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Washington area today

The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast

The rain will go away today, but it might

take its time. Precipitation should end by afternoon, but clouds will remain and highs will peak in the mid-50s. Increasing sunshine Wednesday, with highs in the low 60s. And Thursday and Friday are looking delightful.

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The Region Today

Today’s Pollen Index

Mold Trees Weeds Grass

Absent

Absent Absent

Harrisburg Hagerstown

49/39 44/38

Baltimore

50/39

Washington

50/38

Richmond Charlottesville

51/38 56/38

Norfolk

57/43

Blue Ridge

•Today, mostly cloudy, rain, windy. High 45-52. Wind northwest 15-25 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy. Low 34-40. Wind northwest 10-20 mph. •Wednesday, partly sunny, milder. High 56-65. Wind northwest 8-16 mph.

Boating Forecast »

Virginia Beach

56/43

Recreational Forecast

Atlantic beaches

•Today, cloudy, rain, windy. High 52-58. Wind southeast 12-25 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, showers, breezy. Low 38-44. Wind northwest 10-20 mph. •Wednesday, partly sunny, breezy, warmer. High 60-66.

Annapolis

48/40

Ocean City

54/39

Dover

54/39

Absent

Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index

2 out of 11+, Low

Yesterday’s main offender:

Today: Good

Particulates, 23

The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

Philadelphia

53/42

North

KEY»

Temperature

100s°+ 90s° 80s° 70s° 60s° 50s° 40s° 30s° 20s° 10s° 0s° -0s°

-10s°+

Precipitation

Showers Rain T-Storms Flurries Snow Ice

Nation

City Today

Albany, NY

Albuquerque 76/45/pc Anchorage 42/29/sf Atlanta 65/45/s Austin 82/46/s Baltimore 50/39/r Billings, MT

Birmingham 67/45/s

49/41/r 58/39/c 73/45/s 41/30/sf 74/52/s 83/56/s 64/40/s

Tomorrow City Today

Little Rock

Los Angeles

Tomorrow

Louisville 65/46/s Memphis 72/52/s

58/33/c 47/22/sh 78/50/s

Bismarck, ND 69/40/pc 57/33/sh Boise 52/31/sh 46/28/r Boston 56/44/r

54/45/sh

Buffalo 44/36/pc 58/48/pc Burlington, VT 46/39/r 54/39/c Charleston, SC 70/47/s 75/49/s Charleston, WV 60/37/s 73/48/s Charlotte 67/40/s

74/44/s

Cheyenne, WY 70/43/pc 58/28/pc Chicago 62/49/s Cincinnati 61/40/s Cleveland 50/37/s Dallas 81/55/s

Upper Potomac River: Today, cloudy,

rain. Wind northwest 10-20 knots. Waves 1-2 feet. Visibility under 1

mile. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, cloudy, rain.

Wind northwest 12-25 knots. Waves 1-3 feet on the lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay. Visibility less than 1 mile. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 7.6 feet today, ris- ing to 8.6 feet Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

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Detroit 56/39/s El Paso

70/52/pc 74/52/s 67/51/pc 85/58/s

Denver 77/43/pc 70/32/pc Des Moines

72/55/s 80/55/pc 67/52/pc

84/54/s 82/58/s

Fairbanks, AK 42/20/pc 39/20/pc Fargo, ND

70/49/pc 64/38/c

Hartford, CT 53/43/r 59/39/pc Honolulu 82/71/s Houston 78/54/s Indianapolis 62/47/s Jackson, MS

72/45/s 79/51/s

Jacksonville, FL 72/43/s 76/46/s Kansas City, MO 75/53/s 82/55/s Las Vegas

82/57/s 62/44/c

82/70/s 80/60/s 73/52/pc

77/51/s 77/53/s 68/54/pc 64/48/c 78/56/s 78/56/s

Miami 74/56/pc 77/62/pc Milwaukee 60/47/s Minneapolis 71/54/pc Nashville 66/44/s

68/48/s

69/51/pc 75/54/pc 79/54/s

New Orleans 72/52/s 75/57/s New York City 55/47/r 59/50/pc Norfolk 57/43/r

Oklahoma City 81/54/s 86/55/s Omaha 76/53/s Orlando 74/50/s Philadelphia 53/42/r

84/53/s 77/52/s 62/44/pc

Phoenix 89/63/pc 77/55/pc Pittsburgh 50/32/pc 64/46/s Portland, ME 47/42/r 55/39/sh Portland, OR

