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WEATHER
Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Sunday should be another pleasant spring day with afternoon highs in the low-to-mid-70s. A shower is possible in the afternoon before clouds start to thicken overnight and shower chances increase slightly to around 30 percent. Overnight lows should be in the mid-to-upper 50s.
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The Region Today
Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass
Low Moderate
Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
74/49 71/53
Baltimore
73/52
Washington
76/58
Richmond Charlottesville
75/52 76/57
Norfolk
71/58
Blue Ridge
•Today, clouds and sun, an afternoon shower or thunderstorm south. High 66-76. Wind east under 10 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, a shower south. Low 48-56. Wind light, variable. •Monday, mostly cloudy, show- ers, thunderstorm. High 60-66.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach
73/57
Recreational Forecast
Atlantic beaches
•Today, sun and clouds. High 68-72. Wind east- northeast 7-14 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, a shower or thunderstorm south. Low 49-58. Wind light, variable. •Monday, mostly cloudy, an after- noon shower. High 66-74. Wind east 10-20 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, partly
sunny. Wind east at 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility clear to the
horizon. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly
sunny. Wind east at 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility will be unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.6 feet today, remaining 3.6 feet on Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis
71/57
Ocean City
69/50
Dover
72/51
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender:
Today: Moderate
Ozone, 33
The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia
74/55
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 80/54/s Anchorage 56/41/pc Atlanta 85/65/t Austin 86/67/t Baltimore 73/52/pc Billings, MT
Birmingham 84/67/t
72/43/s 76/51/pc 82/52/s 58/43/s 82/61/t 88/68/t
66/56/sh
75/49/pc 78/51/pc 83/59/t
Bismarck, ND 68/43/c 73/46/pc Boise 84/57/pc 81/51/pc Boston 73/53/s
75/54/pc
Buffalo 68/47/pc 68/51/r Burlington, VT 68/42/s 73/50/pc Charleston, SC 87/68/t 86/67/t Charleston, WV 80/62/t 79/58/t Charlotte 82/62/t
80/63/t
Cheyenne, WY 66/39/pc 69/44/pc Chicago 65/50/c Cincinnati 73/60/t Cleveland 64/53/pc Dallas 84/66/t Denver 70/42/s Des Moines
64/49/sh 66/49/c
Detroit 67/51/pc 63/52/r El Paso
88/57/s 89/65/s
Fairbanks, AK 60/39/c 64/43/pc Fargo, ND
70/49/c 72/49/pc
Hartford, CT 74/44/s 78/51/pc Honolulu 86/72/s Houston 86/69/t Indianapolis 63/57/t Jackson, MS
86/72/s 89/67/t 67/48/r
81/66/t 85/60/t
Jacksonville, FL 88/67/pc 86/66/t Kansas City, MO 62/51/r 69/48/c Las Vegas
94/65/s 87/61/pc
58/50/r 75/52/t 64/54/r 88/67/c 75/46/pc
Tomorrow City Today
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Tomorrow
Louisville 77/64/t Memphis 84/64/t Miami 87/75/t
