B10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
This is the type of day that most people probably have been longing for during the heat of the summer. Mostly sunny skies and a light wind from the north combine to create a delightful day with highs rising into the low 80s in most spots in and around the city.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
79/52 81/53
Baltimore 82/55
Washington 82/62
Richmond Charlottesville
82/53 84/61
Norfolk 84/67
Blue Ridge
•Today, sunny. High 72- 82. Wind east-northeast 5-10 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear, cool. Low 48-59. Wind light, variable. •Saturday, sunny. High 75-86. Wind east-southeast 5-10 mph. •Sunday, sunny. High 77- 88. Wind east-southeast 6-12 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 84/63
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, sunny. High 78- 84. Wind northeast 7-14 mph. •Tonight, clear. Low 58-68. Wind light, variable. •Saturday, sunny. High 80-85. Wind east-northeast 7-14 mph. •Sunday, sunny, warmer. High 84-92. Wind north- northwest 7-14 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, sunny.
Wind north-northwest 6-12 knots. Waves around 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, sunny. Wind north 8-16 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac, 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, holding steady at 2.7 feet Saturday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 80/63
Ocean City 80/58
Dover 80/58
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good
Ozone, 49 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 80/59
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 87/62/s Anchorage 61/55/r
74/52/s 80/56/s 87/63/t
Atlanta 90/70/pc 88/68/s Austin 100/66/pc 99/73/t Baltimore 82/55/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 92/72/s
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles 61/53/sh 87/56/s
82/50/s 76/50/t 90/70/s
Bismarck, ND 90/54/s 84/59/pc Boise 80/57/s Boston 74/61/s Buffalo 74/56/s
75/50/pc 82/66/s 82/59/s
Burlington, VT 70/53/s 79/57/s Charleston, SC 91/71/t 89/69/s Charleston, WV 84/54/s 89/60/s Charlotte 86/66/pc
86/62/s
Cheyenne, WY 90/57/s 85/54/pc Chicago 80/59/s Cincinnati 84/55/s Cleveland 76/53/s Dallas 96/68/s Denver 94/59/s Des Moines
85/62/s 90/62/s 82/59/s 94/77/s 91/57/s
Detroit 79/58/s El Paso
84/60/s 84/64/s 84/60/s
89/70/s 92/70/t
Fairbanks, AK 65/49/pc 63/46/r Fargo, ND
Houston 95/74/pc 93/74/t Indianapolis 84/57/s Jackson, MS
86/61/s 86/63/pc
Hartford, CT 78/53/s 84/58/s Honolulu 88/73/s
93/68/s 94/72/s
Jacksonville, FL 88/73/t 87/72/t Kansas City, MO 86/62/s 87/68/s Las Vegas
105/80/t 101/74/s 89/75/s 87/64/s Tomorrow
Louisville 86/63/s Memphis 90/70/s Miami 91/79/t Milwaukee 78/59/s Minneapolis 85/63/s Nashville 86/64/s
90/64/s 93/71/s 84/62/pc 75/60/pc 92/68/s 95/72/s 91/81/t 82/64/s 86/64/s 91/70/s
New Orleans 93/75/t 88/76/t New York City 78/68/s 87/72/s Norfolk 84/67/s
82/67/s
Oklahoma City 91/61/s 92/67/s Omaha 84/62/s Orlando 92/74/t Philadelphia 80/59/s Phoenix 102/81/t Pittsburgh 77/51/s
88/63/s 91/76/t 87/65/s 99/80/t 84/56/s
Portland, ME 76/53/s 78/58/s Portland, OR
70/51/pc 71/52/pc
Providence, RI 79/57/s 80/62/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 84/61/s Sacramento 86/52/s St. Louis
86/59/s 89/70/s
St. Thomas, VI 88/81/pc 89/79/sh Salt Lake City 91/64/t 91/56/t San Diego
76/63/pc 69/61/pc
San Francisco 64/53/pc 64/52/pc San Juan, PR 90/79/pc 89/78/t Seattle 65/48/pc 68/48/pc Spokane, WA 69/44/pc 70/47/s Syracuse 74/53/s Tampa 88/76/t Wichita 87/61/s
81/56/s 93/78/t 89/67/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
