B8 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
From bake to broil: Tuesday could be one of the hottest days of the year — and did we mention the humidity? Highs in the mid- and upper 90s. Overnight lows in the 70s. On Wednesday, highs will be around 100, with storms possible late in the day. Thursday and Friday, a few degrees cooler.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate Absent
Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
94/69 95/71
Baltimore 96/73
Washington 98/77
Richmond Charlottesville
96/72 100/74
Norfolk 94/76
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, afternoon thunderstorm, hot. High 87-97. Wind light, variable. •Tonight, partly cloudy, thun- derstorm. Low 64-73. Wind light, variable. •Wednesday, partly sunny, afternoon thun- derstorm, hot. High 87- 98. Wind light, variable.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 96/77
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, humid north, hot south. High 86-96. Wind south 6-12 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear, humid. Low 74-78. Wind west-southwest 6-12 mph. •Wednesday, partly sunny, hot, humid. High 90-97. Wind east 6-12 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny, hot, humid. Wind southwest 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny, hot, humid. Wind south 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay. Visibility unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, holding steady Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 94/76
Ocean City 94/77
Dover 94/74
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Unhthy sens grps
Ozone, 124 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 95/76
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 93/65/s Anchorage 60/52/sh
88/65/t 85/64/pc 95/68/t 61/55/c
Atlanta 98/76/pc 95/77/s Austin 102/77/s 102/76/s Baltimore 96/73/s Billings, MT
94/71/t 90/57/s 93/58/t
Birmingham 100/77/pc 98/77/s Bismarck, ND 92/60/t 94/64/s Boise 90/57/s Boston 84/68/t
85/55/pc 81/64/s
Buffalo 87/67/pc 84/66/pc Burlington, VT 84/61/pc 83/57/s Charleston, SC 92/76/s 92/76/s Charleston, WV 96/66/s 100/71/t Charlotte 98/72/pc
98/72/s
Cheyenne, WY 88/55/s 91/58/s Chicago 91/74/t Cincinnati 98/72/s Cleveland 90/69/pc
90/74/t 99/72/t 91/71/t
Dallas 104/79/s 106/83/pc Denver 91/59/s Des Moines
97/61/pc 94/76/pc 92/74/t
Detroit 91/71/pc 88/71/t El Paso
98/75/pc 100/76/pc
Fairbanks, AK 72/53/sh 72/53/c Fargo, ND
90/74/s 98/78/t 93/74/t
86/66/t 89/67/pc
Hartford, CT 88/67/t 90/65/pc Honolulu 90/74/s Houston 98/78/t Indianapolis 96/76/s Jackson, MS
102/73/pc 99/75/t
Jacksonville, FL 92/77/t 92/77/t Kansas City, MO 96/75/pc 98/75/t Las Vegas
102/74/s 103/76/s
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 98/78/s Memphis 98/79/t Miami 89/78/t Milwaukee 88/74/t Minneapolis 89/69/t Nashville 98/75/s
100/77/t 100/78/t 78/62/pc 80/62/pc 101/77/t
101/81/pc 92/80/t 91/72/t 91/69/t 99/77/t
New Orleans 95/79/t 94/78/t New York City 91/77/pc 91/72/pc Norfolk 94/76/s
97/78/t
Oklahoma City 102/75/s 103/75/s Omaha 96/74/t Orlando 93/77/t Philadelphia 95/76/s
94/74/s 93/77/t
93/73/pc
Phoenix 106/85/pc 111/87/s Pittsburgh 92/68/pc 90/68/t Portland, ME 86/62/t 80/59/s Portland, OR
Providence, RI 86/70/t 86/64/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 100/74/s Sacramento 86/52/s St. Louis
98/78/t 98/78/t
St. Thomas, VI 90/80/sh 89/79/sh Salt Lake City 89/63/s 92/58/pc San Diego
80/55/s 68/63/pc 72/63/pc
San Francisco 63/52/pc 65/52/pc San Juan, PR 89/78/t 90/79/pc Seattle 71/56/c
Spokane, WA 78/54/pc 86/55/pc Syracuse 88/65/t Tampa 90/78/t Wichita 102/75/s
86/64/pc 92/79/t
