B6 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast Saturday, in weather terms, is pretty
likely to be great: a warm Washington summer day with low humidity. Sunscreen and broadbrimmed hats will come in handy. Temperatures will hit the mid- to high 80s. A pleasant night will follow.
For the latest updates, visit the Capital Weather Gang blog:
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
85/55 85/58
Baltimore 87/58
Washington 88/66
Richmond Charlottesville
86/56 88/61
Norfolk 84/67
Blue Ridge
•Today, sunny. High 80- 86. Wind light, variable. •Tonight, clear. Low 52- 64. Wind light, variable. •Sunday, sunny. High 78-88. Wind light, vari- able. •Monday, sunny, warm. High 82-94. Wind southwest 6-12 mph. •Tuesday, sunny, hot. High 85-95.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 83/65
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, sunny. High 82- 86. Wind east-northeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, clear. Low 60-68. Wind light, variable. •Sunday, sunny. High 84-88. Wind east-southeast 5-10 mph. •Monday, sunny, hot. High 88-94. Wind west 6-12 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, sunny.
Wind east-southeast 5-10 knots. Waves around 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, sunny. Wind east 7-14 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 2.6 feet today, holding steady at 2.6 feet Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 84/67
Ocean City 84/61
Dover 84/62
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 48 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 87/65
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 87/63/t Anchorage 64/52/sh
82/56/s 87/59/s 85/64/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles 64/51/pc
Atlanta 88/68/pc 85/68/pc Austin 99/73/s Baltimore 87/58/s Billings, MT
98/75/t 92/62/s
80/52/t 68/48/t Birmingham 92/72/pc 88/70/pc
Bismarck, ND 87/59/pc 87/60/pc Boise 79/52/pc 69/48/c Boston 82/66/s Buffalo 82/59/s
90/70/s 88/60/s
Burlington, VT 80/57/s 86/57/s Charleston, SC 88/71/s 88/72/pc Charleston, WV 90/60/s 93/61/s Charlotte 89/62/s
90/62/s
Cheyenne, WY 88/54/pc 89/54/t Chicago 86/65/s Cincinnati 90/62/s Cleveland 82/57/s Dallas 97/75/s Denver 92/57/s Des Moines
Detroit 82/60/s El Paso
90/69/s 94/64/s 86/61/s 97/78/pc 91/57/t
84/64/s 86/70/s 88/66/s
92/72/t 94/70/pc
Fairbanks, AK 60/47/r 62/41/sh Fargo, ND
Hartford, CT 84/58/s 92/60/s Honolulu 89/75/s Houston 93/74/t Indianapolis 88/66/s Jackson, MS
90/72/t 87/72/t
Jacksonville, FL 88/72/t 89/72/pc Kansas City, MO 88/68/s 90/70/s Las Vegas
101/71/s 94/70/s
89/75/s 93/74/t 92/67/s
86/63/pc 88/66/pc Tomorrow
Louisville 92/70/s Memphis 94/74/s Miami 91/81/t Milwaukee 82/64/s Minneapolis 85/64/s Nashville 90/70/s
94/71/s 91/71/t 75/60/pc 73/58/pc 94/71/s 91/70/pc 91/79/t 88/69/s 87/70/s 91/69/s
New Orleans 88/76/t 89/77/t New York City 85/72/s 94/76/s Norfolk 84/67/s
