B10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast


What heat wave? Thursday continues the cooling trend. Mostly sunny skies and light winds from the north pair with cool temperatures to create another brilliant early summer day. Afternoon temperatures could rise to the upper 70s or around 80, with a nighttime low of perhaps 60.


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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index


Mold Trees Weeds Grass Low


Low Moderate


Harrisburg Hagerstown


76/54 76/54


Baltimore 80/55


Washington 80/62


Richmond Charlottesville


80/53 83/57


Norfolk 80/64


Blue Ridge


•Today, mostly sunny. High 69-79. Wind north- west 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear, cool. Low 45-53. Wind north 4-8 mph. •Friday, mostly sunny. High 72-82. Wind northwest 4-8 mph. •Saturday, mostly sunny. High 74-85.


Boating Forecast »


Virginia Beach 80/61


Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches


•Today, mostly sunny. High 75-80. Wind north- west 7-14 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear, cool. Low 53-58. Wind northwest 3-6 mph. •Friday, mostly sunny. High 78-82. Wind northwest 7-14 mph.


Annapolis 78/64


Ocean City 80/58


Dover 78/59


Low


Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index


9 out of 11+, Very High


Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good


Ozone, 45 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.


Philadelphia 79/60


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 87/64/t Anchorage 64/53/pc Atlanta 87/68/t Austin 85/76/t Baltimore 80/55/s Billings, MT


Birmingham 89/72/t


69/52/s 76/56/pc 85/66/t


64/54/sh 84/66/pc 87/74/t 82/57/s


90/63/t 88/53/t 85/71/pc


Bismarck, ND 98/70/pc 98/72/t Boise 87/55/pc 78/53/pc Boston 74/56/s Buffalo 71/53/s


73/59/pc 78/58/s


Burlington, VT 64/48/pc 75/57/pc Charleston, SC 88/72/t 85/68/pc Charleston, WV 77/53/s 83/56/s Charlotte 86/65/pc


86/61/s


Cheyenne, WY 89/61/pc 86/57/t Chicago 79/57/s Cincinnati 81/58/s Cleveland 73/52/s Dallas 92/76/t


Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly


sunny. Wind northwest 6-12 knots. Waves around 1 foot. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Wind north- west 7-14 knots. Waves around 1 foot on the lower Potomac, 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.8 feet today, holding steady Friday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.


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Detroit 77/54/s El Paso


84/61/s 83/60/s 78/55/s 90/76/t


Denver 93/63/pc 94/61/pc Des Moines


83/62/s 85/64/s 79/58/s


87/68/t 82/71/pc


Fairbanks, AK 73/55/t 75/56/t Fargo, ND


91/68/s 91/73/pc


Hartford, CT 72/52/s 78/55/pc Honolulu 88/75/s Houston 86/77/r Indianapolis 79/56/s Jackson, MS


87/75/s 89/77/t 83/62/s


88/74/t 89/75/t


Jacksonville, FL 89/73/t 84/71/t Kansas City, MO 87/62/s 86/65/s Las Vegas


106/78/s 105/79/s


Tomorrow City Today Little Rock


Los Angeles Tomorrow


Louisville 82/60/s Memphis 90/68/s Miami 91/78/t Milwaukee 74/59/s Minneapolis 88/67/s Nashville 86/63/s


90/67/s 91/71/s 80/62/pc 77/62/pc 87/67/s 91/74/s 89/78/t 79/62/s 87/68/s 88/70/s


New Orleans 86/76/t 87/76/t New York City 78/64/s 80/66/s Norfolk 80/64/pc 80/63/s Oklahoma City 90/69/pc 90/68/s Omaha 88/66/s Orlando 92/75/t Philadelphia 79/60/s Phoenix 108/88/s Pittsburgh 73/51/s


S


KLMNO Today Mostly sunny


80° 62°


Wind north 8-16 mph


American Forecast


FOR NOON TODAY


Seattle Portlan


SeattlSeattle Portland Sacramento Sacramento 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 67/57/t 70/57/t Amsterdam 79/66/pc Athens 87/73/s Auckland 58/50/s Baghdad 112/75/s Bangkok 90/78/t Beijing 97/80/pc Berlin 80/63/pc Bogota 64/45/sh Brussels 85/64/c


