B10 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast We begin to back away from this crazy
heat, but if you hadn’t just experienced the past few days you’d probably say it’s still pretty darn hot. Partly sunny skies hold highs in the low- to mid-90s. Add in the humidity, and you’re looking at afternoon heat indices of at least 100.
For the latest updates, visit the CapitalWeather Gang blog:
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Low
Low Low Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
94/72 95/72
Baltimore 94/74
Washington 94/74
Richmond Charlottesville
97/68 96/71
Norfolk 88/73
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny, hot. High 84-96. Wind southeast 5-10 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 60-70. Wind light, variable. •Friday, partly sunny, afternoon thun- derstorm. High 78-90. Wind south 5-10 mph. •Saturday, shower or thunderstorm.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 87/71
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny. High 84-88. Wind southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 70-76. •Friday, partly sunny. High 85-89. Wind southeast 6-12 mph. •Saturday, mostly cloudy, showers, thunderstorms. High 85-89. Wind west 10-20 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, late-day
thunderstorm.Wind southeast 5-10 knots.Waves 1 foot. Visibility reduced in a thunderstorm. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, an afternoon thunderstorm in spots.Wind east 6-12 knots.Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility reduced in any thunderstorm. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, holding steady Friday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 90/75
Ocean City 86/72
Dover 90/72
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
8 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Unhealthy sens
grps ThehighertheUVIndexnumber,thegreatertheneedforeyeandskinprotection.
Philadelphia 93/75
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
Albany, NY Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Austin
Baltimore
Billings, MT Birmingham
Boston Buffalo
S
KLMNO Today A p.m. storm
94° 74°
Wind east 6-12 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portland
Seattle Portland
San Francisco Sacramento
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.
Today Tomorrow City 92/70/t 89/70/pc
86/64/t 84/66/t 63/52/sh 66/54/pc 98/76/s 94/74/pc 88/77/t 90/73/t 94/74/t 92/72/pc 81/54/s 87/59/s 100/77/s 96/74/pc
Bismarck, ND 81/54/s 87/55/s Boise
Burlington, VT 94/71/t 87/71/t Charleston, SC 94/74/s 94/77/t Charleston, WV 96/69/s 84/67/t Charlotte
Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver
Des Moines Detroit El Paso
95/62/s 96/62/s 84/68/pc 88/70/pc 90/72/s 83/63/t
Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami
Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville
Today Tomorrow 92/75/t 87/72/t
74/62/pc 77/62/pc 96/74/s 83/67/t 94/77/t 89/74/pc 92/78/pc 92/78/t 83/67/t 83/65/pc 84/62/pc 85/65/s 99/76/s 89/69/t
New Orleans 92/75/pc 94/76/pc New York City 90/75/pc 90/74/pc Norfolk
88/73/t 89/75/pc
Oklahoma City 87/72/t 86/70/t Omaha Orlando
96/72/s 93/72/pc
Cheyenne, WY 73/48/t 78/53/pc Chicago
84/68/t 86/63/pc 96/71/s 83/62/t 92/71/s 80/63/t 89/76/t 92/76/t 76/53/t 84/58/t 84/64/t 84/62/s 89/72/t 83/62/t 91/72/pc 87/69/pc
Fairbanks, AK 78/54/s 83/57/s Fargo, ND
78/55/pc 84/61/s
Hartford, CT 90/69/pc 89/72/pc Honolulu Houston
Indianapolis Jackson, MS
88/75/s 89/75/s 90/78/t 91/77/t 88/71/pc 82/62/t 95/71/pc 95/73/pc
Jacksonville, FL 96/74/s 97/75/pc Kansas City, MO 86/66/t 84/63/pc Las Vegas
105/77/s 106/83/s
Philadelphia Phoenix
Pittsburgh
84/62/pc 85/63/s 94/74/pc 92/74/t 93/75/t 90/71/pc 108/85/s 107/83/s 95/71/s 82/64/t
Portland, ME 80/64/pc 82/66/pc Portland, OR
98/63/s 95/62/s
