B8 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
A good chance of scattered showers and storms throughout Tuesday, with highs in the mid- to upper 80s. Overnight lows in the 70s. Another hot and humid day Wednesday, with a chance of showers and storms and highs about 90. And Thursday? Mid-90s and more humidity.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Low
Low Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
84/70 84/69
Baltimore 86/73
Washington 86/75
Richmond Charlottesville
84/69 88/75
Norfolk 86/77
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, showers, thunderstorms. High 72-86. Wind south- west 5-10 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, showers, thunderstorms. Low 62-66. Wind light, vari- able. •Wednesday, show- ers, thunderstorms. High 76-92. Wind northeast 5-10 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 85/76
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, showers, thun- derstorms. High 84-88. Wind south 7-14 mph. •Tonight, showers, thun- derstorms. Low 74-78. Wind southwest 8-16 mph. •Wednesday, show- ers, thunderstorms. High 88-92. Wind south 6-12 mph. •Thursday, show- ers, thunderstorms.
Upper Potomac River: Today, show-
ers, thunderstorm. Wind south 6-12 knots. Waves 1-2 feet. Poor visibility. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, showers, thunderstorm. Wind south 10-20 knots. Waves 1-2 feet on the lower Potomac, 1-3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.0 feet today, ris- ing to 3.1 feet Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 85/75
Ocean City 86/77
Dover 84/73
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good
Ozone, 67 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 85/74
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
80/70/t 84/67/t
Albuquerque 95/71/s Anchorage 61/52/sh Atlanta 90/73/t Austin 96/76/s Baltimore 86/73/t Billings, MT
Birmingham 92/74/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
96/71/pc 66/56/sh 90/74/t 96/75/s 92/70/t
78/52/pc 81/54/s 95/74/t
Bismarck, ND 80/52/t 83/56/pc Boise 82/53/s
85/58/s
Boston 86/70/pc 82/68/t Buffalo 82/69/t
85/67/t
Burlington, VT 82/68/t 86/66/t Charleston, SC 92/77/t 92/76/t Charleston, WV 83/66/t 88/66/t Charlotte 90/72/t
92/72/t
Cheyenne, WY 92/60/s 86/53/pc Chicago 82/66/pc 91/75/s Cincinnati 85/65/t Cleveland 84/66/t
Dallas 95/79/pc 96/79/s Denver 98/66/pc 93/59/t Des Moines
Fairbanks, AK 70/54/sh 66/49/s Fargo, ND
80/58/t 77/57/t
Hartford, CT 83/72/t 85/68/t Honolulu 87/73/s Houston 95/78/s Indianapolis 86/68/t Jackson, MS
88/74/s 95/78/s 93/72/s
94/74/t 96/75/s
Jacksonville, FL 94/75/t 95/76/t Kansas City, MO 90/76/s 95/76/s Las Vegas
106/82/s 108/84/s 88/73/s 94/72/pc
Detroit 87/65/pc 91/71/s El Paso
100/76/s 99/76/pc
94/69/pc 88/70/pc
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 85/70/t Memphis 94/76/t Miami 94/78/t
92/76/t 97/76/pc 80/64/pc 82/66/pc 96/75/pc 96/79/pc 90/79/t
Milwaukee 80/65/pc 87/72/pc Minneapolis 86/72/s Nashville 83/71/t
84/65/t 95/74/t
New Orleans 93/77/s 95/77/pc New York City 84/74/t 89/77/t Norfolk 86/77/t
90/77/t
Oklahoma City 96/77/pc 96/75/s Omaha 92/77/s Orlando 94/77/t Philadelphia 85/74/t Phoenix 109/87/s Pittsburgh 84/65/t
Portland, ME 80/66/pc 77/63/t Portland, OR
72/53/pc 83/57/s
Providence, RI 85/72/pc 84/71/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/75/t Sacramento 86/57/s St. Louis
90/74/t 94/74/t 94/60/s 95/61/s 94/75/t 92/59/s
85/74/c 96/78/s
St. Thomas, VI 89/80/r 89/80/r Salt Lake City 93/67/s 92/65/s San Diego
70/64/pc 71/65/pc
San Francisco 67/54/pc 73/57/pc San Juan, PR 89/79/sh 88/77/sh Seattle 70/54/pc 78/55/s Spokane, WA 72/50/pc 79/55/s Syracuse 82/69/t Tampa 91/77/t