88/67/s 88/75/t 80/64/s 108/84/s 79/57/s


Portland, ME 69/49/pc 74/53/pc Portland, OR


Richmond 83/57/s Sacramento 85/54/s St. Louis


84/61/pc 85/63/s 88/55/s 86/55/s 84/57/s 88/56/s


84/61/s 86/66/s


St. Thomas, VI 91/80/r 90/80/s Salt Lake City 98/70/s 96/61/s San Diego


72/63/pc 71/63/pc


San Francisco 67/52/pc 68/53/pc San Juan, PR 90/79/sh 90/79/pc Seattle 61/51/c


67/51/pc


Spokane, WA 69/47/pc 70/49/pc Syracuse 71/50/s Tampa 90/77/t Wichita 90/66/s


76/56/s 88/76/t 92/68/s


NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time. 65/54/c 68/52/pc


Providence, RI 78/54/s 77/57/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV


Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 86/63/s


85/65/pc 88/75/t 59/47/s 112/72/s 91/79/t


99/78/pc 87/69/pc 67/46/sh 90/67/t


Buenos Aires 66/52/pc 64/57/sh Cairo 95/70/s Caracas 82/71/t Copenhagen 71/56/s Dakar 83/76/s Dublin 68/52/r Edinburgh 69/61/sh


97/71/s 81/72/t


78/67/pc 87/75/s 66/50/sh 68/51/sh


Frankfurt 89/68/pc 93/72/pc Geneva


84/59/pc 85/61/t


Ham., Bermuda 86/77/pc 84/74/r Helsinki 75/50/sh


77/55/pc


Ho Chi Minh City 89/76/sh 90/76/sh Hong Kong


90/82/pc 91/82/sh


Islamabad 105/79/pc 108/82/s Istanbul 83/68/sh Jerusalem 80/57/s Johannesburg 59/38/c Kabul 100/55/s


Kingston, Jam. 89/78/r 87/79/r Kolkata


97/86/r


Lagos 84/74/r Lima 72/59/s


Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)


High: 113° Goodyear, Ariz. Low: 31° 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. 94/85/t


84/75/sh 71/57/s


85/69/sh 80/58/s 59/39/s 102/56/s


London 81/63/pc Madrid 91/68/pc Manila 87/78/r Mexico City


Montreal 66/57/pc Moscow 79/55/s Mumbai 91/80/r


Oslo 73/51/s Ottawa


Tomorrow 84/66/pc


77/59/sh 93/67/pc 86/78/r


75/55/t 77/55/t


77/64/pc 82/54/s 91/79/r


Nairobi 82/57/pc 78/57/c New Delhi


65/52/pc


110/88/s 107/87/s 73/62/pc 77/62/pc


Paris 91/66/pc 93/66/pc Prague 81/57/pc


Rio de Janeiro 76/66/s 77/68/s Riyadh 101/79/s 102/81/s Rome 86/66/s Santiago 61/39/pc


San Salvador 85/73/t 84/72/t Sarajevo


78/55/t 78/54/t


Seoul 88/74/pc 91/75/sh Shanghai 87/80/t Singapore 87/79/r Stockholm 72/59/c Sydney 61/38/s Taipei 92/79/sh Tehran 102/82/s Tokyo 88/75/t Toronto 69/54/pc Vienna 86/69/s


Warsaw 81/56/pc 79/55/s Yerevan 102/59/s 101/60/s


The world (excluding Antarctica)


High: 120° Khasab, Oman Low: 0° Summit Station, Greenland


Rise Set


89/81/c 89/79/r 79/57/s 60/39/c 92/79/pc 102/81/s 84/75/pc 78/60/s 88/69/pc


86/64/s 59/39/pc


86/58/pc San Francisco San Francisco Los Angele Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla


Houston Mo


HoustoHouston New New Monterre Monterrey nterrey OrleanOrleans Orleans ew Miami Miami Dallas Dallas Atlant Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Tampa Tampa Charleston Denver Denve Denver Portland


