B6 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
A pleasant and summery day Saturday, probably hitting the upper 80s to lower 90s. Plenty of sunshine will be accom- panied by some clouds. Humidity will be tolerable. The night will also pleasant enough, not seriously humid or severely warm. A shower could fall but is unlikely.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate Absent
Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
88/68 89/69
Baltimore 88/70
Washington 90/72
Richmond Charlottesville
90/65 92/70
Norfolk 88/73
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny, hot. High 80-88. Wind southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, warm. Low 63-70. Wind south 7-14 mph. •Sunday, mostly cloudy, afternoon thunderstorm, more humid. High 79-86. Wind south 8-16 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 86/71
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, warm. High 82-88. Wind southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 65-70. Wind south 7- 14 mph. •Sunday, partly sunny, afternoon thun- derstorm, more humid. High 80-85. Wind south- east 7-14 mph. •Monday, partly sunny, shower.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny, hot. Wind southeast 6-12 knots. Waves less than 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny, hot. Wind southeast 6-12 knots. Waves 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay, 1 foot on the Potomac. Visibility clear. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.8 feet today, falling to 2.7 feet Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 88/72
Ocean City 84/70
Dover 84/70
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
8 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Unhthy sens grps
Ozone, 11 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 88/71
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
80/61/s 74/64/t
Albuquerque 90/70/t Anchorage 65/52/s Atlanta 86/73/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
94/68/pc 64/52/c 92/76/t
Austin 102/76/s 102/74/s Baltimore 88/70/s Billings, MT
85/68/t Birmingham 90/75/t
96/60/s 97/55/s 96/77/t
Bismarck, ND 94/61/s 99/62/s Boise 94/58/s Boston 77/62/s
Buffalo 82/67/pc 77/63/r Burlington, VT 78/61/pc 71/60/r Charleston, SC 91/76/t 91/77/t Charleston, WV 92/70/pc 88/66/t Charlotte 91/70/pc
88/70/t
Cheyenne, WY 90/56/s 92/60/s Chicago 85/68/t Cincinnati 92/71/t Cleveland 88/70/t
88/68/pc 90/68/pc 83/67/t
Dallas 104/80/pc 105/82/s Denver 94/60/s Des Moines
98/63/s
Detroit 84/66/t El Paso
88/71/pc 87/68/pc 84/67/pc
99/74/s 98/73/s
Fairbanks, AK 68/44/s 71/45/pc Fargo, ND
84/64/pc 92/63/s
Hartford, CT 82/61/pc 79/65/sh Honolulu 89/74/s
89/74/s
Houston 97/80/pc 99/79/s Indianapolis 90/69/t Jackson, MS
94/76/t 97/75/t
Jacksonville, FL 92/76/t 94/75/t Kansas City, MO 94/72/pc 90/70/pc Las Vegas
106/81/s 105/81/s 88/67/pc
79/51/s 76/62/pc
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 92/75/t Memphis 96/78/t Miami 92/77/t Milwaukee 86/68/t Minneapolis 84/69/pc Nashville 90/76/t
100/76/t 98/74/pc 90/64/s 88/64/s 90/71/pc 99/78/pc 92/78/t 83/67/s 87/68/s 93/75/t
New Orleans 92/80/t 94/79/t New York City 86/70/s 82/71/t Norfolk 88/73/s
86/74/pc
Oklahoma City 100/73/pc 100/73/s Omaha 90/69/s Orlando 94/76/t Philadelphia 88/71/s
90/69/pc 94/76/t 86/71/t
Phoenix 107/88/pc 108/88/t Pittsburgh 90/68/pc 80/65/t Portland, ME 72/57/s 71/59/sh Portland, OR
73/55/pc 71/53/c