100/73/s NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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KLMNO Today Mostly sunny
98° 77°
Wind southwest 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 67/60/t 66/60/t Amsterdam 73/60/sh Athens 93/78/s Auckland 57/43/s Baghdad 116/82/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 94/64/s
72/54/pc 97/78/s 58/42/s 115/81/s
Bangkok 92/79/pc 91/78/pc Beijing 91/72/s Berlin 77/64/sh Bogota 65/45/sh Brussels 74/56/sh
88/71/c 79/64/sh 65/45/pc 77/51/sh
75/58/c 81/57/pc
100/73/s 100/75/s 90/54/s 87/52/s 99/75/t 82/53/s
Buenos Aires 64/43/s 61/45/r Cairo 101/76/s 101/78/s Caracas 83/73/t Copenhagen 72/61/sh Dakar 82/72/t Dublin 64/50/sh Edinburgh 62/49/r Frankfurt 84/63/s Geneva
84/73/t
73/62/pc 93/77/t
64/52/pc 64/50/r
82/62/t
75/61/sh 79/59/pc
Ham., Bermuda 86/76/pc 87/77/pc Helsinki 72/55/sh
73/54/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 89/76/t 88/77/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 96/81/pc Istanbul 93/80/s Jerusalem 87/66/s Johannesburg 59/28/s Kabul 102/61/s
99/85/t Lagos 83/75/t
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 106° Goodyear, Ariz. Low: 28° 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.
93/82/s 91/82/s 99/80/pc 94/80/s 88/66/s 55/30/s 103/60/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/80/s 88/80/t Kolkata
98/82/t 81/72/t
Lima 68/55/pc 68/55/pc
London 72/52/r Madrid 95/65/pc Manila 82/73/t Mexico City
Montreal 83/63/t
Tomorrow 88/64/s
73/55/pc 90/64/s 84/78/pc
79/57/t 79/55/t 79/62/s
Moscow 93/66/pc 90/66/pc Mumbai 89/82/r Nairobi 75/59/sh New Delhi
89/82/r 77/52/c
95/82/t 94/82/t
Oslo 73/56/pc 71/54/r Ottawa
80/62/pc 80/62/t 79/60/pc
Paris 82/60/pc 74/58/sh Prague 82/57/s
Rio de Janeiro 71/64/sh 72/65/s Riyadh 105/82/s 105/82/pc Rome 90/67/s Santiago 63/37/s
87/66/s 54/30/c
San Salvador 87/73/t 85/72/t Sarajevo
78/54/s
Seoul 88/77/r Shanghai 92/77/r Singapore 89/81/t Stockholm 73/55/pc Sydney 64/50/r Taipei 94/80/pc Tehran 91/76/pc
87/54/s 86/75/r 93/77/s 90/81/pc 77/57/pc 64/46/s 94/80/pc 91/76/s
Tokyo 86/74/sh 86/77/sh Toronto 80/64/pc Vienna 84/66/s Warsaw 82/61/s
83/63/t 89/69/s 83/64/s
Yerevan 102/65/s 102/65/s The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 123° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 4° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
8:09 p.m.
6:51 a.m. 8:20 p.m.
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Winnipe Helena
Salt La
Salt City
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Loui
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Louis St. Louis St. Paul ChicagChicago Columbus Columbus Chicago Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw Ottawa ttawa Boston Boston Bosto New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia
Wednesday Thunderstorm
97° 78°
Wind north-northwest 6-12 mph Thursday Thunderstorms
95° 74°
Wind south 7-14 mph
Friday Showers
91° 70°
Wind northeast 8-16 mph Saturday Thunderstorms
86° 71°
Wind east-southeast 7-14 mph
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 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.
93° at 3:49 p.m. 75° at 5:00 a.m. 87°/70°
102° in 1930 57° in 1989
None 0.60” 0.99” 19.37” 23.81”
84% at 5:00 a.m. 45% at 4:00 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
30.04” 29.96”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
92° at 3:17 p.m. 71° at 5:43 a.m. 87°/64°
97° in 2001 47° in 1989
None 1.08” 1.06” 23.25” 25.51”
87% at 4:00 a.m. 49% at 2:00 p.m.
30.04” 29.97”
Normal Record
93° at 2:00 p.m. 68° at 5:32 a.m. 86°/65°
101° in 1930 53° in 1989
None 0.62” 1.08” 24.14” 25.67”
93% at 6:00 a.m. 41% at 2:00 p.m.