Salt La


Salt


Lake CiCity


Lake City


ke Calga


Calgary Helena


Calgary Helena


Rapid Ci


Rapid City


City Winnipeg Winnipe Winnipeg Ottaw


St. Louis Chi


St. LouiSt. Louis


Chicago Mpl


Mpls.- St. Pau


St. Paul Chicag


St. Paul Mpls.-


s.- cago Columbus Columbus Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia


Friday Sunny


83° 63°


Wind north 7-14 mph


Saturday Sunny


87° 69°


Wind south 7-14 mph


Sunday Sunny


93° 73°


Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph


Monday Sunny


94° 71°


Wind south 8-16 mph


THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010


News, traffi c, weather. Now.


POSTLOCAL postlocal.com


Official weather data Reagan


Temperature High Low


Normal Record high Record low


81° at 3:49 p.m. 67° at 7:06 a.m. 87°/68°


100° in 1959 50° in 1919


Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date


Relative humidity Max. Min.


None 1.87” 3.13” 13.60” 19.16”


48% at 2:00 a.m. 26% at 3:00 p.m.


Barometric pressure High Low


Temperature trend


40° 60° 80° 100° 120°


PAST TEN DAYS


0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6"


Normal TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST


Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010 Actual


30.16” 30.02”


Actual and f or ecast


THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI


Dulles


80° at 3:59 p.m. 64° at 7:00 a.m. 86°/62°


98° in 1964 51° in 1989


None 1.29” 4.07” 18.00” 20.88”


52% at 2:00 a.m. 32% at 1:00 p.m.


30.17” 30.04”


Normal Record


81° at 5:00 p.m. 66° at 6:00 a.m. 86°/64°


100° in 1959 52° in 1988


None 1.55” 3.43” 19.16” 20.74”


48% at 6:00 a.m. 26% at 1:00 p.m.


30.14” 30.01”


Apparent Temperature:


79°


(Comfort index com- bines temperature and humidity.)


Cooling


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. Wednesday ..........9 This month....... 472 This season ...... 713 Normal to yesterday ........ 431 Last season ...... 400


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


Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk


6:34 a.m. 11:59 a.m. 6:57 p.m. none


2:34 a.m. 9:02 a.m. 3:39 p.m. 9:50 p.m. 5:33 a.m. 11:33 a.m. 5:38 p.m. 11:50 p.m. 1:05 a.m. 7:19 a.m. 1:26 p.m. 7:35 p.m.


Point Lookout 5:06 a.m. 11:47 a.m. 5:54 p.m. 11:36 p.m. Moon phases


July 4 Last Quarter


July 11 New


July 18 First Quarter


Solar system


Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:46 a.m.


8:37 p.m.


11:26 p.m. 10:40 a.m.


6:01 a.m. 8:59 p.m.


9:03 a.m. 11:00 p.m.


11:02 a.m. 11:56 p.m.


12:40 a.m. 12:45 p.m.


12:17 p.m. 12:39 a.m.


12:32 a.m. 12:35 p.m.


July 25 Full


Amtrak unveils MARC rescue plan


Breakdown stranded riders on hot train for more than two hours


by Katherine Shaver


A rescue locomotive will be sent immediately when MARC locomo- tives break down, and MARC crews will undergo training to better in- form passengers of problems — two of nine changes Amtrak has made following a June 21 break- down that stranded 900 passen- gers on a sweltering Penn Line train for more than two hours, Am- trak officials announced Wednes- day.


An extra diesel locomotive will


be available afternoons in Wash- ington in case it is needed to move a broken-down train, Amtrak Presi- dent Joseph H. Boardman told MARC passengers at a “Meet the Managers” event at Union Station. If a MARC train breaks down and loses air conditioning or heat, the next MARC train will be canceled so that train can rescue the strand- ed passengers, he said. Amtrak operates and maintains


MARC’s Penn Line under contract. The announcement came one day after Maryland Transportation Sec- retary Beverley K. Swaim-Staley called the Penn Line service “unac- ceptable” and demanded that Am- trak conduct a “top to bottom re- view” of its MARC operations. Swaim-Staley said a Penn Line


train she rode Monday overshot the Odenton station, requiring passengers to travel out of their way and catch another train back to Odenton. In the June 21 break- down near Cheverly, 10 people were treated for heat-related symp- toms, including breathing prob- lems, after the air conditioning stopped working on a 90-degree evening.