Providence, RI 78/62/s 78/64/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 92/70/s Sacramento 83/49/s St. Louis
94/69/pc 89/72/pc 88/52/s 86/51/s 88/71/pc 86/55/s
94/71/t 93/70/pc
St. Thomas, VI 89/80/s 91/81/s Salt Lake City 95/70/s 93/61/pc San Diego
75/64/pc 76/65/pc
San Francisco 64/51/pc 72/53/pc San Juan, PR 91/80/pc 90/78/pc Seattle 70/53/pc 65/53/c Spokane, WA 83/53/pc 73/48/t Syracuse 82/64/pc Tampa 91/79/t Wichita 94/72/s
75/63/r 91/79/t 93/71/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Mostly sunny
90° 72°
Wind southeast 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 66/60/t 68/61/t Amsterdam 77/63/pc Athens 93/75/s Auckland 59/51/r Baghdad 118/77/s Bangkok 91/79/t Beijing 88/70/c Berlin 82/66/pc Bogota 65/44/t Brussels 81/64/pc
82/72/t
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 93/68/s
73/57/sh 90/71/s 57/50/s 117/77/s 91/78/r
85/67/sh 84/69/t 66/46/t
80/61/sh
Buenos Aires 73/54/s 75/59/t Cairo 104/78/s 101/77/s Caracas 82/73/t Copenhagen 74/64/sh
Dakar 89/80/pc 89/73/s Dublin 66/50/pc Edinburgh 66/51/sh
Frankfurt 84/65/pc 89/71/t Geneva
83/58/s
London 74/61/sh Madrid 94/67/s Manila 86/77/sh Mexico City
Montreal 73/66/s Moscow 66/51/s Mumbai 83/78/sh
Tomorrow 88/66/s
73/57/sh 95/66/s 84/78/t
75/57/t 75/54/t 75/64/r
72/62/sh 85/79/sh
Nairobi 85/56/pc 84/57/pc New Delhi
88/82/t 89/80/t
Oslo 71/51/pc 69/49/pc Ottawa
73/62/pc 71/59/sh
63/48/sh 65/44/sh
85/62/s
Ham., Bermuda 86/78/t 86/78/sh Helsinki 64/54/r
Ho Chi Minh City 88/75/t 87/76/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 96/78/t Istanbul 91/71/s Jerusalem 92/66/s Johannesburg 70/41/s Kabul 106/55/s
Lagos 79/75/r Lima 70/58/s
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 109° Needles, Calif. Low: 27° 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.
91/82/sh 92/83/s 99/78/s 90/71/s 89/67/s 77/45/s 106/56/s
Kingston, Jam. 87/80/t 89/80/sh Kolkata
95/80/pc
82/72/pc 82/72/r 70/56/s
70/55/pc 74/60/r
Paris 83/66/pc 86/65/sh Prague 83/59/s
86/62/s
Rio de Janeiro 76/67/s 81/70/s Riyadh 106/80/pc 104/80/s Rome 90/70/t Santiago 68/37/s
San Salvador 86/73/t 84/72/t Sarajevo
81/49/t
Seoul 88/73/s Shanghai 88/74/s Singapore 89/79/c Stockholm 72/57/sh Sydney 64/41/s Taipei 92/78/pc Tehran 96/76/s Tokyo 84/75/s Toronto 82/67/t Vienna 84/68/s Warsaw 75/59/s Yerevan 99/61/s
89/69/s 63/37/pc
83/50/s 86/73/pc 89/77/s 89/79/pc 74/55/pc 66/47/s 92/79/s 95/75/s 87/76/s 81/64/t 88/68/s 85/64/s 92/62/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 119° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 18° Islas Orcadas, Argentina
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla 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 Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denver Denve Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipe
St. Louis Chi
St. Loui St. Louis
Chicago Mpl
Chicag
Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul cago
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St. Paul Mpls.-
Ottaw Ottawa ttawa Boston Bosto New Yor Columbus Columbus Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Boston Sunday Evening storm
86° 72°
Wind south 7-14 mph Monday Thunderstorms
88° 70°
Wind north 7-14 mph Tuesday Shower possible
87° 70°
Wind east-northeast 7-14 mph
Wednesday Thunderstorm
86° 71°
Wind east 6-12 mph
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 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.
