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WEATHER
Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
More sunshine and summer-like heat is
expected. Temperatures should max out in the mid-to-upper 80s and will probably be at least a degree warmer than Tuesday. Do not be surprised if there’s a 90-degree reading in some areas. Winds will be slightly breezy from the southwest.
For the latest updates, visit the Capital Weather Gang blog:
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The Region Today
Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass
Low
High Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
86/56 89/58
Baltimore
88/58
Washington
86/62
Richmond Charlottesville
86/54 90/62
Norfolk
82/63
Blue Ridge
•Today, sunny, very warm. High 78-86. Wind southwest 8-16 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 46-58. Wind south- southwest 6-12 mph. •Thursday, showers. High 63-74. Wind south-south- west 10-20 mph. •Friday, morning showers, partly sunny.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach
82/63
Recreational Forecast
Atlantic beaches
•Today, sunny, very warm. High 76-82. Wind south-southwest 8-16 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, mild. Low 58-63. Wind southwest 7-14 mph. •Thursday, increas- ingly cloudy. High 70-78. Wind south 10-20 mph. •Friday, showers, thun- derstorms.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny. Wind south-southwest 10-20 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility
unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly
sunny. Wind southwest 10-20 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac, 1-3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility clear. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 4.6 feet today, falling to 4.4 feet Thursday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis
82/59
Ocean City
76/62
Dover
82/61
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender:
Today: Moderate
Particulates, 71
The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia
88/63
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 60/33/s Anchorage 39/23/sf Atlanta 82/60/s Austin 72/45/t Baltimore 88/58/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 82/60/s
78/56/s 74/49/t 66/39/s 41/24/s 66/40/r 72/39/s 83/50/pc
54/34/pc 65/39/s 65/41/r
Bismarck, ND 58/30/pc 65/33/s Boise 57/39/s Boston 80/60/s
62/33/pc 68/54/s
Buffalo 74/55/pc 59/35/sh Burlington, VT 68/50/pc 63/46/t Charleston, SC 83/61/s 83/56/pc Charleston, WV 84/57/s 63/40/r Charlotte 86/60/s
75/53/t
Cheyenne, WY 42/24/pc 55/31/s Chicago 58/39/sh Cincinnati 76/48/t Cleveland 72/50/t Dallas 73/45/t
Detroit 72/51/t El Paso
51/33/c 53/34/sh 56/35/sh 69/45/s
Denver 46/26/sf 60/32/s Des Moines
66/39/s 72/48/s
Fairbanks, AK 39/22/sf 36/13/c Fargo, ND
54/30/s 63/37/s
Hartford, CT 84/55/s 77/52/pc Honolulu 82/72/sh Houston 79/52/t Indianapolis 74/47/t Jackson, MS
77/56/pc 66/43/r
Jacksonville, FL 82/60/s 84/55/s Kansas City, MO 56/35/r 63/38/pc Las Vegas
74/49/s 80/55/s
84/71/pc 71/47/s 52/35/c
52/38/r 58/38/pc 53/33/sh
Tomorrow City Today
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Tomorrow
Louisville 74/52/t Memphis 74/51/t Miami 83/71/s
74/47/t 66/42/pc 80/54/s 80/56/s 58/38/sh 62/44/pc 83/71/pc