51/41/sh 52/37/sh

Providence, RI 55/44/r 58/44/c Raleigh, NC Reno, NV

Richmond 56/38/r Sacramento 60/41/sh St. Louis

71/53/s 82/53/s

St. Thomas, VI 86/77/s 86/77/sh Salt Lake City 64/35/c 43/29/sh San Diego

67/57/pc 62/52/c

San Francisco 57/46/sh 55/44/sh San Juan, PR 89/74/s 88/74/sh Seattle 50/38/sh 51/37/sh Spokane, WA 48/30/c 46/28/c Syracuse 44/36/r Tampa 73/51/s Wichita 77/52/s

66/43/s 74/46/s 54/30/sh 41/24/sf 73/44/s 57/39/sh

R

KLMNO

Today

Rain

50°

38°

Wind northwest 12-25 mph

American Forecast

FOR NOON TODAY

Seattle

Portlan

Seattle

Portland San Francisc San Francisco Los Angeles

Fronts

Cold

Warm Stationary

Pressure Centers

High Low

Key » s-Sunny, pc-Partly Cloudy, c-Cloudy, r-Rain, sh-Showers, t-Thunderstorms, sf-Snow Flurries, sn-Snow, i-Ice.

World

City Today

Addis Ababa 76/61/t 74/57/t Amsterdam 57/45/sh Athens 67/56/s Auckland 67/52/pc

93/79/t

Tomorrow City Today

Lisbon 59/48/pc

52/39/r

75/52/pc 67/54/pc

Baghdad 81/53/pc 80/51/s Bangkok 91/79/t Beijing 61/37/sh Berlin 57/49/sh Bogota 67/45/t Brussels 56/38/sh

Buenos Aires 84/64/pc 86/66/s Cairo 77/56/s Caracas 82/73/s Copenhagen 53/49/sh Dakar 84/72/s Dublin 39/34/sn Edinburgh 38/34/sn Frankfurt 58/44/sh Geneva

55/40/r 43/36/r

68/43/pc 50/38/r 67/46/c 51/34/r

81/61/s 82/72/pc 53/42/r 83/71/s 41/34/sn 43/37/sn 51/43/c 45/43/c

Ham., Bermuda 70/62/r 72/60/pc Helsinki 39/30/sf

Ho Chi Minh City 89/75/pc 90/75/pc Hong Kong

Islamabad 93/61/s Istanbul 64/52/s Jerusalem 62/40/s Johannesburg 76/54/pc Kabul 68/38/s

77/68/pc 79/70/s 94/60/s 71/53/pc 63/47/s 73/55/t 70/40/s

Kingston, Jam. 86/77/sh 87/77/r Kolkata 100/79/s 99/79/pc Lagos 92/78/sh Lima 86/68/c

91/77/sh 84/65/pc

52/39/pc 73/57/s 88/57/s

NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.

Yesterday’s extremes

(Continental U.S. only)

High: 85° Palm Springs, Calif. Low: 9° Angel Fire, N.M.

SOURCES: AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.

London 50/37/r Madrid 54/34/pc Manila 85/75/c Mexico City

Montreal 43/39/r Moscow 46/37/c Mumbai 90/72/s Nairobi 79/65/t New Delhi

51/40/c

Tomorrow

59/50/pc

41/34/sn 59/35/pc 88/76/pc

79/48/pc 81/50/pc 52/39/c 50/39/pc 88/72/s 85/62/t

104/66/pc 103/66/pc

Oslo 36/36/sn 38/35/sn Ottawa

Paris 56/38/sh 46/39/r Prague 62/43/sh

44/34/c

Rio de Janeiro 87/75/pc 84/75/r Riyadh 86/67/s

92/62/s

Rome 62/48/pc 60/44/s Santiago 90/54/s

82/52/s

San Salvador 90/73/s 90/72/pc Sarajevo

67/44/sh 58/36/pc

Seoul 54/37/pc 46/43/r Shanghai 54/48/r Singapore 91/79/sh Stockholm 45/37/c Sydney 75/66/t Taipei 77/63/pc Tehran 70/56/s Tokyo 57/43/s Toronto 55/37/pc Vienna 66/50/c

66/39/t

66/55/sh 90/79/sh 46/37/r

72/66/sh 78/62/s 67/49/pc 57/48/pc 64/45/pc 57/42/pc

Warsaw 57/43/pc 60/35/c Yerevan 68/42/t

The world (excluding Antarctica)

High: 112° Matam, Senegal Low: -30° Summit Station, Greenland

Rise Set

Today’s tides High tides are in bold face

Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk

3:25 a.m. 8:47 a.m. 4:06 p.m. 9:18 p.m.