84/66/s
Oklahoma City 92/66/s 94/70/s Omaha 85/64/s Orlando 91/76/t Philadelphia 87/65/s Phoenix 99/80/t Pittsburgh 86/56/s
Portland, ME 80/56/s 82/60/s Portland, OR
88/70/s 92/76/t 93/68/s 98/79/pc 88/60/s
71/52/pc 70/54/pc
Providence, RI 86/62/s 93/66/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/61/s Sacramento 72/50/s St. Louis
88/72/s 91/71/s
St. Thomas, VI 89/79/sh 88/81/r Salt Lake City 89/59/t 81/52/t San Diego
69/61/pc 68/61/pc
San Francisco 64/52/pc 66/52/pc San Juan, PR 89/78/t 89/79/pc Seattle 68/48/pc 66/52/pc Spokane, WA 72/47/s 73/45/c Syracuse 82/56/s Tampa 93/78/t Wichita 90/67/s
88/56/s 91/78/t 91/72/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
90/64/s 91/63/s 77/48/pc 69/47/t 90/63/s 80/52/pc
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KLMNO Today Mostly sunny
88° 66°
Wind east 4-8 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 67/60/t 69/60/t Amsterdam 63/54/sh Athens 98/77/s Auckland 61/50/sh Baghdad 110/74/s Bangkok 90/77/c Beijing 87/69/s Berlin 63/51/sh Bogota 66/47/t Brussels 64/47/sh
82/73/t
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 87/70/s
60/50/sh 97/78/s 57/51/sh 111/75/s 90/78/sh 89/69/s 60/52/sh 66/44/t
61/45/sh
Buenos Aires 68/46/pc 59/39/pc Cairo 101/78/s 102/79/s Caracas 82/73/t Copenhagen 65/51/pc
61/54/sh
Dakar 88/74/pc 84/74/c Dublin 63/48/sh Edinburgh 64/44/sh Frankfurt 67/48/sh Geneva
67/51/sh
Ham., Bermuda 84/76/sh 84/76/s Helsinki 61/48/s
Islamabad 102/76/s Istanbul 92/79/s Jerusalem 89/64/s Johannesburg 77/47/s Kabul 102/52/s
96/83/t Lagos 82/74/t
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 110° Philip, S.D. Low: 30° Boca Reservoir, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
61/46/sh 56/41/pc 63/50/pc 69/51/s
63/50/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 89/78/t 89/77/sh Hong Kong
90/81/pc 91/81/r 102/75/s 94/81/s 89/63/s 80/46/s 103/52/s
Kingston, Jam. 89/80/pc 89/80/t Kolkata
94/83/t 83/73/sh Lima 67/55/pc 68/54/pc
London 66/50/sh Madrid 93/66/s Manila 84/77/sh Mexico City
Tomorrow 92/71/s
64/48/pc 92/68/s 85/77/t
Montreal 83/66/s Moscow 59/48/r Mumbai 88/77/pc Nairobi 76/61/t New Delhi
Oslo 59/47/r Ottawa
82/62/s
77/57/t 77/57/t 84/66/s 55/43/sh 86/75/r 77/59/t
95/82/pc 96/81/pc 56/44/sh 84/62/s
Paris 72/52/sh 70/51/sh Prague 59/48/r
65/51/t
Rio de Janeiro 86/74/s 88/75/s Riyadh 106/80/s 105/79/s Rome 84/64/s Santiago 57/36/c
85/64/s 68/39/s
San Salvador 83/72/sh 84/73/t Sarajevo
89/52/s
Seoul 86/74/t Shanghai 85/76/pc Singapore 88/79/t Stockholm 63/50/sh Sydney 63/42/s Taipei 90/79/s Tehran 88/75/s
67/45/sh 85/73/r
87/78/sh 89/79/t 61/52/r 64/45/s 90/80/t 89/75/s
Tokyo 87/76/pc 86/78/pc Toronto 83/62/s Vienna 71/50/r
85/63/s 66/51/pc
Warsaw 65/50/sh 65/46/r Yerevan 93/63/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 119° Minagish, Kuwait Low: -3° Summit Station, Greenland
97/65/s
Rise Set
7:45 p.m.
9:13 p.m. 10:16 a.m.