Providence, RI 86/70/pc 89/71/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV Richmond
Sacramento St. Louis
96/72/s 92/74/t 96/64/s 93/62/s 96/71/t 92/73/t 94/62/s 96/59/s 86/74/t 87/69/t
St. Thomas, VI 90/80/sh 91/80/sh Salt Lake City 93/67/pc 95/66/pc San Diego
68/63/pc 69/64/pc
San Francisco 71/55/pc 73/57/pc San Juan, PR 90/79/pc 90/79/pc Seattle
90/60/s 93/60/s
Spokane, WA 90/60/s 92/62/s Syracuse Tampa Wichita
94/72/s 91/69/t 93/78/pc 91/78/t 84/68/t 86/66/t
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
World City
Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin
Bogota Brussels
Calcutta Caracas
Today Tomorrow City
Addis Ababa 70/58/t 69/59/t Amsterdam 78/65/pc 80/68/c Athens
83/70/pc 86/72/s 54/44/pc 53/38/s 117/78/s 120/82/s 90/79/t 90/79/r 92/74/pc 83/72/sh 82/68/s 91/73/s 64/48/t 64/47/sh 84/65/pc 76/67/sh
Buenos Aires 59/43/s 54/36/s Cairo
98/73/s 100/74/s 91/81/pc 95/85/t 82/73/t 81/72/t
Copenhagen 75/64/pc 80/68/pc Dakar Dublin
Edinburgh Frankfurt Geneva
87/82/s 88/76/pc 64/54/r 68/54/sh 65/53/sh 66/61/sh 84/69/pc 94/74/s 83/59/s 89/63/pc
Ham., Bermuda 82/75/t 82/75/t Helsinki
77/57/sh 77/55/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 89/76/r 90/77/r Hong Kong Islamabad Istanbul
Jerusalem
91/81/pc 90/81/pc 107/84/t 108/84/s 74/64/pc 80/63/pc 85/62/s 84/67/s
Johannesburg 60/35/s 59/35/s Kabul
81/76/sh 80/75/r 70/57/s 70/58/s
99/61/s 104/58/s
Kingston, Jam. 89/78/r 89/78/pc Lagos Lima
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 108° Needles, Calif. Low: 27° Pahaska, Wyo.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed ArmyMedical Center (pollen data) ; MetropolitanWashington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; NationalWeather Service.
Lisbon London Madrid Manila
Mexico City Montreal Moscow Mumbai Nairobi
New Delhi Oslo
Ottawa Paris
Prague
Today Tomorrow 90/66/s 88/66/s
73/59/sh 85/64/pc 99/69/pc 97/67/s 87/78/sh 85/78/t 72/57/t 75/57/t 93/75/s 86/68/t 81/64/pc 81/59/t 84/79/r 85/79/r 77/55/c 77/54/r 94/83/t 99/85/pc 64/52/r 69/54/pc 94/69/s 84/64/t 86/69/pc 89/70/c 81/58/s 86/61/s
Rio de Janeiro 79/69/s 78/68/pc Riyadh Rome
Santiago
San Salvador 85/74/t 86/74/t Sarajevo Seoul
Shanghai Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tehran Tokyo
Toronto Vienna Warsaw Yerevan
108/81/s 106/83/pc 86/68/s 87/68/s 59/36/s 64/39/s
73/47/pc 81/48/s 83/68/t 88/68/pc 87/74/pc 83/72/pc 84/77/r 86/77/r 75/61/pc 77/61/pc 63/44/r 63/42/sh 91/78/sh 90/77/pc 102/84/s 101/85/pc 88/73/t 82/72/t 92/68/s 81/61/t 81/63/s 87/68/s 74/58/s 80/63/pc 107/67/s 107/64/s
The world (excluding Antartica)
High: 121° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: -10° Summit Station, Greenland
Los Angeles Phoenix Dallas Houston Monterrey Monterrey Houston Dallas Calgary Calgary Helena Salt
Lake City
Lake City
Denver Denver
Rapid City
City Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottawa
Mpls.- St. Paul
Mpls.- St. Paul
Chicago Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis New St. Louis
Columbus Atlanta
Atlanta
New Orleans
Orleans Washington Washington Charleston Tampa Miami Tampa Charleston Ottawa Boston Boston New York New York Friday Partly sunny
90° 75°
Wind south 7-14 mph Saturday Thunderstorms
91° 72°
Wind northwest 8-16 mph Sunday Mostly sunny
90° 70°
Wind northwest 7-14 mph Monday Mostly sunny
93° 74°
Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
102° at 1:40 p.m. 80° at 4:05 a.m. 88°/70°
102° in 2010 56° in 1906
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
None 0.00” 0.79” 13.60” 19.95”
64% at 5:00 a.m. 28% at 2:00 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
30.05” 29.97”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
101° at 5:00 p.m. 73° at 3:44 a.m. 87°/63°
101° in 2010 47° in 1970
None 0.00” 0.84” 18.00” 21.72”
76% at 5:00 a.m. 28% at 5:00 p.m.