5:54 a.m. 12:38 p.m. 6:19 p.m.

none

2:15 a.m. 8:19 a.m. 2:28 p.m. 8:41 p.m. 4:12 a.m. 10:21 a.m. 4:22 p.m. 10:44 p.m.

Point Lookout 1:58 a.m. 8:46 a.m. 2:23 p.m. 8:19 p.m.

Moon phases

April 6 Last Quarter

April 14 New

April 21 First Quarter

Solar system

Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus

6:56 a.m.

7:29 p.m.

8:39 p.m. 6:49 a.m.

7:29 a.m. 8:47 p.m.

7:46 a.m. 9:01 p.m.

1:39 p.m. 4:22 a.m.

6:06 a.m. 5:33 p.m.

6:36 p.m. 6:55 a.m.

6:30 a.m. 6:25 p.m.

April 28 Full

59/44/pc

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Los Angele

Portland

Calga Calgary

Calgary Helena Helena

Rapid Ci

Rapid City

City Salt

Salt La

Lake CiCity

Lake City

ke

Phoenix Phoenix Denver Denver

St. LouiSt. Louis

Dallas

Houston

Dallas

Houston Monterrey

Monterrey St. Louis Atlanta

New OrleanOrleans

New Orleans

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Atlanta Winnipeg Winnipeg

Ottaw

Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau

St. Paul

Mpls.-

St. Paul

ChiChicag

Columbus Columbus

Washingto Washington

Washington

Charleston Charleston Tampa Tampa Miami Miami Chicago

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PhiPhiladelphialadelphia Ottawa

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Boston Boston

New Yor

New York

ew York

Wednesday

Partly sunny

63°

49°

Wind northwest 8-16 mph

Thursday

Sunny, warmer

76°

54°

Wind west 6-12 mph

Friday

Sunny, warm

80°

56°

Wind northwest 6-12 mph

Saturday

Sunny, very warm

84°

55°

Wind southeast 7-14 mph

Official weather data

Reagan

Temperature

High Low

Normal Record high Record low

57° at 4:00 p.m. 51° at 8:12 a.m. 60°/41° 92° in 1907 18° in 1923

Precipitation

Past 24 hours Total this month

Normal month to date

Total this year Normal to date

Relative humidity

Max. Min.

1.02” 3.53” 3.39” 7.81” 9.23”

92% at 4:00 a.m. 77% at 4:00 p.m.

Barometric pressure

High Low

Temperature trend

20° 40° 60° 80° 100°

0°

PAST TEN DAYS

TODAY

TEN-DAY FORECAST

Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010

10"

0" 2" 4" 6" 8"

Actual Normal

29.77” 29.71”

Actual and f or ecast

THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY

BWI

Dulles

59° at 5:00 p.m. 49° at 3:00 a.m. 60°/35° 86° in 1998 20° in 1982

0.81” 2.93” 3.33” 9.57” 9.15”

92% at 3:00 a.m. 71% at 3:00 p.m.

29.77” 29.71”

Normal

57° at 2:51 p.m. 52° at 4:00 a.m. 59°/37°

90° in 1945 18° in 1923

0.75” 5.33” 3.70” 11.72” 10.19”

100% at 4:00 a.m. 86% at 3:00 p.m.

29.76” 29.70”

Record Wind Chill:

51°

(Comfort index com- bines temperature and wind.)

Heating

M A M J J A S O N D J F

degree days

An index of fuel con- sumption indicating how many degrees the average tempera- ture fell below 65 for the day. If a day’s average temperature were 45, there would be 20 ‘degree days’ for the date. Monday .............. 11 This month....... 400 This season .... 3598 Normal to yesterday ...... 3671 Last season .... 3833

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