B6 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast A lot like Friday (which many people
found extremely pleasant). Maybe a little warmer, and maybe a few more afternoon clouds. Highs in the middle or upper 80s. Fair chance of showers and storms after the sun goes down and the temperatures begin falling toward the middle 60s.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
84/66 83/64
Baltimore 84/68
Washington 86/69
Richmond Charlottesville
88/62 90/68
Norfolk 84/70
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, thunderstorm. High 78- 88. Wind light, variable. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, shower, thunderstorm. Low 52-64. Wind light, variable. •Sunday, partly sunny, thunderstorms, showers. High 81-88. Wind south 3-6 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 85/68
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, partly sunny. High 82-86. Wind
east-southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, showers. Low 67-71. Wind south 3-6 mph. •Sunday, mostly cloudy, showers, thunderstorms, more humid. High 79-89. Wind southeast 6-12 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, partly
sunny. Wind south-southeast 4-8 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility clear. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind south-southeast 7-14 knots. Waves 3 feet on the Chesapeake, 2 feet on the Potomac. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.6 feet today, ris- ing to 2.7 feet Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 85/71
Ocean City 86/69
Dover 83/68
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Particulates, 4 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 86/67
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 88/66/t Anchorage 64/54/sh Atlanta 98/76/t
73/54/s 81/61/c 88/67/t 65/57/c 94/76/t
81/68/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles
Austin 100/68/s 101/72/s Baltimore 84/68/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 96/77/t
Bismarck, ND 94/64/s 93/63/t Boise 94/59/s Boston 76/59/s
Tomorrow
92/61/pc 91/58/pc 100/77/pc
88/59/s 80/62/pc
Buffalo 78/63/pc 81/65/t Burlington, VT 77/51/s 81/59/pc Charleston, SC 90/76/t 88/72/t Charleston, WV 90/62/pc 93/66/t Charlotte 88/72/t
89/72/t
Cheyenne, WY 88/61/t 89/62/t Chicago 84/67/t
85/65/t 95/65/t 87/69/s
Cincinnati 90/65/pc 95/69/pc Cleveland 81/63/t
Dallas 103/77/s 101/80/s Denver 92/64/t Des Moines
Detroit 78/64/t El Paso
90/71/t 94/71/t
Fairbanks, AK 82/55/s 85/59/s Fargo, ND
88/67/s 85/67/t
Hartford, CT 80/55/s 82/60/sh Honolulu 89/74/s Houston 98/75/s Indianapolis 90/69/t Jackson, MS
90/75/s 98/77/s 92/71/s
102/72/s 101/77/c
Jacksonville, FL 96/75/t 93/74/t Kansas City, MO 94/75/pc 92/75/pc Las Vegas
104/79/pc 103/82/pc
87/69/pc 86/71/pc 85/66/pc
Louisville 94/73/t Memphis 100/80/t Miami 91/79/t Milwaukee 80/66/t Minneapolis 87/68/pc Nashville 96/74/t
102/78/s 100/78/pc 79/62/pc 76/62/pc 97/75/pc 101/82/pc 92/79/t 82/69/s 89/72/pc 97/76/pc
New Orleans 96/82/t 99/81/pc New York City 86/70/s 80/71/sh Norfolk 84/70/pc 89/71/t Oklahoma City 100/74/s 102/72/s Omaha 88/70/s Orlando 95/77/t Philadelphia 86/67/s Phoenix 101/80/t Pittsburgh 81/60/c
91/74/pc 94/76/t 80/69/t 101/82/t 83/64/t
Portland, ME 77/52/s 78/54/pc Portland, OR
73/57/pc 77/58/s
Providence, RI 80/59/s 82/60/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 90/68/pc Sacramento 88/52/s St. Louis
90/67/pc 87/71/t 92/56/s 92/56/s 88/70/t 91/53/s
92/76/t 94/75/pc
St. Thomas, VI 91/81/t 91/82/s Salt Lake City 93/65/pc 93/67/s San Diego
70/64/pc 70/64/pc