83/60/t 82/58/pc 74/58/pc 68/54/pc 75/53/t
82/58/pc 86/75/t
Milwaukee 60/49/pc 57/48/r Minneapolis 71/53/pc Nashville 85/65/t
71/55/c 80/55/t
New Orleans 82/70/t 86/70/t New York City 73/57/s 72/53/c Norfolk 71/58/pc 74/66/t Oklahoma City 79/59/t 81/60/pc Omaha 64/48/sh 71/46/pc Orlando 91/70/t Philadelphia 74/55/s Phoenix 96/68/s
87/69/t 71/57/c 93/69/s
Pittsburgh 70/52/pc 65/56/r Portland, ME 72/44/s 77/47/pc Portland, OR
76/54/c 74/52/c
Providence, RI 74/49/s 76/50/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 76/57/pc Sacramento 77/52/pc St. Louis
84/62/t 79/66/t 79/53/pc 64/45/t 71/64/t 64/52/c
66/58/t 64/50/t
St. Thomas, VI 88/79/r 87/78/sh Salt Lake City 78/52/pc 82/51/s San Diego
73/51/c 66/59/pc 67/60/pc
San Francisco 61/52/pc 61/52/r San Juan, PR 87/76/sh 88/77/sh Seattle 68/51/c
Spokane, WA 76/54/c 77/52/t Syracuse 69/44/pc
Tampa 90/71/pc 86/70/t Wichita 70/53/t
73/51/c 74/52/pc
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO
Today
Partly sunny
76°
58°
Wind north-northeast 7-14 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle
Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland 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 76/60/t 77/61/t Amsterdam 61/47/pc Athens 78/55/s Auckland 62/54/sh Baghdad 108/75/s Bangkok 94/81/t Beijing 68/55/sh Berlin 59/42/c Bogota 67/47/sh Brussels 64/43/pc
82/74/t
Tomorrow City Today
Lisbon 68/59/s
57/47/sh 76/57/s 62/54/sh 110/76/s 95/81/t
75/57/sh 62/44/c 68/50/t
61/42/pc
Buenos Aires 54/52/c 58/54/c Cairo 107/74/pc 94/68/s Caracas 81/74/t Copenhagen 64/44/pc
Dakar 80/68/pc 81/70/s Dublin 56/42/sh Edinburgh 57/42/pc Frankfurt 66/46/c Geneva
59/43/c
London 58/45/r Madrid 61/44/s Manila 92/77/s Mexico City
Tomorrow
74/60/s
63/48/s 67/49/s 89/77/pc
Montreal 70/50/s Moscow 70/57/t Mumbai 92/82/s Nairobi 81/65/t New Delhi
Oslo 56/47/r Ottawa
63/49/pc
56/50/pc 57/46/pc 66/41/sh 57/45/r
Ham., Bermuda 76/66/s 74/66/pc Helsinki 72/57/pc
71/56/s
Ho Chi Minh City 96/79/sh 95/79/s Hong Kong
89/79/s 89/79/s
Islamabad 111/75/pc 107/70/pc Istanbul 79/54/s Jerusalem 88/67/pc Johannesburg 68/46/pc
68/53/pc 77/56/pc 68/40/s
Kabul 81/52/sh 76/53/c Kingston, Jam. 88/79/t 88/80/t Kolkata
103/81/pc Lagos 88/75/t
Yesterday’s extremes
(Continental U.S. only)
High: 95° Palm Springs, Calif. Low: 19° Pahaska, Wyo.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
102/81/s 89/76/sh
Lima 78/61/pc 78/61/pc 69/46/s
81/54/t 80/51/c 73/54/pc 69/58/t 92/82/s 75/66/r
117/87/s 118/89/s 63/52/sh 73/52/pc
Paris 64/50/sh 66/52/s Prague 56/46/r
63/45/c
Rio de Janeiro 80/70/pc 79/68/pc Riyadh 98/74/s Rome 61/51/r Santiago 55/41/c
97/76/s 67/50/sh 64/41/s
San Salvador 86/74/t 84/74/t Sarajevo
50/40/r
75/64/t 89/80/t
58/38/r
Seoul 78/56/pc 70/62/c Shanghai 71/63/t Singapore 89/79/t Stockholm 61/48/s Sydney 72/55/s Taipei 86/78/pc Tehran 79/66/pc
Tokyo 73/63/pc 80/63/s Toronto 69/49/pc Vienna 51/49/r Warsaw 63/51/r
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 118° Nawabshah, Pakistan Low: -12° Summit Station, Greenland
63/50/c 53/50/r 52/46/r
Yerevan 89/56/pc 94/51/pc
Rise Set
8:14 p.m.
7:51 a.m. 11:18 p.m.
