurley, chief executive of that won’t be included, but in all
a place that is a bandage but not like that, but that we both strive step back into the shelter. views. A report released last year Mothers Against Drunk Driving. likelihood it will.”
a cure for their problems. to get what we need and not dvorakp@washpost.com by the Insurance Institute for “There’s no evidence whatever halseya@washpost.com
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