Milwaukee 50/37/sh 47/35/c Minneapolis 54/36/r Nashville 78/55/pc
58/40/pc 62/41/r
New Orleans 78/64/pc 74/52/sh New York City 87/65/s 77/55/s Norfolk 82/63/s
Oklahoma City 64/37/pc 66/41/s Omaha 55/32/r Orlando 84/63/s Philadelphia 88/63/s Phoenix 79/57/s Pittsburgh 82/61/s
59/47/pc 51/39/r 78/56/pc
62/38/pc 86/64/s 83/52/s 87/61/s 65/36/r
Portland, ME 66/52/pc 57/48/c Portland, OR
Providence, RI 84/58/s 73/55/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 90/62/s Sacramento 74/45/s St. Louis
87/59/s 80/55/pc 65/38/s 67/38/pc 83/52/pc 71/45/s
68/42/t 57/40/pc
St. Thomas, VI 86/75/s 86/76/s Salt Lake City 52/31/pc 61/39/s San Diego
77/54/s 73/55/s
San Francisco 64/49/s 60/47/s San Juan, PR 86/74/pc 87/74/pc Seattle 56/42/c
48/37/r
Spokane, WA 50/39/pc 50/29/c Syracuse 76/53/s Tampa 82/65/s
65/40/r 82/63/s
Wichita 58/33/pc 63/39/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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KLMNO
Today
Sunny
86°
62°
Wind southwest 7-14 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle
Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland
San Francisco
Los Angele
San Francisc Los Angeles
Fronts
Cold
Warm Stationary
Houston
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 78/57/pc 77/59/pc Amsterdam 57/41/c Athens 64/54/s Auckland 61/48/c
52/39/c 64/54/s 62/51/s
Baghdad 93/66/pc 87/60/s Bangkok 99/81/pc 97/82/pc Beijing 57/43/s Berlin 62/42/s Bogota 65/48/r Brussels 52/49/sh
62/50/pc 64/45/s 65/48/r 54/34/c
Buenos Aires 75/52/pc 73/55/pc Cairo 80/58/s Caracas 83/70/t Copenhagen 51/43/s Dakar 83/71/s Dublin 50/41/pc Edinburgh 50/39/pc Frankfurt 69/48/s Geneva
44/42/r
80/59/s 82/71/t 48/41/s 81/71/s 52/41/pc 52/36/c 57/42/c 46/37/r
Ham., Bermuda 74/66/s 74/67/s Helsinki 41/34/c
Islamabad 98/64/pc Istanbul 53/44/r Jerusalem 64/44/s Johannesburg 70/51/t Kabul 72/45/c
43/36/c
Ho Chi Minh City 96/77/c 96/75/pc Hong Kong
76/67/c 72/68/sh 99/64/c 51/46/r 62/42/s 76/52/t 73/46/c
Kingston, Jam. 86/76/sh 86/76/s Kolkata 104/79/s 104/80/s Lagos 90/78/t Lima 85/65/c
Yesterday’s extremes
(Continental U.S. only)
High: 95° Chesapeake, Va. Low: 4° Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
SOURCES: AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
92/79/s 85/66/pc
Tomorrow City Today
Lisbon 68/54/s
London 55/41/c Madrid 63/35/s Manila 95/76/s Mexico City
Tomorrow
68/54/s
55/37/s 63/35/s 94/76/s
Montreal 61/50/sh Moscow 57/37/c
82/54/pc 75/52/t 57/41/r
48/36/sh
Mumbai 102/77/pc 102/77/pc Nairobi 86/59/t New Delhi
85/61/sh
Oslo 43/36/c Ottawa
62/44/sh
107/70/pc 107/73/pc 45/36/pc 59/44/r
Paris 57/43/sh 56/41/sh Prague 59/36/s
64/39/s
Rio de Janeiro 73/65/sh 77/67/sh Riyadh 92/68/pc 94/72/c Rome 63/48/s Santiago 79/50/pc
57/48/c 84/50/s
San Salvador 87/72/t 84/72/t Sarajevo
54/28/pc
Seoul 59/31/s Shanghai 52/42/s Singapore 87/80/sh Stockholm 46/39/c Sydney 81/64/t Taipei 68/65/r Tehran 72/59/s Tokyo 55/40/r Toronto 71/47/sh Vienna 60/44/s Warsaw 54/37/c
60/42/s 57/34/s 57/46/pc 88/79/sh 50/39/pc 84/60/c 72/67/r
73/59/pc 52/43/s 56/45/r 63/48/s 59/43/pc
Yerevan 68/50/pc 76/43/pc
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 112° Gedaref, Sudan Low: -54° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
7:37 p.m.
3:11 a.m. 1:19 p.m.
