B8 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Hot — definitely. One hundred degrees hot. But it could be hotter than hot. There’s a chance today could be historically hot; hot morning, noon and night, the kind of day people will talk about for years to come. This is not guaranteed, but it is possible. Consider yourself warned.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
98/77 98/78
Baltimore 103/76
Washington 102/80
Richmond Charlottesville
100/72 102/78
Norfolk 96/82
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny, very hot, humid. High 93- 100. Wind southwest 6- 12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, humid. Low 63- 76. Wind light, variable. •Sunday, partly sunny, thunderstorm, hot, humid. High 89-97. Wind northwest 4-8mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 98/81
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, very hot, humid. High 94-98. Wind southwest 7- 14 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, warm, humid. Low 79-83. Wind south- west 8-16 mph. •Sunday, partly sunny, thunder- storm, hot, humid. High 92-99. Wind west 7-14 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny, hot, humid. Wind southwest 7-14 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny, very hot, humid. Wind southwest 7-14 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today and remaining at 2.7 on Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 96/82
Ocean City 98/81
Dover 100/80 Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
8 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Unhthy sens grps
Particulates, 122 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 99/80
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 84/65/t Anchorage 62/53/sh Atlanta 96/76/s
88/73/t 81/61/t 83/65/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles
60/52/sh 95/76/t
Austin 96/71/pc 96/72/pc Baltimore 103/76/s Billings, MT
99/66/t Birmingham 96/78/t
86/59/s 95/61/s 95/76/pc
Bismarck, ND 82/56/s 89/64/s Boise 94/63/s Boston 82/75/t Buffalo 88/67/t
97/68/s 90/66/t 77/63/s
Burlington, VT 85/71/t 77/59/pc Charleston, SC 92/77/s 94/76/pc Charleston, WV 97/77/s 91/69/t Charlotte 98/74/s
98/73/pc
Cheyenne, WY 76/56/s 79/53/pc Chicago 88/66/t
85/64/s
Cincinnati 98/74/pc 90/70/t Cleveland 92/71/t Dallas 98/76/s Denver 77/59/t Des Moines
Detroit 93/65/t El Paso
81/62/pc 97/78/pc 79/57/t
86/67/t 82/65/pc 81/61/s
92/72/t 91/72/pc
Fairbanks, AK 69/49/c 73/52/pc Fargo, ND
80/60/s 85/65/s
Hartford, CT 94/76/t 91/60/t Honolulu 88/75/s Houston 93/74/t Indianapolis 96/72/pc Jackson, MS
88/76/s 95/76/t 85/67/t
100/74/t 92/75/t
Jacksonville, FL 92/75/t 95/76/t Kansas City, MO 94/73/t 88/71/t Las Vegas
109/81/pc 110/86/pc Tomorrow
Louisville 98/79/pc Memphis 101/79/s Miami 88/79/t Milwaukee 86/64/t Minneapolis 81/63/pc Nashville 100/77/s
100/74/s 95/75/pc 82/66/pc 82/66/pc 95/75/t
99/78/pc 88/79/t 80/62/s 85/67/s 97/75/pc
New Orleans 93/78/t 90/80/r New York City 96/83/t 89/75/t Norfolk 96/82/s
99/78/t
Oklahoma City 96/71/pc 96/73/pc Omaha 86/68/t Orlando 90/78/t Philadelphia 99/80/s Phoenix 105/86/t Pittsburgh 93/72/t
84/68/pc 92/76/t 93/73/t 109/87/t 84/61/t
Portland, ME 76/68/t 77/60/t Portland, OR
96/61/s 93/60/s
Providence, RI 92/76/t 92/64/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 102/78/s Sacramento 96/60/s St. Louis
100/79/s 100/76/pc 99/67/s 99/65/t 100/72/t 94/59/s
99/78/pc 89/74/t
St. Thomas, VI 89/80/sh 91/80/s Salt Lake City 96/62/s 97/67/s San Diego
83/57/s 72/65/pc 71/66/pc
San Francisco 73/56/pc 73/56/pc San Juan, PR 89/79/t 90/79/pc Seattle 83/58/s
Spokane, WA 90/60/s 93/60/s Syracuse 88/72/t Tampa 90/78/t Wichita 96/72/t
77/60/s 93/79/t 95/71/t
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Mostly sunny
102° 80°
Wind west-southwest 7-14 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY SeattlSeattle Portlan 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 61/57/r 61/56/r Amsterdam 72/56/s Athens 93/76/s Auckland 57/43/s Baghdad 113/79/s Bangkok 89/78/c Beijing 94/75/s Berlin 71/54/c Bogota 66/45/sh Brussels 72/48/pc
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 89/68/s