30.07” 29.99”
Normal Record
101° at 4:00 p.m. 75° at 4:14 a.m. 87°/66°
101° in 2010 53° in 1980
None 0.00” 0.84” 19.16” 21.58”
73% at 4:00 a.m. 30% at 4:00 p.m.
30.03” 29.97”
Apparent Temperature:
106° Cooling
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and humidity.)
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........ 26 This month ...... 114 This season...... 827 Normal to yesterday........ 531 Last season...... 460
J A S O N D J F M A M J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington 5:20 a.m. 12:57 p.m. 6:07 p.m. Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
Point Lookout
July 11 New
Moon phases
July 18 First Quarter
July 25 Full
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:50 a.m.
8:36 p.m.
2:26 a.m. 5:49 p.m.
6:44 a.m. 9:25 p.m.
9:17 a.m. 10:53 p.m.
10:55 a.m. 11:38 p.m.
12:13 a.m. 12:19 p.m.
11:51 a.m. 12:13 a.m.
12:05 a.m. 12:08 p.m.
Aug 3 Last Quarter
none
2:48 a.m. 10:16 a.m. 2:39 p.m. 8:13 p.m. 4:53 a.m. 10:56 a.m. 5:31 p.m.
1:02 a.m. 6:51 a.m. 12:48 p.m. 7:23 p.m. 6:24 a.m. 10:43 a.m. 4:21 p.m. 11:41 p.m.
none
Disappearance of organizer, money leaves players angry league from B1
last year while he was passing through the District on a Grey- hound bus. He said he had set up basketball leagues before in New Jersey and Connecticut. He said he planned to use the money gen- erated by the league to pay home- less people as scorekeepers and assistant organizers. Now, some of the neighbor- hood teens ruefully recall the do- gooder talk he spouted. “I had my hopes and dreams on this league,” said Caleb Swann, 19, who has spent his year after high school bouncing from job to job, barely getting by. “He said he was doing this for us, to teach us stuff and get better. But, you know, the only thing I learned is that you can’t trust nobody.” Swann’s coach, Simmons, was saddened to see how devastated the players were.
“I mean, I done some cruddy things in my life, but stealing from kids?” he said. “That’s just low.” He called his team into a hud-
dle after practice a few weeks ago and told them not to give up. “We built something real here,” he told them. “We’re not going to let one person stop this now.” He asked the teammates to
find other players to tell them the games were still on. Simmons sent messages to D.C. Council members Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), asking for help. He got a liquor store to donate water and Gator- ade for the Saturday games. But he has been unable to find a spon- sor to pay for referees and uni- forms. “The hardest thing, though, has been getting the kids to come back and give it another shot,” he said. “You have to understand, these kids, where they’re coming from, to gain their trust is a re- markable thing. When some- thing like this happens, it’s hard to get that back again.” Though no one reported the
theft to the D.C. police, Simmons and some of the players’ parents have been trying to find a photo of Russell to give to police in New Jersey, where rumor had it he’d fled. Tracked down by a reporter at the home of his ailing father in New Jersey, Russell said by phone that he left town for a number of
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST Teams are still competing under new manager Wade Simmons, right. “We built something real here,” he told the players. “We’re not going to let one person stop this now.”
reasons. He said his father, who had a heart attack earlier this year, needed him. He blamed the other homeless people helping him for stealing some of the mon- ey he collected, referees for refus- ing to come out again after seeing how the league was managed and some players for not paying their fees on time. When asked about the players’
money, Russell said: “I’m sorry for the way it ended up. I’ve turned over a new leaf. I’ve given
up doing leagues. As soon as I get back on my feet, I’m going to get the money back to them, okay?” Then he hung up. Simmons, meanwhile, has kept working the phones. Although the league was another homeless man’s idea, he’s made it his own over the past few weeks, doing ev- erything he can think of to save it. “I want the young guys in the league to understand not every- one is like this guy,” Simmons said. “Yes, this was a situation
that really set them back, but you can take that and make some- thing out of it. I want them to see that you don’t have to give up.”
wanw@washpost.com
For information on how to help the league, contact Coach Wade Simmons at
dg2k7@yahoo.com or 202-506-3490. Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.
on
washingtonpost.com
Photos of a league trying to carry on
For a gallery of images of the basketball league
working to organize, and then working to save itself, go to
postlocal.com.
Simmons chats with league organizer James Russell before Russell left town.
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