B8 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Our seventh heat wave (three days or more of 90-degree or hotter weather) of the year rolls on. Sunny skies and a light wind from the southwest join hands to make the first day of “meteorological fall” feel pretty darn summery. Highs mainly in the mid-90s again.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low High Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
94/63 96/65
Baltimore 96/64
Washington 96/71
Richmond Charlottesville
96/60 94/66
Norfolk 90/71
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny, hot. High 85-92. Wind south 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear, warm. Low 64-70. Wind south 3-6 mph. •Thursday, mostly sunny, hot. High 82-90. Wind south 6-12 mph. •Friday, mostly sunny, breezy, warm. High 80- 88.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 88/69
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, hot. High 88-94. Wind south 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear, humid. Low 67-71. Wind south 3-6 mph. •Thursday, increas- ingly cloudy, warm. High 83-88. Wind southeast 4-8 mph. •Friday, rain, windy, cooler. High 78-84.
Upper Potomac River: Today, sunny.
Wind south 4-8 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, sunny. Wind south 4-8 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay. Visibility unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.6 feet today, holding steady at 2.6 feet Thursday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 91/70
Ocean City 89/69
Dover 92/69
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Unhthy sens grps
Ozone, 129 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 97/75
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 88/60/pc Anchorage 62/50/pc Atlanta 92/71/s
90/64/s 91/66/s 91/59/s 64/50/c 92/71/s
Austin 97/75/pc 98/74/t Baltimore 96/64/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 93/65/s 92/66/s
70/48/t 71/46/s 95/68/s
Bismarck, ND 78/51/t 72/47/sh Boise 80/50/pc 79/54/s Boston 95/73/s Buffalo 90/67/s
Burlington, VT 90/64/s 91/66/s Charleston, SC 90/69/s 91/67/s Charleston, WV 94/64/s 94/64/s Charlotte 96/61/s
95/64/s
Cheyenne, WY 82/46/pc 73/38/s Chicago 85/70/t Cincinnati 95/66/s Cleveland 90/68/s
85/66/t
95/66/pc 90/67/pc
Dallas 97/78/pc 97/73/t Denver 86/52/pc 78/44/s Des Moines
Detroit 92/68/t El Paso
93/71/t 97/66/s
Fairbanks, AK 64/40/pc 64/40/pc Fargo, ND
75/55/pc 68/50/sh
Hartford, CT 92/66/s 92/66/s Honolulu 88/73/s
Houston 93/76/pc 93/76/t Indianapolis 90/69/s Jackson, MS
91/67/t 93/68/pc 93/69/pc
Jacksonville, FL 91/68/s 90/66/s Kansas City, MO 83/73/r 84/60/t Las Vegas
96/69/s 103/76/s 88/73/pc
84/70/t 80/57/sh 84/68/t
93/69/s 88/67/pc
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 95/71/s Memphis 93/74/s
94/72/s 95/71/pc 86/64/s 88/66/s 95/71/pc 95/73/pc
Miami 91/79/pc 90/79/s Milwaukee 83/69/t Minneapolis 78/65/pc Nashville 93/68/s
83/65/t 74/57/r 95/68/s
New Orleans 90/75/pc 92/75/pc New York City 93/77/s 91/73/s Norfolk 90/71/s
85/72/c
Oklahoma City 94/75/t 95/64/t Omaha 84/69/t
78/55/sh
Orlando 93/73/pc 93/74/s Philadelphia 97/75/s Phoenix 104/78/s Pittsburgh 93/64/s
94/71/s 108/80/s 93/64/s
Portland, ME 86/63/s 89/65/s Portland, OR
70/55/pc 81/56/s
Providence, RI 94/69/s 91/67/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 94/66/s Sacramento 96/59/s St. Louis
88/73/t 87/68/t
St. Thomas, VI 91/81/pc 88/80/r Salt Lake City 77/51/s 80/54/s San Diego
75/64/s 76/65/s
San Francisco 80/58/pc 89/58/s San Juan, PR 92/79/pc 91/79/pc Seattle 68/51/pc 74/55/s Spokane, WA 68/47/t 78/50/s Syracuse 92/65/s
91/65/s
Tampa 92/75/pc 92/76/s Wichita 92/73/t
88/61/t NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
95/65/s 93/65/s 87/55/s 91/55/s 91/69/pc 99/58/s
S
KLMNO Today Sunny, hot
96° 71°
Wind south 4-8 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Thursday Partly sunny
92° 71°
Wind south-southeast 6-12 mph Friday Mostly sunny, hot
92° 70°
Wind west-northwest 8-16 mph
Saturday Mostly sunny
80° 61°
Wind west-northwest 12-25 mph Sunday Sunny, breezy
81° 64°
Wind west-southwest 10-20 mph
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