Houston
Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre
Monterrey
nterrey San Francisco
San Francisco
Los Angele
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Phoenix
Dalla Dallas
Dallas
Atlant New OrleanOrleans
New Orleans
ew Atlanta
Atlanta
Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami
Miami
Tampa
Tampa Charleston Portland
Calga Calgary
Calgary
Helena
Salt
City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
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Denver
Denve Denver Columbus
Columbus
St. LouiSt. Louis
St. Louis
Helena Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipe Ottaw
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul
Mpls.-
St. Paul
ChiChicag
Chicago
cago
Ottawa
ttawa Bosto Boston
Boston
New Yor
Washingto
New York
ew York Philadelphia
Washington
Washington
Philadelphia
Monday
Showers
67°
57°
Wind east-southeast 6-12 mph
Tuesday
Thunderstorm
72°
57°
Wind north-northeast 10-20 mph
Wednesday
Showers
69°
56°
Wind north 10-20 mph
Thursday
Partly sunny
75°
59°
Wind northeast 7-14 mph
Official weather data
Reagan
Temperature
High Low
Normal Record high Record low
79° at 3:59 p.m. 67° at 4:01 a.m. 75°/56°
94° in 1962 40° in 1939
Precipitation
Past 24 hours Total this month
Normal month to date
Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity
Max. Min.
0.14” 0.48” 1.80” 9.81” 14.01”
67% at 4:00 a.m. 28% at 4:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure
High Low
Temperature trend
20° 40° 60° 80° 100°
PAST TEN DAYS
0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6" 7" 8"
Normal
TODAY
TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010
Actual
30.19” 30.03”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY
BWI
Dulles
80° at 3:59 p.m. 65° at 2:15 a.m. 74°/50°
88° in 1991 37° in 1984
0.07” 0.77” 1.98” 12.06” 14.57”
86% at 3:00 a.m. 27% at 3:00 p.m.
30.19” 30.04”
Normal Record
78° at 3:50 p.m. 67° at 5:46 a.m. 74°/51°
96° in 1962 41° in 1984
None 0.87” 1.83” 14.99” 15.25”
81% at 3:00 a.m. 30% at 4:00 p.m.
30.15” 30.01”
Apparent Temperature:
77°
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and humidity.)
Cooling
M J J A S O N D J F M A
61/52/pc 68/59/sh 91/76/s 84/70/pc
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 rose above 65 for the day. If a day’s average temperature were 75, there would be 10 ‘degree days’ for the date. Saturday ..............8 This month......... 86 This season ...... 126 Normal to yesterday .......... 36 Last season ........ 60
SUNDAY,MAY 16, 2010
4:51 a.m. 10:07 a.m. 5:53 p.m. 10:54 p.m. 12:25 a.m. 7:24 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 7:59 p.m. 4:00 a.m. 9:53 a.m. 3:52 p.m. 10:19 p.m. 5:55 a.m. 11:53 a.m. 5:49 p.m.
none
Point Lookout 3:28 a.m. 10:53 a.m. 4:03 p.m. 9:25 p.m.
Moon phases
May 20 First Quarter
May 27 Full
June 4 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus
5:55 a.m.
5:06 a.m. 6:15 p.m.
7:42 a.m. 10:45 p.m.
12:01 p.m. 1:58 a.m.
3:26 a.m. 3:17 p.m.
3:18 p.m. 3:43 a.m.
3:31 a.m. 3:31 p.m.
June 12 New
Event gives lift to memories old and new
by Hamil R. Harris
Dane Horton smiled and rubbed his hand on the tail rud- der of a Navy fighter and smiled, ignoring the vintage military air- craft twisting and soaring in the sky above him at Andrews Air Force Base’s 2010 Joint Service Open House and air show. “This is an F-18 Super Hornet.
It is different than the smaller F-18 the Blue Angels use,” he said as looked across the flight line where six F-18s were parked. “I was an aviation machinist mate on the USS John F. Kennedy.” For Horton, 51, of Northeast
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Washington, attending the open house was a chance to reflect. For Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brady “Sparky” Sparks, it was chance to show people his E-2C Hawkeye. “It’s absolutely incredible for people to come out and to allow us to show our skills,” said Sparks, who serves as a mission commander for the Hawkeye, a turboprop radar plane that scouts ahead of carrier groups, relays communications and per-
on the flight line. The spins and twirls of the Blue
Angels were the highlights of the show. The Angels’ commander, Greg McWherter, signed auto- graphs and posed for photos, say- ing, “We love the flying, but the crowd line is the best part of the job.”