San Francisco 64/51/pc 67/51/pc San Juan, PR 90/80/pc 90/80/pc Seattle 73/55/pc 72/55/s Spokane, WA 87/55/t 83/55/pc Syracuse 76/58/s Tampa 92/79/t Wichita 99/74/s
82/63/sh 92/79/t 98/73/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Partly sunny
86° 69°
Wind east-southeast 4-8 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland Portland Sacramento San Francisc Los Angele
Fronts Cold
Warm Stationary
Pressure Centers
High Low Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix DalDallalas Houston Monterrey Monterre Monterrey 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 66/60/t 68/59/t Amsterdam 70/60/sh Athens 95/75/s Auckland 58/46/pc Baghdad 119/80/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 86/64/pc
71/55/sh 96/76/s 57/50/r 120/78/s
Bangkok 92/80/pc 92/80/pc Beijing 90/77/s Berlin 78/62/s Bogota 67/46/t Brussels 72/59/pc
90/74/sh 83/67/pc 67/46/t
74/52/pc
Buenos Aires 54/40/s 47/38/s Cairo 104/79/s 103/79/s Caracas 83/74/t Copenhagen 72/62/pc Dakar 87/78/t Dublin 64/55/sh Edinburgh 64/51/sh Frankfurt 81/63/s Geneva
81/74/t
73/63/sh 87/77/t
78/57/s
63/55/pc 65/52/pc 83/64/t 78/63/s
Ham., Bermuda 84/76/t 86/76/t Helsinki 75/64/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 89/77/t 87/77/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 96/77/t Istanbul 94/80/s Jerusalem 90/72/s Johannesburg 62/39/s Kabul 98/53/s
95/84/t Lagos 82/72/t
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 106° Needles, Calif. Low: 34° Boca Reservoir, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. 74/64/s
89/81/pc 87/82/t 98/78/t 90/78/s 91/68/s 70/38/s 100/56/s
Kingston, Jam. 89/80/s 90/80/sh Kolkata
94/83/t 84/74/t
Lima 68/55/pc 68/56/pc
London 72/55/pc Madrid 97/70/s Manila 86/77/t Mexico City
Montreal 75/61/s Moscow 91/68/s Mumbai 90/83/t Nairobi 75/58/c New Delhi
74/55/s
Paris 84/64/s Prague 77/59/s
Tomorrow 87/67/pc
72/55/pc 99/69/s 84/78/t
75/52/t 77/52/s 79/61/s 95/68/pc 90/82/t 77/54/c
90/78/t 90/79/t
Oslo 71/59/pc 71/51/pc Ottawa
81/61/t
78/55/pc 83/60/s
Rio de Janeiro 85/71/s 76/66/s Riyadh 103/83/s 104/82/s Rome 81/68/s Santiago 56/36/s
San Salvador 83/74/t 86/74/t Sarajevo
76/54/t 82/53/s
Seoul 86/75/pc 88/76/sh Shanghai 95/83/s Singapore 88/78/t Stockholm 70/57/c
96/85/s 88/79/t 77/68/r
Sydney 69/42/sh 66/41/sh Taipei 95/80/pc Tehran 91/70/s
93/79/s 87/71/s
Tokyo 91/82/pc 92/82/pc Toronto 78/62/pc Vienna 79/64/s
81/65/t 87/70/s
Warsaw 79/63/pc 85/66/s Yerevan 101/60/s 98/59/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 119° Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia Low: 17° Rio Gallegos, Argentina
Rise Set
82/70/s 54/36/pc
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
HoustoHouston Dallas San Francisco San Francisco Sacramento C Calga Calgary Calgary Helena Salt
Salt La
Lake City
Lake Ciity
ke Helena
Rapid City
City Denver Denver Denve St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Atlanta Atlanta Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston
Rapid Ci
Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw
Chicago Mpl
ChicagChicago Columbus Columbus
Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul
St. Paul Mpls.-
s.- Ottawa ttawa Boston Boston Bosto New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Sunday Thunderstorms
81° 72°
Wind south 7-14 mph
Monday Showers
84° 72°
Wind south-southeast 7-14 mph Tuesday Storms possible
91° 76°
Wind south-southeast 7-14 mph
Wednesday Storms possible
93° 75°
Wind southwest 8-16 mph
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010
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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.