92° at 4:00 p.m. 71° at 5:33 a.m. 86°/68°
101° in 1983 50° in 1896
None 2.44” 2.20” 21.21” 25.02”
80% at 4:00 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
29.98” 29.92”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
89° at 2:00 p.m. 65° at 6:00 a.m. 85°/62°
104° in 1983 47° in 1964
None 4.41” 2.38” 26.58” 26.83”
96% at 3:00 a.m. 41% at 4:00 p.m.
29.99” 29.93”
Normal Record
91° at 3:37 p.m. 67° at 5:51 a.m. 85°/63°
105° in 1983 49° in 1998
None 4.35” 2.40” 27.87” 26.99”
93% at 2:00 a.m. 41% at 4:00 p.m.
29.97” 29.91”
Apparent Temperature:
95°
(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 ................. 17 This month....... 322 This season .... 1601 Normal to yesterday ...... 1183 Last season .... 1097
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
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Point Lookout 6:51 a.m. 11:43 a.m. 5:40 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 24 Full
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Sep 8 New
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:27 a.m.
7:55 p.m.
6:13 p.m. 3:27 a.m.
8:17 a.m. 8:26 p.m.
10:20 a.m. 9:37 p.m.
10:15 a.m. 9:46 p.m.
9:19 p.m. 9:21 a.m.
9:17 a.m. 9:28 p.m.
9:10 p.m. 9:11 a.m.
12:40 a.m. 6:23 a.m. 1:32 p.m. 6:52 p.m. 3:54 a.m. 10:43 a.m. 3:39 p.m. 9:32 p.m. 12:16 a.m. 5:48 a.m. 11:52 a.m. 6:23 p.m. 1:50 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 1:51 p.m. 8:23 p.m. none
Sep 15 First Quarter
Courtroom showdown in climate case cuccinelli from B1
are on state e-mail servers and because the grant money is in a state bank account. But Chuck Rosenberg, an attorney for the university, argued that four of the grants were from the federal gov- ernment and are not subject to state law.
Rosenberg also argued that Cuccinelli failed to specifically identify in the civil investigative demand what Mann allegedly did wrong, which is required by law. Peatross repeatedly pressed Rus- sell for that information. “There is reason to believe that in information he submitted for grants, there is manipulated data,” Russell responded.
Mann’s work has long been under attack by global warming skeptics.
Cuccinelli issued a civil investi-
gative demand under a 2002 state statute designed to catch govern- ment employees defrauding the public of tax dollars. Mann’s work has long been un-
der attack by global warming skeptics, particularly after refer- ences to a statistical “trick” Mann used in his research surfaced in a series of leaked e-mails from the
University of East Anglia’s Cli- matic Research Unit. Mann has said the e-mail was taken out of context. Some of his methodolo- gies have been criticized by other scientists, but an inquiry
by
Pennsylvania State University concluded that there was no evi- dence that Mann engaged in ef- forts to falsify or suppress data. Mann worked at U-Va. from 1999 to 2005 and now works at Penn State.
“Calling scientific findings
‘fraudulent’ because you don’t agree with them is dangerous,’’ said Francesca Grifo, director of the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scien- tists.
kumaranita@washpost.com Judge won’t reveal names in jury pool intern from B1
lish, all requirements for jury du- ty in the city.