30.03” 29.96”
Apparent Temperature:
98°
(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 .............. 19 This month....... 144 This season .... 1423 Normal to yesterday ...... 1031 Last season ...... 904
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
J
3:15 a.m. 8:35 a.m. 3:55 p.m. 9:06 p.m. 5:47 a.m. 12:32 p.m. 6:07 p.m.
none
2:09 a.m. 8:05 a.m. 2:16 p.m. 8:35 p.m. 4:01 a.m. 10:09 a.m. 4:15 p.m. 10:34 p.m.
Point Lookout 1:51 a.m. 8:40 a.m. 2:11 p.m. 8:16 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 16 First Quarter
Aug 24 Full
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:17 a.m.
8:37 a.m. 9:08 p.m.
10:08 a.m. 10:00 p.m.
10:24 a.m. 10:13 p.m.
10:04 p.m. 10:08 a.m.
9:55 a.m. 10:09 p.m.
9:54 p.m. 9:56 a.m.
Sep 8 New
PETULA DVORAK At Brick Fair, architecture in miniature for kids and adults alike dvorak from B1
convention in the country. And it was madness. There were 20-foot-tall cranes, spinning Ferris wheels, moving robots, the Stay Puft marshmallow man, cathedrals, space stations, train yards and mosaic murals of photographic quality. Little boys (yes, of course there were girls, but they were vastly outnumbered) walked around the convention center in a daze, mouths opened in silent, reverent awe. Caldwell Butler, 13, of Cumberland, wore a shirt depicting a long-haired, robed man building a Lego structure and the words: “What Would Jesus Build?” There was a shopping section, where Legos could be laser-printed with photos, tiny circuits were sold that can light up teeny bricks, Lego jewelry was made (I got a cool pair of dangly earrings made of lime green brick) and books of patterns like Forbidden Lego (“Is it okay to bring this?” a seller asked before the gathering, worried about breaking some of the unspoken rules of this society.) They call themselves AFOLs,
Adult Fans of Lego, and encourage you to go ahead, pronounce it like the bad word. The first two days of the
convention were all business for the AFOLs. This wasn’t about kids plopping down and clicking bricks. The adults held serious seminars on architecture, technique and brick innovations. These were for registered guests only. And it used to be that kids could attend if they registered with an adult. But starting next year, new participants must be 18 and older. Then on Saturday and Sunday,
they opened the doors to the public to show off their MOCs, Lego-speak for My Own Creation. This was when it got wild.
There were signs and reminders everywhere not to touch the elaborate MOCs. There was even a curtained, cordoned-off quiet space, the AFOL chill-out room,
BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST Brian Lint of Annandale makes adjustments to a self-tuning radio.
for adults who need a break from the sticky, squealing, chatterbox kids who swarmed around their toys. In a line that snaked two
spirals deep around a 90-degree suburban parking lot, there were an awful lot of father-son pairs. Moms were in short supply. There are some girl geeks who
Lego. Don’t forget the woman with a car emblazoned with Lego images, the Brick Chick. But for the most part, Legos make moms shudder, because we see them and conjure instantly the rattling sound they make in the vacuum, or that spike of pain as Lego meets bare foot in a dark room. Stupidly, I and about seven other moms didn’t realize that Lego Day was also apparently the nation’s official “Smart mom gets a mani-pedi day.” So we looked at each other, shrugged,
and soldiered on, waiting with thousands of others to see the Lego creations.
When Gugick did his first
convention in 2005, there were about 125 AFOLS. This year, they capped registration at 745. So it’s grown a little. Why? Partly, I believe, because the
first wave of Lego builders are old enough to have kids. So naturally, they are rediscovering their love of the Danish wonder with their offspring. “Oh, it’s a cardinal rule. You
never, ever sell or give away your Legos. No yard sale. I handed them down to my kids,” said Jeff Head, 41, of Burke, who prowled the convention floor wearing a Lego shirt and a giant camera around his neck to document really cool things that he would build later with his kids. It’s not just his old bricks from
the 1970s that fill the house. Lego has gone out of control these past few years in the marketing department, releasing hundreds of new kits tied to movies, television shows and children’s books.