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Jayden Garner, 2, of Waldorf ventures into the cockpit of a Coast Guard helicopter at the Andrews air show and pretends to be a pilot.
forms surveillance. Maj. Alana Casanova said more than 200,000 people are expec- ted to attend the air show, which
features the Blue Angels, the Army Golden Knights parachute team, the F-22 Raptor and many other exhibits and planes parked
THE DISTRICT
Last commencement for CU’s leader
The Very Rev. David M. O’Con- nell delivered on Saturday his fi- nal commencement speech as president of the Catholic Univer- sity of America, telling 1,400 graduates to “do something great.”
O’Connell, 54, announced in the fall that he would leave the post in August, saying he felt “tired after a very active 12 years.” University of Maryland Presi- dent C.D. Mote Jr. and University of Virginia President John T. Cas- teen III are also stepping down in August.
— Derek Kravitz
GWU student hurt in fall from window
A 20-year-old sophomore at
George Washington University was critically injured Saturday when he fell from a dormitory window, authorities said. He fell about 4 a.m. from the fifth floor of Guthridge Hall in
the 2100 block of F Street NW, ac- cording to a campus spokeswom- an. A D.C. police official said the fall appeared to be accidental. The student was not a Guthridge Hall resident. GWU President Steven Knapp visited the student and his family at the hospital and asked for prayers on their behalf.
— Martin Weil
VIRGINIA
Fairfax warns of Lyme disease’s signs
Federal and Fairfax County health officials held a meeting Saturday to warn about the quick rise in reported cases of Lyme disease in the Washington re- gion.
Symptoms include a bull’s-eye- shaped rash, fever and fatigue. Fairfax data on Lyme disease shows that reports rose from three in 2004 to 260 last year. Loudoun County registered about 500 cases in 2007, more than half of all reported cases in Virginia. Montgomery County’s confirmed cases grew fivefold be- tween 2004 and 2008, hitting
LOCAL DIGEST
216.
If left untreated, Lyme disease can cause heart and joint prob- lems and Bell’s palsy.
— Derek Kravitz
THE REGION
Metro track work will keep you waiting
If you’re riding Metrorail after 8 p.m. next week, expect exten- sive delays caused by track work. Red Line:
Grosvenor-Strathmore to Med- ical Center,10 p.m. through clos- ing, Monday through Thursday. Add at least 20 minutes. Rhode Island Avenue-Brent- wood to Fort Totten,10 p.m. through closing Monday through Thursday. Add at least 30 min- utes.
Blue and Yellow lines:
Between Braddock Road and Pentagon City from 11 p.m. through closing Sunday through Thursday. Add at least 30 min- utes.
Green Line:
Between Greenbelt and Col- lege Park-U of Md. from 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Add
Some lanes will close on the Capital Beltway’s inner loop just west of Telegraph Road from about 9 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. May 24. Workers will be repairing con-
crete on the bridge over Cameron Run. Traffic will probably narrow to one lane.
— Staff reports
MARYLAND
Children found dead after townhouse fire
Three children were found
dead after a fire in a townhouse in the Cecil County community of North East, authorities said. The children’s mother was tak- en to a hospital in critical condi- tion, the state fire marshal’s office said. The cause of the fire was under
investigation.
— Associated Press
Lt. Col Joe Martin, commander of the Golden Knights, said, “It is wonderful to be out here to share the story of America’s soldiers. Parachuting is just the way we get to work. Our work starts when we get on the ground and tell people about the Army.” The air show also featured re- tired Air Force Col. Charles McGee, 92, a commander of the Tuskegee Airmen. McGee un- veiled a replica of a BT-13, the plane he flew during training in 1943. Keeping the skies friendly dur- ing the event was Norma Ely and her team of air traffic controllers from the Federal Aviation Admin- istration, which is responsible for all air traffic at the base.
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at least 20 minutes.
— Staff reports
Bridge work to shut some Beltway lanes
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