Boardman said Amtrak police will carry water in their vehicles to give to passengers during delays in high heat, and Amtrak managers will be dispatched immediately to disabled MARC trains.


shaverk@washpost.com


Blue Line train misrouted to Orange, scaring riders Controller makes


Stadium-Armory Station by Ann Scott Tyson


A Blue Line train took a wrong


turn Tuesday after a controller manually sent it toward New Carrollton on the Orange Line, causing confusion and some panic among passengers. Metro’s chief safety officer,


James Dougherty, was investi- gating the incident. But Metro


switching error at


did not report it to the Tri-State Oversight Committee, which oversees safety at the agency, as it was not required to under the committee’s rules, said Matt Bassett, chairman of the com- mittee. “It was never a safety issue.


There was no problem with the switch or the train,” Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato said. Janine Jackson was on Car 2042 coming out of Stadium- Armory, a transfer station for the Blue and Orange lines, about 4:50 p.m. when the train stopped abruptly. “All of a sud- den, [the operator] braked really


hard, and we thought we had hit something,” said Jackson, 47, who was on her way home from her job as a customer service representative at a printing company. “It made me jump because she


braked so hard,” she said. “Everyone looked around to see what was going on.” The train operator announced


that because of a switching er- ror, the train had left the Blue Line and was mistakenly headed toward New Carrollton on the Orange Line, she said. After a delay, the train carried the passengers to Minnesota Av-


ROBERT McCARTNEY


Strasburg drives home the gap between ballpark’s promise and reality mccartney from B1


might be called the developers’ block of shame — the stretch of Half Street SE between the Navy Yard Metro station and the stadium’s principal entrance at center field. About half of the fans at each game pass between the lines of wooden barriers concealing large, empty lots whose ground floors were supposed to already be housing fun places to eat, drink and shop. It’s a big disappointment for the


District, especially considering that public money financed the stadium. The controversial project was pitched in part as a way to spur development in a neglected part of town. Now the most optimistic forecasts say it’ll be at least two more years before even a couple of key new buildings are completed out of the dozens that are foreseen. “Things never seem to happen as quickly as any of us would prefer,” said Ramsey Meiser, a senior official at Forest City Washington. The development company hopes — but can’t guarantee — that it’ll resume construction this year on a half-finished apartment building that’s supposed to be the first of 25 to 30 buildings in the Yards project, an anchor of the planned riverfront. “The ballpark opened right about the time that the economy slowed down. It was unfortunate timing,” Meiser said. The news isn’t all bad. This year,


K ST. I ST.


Justin’s Cafe L ST. M ST.


“Block of shame”


“Block of shame”


N ST.


Nationals Ballpark


NAVY YARD The Yards Transp. HQ


Transp. HQ Dept. of


Dept. of


TINGEY ST. The


Yards D.C. Water


Diamond Teague Park


Florida Rock VA.


Anacostia River


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Poplar Point


THE WASHINGTON POST


for the first time, the various baseball and business taxes levied to pay for the stadium generated enough extra cash to return $23 million to the city to help trim its deficit. However, it only takes a glance


at Justin’s Cafe and a stroll around the ballpark to see how far the neighborhood has to go. Team officials and other local boosters cheered the debut of the cafe, but it’s a pretty modest place. Eight tables inside. A concrete floor. Next door is an undeveloped lot. Across the street are five shuttered storefronts and another vacant lot. And that, believe it or not, is in the fast-growing part of the neighborhood north of M Street


SE. That’s where apartment buildings have gradually attracted more than 3,000 residents. Many are newcomers to the city looking to be close to Capitol Hill, the Navy Yard or the U.S. Department of Transportation. One is Cheryl Lewark, 45, a Capitol Police officer, who was walking her dog around the corner from Justin’s. In October she traded in a three-story single-family house in the suburbs for a 678-square-foot studio. “I lived in Dumfries, Virginia, and I couldn’t take the commute any longer,” Lewark said. The area around the ballpark is “very up-and-coming,” she said. “The only negative thing is, there aren’t enough restaurants.”