66/56/r 92/74/s 55/46/sh 110/76/s 90/79/r 91/75/s 67/52/c 66/45/sh 65/47/r
Buenos Aires 53/46/pc 53/46/r Cairo 100/76/s 100/78/s Caracas 83/71/t Copenhagen 67/56/sh
Dakar 84/81/pc 91/81/s Dublin 68/52/sh Edinburgh 64/50/sh Frankfurt 73/50/sh Geneva
73/51/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 87/78/r 91/78/r Hong Kong
Islamabad 103/79/s Istanbul 92/73/s Jerusalem 85/65/s Johannesburg 61/39/s Kabul 96/60/s
95/86/t Lagos 80/72/c
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 108° Palm Springs, Calif. Low: 33° Stanley, Idaho
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
81/71/pc 74/58/r
66/55/sh 67/60/sh 72/53/c 72/53/r
Ham., Bermuda 86/77/pc 86/77/pc Helsinki 72/57/r
82/64/pc
87/82/r 88/82/sh 103/81/s 90/75/s 86/65/s 64/41/s 103/60/s
Kingston, Jam. 86/78/r 89/78/sh Kolkata
95/86/r 82/72/sh Lima 69/56/pc 68/56/pc
London 72/57/sh Madrid 95/63/s Manila 88/78/t Mexico City
Montreal 84/68/t
Tomorrow 88/72/s
75/61/pc 93/63/s 84/78/r
71/55/t 74/55/r 78/66/c
Moscow 91/66/pc 91/64/pc Mumbai 84/78/r Nairobi 76/54/r New Delhi
83/77/r 76/55/c
94/81/t 95/80/t
Oslo 67/49/pc 75/49/r Ottawa
87/63/t 76/60/pc
Paris 74/56/pc 76/57/sh Prague 67/54/sh
Rio de Janeiro 78/68/pc 78/67/s Riyadh 105/80/s 103/80/s Rome 85/59/s Santiago 48/32/sh
San Salvador 86/74/t 86/74/t Sarajevo
74/46/t
Seoul 84/74/t Shanghai 86/74/pc Singapore 86/78/sh Stockholm 64/55/r Sydney 61/43/s Taipei 91/77/r Tehran 97/80/s Tokyo 88/78/t Toronto 87/66/t Vienna 64/59/sh Warsaw 76/57/r
65/47/s 84/72/t
86/73/sh 87/77/sh 70/61/sh 63/39/sh 91/77/sh 97/77/s 86/77/t 77/63/s 72/53/sh 69/51/r
Yerevan 101/63/s 100/63/s The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 120° Adrar, Algeria Low: -4° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
8:27 p.m.
7:37 p.m. 4:33 a.m.
69/52/pc
83/63/s 56/34/pc
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas Atlant New Orleans New OrleanOrleans ew Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Tampa Tampa Miami Miami Charleston San Francisco San Francisco Portland Seattle Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake City
Lake Ci
ke Denver Denve Denver Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Calga Calgary Calgary Winnipe Winnipeg
Winnipeg Mpls.-Mpls.-
St. Louis Chi
St. Loui St. Louis
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Pau Ottaw St. Paul Chicag Chicago cago Columbus Columbus Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York
Philadelphia Washington
Philadelphia Washington
Ottawa ttawa Sunday Storms possible
97° 72°
Wind northwest 8-16 mph Monday Mostly sunny
89° 73°
Wind north-northeast 6-12 mph Tuesday Mostly sunny
89° 74°
Wind south 7-14 mph
Wednesday Thunderstorms
91° 76°
Wind south 7-14 mph
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high
Record low
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
97° at 4:00 p.m. 77° at 5:08 a.m. 89°/71°
101° in 1991 56° in 1890
None 3.83” 2.71”
17.43” 21.87”
73% at 6:00 a.m. 38% 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
30.03” 29.91”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
96° at 5:00 p.m. 68° at 5:25 a.m. 88°/65° 99° in 1991 50° in 1977
None 3.17” 2.67” 21.17” 23.55”
81% at 7:00 a.m. 45% at 1:00 p.m.
30.04” 29.92”
Normal Record
98° at 5:00 p.m. 73° at 3:00 a.m. 88°/66°
102° in 1991 57° in 1977
None 3.54” 2.88” 22.70” 23.62”
87% at 4:00 a.m. 38% at 5:00 p.m.
30.02” 29.90”
Apparent Temperature:
107°
(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. Friday ................. 22 This month....... 419 This season .... 1132 Normal to yesterday ........ 774 Last season ...... 654
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
1:53 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 2:46 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 4:58 a.m. 11:57 a.m. 4:50 p.m. 10:30 p.m. 1:21 a.m. 6:52 a.m. 12:58 p.m. 7:26 p.m. 3:01 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 2:57 p.m. 9:28 p.m.
Point Lookout 1:02 a.m. 8:05 a.m. 12:54 p.m. 6:38 p.m. Moon phases
July 25 Full
Aug 3 Last Quarter
Aug 9 New
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:02 a.m.