Still, Fisher acknowledged
that choosing a jury could be a challenge because the Levy trial was a “very unique case.” The judge cited several problems, such as the trial potentially last- ing more than five weeks. Find- ing jurors who could sit that long
without a hardship could take a few days, he said. Fisher also said that the case has received intense media at- tention and that finding poten- tial jurors who have not heard about the case and formed some opinion will be challenging. “Ethnicity” is also a factor, the
judge said, acknowledging the defense attorneys’ argument that Guandique’s race and immigra-
tion status could make it difficult to find unbiased jurors. Fisher further cited Guan-
dique’s gang affiliation. Guan- dique was a member of Mara Sal- vatrucha (MS-13), and several witnesses who were with him in prison and are scheduled to testi- fy were also members of gangs. “How are we going to pull this
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off is the big question,” the judge said to the attorneys. To address some of the con- cerns, Guandique’s attorneys, from the District’s Public De- fender Service, and prosecutors submitted potential questions for jurors. For example, they discussed a question about whether jurors perceived members of gangs to be violent. Fisher said that just because a person was in a gang didn’t mean that gang was in- volved in violent activity. He cit- ed the character Spanky from the “Our Gang” series from the 1930s. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Haines argued that any member of the MS-13 gang was, in fact, violent. That question will remain part of the juror questionnaire. The attorneys also raised argu- ments over questions that would elicit potential jurors’ opinions of illegal immigrants or people with tattoos. Guandique has at least one visible tattoo, on his neck.
alexanderk@washpost.com
GERALD MARTINEAU FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Out-of-state utility crews worked to restore power in Montgomery after a violent storm.
Md. officials skeptical of Pepco’s plan to reduce outages’ frequency, duration
pepco from B1
ground that section, you gain benefits for everyone on that cir- cuit,” said Bill Gausman, a senior Pepco executive who helped draft the plan. The utility also plans to identify whether supply lines to substations need to be altered or moved to better protect them from tree damage, Gausman said. Elected officials have given the plan a cool reception. “The overarching difficulty with the plan is we don’t know where it gets us,” said Mont- gomery County Council member Roger Berliner (D-Potomac-Beth- esda).
Shaun Adamec, a spokesman
for Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), wel- comed the effort, but he ex- pressed doubt that Pepco would
deliver on its promises without pressure from regulators. “The Public Service Commis- sion still has to make sure they hold up their end of the bargain,” Adamec said. Officials for the Maryland Pub-
lic Service Commission did not returned phone messages seek- ing comment Friday. At a hearing Tuesday before
Maryland regulators, Pepco offi- cials defended their response to major service disruptions. They said 90 percent of recent outages were caused by branches falling from trees on private property whose owners often fail to give access to Pepco tree-trimming crews. They also disclosed that the company has reliability issues not related to severe storms. They said Pepco had placed in the bot-
D.C. schools worker charged in bank heists by Martin Weil
A 47-year-old social worker with the D.C. public schools was arrested this week and charged in six bank robberies, officials said. Prince George’s County police said Damon K. Roberts Jr. was ar- rested Thursday at his home on Carlough Street in the Carmody Hills-Pepper Mill Village area. A D.C. schools spokeswoman said Roberts was a special educa-
tion social worker. He was placed on administrative leave and was not assigned to a school, she said. A neighbor said that Roberts
kept to himself and that Roberts had only the briefest of exchang- es with him as they passed on the street.
Calls to Roberts’s home on a
curving, tree-lined street of am- ple lawns and neat single family homes were not returned. The street is about a mile west of Fed- Ex Field.
tom 25 percent among compa- nies ranked using two reliability measures of day-to-day service. “The real issue is they are at
the bottom percentile on outages when the sun is shining,” said Montgomery County Council President Nancy Floreen (D-At Large).
Gausman said Pepco has al-
ways strived to identify the worst-performing lines and to improve them. “They do im- prove,” he said. “[But] they are not improving enough, to our customers’ satisfaction,” and the new plan entails “more aggres- sive action.” The Public Service Commis- sion has scheduled a public hear- ing on Pepco’s reliability Monday evening.
shina@washpost.com Police said Roberts was
charged with six counts of rob- bery in connection with holdups in the Largo and Bowie areas be- tween March 12 and July 8. One bank was robbed each month except for June, when there were two holdups. In each robbery, police said, a man posing as a customer passed a note to a teller demanding mon- ey. When he got money, police said, the man fled on foot. No injuries occurred in any of the robberies, police said. It was not clear how much was taken.
weilm@washpost.com
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