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Fronts Cold
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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 68/59/t 68/60/t Amsterdam 63/53/pc Athens 84/64/s Auckland 60/49/sh Baghdad 114/76/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 85/64/s
65/50/sh 84/66/s 59/50/r 114/74/s
Bangkok 91/79/pc 91/78/pc Beijing 81/68/t Berlin 62/53/sh Bogota 67/47/r Brussels 64/49/pc
91/70/s 66/48/sh 66/46/r
65/49/pc
Buenos Aires 59/37/pc 57/48/r Cairo 99/76/s Caracas 82/73/t Copenhagen 65/53/sh Dakar 89/77/t Dublin 64/50/pc Edinburgh 62/51/pc
72/49/s
Ham., Bermuda 86/78/pc 86/80/t Helsinki 63/48/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 89/78/t 88/76/t Hong Kong
97/85/pc 92/83/t
Islamabad 101/77/pc 100/79/s Istanbul 74/59/sh Jerusalem 85/64/s Johannesburg 77/45/s Kabul 100/55/s
74/63/s 82/63/t 81/48/s 101/53/s
Kingston, Jam. 87/80/sh 87/79/sh Kolkata
95/82/t Lagos 82/72/sh
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 102° Fort Worth, Texas Low: 20° 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. 95/81/t 84/74/pc Lima 66/52/pc 67/55/pc
94/68/s 81/73/t 65/47/s 88/79/pc 66/54/pc 63/53/pc
Frankfurt 66/52/pc 70/52/pc Geneva
59/43/sh 75/54/pc
London 69/52/pc Madrid 90/61/t Manila 88/77/t Mexico City
Montreal 90/68/s
Tomorrow 82/64/s
72/52/pc 86/59/sh 86/78/sh
75/59/t 79/57/t 82/69/t
Moscow 55/46/sh 68/50/pc Mumbai 87/75/r Nairobi 79/60/t New Delhi
87/75/r 79/60/sh 93/81/sh 91/80/sh
Oslo 63/42/sh 61/42/s Ottawa
90/62/s
Paris 73/55/s Prague 64/51/sh
81/64/t 73/53/s 66/47/sh
Rio de Janeiro 86/72/s 87/72/s Riyadh 105/77/s 105/79/pc Rome 81/56/s Santiago 54/43/c
79/60/pc 54/41/sh
San Salvador 83/73/t 83/73/t Sarajevo
68/44/s
Seoul 91/73/t Shanghai 88/76/t Singapore 88/79/t Stockholm 63/46/sh
75/48/s 83/73/t 86/75/c 85/79/pc 57/46/pc
Sydney 75/50/pc 64/50/c Taipei 92/79/pc Tehran 89/76/s Tokyo 86/75/s Toronto 90/67/s Vienna 66/52/s Warsaw 54/50/r Yerevan 99/66/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 118° Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia Low: -14° Summit Station, Greenland
91/79/pc 92/77/s 86/75/pc 82/63/pc 68/56/sh 60/44/sh 101/64/s
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas San Francisco San Francisco Portland Helena
Salt La
Salt City
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Helena
Rapid City
City Denver Denve Denver
Rapid Ci
St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston Calgary Calgary Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw
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St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Columbus Columbus Chicago cago Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia
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.
96° at 3:06 p.m. 71° at 5:55 a.m. 84°/66°
100° in 1953 49° in 1934
None 2.59” 3.44” 21.36” 26.26”
70% at 4:00 a.m. 27% 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
30.23” 30.10”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
95° at 2:47 p.m. 61° at 5:56 a.m. 83°/61°
98° in 1991 43° in 1976
None 4.42” 3.78” 26.59” 28.23”
89% at 7:00 a.m. 29% at 5:00 p.m.
30.24” 30.11”
Normal Record
95° at 12:58 p.m. 64° at 6:00 a.m. 82°/61°
102° in 1953 49° in 1986
None 4.74” 3.74” 28.26” 28.33”
86% at 6:00 a.m. 29% at 2:00 p.m.
30.21” 30.09”
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. Tuesday ............. 19 This month....... 479 This season .... 1758 Normal to yesterday ...... 1315 Last season .... 1245
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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1:08 a.m. 8:37 a.m. 1:47 p.m. 8:19 p.m. 6:08 a.m. 10:41 a.m. 4:24 p.m. 11:43 p.m. 12:49 a.m. 7:03 a.m. 1:31 p.m. 8:04 p.m. 2:41 a.m. 8:46 a.m. 3:17 p.m. 9:54 p.m.
Point Lookout 2:16 a.m. 6:45 a.m. 12:32 p.m. 7:47 p.m. Moon phases
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Sep 8 New
Sep 15 First Quarter
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:37 a.m.
7:39 p.m.
11:49 p.m. 2:19 p.m.
7:02 a.m. 7:27 p.m.
10:28 a.m. 9:13 p.m.
10:07 a.m. 9:20 p.m.
8:33 p.m. 8:32 a.m.
8:40 a.m. 8:48 p.m.
8:26 p.m. 8:26 a.m.