87/64/t 93/78/t
Wichita 96/77/pc 96/76/s NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
97/71/pc 94/75/t 90/75/t
110/89/pc 89/64/t
R
KLMNO Today Thunderstorms
86° 75°
Wind south 6-12 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland Sacramento Sacramento San Francisc Los Angele
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 69/60/t 65/58/r Amsterdam 68/54/sh Athens 95/77/s Auckland 57/46/s Baghdad 121/79/s Bangkok 90/80/t Beijing 84/73/c Berlin 81/65/pc Bogota 66/48/r Brussels 70/59/sh
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 83/61/pc
79/64/r 96/78/s 59/46/s 117/80/s 91/79/r 89/73/c 90/75/s 65/47/t 81/54/r
Buenos Aires 50/36/pc 50/34/pc Cairo 101/74/s 99/74/s Caracas 81/72/t Copenhagen 76/49/sh
81/72/t 70/62/s
Dakar 91/82/pc 92/81/pc Dublin 63/52/r Edinburgh 63/48/r
64/54/r 59/56/r
Frankfurt 82/68/pc 94/72/s Geneva
83/63/t
Ho Chi Minh City 89/76/r 90/77/r Hong Kong
Islamabad 102/82/s Istanbul 88/72/s Jerusalem 85/64/s Johannesburg 54/32/s Kabul 100/62/s
88/61/s
Ham., Bermuda 84/76/pc 84/76/pc Helsinki 84/64/pc
82/57/sh
90/81/sh 90/81/sh 98/80/pc 90/72/s 82/63/s 53/32/s 98/65/pc
Kingston, Jam. 89/78/r 89/80/r Kolkata 95/86/t Lagos 83/77/t
94/83/t 85/75/t
Lima 68/56/pc 68/56/s
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 108° Needles, Calif. Low: 34° West Yellowstone, Mont.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
London 69/55/sh Madrid 93/65/s Manila 87/78/r Mexico City
Montreal 82/70/t Moscow 86/57/s Mumbai 89/83/r Nairobi 76/52/r New Delhi
Oslo 73/54/r Ottawa
78/68/t
Tomorrow 79/61/s
73/57/r 89/62/s 85/78/r
77/55/t 75/54/t 84/72/t 88/63/s 90/82/r
79/51/pc
96/81/t 98/84/pc 69/52/c 86/66/pc
Paris 78/64/pc 76/61/sh Prague 84/58/t
87/61/s
Rio de Janeiro 77/66/s 77/69/r Riyadh 107/84/pc 108/84/s Rome 90/66/s Santiago 55/30/s
San Salvador 87/74/t 86/74/t Sarajevo
84/54/s
Seoul 88/73/sh Shanghai 84/75/r Singapore 89/79/t Stockholm 84/66/s Sydney 68/55/r Taipei 87/78/t Tehran 99/82/s Tokyo 83/75/r Toronto 76/68/t Vienna 92/74/t
85/56/s 88/73/r
84/75/pc 88/79/sh 77/55/s 64/48/pc 89/77/t
102/77/s 86/75/r
86/69/pc 95/76/s
Warsaw 85/66/sh 83/62/pc Yerevan 108/63/s 102/63/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 120° Badanah, Saudi Arabia Low: -14° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
90/68/s 57/36/pc
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta CharlCharlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston eston San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Helena Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
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Rapid City
City Denve
Rapid Ci
Denver Denver Winnipeg Winnipe Winnipeg Ottaw
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Chicago cago Columbus Columbus Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia
Wednesday Showers, storms
93° 75°
Wind northwest 6-12 mph Thursday Storms possible
95° 77°
Wind south-southwest 6-12 mph Friday Storms possible
96° 76°
Wind southwest 8-16 mph Saturday Storms possible
93° 75°
Wind northwest 7-14 mph
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
87° at 12:51 p.m. 73° at 4:54 a.m. 88°/70°
99° in 1908 53° in 1895
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
0.10” 1.29” 1.39” 14.89” 20.55”
78% at 7:00 a.m. 58% at 1:00 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
29.90” 29.88”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
84° at 11:12 a.m. 65° at 5:00 a.m. 87°/64°
97° in 1986 47° in 2002
0.06” 0.67” 1.44” 18.67” 22.32”
90% at 5:00 a.m. 64% at 10:00 a.m.
29.90” 29.85”
Normal Record
88° at 12:08 p.m. 67° at 3:41 a.m. 87°/66°
97° in 1908 53° in 2002
0.69” 1.12” 1.45” 20.28” 22.19”
83% at 4:00 a.m. 62% at 11:00 a.m.