85° at 5:00 p.m. 70° at 5:36 a.m. 88°/70°
99° in 1953 56° in 1914
Trace 5.17” 3.55” 18.77” 22.71”
61% at 5:00 a.m. 32% at 4:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
30.00” 29.91”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
85° at 3:37 p.m. 68° at 5:27 a.m. 88°/64°
98° in 1988 51° in 1981
0.10” 4.09” 3.45” 22.09” 24.33”
75% at 2:00 a.m. 32% at 5:00 p.m.
30.00” 29.93”
Normal Record
85° at 3:00 p.m. 70° at 5:30 a.m. 87°/66°
98° in 1940 56° in 1997
Trace 4.36” 3.73” 23.52” 24.47”
59% at 2:00 a.m. 34% at 3:00 p.m.
29.98” 29.91”
Apparent Temperature:
84°
(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 ................. 13 This month....... 552 This season .... 1265 Normal to yesterday ........ 881 Last season ...... 762
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
6:43 a.m. 12:01 p.m. 6:40 p.m. none
Point Lookout 5:00 a.m. 11:23 a.m. 6:04 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 3 Last Quarter
Aug 9 New
Aug 16 First Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:08 a.m.
8:20 p.m.
10:42 p.m. 11:24 a.m.
8:24 a.m. 9:31 p.m.
9:55 a.m. 10:18 p.m.
10:33 a.m. 10:38 p.m.
10:44 p.m. 10:50 a.m.
10:30 a.m. 10:46 p.m.
10:34 p.m. 10:36 a.m.
3:05 a.m. 8:56 a.m. 3:15 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 5:29 a.m. 11:40 a.m. 5:52 p.m. 11:53 p.m. 1:05 a.m. 7:14 a.m. 1:28 p.m. 7:45 p.m. none
Aug 24 Full
Workers can’t afford lingering power outage
outage from B1
storms, Wysong hiked through the snow to get to work. When her manager decided to close the restaurant for a day, she could only sigh. “I can’t remember the last time I missed a day without being forced to,” she said. This week, Wysong has been
staying home with her two chil- dren, “trying our best not to spend any money.” She’s in good company. More than 100 employees of Outback alone have been without work since Sunday. They’ve been com- miserating on Facebook, sharing their frustration.
At the shopping center, utility
workers tried to get the busi- nesses back online, sending pe- riodic surges of power to them. For a few minutes, and once for
more than an hour, light and power were restored. People ran back to their workplaces, ready to resume business as usual. Then the lights flickered, and the power was gone again. Work- ers let out a collective groan and wandered back outside to vent. “This is getting really frustrat-
ing,” said Carla Hernandez, a medical assistant at the Xpress MedCare walk-in clinic. “Looks like it’s another few days of rice and beans.” For businesses without power,
there’s a cruel arbitrariness to the outages. “Why does that shopping cen-
ter have electricity but not ours?” Comacho asked, pointing across the street to another retail strip, nearly identical but with lights glowing. “Seems unfair, doesn’t it?”
LOCAL DIGEST THE DISTRICT
Man pleads guilty in Craigslist assaults A D.C. man pleaded guilty Fri-
day in the sexual assaults of two women he met through Craigs- list, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Ma- chen Jr. announced. Brandon B. Petty, 26, was con-
victed of one count of assault with intent to commit first-de- gree sexual abuse and one count of attempted first-degree sexual abuse while armed in Superior Court.
Both attacks occurred in ho- tels near Dupont Circle. Petty faces maximum prison terms of 15 and 30 years on each
count, respectively. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 28. Prosecutors alleged that Petty
attacked one victim Sept. 8, 2009, at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel and another April 21 at the Hilton Washington Hotel. He had contacted each woman through Craigslist ads for adult services, authorities said. Both victims helped police
track down Petty, the first by fol- lowing him and the second by providing his cellphone number and DNA evidence and looking through police photographs, ac- cording to authorities. —Spencer S. Hsu
Man gets 20 years in stabbing death
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guilty in D.C. Superior Court to one count of murder in May in the fatal stabbing of George Wakefield, 29. During sentenc- ing. Wilson turned to Wake- field’s family and apologized.