88/64/pc 88/61/s 90/54/s 77/50/pc 87/61/s 76/50/s
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KLMNO
Today Sunny
82° 62°
Wind north-northeast 6-12 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland Sacramento Sacramento
San Francisc Los Angeles
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 67/60/t Amsterdam 65/51/sh Athens 93/75/s Auckland 62/53/r Baghdad 109/75/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 85/66/s
63/52/sh 98/77/s 58/52/r 110/74/s
Bangkok 91/78/pc 90/77/c Beijing 91/69/c Berlin 65/53/r Bogota 66/45/t Brussels 68/54/sh
82/73/t
87/69/s 62/51/sh 66/47/t
64/47/sh
Buenos Aires 72/52/pc 72/45/pc Cairo 100/77/s 101/78/s Caracas 83/74/t Copenhagen 66/53/sh Dakar 89/79/s Dublin 63/46/pc Edinburgh 59/44/sh Frankfurt 74/59/sh Geneva
73/58/r
65/51/pc 88/76/c 63/48/sh 61/48/r 67/48/c 67/47/sh
Ham., Bermuda 86/76/s 84/78/sh Helsinki 59/45/pc
61/46/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 93/78/c 91/78/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 98/74/s Istanbul 90/75/s Jerusalem 86/66/s Johannesburg 76/46/s Kabul 96/54/s
89/81/pc 90/81/pc 102/76/s 92/79/s 89/64/s 77/47/s 101/52/s
Kingston, Jam. 87/80/sh 89/80/pc Kolkata 95/82/t
95/83/t
Lagos 83/74/pc 82/74/t Lima 67/54/pc 67/55/pc
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 111° Thermal, Calif. Low: 28° 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 64/50/sh Madrid 91/63/s Manila 86/77/pc Mexico City
Montreal 72/61/s
Tomorrow 90/70/s
68/52/sh 93/63/s 85/77/r
75/55/t 79/57/t 77/64/s
Moscow 63/50/sh 61/47/r Mumbai 82/75/c Nairobi 78/61/t New Delhi
Oslo 61/50/sh 59/47/r Ottawa
72/58/s 63/48/r
85/77/sh 74/61/t
93/79/pc 94/79/pc 81/61/s
Paris 76/54/sh 72/52/s Prague 74/58/r
Rio de Janeiro 88/73/s 86/74/s Riyadh 105/80/s 106/80/s Rome 91/67/s Santiago 66/39/pc
84/61/s 55/36/r
San Salvador 85/73/t 83/72/t Sarajevo
92/50/s
Seoul 87/75/sh Shanghai 88/75/sh Singapore 88/79/t Stockholm 63/52/sh
87/52/s 83/74/r
87/76/pc 88/79/t
61/50/sh
Sydney 64/42/pc 63/42/s Taipei 91/79/pc Tehran 88/73/s Tokyo 87/75/s Toronto 74/59/s Vienna 81/61/sh Warsaw 64/55/r Yerevan 92/61/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 119° Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia Low: 2° Summit Station, Greenland
90/79/s 88/75/s 87/76/pc 81/60/s 74/50/r
65/53/sh 93/63/s
Rise Set
San Francisco Los Angeles
San Francisco Los Angele
Phoenix Phoenix Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake City
Lake Ci
ke Helena
Rapid City
City Denver Denver Denve
Rapid Ci
Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Columbus Columbus St. Loui DalDallalas Houston MonterreMonterrey Monterrey HoustoHouston Dallas St. Louis St. Louis Atlant New Orleans New OrleanOrleans ew Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Atlanta Atlanta Chicago cago Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto Charleston Charlesto Charleston New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia
Saturday Mostly sunny
86° 64°
Wind east-northeast 6-12 mph
Sunday Sunny
90° 68°
Wind east-southeast 6-12 mph
Monday Sunny
94° 72°
Wind north-northwest 7-14 mph
Tuesday Sunny
93° 71°
Wind north 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.
87° at 3:58 p.m. 68° at 5:59 a.m. 85°/67°
97° in 1948 53° in 1942
None 2.59” 2.86” 21.36” 25.68”
83% at 7:00 a.m. 33% at 5:00 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
85° at 4:00 p.m. 63° at 7:00 a.m. 84°/61° 95° in 1975 48° in 1977
None 4.42” 3.13” 26.59” 27.58”
96% at 3:00 a.m. 35% at 4:00 p.m.
30.05” 29.96”
Normal Record
85° at 2:47 p.m. 64° at 4:57 a.m. 84°/62°
101° in 1948 52° in 1977
None 4.74” 3.12” 28.26” 27.71”
96% at 4:00 a.m. 36% at 4:00 p.m.