8:03 a.m. 9:39 p.m.
9:44 a.m. 10:30 p.m.
10:39 a.m. 10:56 p.m.
11:12 p.m. 11:18 a.m.
10:54 a.m. 11:12 p.m.
11:02 p.m. 11:04 a.m.
Aug 16 First Quarter
After Mattie’s loss, parents find strength to help other children
mattie from B1 Childhood cancers have
spawned a hodgepodge of efforts, from research organizations in- vested in finding treatments or a cure, to neighborhood walks rais- ing money for families. The Browns hope that their founda- tion, which will support research on the disease that took Mattie’s life, can help health-care provid- ers better understand what fami- lies are going through and offer families support to deal with can- cer’s emotional and physical toll. Some scoff that it’s too lofty an ambition, and history doesn’t bode well for their cause. Most family-initiated foundations tend to fizzle after time, amid waning support. But the Browns say their mission is not just a way to as- suage their grief. Peter Brown lik- ens it to starting a business; Vic- toria Brown says it’s like raising a child. For them, it’s a way of try- ing to find a reason behind Mat- tie’s death. “We can’t change what hap-
pened,” Peter Brown said. “We can learn from it and do some- thing to change it. That’s my in- tent: to try and find some mean- ing in this.”
Matthew Brown was described by his father as the “picture of perfect health” — a skinny, athlet- ic 6-year-old with a quick smile and his mother’s eyes. He was at a tennis camp in the summer of 2008 when he complained of an achy right arm. Victoria Brown thought it could be a sprain, nothing major, and took him to the pediatrician. An X-ray revealed a problem: a tumor on his upper arm. That day, over the phone in the hospi- tal waiting room, she was told it was osteosarcoma, a type of malignant tumor typically found in adolescents. During another X- ray, technicians accidentally cap- tured part of his left arm in the scan, where they found another tumor. Doctors ordered a full- body scan; they found four tu- mors.
“At that point, our world came
crashing down on us,” Victoria Brown said. Matthew started treatment at
Georgetown Medical Center. Vic- toria Brown stopped working as a counseling professor at George Washington University. Her hus- band, a vice president for a tele- communications company, shut- tled back and forth between work and the hospital. Bad news kept coming, but
they were steadfast in their con- tention that Matthew would sur- vive only if they kept up an ag- gressive approach to treatment. His hair fell out, his rosy com- plexion was reduced to a ghostly pallor, his eyes had pink rings cir- cling them. Over the next 15 months, Peter and Victoria Brown slept only a few hours per night, communi- cating mostly through text mes- sages — even when they were in the same room, because the noise bothered Matthew. “You find superhuman
strength,” Peter Brown said. “I almost feel like Pete and I were Marines,” Victoria Brown added. “I don’t know how we did it.”
The cancer continued to spread, first to his lungs, and within months it had metasta- sized to most of his major organs. By summer 2009, doctors told them that the cancer had taken over his body. “It flipped from how do we get him to survive to how do we make him comfortable before he dies,” Peter Brown said.
Ten months have passed since
Matthew’s death, and Peter and Victoria Brown are still process- ing life without him. The couple, who met as undergraduates at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., found a community of friends that rallied to support them. They say they tapped into a reservoir of strength they never knew they had. They found that their 21-year relationship was strong enough to weather their son’s cancer and death, which isn’t the case for many couples.
Victoria Brown is surrounded by Mattie’s artwork, displayed in his bedroom in the family’s Washington home. Mattie’s vibrant painting of the sun, left, is dated the year that his cancer was diagnosed. “I’ve seen the worst life has to offer, in seeing my son die, and the best, in seeing the human connections,” Victoria Brown said.
on
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The Browns find comfort in
memories of Mattie. Visit
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Yet they also found that, as cra-
dle Catholics, their faith in God would be diminished. And for two self-motivated achievers, they learned that the future was
largely beyond their control. Peter Brown said the past year has made him more appreciative of his life and the people in it. Victoria said: “I’ve seen the
worst life has to offer, in seeing my son die, and the best, in seeing the human connections.” After sharing her story on Cap- itol Hill, another mom — a wom-
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an Victoria had never met — em- braced her. In some ways it’s easier now to be around other parents who are going through, or have been through, the same thing. The Browns no longer have new tales of parenthood to share. Their friends’ children are growing up, while the Browns are left only with memories. “Although we are no longer
trapped in an ICU unit, the isola- tion is in our head,” Victoria Brown said. “Even if we are in a room full of people, we no longer share those daily routines. Our futures will not look the same.” The Browns hope that Mattie’s
Miracle will allow other families to avoid that isolation. They also hope it will help fill the void can- cer left in their lives. “We don’t have anything tangi- ble of Mattie. In essence, the foundation — it’s a bridge, a con- nection to Mattie,” Victoria Brown said. “It keeps his memory alive. It’s a deep connection to our son.”
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