San Francisco Los Angeles
San Francisco Los Angele
Phoenix Phoenix Portland Salt
Salt La
Lake City
Lake CiCity
ke Calga Calgary Calgary Helena Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Denver Denver Denve St. Loui DalDallalas Houston Monterrey Monterre Monterrey HoustoHouston Dallas St. Louis St. Louis Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Atlanta Atlanta Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipe Ottaw
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Columbus Columbus Chicago cago Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto Charleston Charlesto Charleston New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia
Sunday Sunny
90° 68°
Wind south 4-8 mph
Monday Sunny
92° 72°
Wind southwest 6-12 mph
Tuesday Sunny
94° 71°
Wind north-northwest 6-12 mph
Wednesday Mostly sunny
97° 72°
Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
83° at 5:00 p.m. 66° at 5:57 a.m. 85°/67°
100° in 1987 51° in 1885
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
None 2.59” 2.97” 21.36” 25.79”
72% at 6:00 a.m. 37% at 3:00 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
30.19” 30.10”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
82° at 3:59 p.m. 60° at 6:00 a.m. 84°/61°
100° in 1987 46° in 1969
None 4.42” 3.26” 26.59” 27.71”
86% at 4:00 a.m. 44% at 2:00 p.m.
30.19” 30.10”
Normal Record
82° at 3:07 p.m. 59° at 5:00 a.m. 83°/62°
102° in 1948 53° in 1885
None 4.74” 3.24” 28.26” 27.83”
86% at 5:00 a.m. 43% at 4:00 p.m.
30.18” 30.09”
Apparent Temperature:
83°
(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 ................. 10 This month....... 410 This season .... 1689 Normal to yesterday ...... 1270 Last season .... 1203
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
5:41 a.m. 10:56 a.m. 5:32 p.m. 11:07 p.m. 2:04 a.m. 7:48 a.m. 1:57 p.m. 8:39 p.m. 4:12 a.m. 10:26 a.m. 4:38 p.m. 10:42 p.m. 6:01 a.m. 12:15 p.m. 6:33 p.m.
none
Point Lookout 3:52 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 4:43 p.m. 11:03 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 6:33 a.m.
7:35 a.m. 7:49 p.m.
10:26 a.m. 9:22 p.m.
10:10 a.m. 9:29 p.m.
8:50 p.m. 8:50 a.m.
8:54 a.m. 9:03 p.m.
8:42 p.m. 8:42 a.m.
Sep 23 Full
“No one will give a return phone call. No
one wants to take responsibility for it.” — Susan Monaco, spokeswoman for the Evans family
Elderly woman is forced from home after storm drain flooding
flood from B1 The family has called the coun-
ty. The state. Council members. Congressmen. Anyone they can think of to help Evans, better known as “Grandma Bee” in her neighborhood, restore her home to normal. Her only son lives out of state; another relative lives in the area but has a townhouse with a lot of steps. “No one will give a return phone call,” Monaco said. “No one wants to take responsibility for it.”
After the flood, the family said it was told by Montgomery work- ers that the State Highway Ad- ministration was responsible for the blocked storm drain. A spokesman for the state said
Friday that that might not be ac- curate. Charlie Gischlar of the State
Highway Administration said it is has not been determined whether the state is responsible for the maintenance of the blocked drain.
Gischlar said the state sent nine pump trucks to the area to help drain the water because of
worse shape her house will be in, the more costly the repairs will be and the longer it will take to be re- paired,” Monaco said.
SUSAN BIDDLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
“Grandma Bee,” as Evans is known in her neighborhood, wants to go back home, her family says.
the deluge. But because of the location of
Evans’s house, Gischlar said, questions have arisen about who is responsible for the drains. Some along the road are main- tained by the state, and some are handled by the county. Gischlar said the state is inves-
tigating. “We’re working with Montgom-
ery County to see who maintains that drain,” Gischlar said. “Trying to answer the question: Is it us, or is it you?” Evans’s family worries about how long the probe will drag on. “The longer it takes . . . the
Because there is a question about who is responsible for the drain, Gischlar said he was un- able to provide information about past records or whether the storm drain has been properly main- tained. He said that would all be part of the inquiry. After the responsible party is
determined, Evans’s family can file a claim with the state or coun- ty, Gischlar said. Meanwhile, Grandma Bee sits in her wheelchair in a hotel room without her familiar belongings around her.
