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Washington area today

The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast

And now for the thaw. A gradual warm-up should begin Monday, with sun and highs in the mid-60s. Overnight lows mostly in the 40s. Mostly sunny skies again Tuesday, with highs in the mid- to upper 60s. And Wednesday holds our best shot for a return to the 70-degree mark.

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 Absent

Harrisburg Hagerstown

63/39 62/40

Baltimore

65/41

Washington

65/47

Richmond Charlottesville

65/38 66/43

Norfolk

60/47

Blue Ridge

•Today, mostly sunny. High 54-65. Wind north 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 31- 39. Wind light, variable. •Tuesday, partly sunny. High 56-66. Wind light, variable. •Wednesday, partly sunny. High 58-68. Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph.

Boating Forecast »

Virginia Beach

61/43

Recreational Forecast

Atlantic beaches

•Today, mostly sunny. High 57-61. Wind north 8- 16 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 41-47. Wind north 4-8 mph. •Tuesday, sunny. High 58-62. Wind northeast 6-12 mph. •Wednesday, partly sunny. High 63-67. Wind southwest 6-12 mph.

Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly

sunny. Wind northwest 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestrict-

ed. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny.

Wind northwest 7-14 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility clear to the horizon. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.9 feet today and will drop to 3.8 feet on Tuesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

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Annapolis

62/46

Ocean City

60/41

Dover

64/43

Low

Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index

7 out of 11+, High

Yesterday’s main offender:

Today: Good

Ozone, 38

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

Philadelphia

62/44

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 68/48/t Anchorage 51/33/sh

56/39/c 61/39/s 72/50/pc 49/36/pc

Atlanta 71/52/pc 65/48/c Austin 70/51/c Baltimore 65/41/s Billings, MT

Birmingham 70/51/c

72/49/c 66/42/s

70/43/pc 72/45/pc 71/46/pc

Bismarck, ND 67/33/t 72/39/pc Boise 79/50/pc 69/37/c Boston 58/44/pc 58/45/s Buffalo 56/39/pc 61/41/s Burlington, VT 52/39/c 58/38/s Charleston, SC 73/50/pc 72/53/c Charleston, WV 65/38/s 69/39/pc Charlotte 70/44/s

66/46/c

Cheyenne, WY 65/38/t 68/41/t Chicago 59/37/s Cincinnati 63/42/s Cleveland 56/38/s

70/42/t

63/41/s 64/40/pc 61/41/s

Dallas 65/52/c 74/56/pc Denver 71/41/t Des Moines

Detroit 61/38/s El Paso

71/52/t 77/59/pc

Fairbanks, AK 56/34/c 53/30/c Fargo, ND

Hartford, CT 59/39/pc 62/40/s Honolulu 82/71/s

68/37/pc 72/39/pc 84/71/pc

Houston 73/53/pc 73/56/c Indianapolis 63/44/s Jackson, MS

65/45/pc 66/47/c 72/46/pc

Jacksonville, FL 74/55/pc 76/52/pc Kansas City, MO 68/45/pc 69/50/pc Las Vegas

86/62/pc 85/54/pc

69/47/pc 70/49/pc 64/44/s

Tomorrow City Today

Little Rock

Los Angeles

Tomorrow

Louisville 65/47/s Memphis 66/49/c Miami 82/66/t Milwaukee 53/36/s Minneapolis 68/49/s Nashville 67/48/pc

67/45/c 73/49/s 70/57/pc 66/52/c 69/45/pc 72/51/s 82/66/pc 58/42/s 73/46/pc 70/46/pc

New Orleans 75/56/t 75/56/c New York City 60/47/pc 65/49/s Norfolk 60/47/s

61/48/pc

Oklahoma City 65/46/pc 72/54/pc Omaha 67/43/pc 68/47/pc Orlando 75/60/t Philadelphia 62/44/pc