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That illustrates a dilemma. The community needs to draw more residents like Lewark so that restaurants have customers on the 284 days of the year when the Nationals aren’t playing at home. But those people want to see more restaurants and nightlife before moving in.


Signs of progress are also minimal on the other side of the stadium facing the Anacostia. The local Business Improvement District is excited about plans to open Diamond Teague Park in September just north of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. That’s ultimately supposed to be a highlight of a riverfront promenade. For now, though, the site is


anything but scenic. To one side is aD.C. Water parking lot. To the other is a concrete plant at the Florida Rock site, with its prominent gray, industrial tower. Everybody agrees the concrete


factory has to go. “We are on the doorstep of a magnificent waterfront. Florida Rock is in the way,” Nationals President Stan Kasten said. That can’t happen, though, until banks lend money so the developer can transform the site as planned. It’s likely to happen someday. There’s no sign now that the neighborhood will slump back. But Strasburg’s going to throw a lot of strikeouts in the meantime. mccartneyr@washpost.com


I discuss local issues at 8:51 a.m. Friday on WAMU (88.5 FM).


enue Station on the Orange Line, where they boarded an- other train to return to Stadium- Armory and then boarded a Blue Line train headed toward Largo Town Center. “People were kind of peeved;


at that point, we just wanted to get home,” said Jackson, who commutes daily on Metro. Metro said a controller at the


operations control center mis- routed the train at the Stadium- Armory junction. “The control- ler manually chose New Carroll- ton, which was a mistake on his part,” Asato said. “Both the con- troller and the operator will be


retrained.” Overall, the mishap caused a


delay of about eight minutes, Asato said. “We apologize.” Bassett said he was seeking more information on the in- cident. “It’s not the kind of incident on which we require Metro to re- port, but we are interested in it,” Bassett said. “I have spoken to their chief safety officer, and they are looking into it . . . and we will be talking with them to learn the results of their in- vestigation.”


tysona@washpost.com


LOTTERIES June 30


DISTRICT Mid-Day Lucky Numbers:


Mid-Day D.C. 4: Mid-Day DC-5:


Lucky Numbers (Tue.): Lucky Numbers (Wed.): D.C. 4 (Tue.): D.C. 4 (Wed.): DC-5 (Tue.): DC-5 (Wed.): Daily 6 (Tue.): Daily 6 (Wed.):


MARYLAND Day/Pick-3:


Pick-4:


Night/Pick-3 (Tue.): Pick-3 (Wed.): Pick-4 (Tue.): Pick-4 (Wed.): Match 5 (Tue.): Match 5 (Wed.):


VIRGINIA Day/Pick-3:


Pick-4: Cash-5 (Wed.):


Night/Pick-3 (Tue.): Pick-3 (Wed.): Pick-4 (Tue.): Pick-4 (Wed.): Cash-5 (Tues.): Cash-5 (Wed.): Win for Life:


MULTI-STATE GAMES Mega Millions:


Powerball: Hot Lotto:


Power Play: 9-4-8 1-4-3-0


3-5-9-6-1 0-8-2 3-9-3


6-7-4-5 0-3-6-3


9-2-5-3-7 7-8-7-3-4


2-6-18-27-29-32 *13 3-4-9-30-33-35 *28


5-1-3


7-1-2-5 3-2-4 8-2-9


1-0-6-3 8-1-4-0


1-2-7-27-28 *4 1-4-5-30-32 *8


0-4-1 4-2-5-3


5-7-21-23-33 4-8-8 N/A


5-5-0-0 N/A


13-19-27-30-34 N/A N/A


3-4-15-27-37 **35 N/A N/A N/A


*Bonus Ball **Mega Ball ***Powerball †Hot Ball ‡Free Ball


All winning lottery numbers are official only when validated at a lottery ticket location or a lottery claims office. Because of late drawings, some results do not appear in early editions. For late lottery results, check www.washingtonpost.com/lottery.


SOUTHEAST FRWY.


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7TH ST.


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1ST ST. HALF ST. S. CAP. ST. S. CAP. ST.


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