“She is essentially homeless,”
Monaco said. The family filed a claim with
Evans’s homeowners insurance, but they said it was denied be- cause the flooding was the result of a blocked drain. The family also filed a claim with the state Aug. 16 to get the home repaired, but Monaco said they have been “getting the run- around.” Mary Anderson, a spokeswom- an for the county, said the county will pay for Evans’s hotel room while the remediation is done on the house, which may include re- placement of drywall, wiring and flooring. “We’re trying to figure out if the
state or county is responsible,” Anderson said. “We want to get the woman back in her home as soon as possible, but we have to make sure it’s safe.” Grandma Bee’s family said even though Evans can no longer ver- balize her wishes, there is one thing they know for certain — she wants to go back home. They see it in her facial expres- sions and the sadness in her blue- green eyes.
COURTESY OF SUSAN MONACO
Located at the bottom of a hill, Evans’s house is the only one in her Forest Glen neighborhood that flooded during the storms Aug. 12.
“She wants to end her days in her home,” Monaco said. “She wants to die there. She has always said that.”
wigginsovetta@washpost.com SUSAN BIDDLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Tadahiko Nakamura has operated Galaxy Systems since the 1970s. The service scours newspapers for stories about Japan and delivers the news to Japanese professionals in their native language.
Digital age threatens Japanese translation service in District
translate from B1
ura said. “If you want to under- stand American politics, you need to read papers from all over the country.”
When disputes over Japan’s ag-
ricultural trade with the U.S. emerged, Nakamura started mon- itoring Midwestern farming pub- lications. When Toyota built its biggest U.S. factory in Kentucky, he subscribed to local newspapers and magazines in that region. The contracts kept coming in:
Mitsubishi, Toshiba and Honda all signed on to Galaxy’s custom- ized service, paying upwards of $70,000 a year to monitor news- papers for allusions to their prod- ucts. A basic subscription, includ- ing daily news digests and a week- ly analysis, can be purchased for $1,500 a year. At its peak, Galaxy Systems brought in nearly half a million dollars a year, Nakamura said. “There’s nowhere else to get all
the day’s American news coverage in Japanese, and they do it so quickly,” said Minora Yamamoto, executive director of the Japanese External Trade Organization. One morning last week, Karol
Zipple, the company’s only Amer- ican employee, made a small pile of clips: news stories on increased Japanese demand for American wine, food-borne illnesses and the women’s golf tour. Compared with coverage in previous years, it was a depressingly slim product. “We used to be buried in news- print” before U.S. newspapers be- gan cutting back coverage as a re- sult of the recession and the de- cline of print journalism, Zipple said.
When Nakamura started his business, coverage of Japan was extensive — stories on the coun- try’s booming economy were piled high in Galaxy’s office. Debates over protectionism raged on the editorial pages. But when Japan’s economy started to plateau and the Internet made daily news- papers free and accessible in the United States and abroad, Nakam- ura’s business began to decline. The company now operates at nearly a 50 percent loss. Last year, Toyota, one of the company’s big- gest clients, scrapped its contract with Galaxy. Nakamura said he’ll wait until December before decid- ing whether to halt operations. Even Galaxy’s employees are
sometimes unsure what role the company now serves. “You don’t ask why these people are still sub- scribing,” Zipple said. “As long as they want us to do this and they pay us to do this.” For now, business continues as
usual at Galaxy. In addition to Ja- pan-related news, the linguists translate the front-page stories of eight U.S. dailies. “The idea is to express the prevailing American thought on a number of issues,” Nakamura said.
By noon, the Galaxy Daily Re-
port — “Vol. 18. No. 5886” — was finished. Sakamoto grabbed a pile of packets, hopped on his bicycle and took off to the embassy on Massachusetts Avenue NW. The report, now spruced up with a few editorial cartoons, is still delivered by hand, just as it was when Nakamura first started the business. “We don’t know what will hap- pen to newspapers,” Nakamura said. “But as long as there’s a rela- tionship between the U.S. and Ja- pan, as long as there’s business and diplomacy, Japanese will want to know what’s going on in America.”
sieffk@washpost.com
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