Monterrey Monterre
Monterrey
HoustoHouston Miami
Miami Los Angeles
Phoenix Phoenix Dalla Dallas
Dallas
Atlant New OrleanOrleans
New Orleans
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Atlanta
Charleston Charlesto Tamp Tampa
Tampa Charleston
San Francisco
Portland
Calga Calgary
Calgary
Helena
Salt
City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
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Denver
Denve Denver Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Winnipeg Winnipe
Winnipeg
Ottaw
St. Louis
Chi
St. LouiSt. Louis
Chicago
Mpl
St. Paul
Chicag
Mpls.- St. Pau
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St. Paul
Mpls.-
cago Columbus
Columbus Ottawa
ttawa Bosto Boston
Boston
New Yor
Washingto
New York
ew York Philadelphia
Washington
Washington
Philadelphia
Thursday
Cloudy
81°
51°
Wind south-southwest 10-20 mph
Friday
Rain possible
61°
39°
Wind northwest 15-25 mph
Saturday
Mostly sunny
60°
46°
Wind west-northwest 15-25 mph
Sunday
Mostly sunny
70°
51°
Wind west-southwest 10-20 mph
Official weather data
Reagan
Temperature
High Low
Normal Record high Record low
90° at 5:00 p.m. 62° at 2:45 a.m. 63°/43°
92° in 1929 26° in 1898
Precipitation
Past 24 hours Total this month
Normal month to date
Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity
Max. Min.
None 0.00” 0.57” 7.83” 10.01”
77% at 2:00 a.m. 24% at 5:00 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
29.97” 29.78”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY
BWI
Dulles
93° at 5:00 p.m. 61° at 1:39 a.m. 63°/37°
93° in 2010 24° in 1966
None 0.00” 0.66” 10.00” 10.03”
77% at 2:00 a.m. 21% at 5:00 p.m.
29.97” 29.78”
Normal
90° at 3:59 p.m. 59° at 3:47 a.m. 61°/39°
90° in 2010 26° in 1898
Trace Trace 0.63” 11.92” 11.05”
86% at 5:00 a.m. 27% at 5:00 p.m.
29.95” 29.76”
Record Wind Chill:
62°
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and wind.)
Heating
A M J J A S O N D J F M
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face
Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
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. Tuesday ...............0 This month...........9 This season .... 3626 Normal to yesterday ...... 3773 Last season .... 3911
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
3:27 a.m. 10:01 a.m. 3:45 p.m. 10:49 p.m. 12:16 a.m. 6:19 a.m. 1:06 p.m. 7:47 p.m. 2:48 a.m. 9:21 a.m. 3:11 p.m. 9:20 p.m. 4:53 a.m. 11:05 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 11:23 p.m.
Point Lookout 2:27 a.m. 9:10 a.m. 3:55 p.m. 9:19 p.m.
Moon phases
April 14 New
April 21 First Quarter
April 28 Full
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus
6:44 a.m.
7:22 a.m. 9:17 p.m.
7:40 a.m. 9:20 p.m.
1:18 p.m. 3:55 a.m.
5:39 a.m. 5:11 p.m.
6:01 p.m. 6:22 a.m.
6:00 a.m. 5:56 p.m.
May 6 Last Quarter
Funeral held for one of four fatally shot in SE Washington attack
funeral from B1
was the result of an ongoing feud sparked by suspicions over a missing bracelet.
Authorities said it may have
started at a March 21 party at- tended by Sanquan Carter, 19, the brother of Orlando Carter, one of those charged in the March 30 shootings.
According to court records, Sanquan Carter became angry during the party, which stretched into the next morning, because he thought someone had stolen his gold-colored bracelet. When a car pulled up, Carter talked to someone inside, and the shooting began. Jordan Howe, 20, was killed, and another person was wounded. Police said in an affida- vit that neither Howe nor the oth- er victim took the bracelet. San- quan Carter was arrested and charged with murder. His brother Orlando was also a suspect. On March 23, a law enforce- ment source said, Orlando Carter was wounded by gunfire. The mo- tive is unclear, but police are looking into the possibility that he may have been targeted to avenge Howe’s death. At least some of the victims in the March 30 shooting had just
attended Howe’s funeral, author- ities said.
Orlando Carter, 20; Nathaniel Simms, 26; and a 14-year-old boy have been charged in the March 30 killings. Police were looking for a fourth suspect. Nelson’s parents, Michelle Nel- son and Morris Collins, on Tues- day stood before their son’s open casket greeting family and friends, who plucked tissues from a box as they filed by. Young peo- ple who filled the church wore “RIP Tadom” T-shirts with photos of the slender young man. “He was a motivated kid. He wanted to be a counselor when he grew up,” Morris Collins said of his son. He said Nelson was a bas- ketball fan but “he liked football more.”