30.02” 29.94”
Apparent Temperature:
85°
(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. Thursday ............ 13 This month....... 400 This season .... 1679 Normal to yesterday ...... 1258 Last season .... 1186
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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5:05 a.m. 10:24 a.m. 5:07 p.m. 10:38 p.m. 1:18 a.m. 7:17 a.m. 1:31 p.m. 8:01 p.m. 3:38 a.m. 9:47 a.m. 3:57 p.m. 10:05 p.m. 5:29 a.m. 11:40 a.m. 5:55 p.m. 11:58 p.m.
Point Lookout 3:21 a.m. 9:39 a.m. 4:05 p.m. 10:12 p.m. Moon phases
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Sep 8 New
Sep 15 First Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:32 a.m.
7:46 p.m.
8:46 p.m. 9:17 a.m.
7:42 a.m. 7:55 p.m.
10:25 a.m. 9:24 p.m.
10:11 a.m. 9:32 p.m.
8:54 p.m. 8:55 a.m.
8:57 a.m. 9:06 p.m.
8:46 p.m. 8:46 a.m.
Sep 23 Full
Lasting friendships play a major part in Gray’s life gray from B1
the reason they did 47 years ago, is he has a lot of integrity,” said Herb Miller, a local developer and one of Gray’s fraternity brothers. “You always get the same sense of warmth.” To underline the value he places on friendship, Gray identi- fies “Sex and the City” as his fa- vorite TV series. He has seen al- most every episode and can re- count in great detail the fictional lives of Carrie, Charlotte, Miran- da and Samantha. “I like the relationships be-
tween the ladies,” Gray said. “I really enjoy the friendships that they enjoy between each other. . . . The symbolism for me is their ability to support one another.” But some of Gray’s real-life friendships have become fodder for the Fenty campaign. The may- or’s advisers say that to under- stand Gray, voters should look at his strong ties to some of the Dis- trict’s political veterans, such as, former mayors Marion Barry (D) (now the council member from Ward 8) and Sharon Pratt (D). They warn that such connections would lead Gray, if elected, to re- populate city government with throwbacks who were responsi- ble for policies that drove the city to near-insolvency in the 1990s. “Many of the people who now advise Mr. Gray are the same peo- ple who gave advice when the city went bankrupt in the 1990s,” said Bill Lightfoot, Fenty’s campaign chairman, who was a council member at the time. “They didn’t perform well in the past and they won’t perform well in the future.” The Fenty campaign calls Gray
part of the “old guard,” but Gray counters that such “rhetoric” is insulting. “Who is the old guard?” he asked. “Beyond the rhetoric that is embedded in that, I don’t even know what it means. There is no old guard sitting in the wings waiting to be brought back into government.”
Friends and advisers
Gray’s said his “closest friend” and adviser is Lorraine Green, who headed the Office of Person- nel in Pratt’s administration and later became deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Man- agement under President Bill Clinton. Green, now an Amtrak executive, chairs Gray’s cam-
COURTESY OF TRACI HUGHES
Gray as a D.C. high school student. He went on to George Washington University, where he was the first African American to rush a fraternity.
EVY MAGES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Mayoral candidate Vincent C. Gray, wearing No. 3, watches the action from the backstop during a softball game in Southwest. Softball and hand-dancing are two passions that he shares with old friends.
paign for mayor. They met when Gray headed the Department of Human Ser- vices during Pratt’s administra- tion, and the city’s beleaguered fi- nances led the two to trim several thousand positions at the agency. He also gets political advice from lobbyist David Wilmot, one of Barry’s confidants when he was mayor; Vernon Hawkins, who headed the Department of Human Services during Barry’s fourth term as mayor; developer H.R. Crawford, a former council member; Emily Durso, executive director of the D.C. Hotel Associa- tion; political consultant Linda Greene, a public relations strat- egist and Barry’s former council chief of staff; and former Rock- ville mayor Susan Hoffman. Oth- er advisers include his longtime chief of staff, Dawn Slonneger, who worked for Gray when he headed Covenant House in the late 1990s.