Judge Lynn Leibovitz called the altercation “beyond senseless” and said that Wilson had previ- ous incidents of an inability to control his temper. —Keith L. Alexander
MARYLAND
Ex-D.C. fire captain cleared of sex assault A former D.C. fire captain was
acquitted of rape and related charges Friday at his second trial in an alleged sexual assault of a 23-year-old woman who had passed out at a party, according to court records and authorities. Tony Sneed, 49, of Fort Wash-
ington had been accused of at- tacking a friend of his step- daughter’s in August 2008 as she lay on a mattress in the step- daughter’s Calvert County home. He was convicted of second-de- gree rape in June 2009. But in September 2009, a Calvert Coun- ty Circuit Court judge ordered a new trial, in part because the judge had misread a jury in- struction. In the new trial Friday, jurors
returned their not-guilty verdict after three days of testimony and about six hours of deliberation,
said a Calvert prosecutor who handled the case. Robert Bonsib, Sneed’s attor-
ney, said the case boiled down to “two adults who had too much to drink and made poor judgments about their personal conduct.” Neither could remember what happened, he said, and prosecu- tors tried to equate that lack of memory with a lack of consent. Some time after the charges
were filed, Sneed resigned from his position at the fire depart- ment. Bonsib said the acquittal is the first step toward restoring Sneed’s reputation. —Matt Zapotosky
THE REGION
Stalled bill delays National flight ruling A funding bill for the Federal
Aviation Administration that has been stalled in Congress was put off again Friday, avoiding once more the question of whether Reagan National Air- port should accommodate more long-haul flights. The 60-day extension is the
14th since the last FAA authori- zation bill expired in 2007. A group of Western lawmakers
has pushed to ease a rule that bans most flights to destinations more than 1,250 miles from Na- tional.
—Derek Kravitz VIRGINIA
Flier sentenced for heroin in juice boxes
A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to 70 months in pris- on after he attempted to smuggle $500,000 worth of heroin in juice boxes through Dulles Inter- national Airport.
Emmanuel Rios, 23, was also sentenced to four years of super- vised probation by U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris on Fri- day. Rios pleaded guilty in Feb- ruary to conspiring to distribute heroin. Court documents say Rios was
traveling on a U.S. passport when he flew from Guatemala to Dulles on Dec. 13 and was select- ed for a routine inspection. An officer found 24 juice boxes inside his luggage and then dis- covered that they contained 41 pellets of a powdery substance wrapped in a condom. Tests showed that it was heroin. —Associated Press
Doctors deem D.C. man fit to
stand trial Attorney for suspect in mother’s death
wants further testing
by Keith L. Alexander Two mental health physicians
SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
sieffk@washpost.com Wan Kong, left, and Betti Aughenbaugh sit outside a still-powerless Aspen Beauty Academy.
at St. Elizabeths Hospital con- cluded that a D.C. man charged in the fatal stabbing of his mother in May is competent to stand trial, although the man’s attorney disagreed with the diagnosis. During a hearing Friday in D.C. Superior Court, Christopher Mar- tin’s attorney, Dana Page of the District’s Public Defender Serv- ice, said she wanted additional testing of her client to determine his mental state. Martin is charged with second- degree murder in the stabbing death of his mother, Patricia Ann Martin, in their home in the 4200 block of Fourth Street SE. Au- thorities initially had difficulty determining how many times Martin had been stabbed because of the severe decomposition of her body. In their report, the St. Eliza-
beths doctors wrote that they be- lieved Martin had “factual and ra- tional understanding of his charges” and the ability to work with his attorney. The doctors at the city’s public
psychiatric facility also wrote that Martin, 24, said several of his family members advised him to seek an insanity defense and that Martin has “voiced anxiety” about serving a long prison term. The doctors wrote that although Martin had received a diagnosis of a mild form of schizophrenia and was on medication, he no longer needed to be hospitalized and could return to the D.C. jail. Page disputed the findings and
asked Judge Lynn Leibovitz to keep her client at the hospital so he could undergo further evalua- tion. Leibovitz consented and set a follow-up hearing for Sept. 10.
alexanderk@washpost.com
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