29.93” 29.87”
Apparent Temperature:
92°
(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. Monday .............. 15 This month....... 204 This season ...... 917 Normal to yesterday ........ 606 Last season ...... 512
J A S O N D J F M A M J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
4:25 a.m. 9:41 a.m. 5:09 p.m. 10:17 p.m. 12:10 a.m. 6:55 a.m. 1:50 p.m. 7:22 p.m. 3:22 a.m. 9:18 a.m. 3:23 p.m. 9:46 p.m. 5:15 a.m. 11:21 a.m. 5:24 p.m. 11:44 p.m.
Point Lookout 2:59 a.m. 9:58 a.m. 3:26 p.m. 9:20 p.m. Moon phases
July 18 First Quarter
July 25 Full
Aug 3 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:53 a.m.
8:34 p.m.
8:02 a.m. 9:51 p.m.
7:12 a.m. 9:36 p.m.
9:26 a.m. 10:47 p.m.
10:50 a.m. 11:25 p.m.
11:54 p.m. 12:00 p.m.
11:33 a.m. 11:54 p.m.
11:45 p.m. 11:48 a.m.
Aug 9 New
Blind blogger spotlights pedestrian safety blogger from B1
ven’t always concerned him. His macular degeneration was diagnosed when he was 14. He still got his driver’s license when he turned 16 and buzzed around the streets, not all that worried about the plight of pedestrians. In 1989, when he was 25, the disease had progressed such that he could no longer drive. He was consigned to getting by on his two feet, which, to his surprise, was liberating.
“Being freed by not driving
changes your perception — it’s profoundly sublime,” Smith said. “Walking is the most natural thing. You don’t need any special equipment. You don’t need to buy anything, except for maybe shoes.” Knowing that his vision would continue to decline, Smith and his wife, Kathleen, moved to a house in Silver Spring close to schools, stores and churches. His mission as a self-described ambu- latory activist began a dozen years ago with a sidewalk near his house. It was riddled with potholes and, apparently, bad luck. In 1998, he was walking his two children to school at East Silver Spring Elementary when his 4- year-old daughter tripped in a hole and hit her head. A week lat- er, she was nearly hit by a car when a driver whipped through a crosswalk. “I kept running into situations where I felt, personally, less than safe,” he said. He worked with parents and community officials to have the sidewalk replaced. Then he be- gan to sit in on County Council meetings, e-mailing officials about safety concerns and trying to get his neighbors’ attention.
PETULA DVORAK
Modern mom, for sure, but could I handle this teachable moment? dvorak from B1
hop in and out of their open condo spaces at their leisure. When Grandma arrived last week, we went straight to the shelter, certain we’d find the right cat. The tiniest kittens in the
shelter’s jewelry-case display windows were all spoken for. So the boys spent two hours trying to bond with the older ones. Iworried a little about an older
SUSAN BIDDLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Telecommunication poles, some with wires and curbs, dot William Smith’s Silver Spring neighborhood.
Smith then moved his efforts online. He “started with a dis- cussion list, with two or three readers,” said Kathy Jentz, editor and publisher of Washington Gardener magazine and a “car- free” resident of Silver Spring. “I think he was disappointed with that, and I told him, ‘You might want to look into a blog.’ ” He started Montgomery Side-
ways in October, and he’s spark- ing a conversation. Smith’s photo of the bus stop
on Fenton Street was posted to several blogs, which triggered quite a few phone calls to offi- cials, said Jeff Dunckel, pedestri- an safety coordinator for Mont- gomery. Dunckel said county officials had planned to build a ramp at the bus stop before Smith docu- mented the access issue, but his photos prompted them to rethink
their plans. Now, instead of a ramp, the county will build a stop in a more accessible location. The budget for the county’s
$5 million pedestrian safety pro- gram was cut by almost 10 per- cent in May, forcing the depart- ment to end its education efforts. Dunckel said Smith fills the void by being a set of eyes on the ground. John Z Wetmore, a pedestrian
advocate in Bethesda and host of the cable access TV program “Per- ils for Pedestrians,” said Smith alerts the community to hazards that often are overlooked. “Most people have been deal- ing with a bad pedestrian envi- ronment for so long, they have learned to ignore it,” Wetmore said.
Smith said it’s his passion to
correct that environment that commits him to the arduous task
of maintaining the blog with lim- ited sight.