Sep 23 Full
Device at Gallery Place intended to annoy teens
mosquito from B1
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September 1, 2010 Noon
Mayor Adrian Fenty and
Council Chairman Vincent Gray
— was convening a meeting,” Ev- ans said. “We had absolutely noth- ing to do with this Mosquito.” Mike Gibson, president of Mov- ing Sound Technologies, which distributes the Mosquito, said the device emits a tone set at 17.5 kilo- hertz, the high end of the hearing range for 13- to 25-year-olds. “The bottom line is that the Mosquito is installed where 13- to 25-year-olds aren’t supposed to be,” Gibson said. “Adults just walk through the sound.” The device, he said, is sold mainly to schools, which activate the sound at night to ward off van- dals, and to skateboard parks, tennis courts and playgrounds. In Fairfield, Calif., the device was in- stalled at a low-income housing project at the request of residents who wanted to chase off prosti- tutes and drug dealers who con- gregated outdoors. “It drives kids crazy,” said Don
Hemingway, vice president for business development at Miracle Recreation Equipment, a Missou- ri company that uses the Mosqui- to as part of a larger security de- vice sold to playground owners. “It’s pretty cool stuff. It gets in your head and it’s just annoying, and you just want to get the heck out of there. We have other set- tings for adults if you have bums hanging around.”
D.C. police Lt. Nicholas Breul said a police representative at- tended the meeting about the teens, but the department did not recommend installing the device. D.C. transportation officials and Metro said the same thing. Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman
for Metro, said Gallery Place is one of the busiest stations in the system. “We are the school bus for Washington, D.C.,” she said. “We have lots of youngsters who use that station, and we do not want to discourage their use of transit in any way.” At Gallery Place, some passers-
by traced the noise to the device mounted on the building’s exteri- or — a small,white box too high to reach — but most continued, un- bothered. Henry Ralls, 40, leaned against the wall a few feet away, hearing nothing but the music of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony coming from a player in his hands. “I think it’s a good thing,” he
said. “All the youngsters do is fight. The police be trying, but they can’t stop it.” Maurice Arnold, 19, and
Dwayne Cooper, 19, said they could barely hear the tone. Just a tiny beep, beep, beep.
Arnold said use of the device was “discrimination against young black teenagers,” who make up the majority of the teen- age crowd hanging around the block at night. “It’s kind of mean,
MARK GAIL/THE WASHINGTON POST
The Mosquito, an ultrasonic device, has been installed near the Gallery Place Metro station to discourage loitering by youths.
ain’t it?” he said. “Even if a child were to complain, they aren’t go- ing to take it seriously. They don’t see us as having a voice.” Katie Gommel, 22, a waitress at
Matchbox who waits for her bus at Seventh and H, said the effort to chase kids away with noise misses the real issue: “Why are these kids hanging around here? Because they have nothing better to do. One officer standing here could do a lot more.”
COURTLAND MILLOY Bring it on, Hurricane Earl. We’re ready. Oh, we are ready. milloy from B1
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for our customers.” You want some of that six-point reliability, Earl? Point one ought to be enough
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to make you think twice: “enhanced vegetation management,” which includes, “trimming along public rights of way to obtain increased clearance between the overhead electric wires and existing trees. In addition to tree trimming, Pepco also will work with counties, communities and homeowners to remove tress that are dead, in poor health or would damage the distribution system if they were to fall.” Sort of takes the fun out of
being a hurricane. Although it might also mean that somebody’s favorite tree might end up being used to make newsprint. All for the greater good. The point, though, is that we
have never been more prepared for anything Mother Nature has to throw at us. We have a clog-free
street-drainage system so that nobody need ever canoe down Pennsylvania Avenue. Or at least that’s what I’m guessing. We have evacuation routes ready for our 5million residents to beat a path along Interstate 66 West for the safety of the Shenandoah. Or at least we’re working on a getaway plan.
A couple of years ago, the
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to seek $200,000 in grant money from the Department of Homeland Security to develop a blueprint for evacuating domestic animals in case of a Katrina-like catastrophe. One thing’s for sure: You will not be seeing Fido and Fifi floating down the Potomac in a storm surge. Our TV meteorologists are storming the beaches, palm trees swaying in the background, waves breaking over their windbreakers — risking their Rolexes to bring us the weather live. We’ve got them manning the TV storm centers, playing the radar loop — rev up buzz saw
hurricane, stop, back up, rev up again — tracking directly into our homes (unless you live in another area, in which case your weather people have it tracking toward yours). We’ve even got teams of iWitness amateur weather watchers using cellphone video to show us what rain looks like from inside their cars. Weather alert: For the next 48 hours, keep a close eye on your meteorologists as they keep an eye on the eye of Earl.
So come on if you want to, Mr.
Hurricane. But seeing how worked up we get over weather, you might want to stick to churning suds offshore.
milloyc@washpost.com
As school ended Tuesday, Tone
Walters, 38, stood at the corner asking people young and old, “Do you hear that?” The sound didn’t annoy him, but he questioned the point of the Mosquito. “Who are you trying to run away?” Walters said. “It’s clas- sism and ageism. And it’s sad.” “The reality is, this section has
always been crowded and always is going to be crowded,” he said.
vargast@washpost.com
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