At a pew near the back of the church, Tyeisha Harrell, 23, rest- ed her head on the wooden arm- rest and wept softly. Harrell, who described herself as one of Nel- son’s best friends, said they liked to wander around Pentagon City or Montgomery Mall. Nelson, she said, took pride in being a sharp dresser. Harrell said Nelson’s favorite foods were pizza and frozen waf- fles. He was a fan of rappers, in- cluding Gucci Mane. He loved the
SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
Some mourners, as well as pallbearers, wore T-shirts printed with the words “RIP Tadom,” Tavon Nelson’s nickname among friends.
“He was just fun to be around,”
movie “Face/Off,” starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, and watched YouTube. She said he was popular with the girls but didn’t have a serious girlfriend.
COURTLAND MILLOY
In neighborhood filled with despair, Obama remains silent
milloy from B1
afternoon — ruined by gunfire. Another man circled his van
that was parked near the shooting. “Just checking for bullet holes,” he said, sounding relived at having found none. A stray bullet could have taken an innocent life — or disabled his vehicle, keeping him from getting to work and possibly costing him his job. A third man looked down at the bloody sidewalk and said: “I don’t want my children to see this. Aren’t they supposed to put some kind of solvent down so people don’t step in it?”
Obama speaks powerfully about his fatherly concerns, but it’s unlikely that he has to worry about his girls stepping in a puddle of blood outside their front door. As we talked, four youngsters who appeared to be anywhere from 13 to 16 years old approached on bicycles, slowed to look at the blood and resumed pedaling toward an older boy who was waiting for them in the next block.
I caught up to the group just in time to see the older boy hand something to one of the bikers and receive a fistful of cash in return. “Do all of these shootings
bother you all?” I asked, realizing immediately that it was a dumb question for a group that most likely included a shooter. Back at the crime scene, I
asked the men what they thought about the three bigwigs who had gone to church not far away: President Obama, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8). “Obama can’t do anything about these killings,” one said. “Fenty won’t do anything about it,” said another. “Marion Barry got problems of his own,” the other man chimed in.
You have to wonder though: In Afghanistan, cash is being handed out to Afghan kids in exchange for their guns; more money is being offered to entice them away from the drug trade; billions are being spent on jobs and education programs. In Afghanistan, Obama
thanked U.S. soldiers and civilians for their efforts to “keep America safe and secure.” In Southeast, he sent up a
prayer and, with a veritable army of Secret Service and D.C. police officers protecting his motorcade, beat a hasty retreat back to the White House.
milloyc@washpost.com
Harrell said. Pastor Michael A.C. Durant called on adults to do more to reach out to young people and en-
sure they have good role models and opportunities for schooling and jobs. “The Lord didn’t take Tavon,” Durant said. “Senselessness, fool-
ishness, carelessness, heartless- ness took Tavon. . . . We may not have pulled the trigger, but we created the environment.”
glodm@washpost.com
2 dead in separate accidents
by Martin Weil
An 18-year-old California man, who came to Virginia in search of work, died Tuesday after being struck and dragged by a bus in Woodbridge, according to police and a family friend. Prince William County police
said Jose Chavez of Shafter, Calif., was struck by a bus about 9:30 p.m. Monday while crossing the Gideon Drive and Dale Boulevard intersection. They said Chavez was trapped beneath the bus and dragged about 50 feet. Police said he died Tuesday at a hospital. A friend, reached in Shafter, said Chavez arrived in Northern
Virginia about a week ago to visit relatives and look for a job. The bus was said to be pri-
vately operated. The driver was identified as a Florida woman. In a separate pedestrian in- cident, a 59-year-old man was fa- tally injured when he was struck by a station wagon in George- town, District police said Tues- day. They said the car was turn- ing west onto M Street from Wis- consin Avenue. Damon Pearson, of no fixed address, died Saturday after be- ing struck March 30 about 9:30 p.m. Police in each jurisdiction said
the matters were under investi- gation.
weilm@washpost.com
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