Some of Gray’s friends are more like relatives, including Royal R. Robinson Jr., who helped raise Gray because his parents were always working to pay the bills. “They lived in a one- bedroom apartment, and I could walk out of my back yard right
into his back yard,” said Rob- inson, 78, a retired postman. “I used to watch him on the play- ground.” Fred Cooke, a lawyer who has represented Barry and other high-profile clients, said he has known Gray since they attended Dunbar High School in the late 1950s, when Gray was a “a big- deal” local athlete. Cooke said Gray or a member of his staff will occasionally call for legal advice. Last month, Gray had his staff check with Cooke be- fore issuing a statement calling on Fenty to fire Attorney General Peter Nickles. The Gray campaign contends that Nickles’s close rela- tionship with the mayor poses a conflict of interest. “He reaches out to people for information when he needs it or thinks you could be helpful to him,” Cooke said. “But he keeps his own counsel and whatever ad- vice you give him, it’s part of an analytical process and he’s not in- clined to sit down with a bunch of us and kick around ideas.” Former mayors Barry and An-
thony A. Williams (D) had in- formal advisory committees that met regularly, but Gray “goes to different people all the time,” and
it can be difficult to predict who has his ear, lawyer and lobbyist Douglas Patton said. “He listens to me on anything I want to talk to him about, but I am sure I am one of 50,” said Pat- ton, who is co-chairman of Gray’s campaign finance committee. During the campaign, Gray has
relegated some friends with ties to Barry and Pratt, such as Haw- kins, to lesser roles while elevat- ing to leadership roles some new- comers to city politics, such as campaign manager Adam Rubin- son and chief strategist Mo El- leithee. And he has sought to make Fenty’s friendships an is- sue, accusing the mayor of “cro- nyism” by awarding city con- tracts to friends and fraternity brothers. Fenty supporters counter that
Gray also has favored some of his friends when making decisions about city business. Nickles called for an investigation into whether the chairman steered part of a lucrative lottery contract to a businessman whose mother Gray worked with at the Depart- ment of Human Services. Gray has largely avoided con-
flict-of-interest controversies. Be- reano — who served five months
in a halfway house in 1994 after being convicted of federal mail fraud charges — is registered to lobby the council, and he has four District clients. But he said he did not have significant business be- fore the council during Gray’s tenure as chairman. Questions were raised in 2007
after Gray pushed through legis- lation granting a nonprofit edu- cation group the right of first re- fusal to buy the city building it oc- cupied on P Street NW. The group is headed by Tom Gore, a close friend of Gray’s and treasurer of his campaign for council chair- man in 2006. In 2008, Gray re- sisted Fenty’s efforts to remove Crawford as chairman of the re- gional airports authority. Around that the time, Crawford, a devel- oper, faced allegations that he misspent federal funds meant for affordable housing. Terry Lynch, a Fenty supporter who heads the Downtown Clus- ter of Congregations, said he be- lieves Gray “was a straight shoot- er” on the council. But Lynch said it’s easier to reward friends as mayor. “There is a lot of money on the table, and, in these times, a lot of people want a piece of the action,” he said.
Nonpolitical ties
Of course, many of Gray’s friends have little connection to District government and politics.
Kenneth M. Trombly, one of
Gray’s fraternity brothers, said Gray impressed him because, out of college, he went to work for the Associated for Retarded Citizens, where he advanced from intern to executive director, while many of his classmates set out for bet- ter-paying jobs. “He was humble yet charismat- ic, and we always very much looked up to him,” said Trombly, a lawyer who lives in Bethesda. In 2007, a group of Gray’s fra-
ternity brothers went back to George Washington for a basket- ball game. Gray wasn’t supposed to attend because it was the day of his inauguration as council chairman. “In he walked, dressed to kill,” recalled Mike Grabow, a New York real estate lawyer. “He was going to be late to his own in- auguration . . . because he want- ed to hang with us.” In the early 1960s, Gray said, he passed up scouting offers from professional baseball teams to at- tend George Washington, a school he said didn’t allow blacks to play baseball at the time. And many of his friendships center on his passion for sports. Willard Stephens, a manager at
D.C. Superior Court, said he and Gray have played on same soft- ball team for nearly three dec- ades. “When I needed to talk about certain things, be it person- al or professional, he was always there,” Stephens said. “He laughs very easily and makes you feel very at ease.”
Bereano credits Gray with be- ing there for him when he faced charges in Maryland stemming from allegations that he over- billed clients and directed the money to political candidates. “He didn’t abandon or desert me or walk away from me,” said Be- reano, who is trying to have his conviction reversed. “His word is his bond.”
Despite the many friends, Gray spends lots of time alone. Two months ago, a week after the movie “Sex and the City 2” was released, Gray sneaked out of his office in the middle of the day to watch it alone at Gallery Place. “They always manage to stay
together,” Gray said of the four friends. “They rally around each other and support each other when it matters most.”
craigt@washpost.com
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