81/60/pc 64/47/s

Phoenix 86/63/pc 87/64/s Pittsburgh 59/36/s

64/38/s

Portland, ME 54/38/c 58/37/s Portland, OR

65/45/r 57/42/r

Providence, RI 58/43/pc 61/42/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV

Richmond 66/43/s Sacramento 72/52/pc St. Louis

64/45/pc 68/50/s

St. Thomas, VI 87/77/c 85/77/sh Salt Lake City 78/51/pc 80/44/pc San Diego

San Francisco 66/53/pc 59/46/r San Juan, PR 90/76/c 88/76/sh Seattle 62/45/r

54/42/r

Spokane, WA 73/50/pc 57/36/c Syracuse 52/38/c Tampa 79/62/t

61/38/s 81/62/pc

Wichita 68/44/pc 66/50/pc

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

68/58/pc 65/57/pc

68/42/s 70/45/pc 75/46/pc 53/34/r 67/46/s 63/43/r

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Today

Mostly sunny

65°

47°

Wind north-northwest 8-16 mph

American Forecast

FOR NOON TODAY

SeattlSeattle Portlan San Francisc

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 79/58/pc 79/60/pc Amsterdam 53/35/pc Athens 74/64/pc Auckland 65/55/pc Baghdad 92/64/s Bangkok 97/77/t Beijing 72/50/pc Berlin 61/39/s Bogota 66/49/r Brussels 57/46/s

50/41/pc 77/53/pc 66/55/c 95/67/s 96/79/pc 55/45/c 56/33/r 66/49/r

53/35/pc

Buenos Aires 77/54/s 72/50/s Cairo 98/73/s Caracas 83/73/t Copenhagen 48/40/s

95/69/s 83/74/t

46/36/pc

Dakar 79/66/pc 84/69/s Dublin 50/36/pc Edinburgh 48/38/sh Frankfurt 66/47/s Geneva

62/49/sh

50/38/pc 48/33/r 62/38/r 55/39/t

Ham., Bermuda 68/60/pc 66/60/c Helsinki 45/30/s

46/30/s

Ho Chi Minh City 89/76/pc 90/76/c Hong Kong

65/54/r 79/68/c 79/68/pc

Islamabad 103/69/pc 99/66/pc Istanbul 72/60/pc Jerusalem 81/62/s Johannesburg 67/49/t Kabul 77/49/s

77/60/pc 68/43/t 70/49/t

Kingston, Jam. 85/77/t 84/78/pc Kolkata

100/82/s Lagos 91/77/r

Yesterday’s extremes

(Continental U.S. only)

High: 94° Phoenix, Ariz. Low: 10° Bodie State Park, Calif.

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

110/81/s 89/77/t

Lima 84/66/pc 82/64/pc

Tomorrow City Today

Lisbon 70/59/pc

London 55/40/sh Madrid 66/50/pc Manila 91/77/pc Mexico City

Montreal 57/41/c

Tomorrow

70/57/c

56/42/pc 69/50/pc 91/76/s

76/46/s 79/47/pc 61/41/pc

Moscow 63/43/pc 54/36/sh Mumbai 91/81/s Nairobi 81/66/t New Delhi

91/79/s 84/64/t

Oslo 43/31/c Ottawa

Paris 66/45/s Prague 66/37/s

56/39/pc

109/80/pc 111/79/pc 44/30/r 63/39/s 61/41/s 52/35/t

Rio de Janeiro 86/72/s 87/74/s Riyadh 92/68/s Rome 66/47/c Santiago 70/45/s

93/71/s 67/50/s 70/46/s

San Salvador 88/72/s 89/72/s Sarajevo

66/44/r

Seoul 59/50/sh Shanghai 70/54/c Singapore 86/77/t Stockholm 48/34/pc

50/37/r

68/54/pc 66/55/sh 88/75/t

48/34/sh

Sydney 75/63/pc 75/61/s Taipei 77/68/pc Tehran 64/54/c

77/68/pc 70/61/pc

Tokyo 61/50/pc 61/52/pc Toronto 61/39/pc Vienna 65/49/pc

63/39/s 68/49/pc

Warsaw 64/36/sh 53/34/s Yerevan 79/51/sh 81/49/pc

The world (excluding Antarctica)