Photos, he says, are shot “from the hip.” He points and shoots. Updating the blog is “physically painful,” he said. To use his com- puter, he has to hunch forward in his chair, sitting only a few inches from the 42-inch monitor he has set up in his basement, placing additional strain on his eyes. It is a marked difference from the man traipsing about Silver Spring. He doesn’t use a cane. There is no guide dog. He gets around relatively unfettered. He’s trying to hold on to his independ- ence as long as possible. “The biggest problem is, at
what point do I identify myself as a blind person?” Smith said. “I’m fighting it because I’m vain. I hate to admit it. I’m trying to live nor- mally as long as I can.”
rojasr@washpost.com
Impostor driving Metrobus prompts tighter security, policy review by Ann Scott Tyson
Metro is increasing security at its bus facilities after a teenager wearing a Metro uniform drove off in a bus from a Bladensburg garage Friday and picked up pas- sengers before crashing into a tree, officials said. Metro expects to complete its
investigation this week into the incident in which William Jack- son, 19, of the District was alleg- edly waved into the garage by se- curity guards, started a bus that didn’t require a key and drove off along the B2 route, the transit au- thority said. “Work is underway to enhance
security at Metro facilities,” said Metro spokesman Steven Tauben-
kibel in a statement. “Over the next week, Metro will increase se- curity presence at its Metrobus fa- cilities and begin to implement further security checks of person- nel entering and exiting each of its bus facilities. Policy and pro- cedures are also being reviewed.” He said other initiatives al- ready underway will improve se- curity at bus garages, including
cat, given that for them, a pet was someone old, gray and sick who died just as you learned to say his name and found the perfect curve of his neck to cuddle up in. Then I spotted a pair I had missed earlier. Two cats, with yin and yang black and gray markings. They were tweens but kittenish enough to play hard. They met in the private,
get-to-know-you room. It was instant madness: two boys, two boy cats, chasing, jumping, jingle bell ball pinging. Great kitten leaps, little boy squeals. “We ask that these two be adopted as a pair — they are companions,” the shelter staffer told me. In complete, gooey sucker mode, I gave in. Okay, two cats it is.
So we went to fill out the adoption paperwork while the boys tried out names: “Anakin and Luke? Olive and Pickle? Monstrous Black and Monstrous Gray?” Then, just as I was balancing the clipboard on my knee, another shelter worker came over.
“Let’s talk about something special about these cats,” she said. “They have tested positive for
installing more fencing, lighting and security cameras, as well as “the installation of technology to verify driver identification and provide an ability to remotely dis- able buses.”
According to Metro Transit Po-
lice, Jackson was arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle and fleeing an accident.
tysona@washpost.com
FIV, feline immunodeficiency virus,” she told us. “Cat AIDS?” Grandma asked, blanching. The woman went on to explain
that the feline version of HIV doesn’t mean a death sentence. “They can have a perfectly normal life expectancy,” she said. It also means that the cats have
weakened immune systems and are susceptible to infections and
diseases that wouldn’t affect otherwise-healthy cats, that they shouldn’t have contact with other cats and that they must stay indoors. I just wrote about the
importance of HIV/AIDS education in schools. Here, I’d have the chance for my kids to know about the feline version of the virus long before having to explain it along with S-E-X. “Are you kidding?” my mother snapped, sending me out of my modern-mom-everything-is-a- teachable-moment mode. She reminded me about the way they got rid of extra kittens on the farm in the old country. It involved a burlap bag. So, great. I get to be the jerk mom who nixes the adoption of animals the kids fell in love with and be the prissy parent who won’t save the sick cats all in one day. Bonus! Was this one of those moments
to grab the opportunity to be a better human, to nurture a weakened creature, and to instill tolerance and caring in our friends and children through our actions?
Or was it imposing a selfish mission on kids who could just as well love any of the other 6 million to 8 million animals languishing in America’s shelters? My mother grabbed the boys and walked out. I sheepishly folded up the adoption paperwork and slipped it into my purse. “We’ll talk about it as a family,”
I apologized to the animal people as I backed out the door. I quickly texted a fellow
Millennial Mom about the quandary. “Goodbye shelter, hello pet
shop,” she texted back. I checked Craigslist, where dozens upon dozens of kittens were offered. I searched for a listing with
correct spelling. “Kittens. $1. (Mechanicsville)” Sold.
Would you have adopted the FIV-positive kittens? E-mail me at
dvorakp@washpost.com.
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