So buying some of these jazzy
new Legos for his 12-year-old son, Joshua, is sort of like buying them for his own, 12-year-old self, Head said.
And of course, there’s the
Internet. In the past few years, Lego fan sites have also grown, and builders share their creations, techniques and ideas. On his Web page, Gugick shows off the software program he created to make a dome out of bricks.
Adult fans also believe that being able to buy individual bricks online has radically changed the way AFOLs build. Suddenly, the future of a leaning tower of Pisa that requires thousands of one, specific, white brick, isn’t hinging on that builder’s ability, determination and wallet to keep buying hundreds of kits that happen to contain a few of those pieces. Perhaps the best example of
the Lego renaissance is Washington’s smash exhibit of the summer at the National Building Museum, an architect’s towering re-creation of 15 of the world’s famous buildings in concrete and putty-colored Legos. For me, the most profound moment of the Legofest came not at the elaborate, mechanized creations or the delicate beauty of a Lego Arc de Triomphe. It was at the stay-and-play, an empty room filled with nothing but piles of bricks. I counted 72 kids in one room, on the floor, their brains hopped up on the remarkable, whimsical things they’d seen, feverishly working out the creative explosions popping in their heads. Anywhere else, 72 kids in one room would generate an unholy cacophony. Here, the room was almost completely silent, filled with the quiet spectacle of imaginations ablaze.
Have you come out of the basement recently? E-mail me at
dvorakp@washpost.com.
D.C. agrees to name by Henri E. Cauvin
In a long-sought concession, the District has agreed to the ap- pointment of an independent ad- ministrator to bring the city into compliance with court orders in a decades-old class-action law- suit over the care of hundreds of people with developmental disa- bilities. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles had resisted such a move, saying that it was tanta- mount to a court takeover and that it would prolong the 34- year-old lawsuit while the Fenty administration was aggressively seeking to end the case and other long-running class actions. But after a ruling this year re-
jecting the District’s contention that the federal court was com- pelled to end the case, the city agreed to mediation with law- yers representing the disabled plaintiffs in the case known as Evans v. Fenty. Negotiations with the court’s special master followed, and those involved eventually settled on an inde- pendent compliance administra- tor and revisions to the reform plan.
At a hearing scheduled for
Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who oversees the case, is expected to consider for- mer D.C. official Kathy Sawyer as the compliance administrator. Sawyer led the District’s devel- opmental disabilities agency in the final months of the adminis- tration of Mayor Anthony A. Wil- liams and in the first few months of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s as he sought to remake the agency, ele- vating its status and renaming it the Department on Disability Services. Before coming to the District,
Sawyer was Alabama’s mental health and developmental disa- bilities commissioner. There she oversaw the settlement of a law- suit that had outlasted more than a dozen of her predecessors.
overseer for lawsuit Administrator would monitor compliance in 1976 disability case
In proposing Sawyer to serve as the compliance administrator in the Evans case, the special mas- ter and the lawyers in the case are hoping that she can acceler- ate and expand the progress DDS has made in recent years. About 2,000 people are served by DDS, including the nearly 600 former residents of the Forest Haven institution who make up those represented in the Evans class action.
“I think it would help bring the
defendants into compliance, and that’s what we all want,” said Sandy Bernstein, a lawyer for University Legal Services, which, with the Center for Public Repre- sentation firm Holland & Knight, represents the disabled plain- tiffs. The fight over appointing an administrator is the latest chap- ter in the Evans lawsuit, which was filed in 1976 over the Dis- trict’s abysmal care of people with developmental disabilities. The class action led to the 1991 closure of Forest Haven, the city- owned institution in Laurel that for decades had housed the most severely disabled people. In the years that followed,
many of the problems persisted in the city-supervised network of community care, and the lawyers representing the disabled sought court intervention. In 2007, Huvelle found that the
District was not complying with court orders related to the safety and health of hundreds of former Forest Haven residents and that the District’s failings were seri- ous and systemic. Last summer, a special master appointed by the court recom- mended the appointment of a compliance administrator. But Nickles and Fenty, who had made a priority of ending Evans and other long-running class actions involving mental health, child welfare and special education, balked — until recently.
Nickles, who was faulted in
May for publicly discussing the confidential mediation process, said Monday that he would not comment on the developments in the case until after they are discussed at Tuesday’s hearing.
cauvinh@washpost.com
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