High: 118° Nawabshah, Pakistan Low: -27° Summit Station, Greenland

Rise Set

Portland San Francisco

San Francisco

Los Angele

Portland Seattle

Helena

Salt

City

Salt La

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Phoenix

Phoenix

Dalla

Houston

MonterreMonterrey

Monterrey

HoustoHouston Dallas

Dallas

Atlant New OrleanOrleans

New Orleans

ew Tamp

Tampa

Miami

Tampa

Miami

Atlanta

Atlanta

CharlCharlesto

Charleston

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Lake Ci

Lake City

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Denver

Denve Denver Columbus

Columbus

St. LouiSt. Louis

St. Louis

Helena

City

Calga Calgary

Calgary

Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipe

Rapid Ci

Rapid City

Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau

St. Paul

Mpls.-

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St. Paul

ChiChicag

Chicago

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Ottawa

New Yor

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New York

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Washingto Washington

Washington

Boston

Boston

Tuesday

Sunny

65°

47°

Wind north-northwest 6-12 mph

Wednesday

Partly sunny

71°

51°

Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph

Thursday

Showers possible

72°

50°

Wind west-northwest 6-12 mph

Friday

Mostly sunny

67°

52°

Wind east 7-14 mph

Official weather data

Reagan

Temperature

High Low

Normal Record high Record low

59° at 3:02 p.m. 41° at 7:00 a.m. 67°/47° 95° in 1976 25° in 1875

Precipitation

Past 24 hours Total this month

Normal month to date

Total this year Normal to date

Relative humidity

Max. Min.

None 0.81” 1.64” 8.64” 11.08”

62% at 7:00 a.m. 40% at 4:00 p.m.

Barometric pressure

High Low

Temperature trend

20° 40° 60° 80° 100°

PAST TEN DAYS

TODAY

TEN-DAY FORECAST

Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010

10"

0" 2" 4" 6" 8"

Actual Normal

30.05” 29.97”

Actual and f or ecast

THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY

BWI

Dulles

57° at 3:25 p.m. 32° at 6:00 a.m. 67°/41° 90° in 1976 31° in 1990

None 0.50” 1.87” 10.50” 11.24”

85% at 6:00 a.m. 41% at 4:00 p.m.

30.04” 29.96”

Normal

57° at 1:26 p.m. 35° at 5:39 a.m. 65°/43° 94° in 1896 26° in 1875

None 0.76” 1.77” 12.68” 12.19”

75% at 7:00 a.m. 41% at 2:00 p.m.

30.00” 29.94”

Record Wind Chill:

37°

(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. Sunday ............... 15 This month......... 86 This season .... 3703 Normal to yesterday ...... 3891 Last season .... 4074

MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010

6:39 a.m. 11:59 a.m. 7:43 p.m.

none

2:25 a.m. 9:19 a.m. 4:38 p.m. 9:57 p.m.

5:56 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 5:52 p.m.

none 1:14 a.m. 7:45 a.m. 1:42 p.m. 7:43 p.m.

Point Lookout 5:23 a.m. 12:46 p.m. 6:01 p.m. 11:34 p.m.

Moon phases

April 21 First Quarter

April 28 Full

May 6 Last Quarter

Solar system

Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus

6:26 a.m.

7:49 p.m.

9:58 a.m. 12:30 a.m.

6:49 a.m. 8:59 p.m.

7:33 a.m. 9:48 p.m.

12:50 p.m. 3:18 a.m.

4:59 a.m. 4:37 p.m.

5:10 p.m. 5:33 a.m.

5:14 a.m. 5:12 p.m.

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