B6 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast After a weekend of beautiful weather,
temperatures will rise. Tuesday will bring highs in the mid-to-upper 80s and a bit of humidity. Things will cool down overnight, with lows in the 60s. Summer weather will make a comeback Wednesday, which is expected to be the hottest day of the week.
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 Low
Low High Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
86/65 89/65
Baltimore 89/66
Washington 89/70
Richmond Charlottesville
86/64 88/65
Norfolk 86/69
Blue Ridge
•Today, sunny, warm. High 79-88. Wind south 6-12 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 55- 64. Wind southwest 3-6 mph. •Wednesday, partly sunny, shower, thunder- storm. High 74-87. Wind west-northwest 6-12 mph. •Thursday, partly sunny. High 69-79.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 84/68
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, sunny. High 84- 88. Wind south-southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 67-71. Wind south-southwest 8-16 mph. •Wednesday, partly sunny, shower, thunderstorm. High 86- 90. Wind west-southwest 7-14 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, sunny,
very warm. Wind south 7-14 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility clear to the horizon. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, sunny, warm. Wind south 7-14 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay. Visibility clear to the horizon. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.5 feet today, holding steady Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 84/71
Ocean City 86/71
Dover 85/69
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 5 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 89/69
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 86/62/c Anchorage 65/52/sh Atlanta 90/70/s Austin 82/77/r Baltimore 89/66/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 92/68/s
83/61/s 76/55/pc 86/61/t 62/49/c 92/72/pc 88/75/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 92/64/s Memphis 92/74/t Miami 88/79/t
89/58/pc
72/45/pc 72/49/pc 91/70/pc
Bismarck, ND 64/43/s 70/53/pc Boise 81/55/s Boston 82/67/s
80/50/pc 82/60/pc
Buffalo 86/59/pc 71/56/c Burlington, VT 83/62/pc 70/55/sh Charleston, SC 88/70/s 90/70/s Charleston, WV 91/61/s 82/50/pc Charlotte 90/65/s
92/65/pc
Cheyenne, WY 76/48/s 82/50/t Chicago 76/54/pc 71/52/s Cincinnati 90/59/s Cleveland 86/57/pc Dallas 88/73/t Denver 84/52/s Des Moines
80/51/pc 73/55/s 85/77/t 88/55/t
74/51/pc 73/59/pc
Detroit 86/55/pc 70/53/s El Paso
92/69/pc 91/69/pc
Fairbanks, AK 63/48/r 61/44/c Fargo, ND
88/73/s 90/75/t
60/42/pc 69/53/pc
Hartford, CT 83/63/s 80/54/pc Honolulu 89/72/pc Houston 83/75/t Indianapolis 86/55/pc Jackson, MS
93/71/s 92/70/t
Jacksonville, FL 88/72/s 90/71/t Kansas City, MO 80/60/pc 83/67/c Las Vegas
102/74/s 95/70/s
88/71/t 85/69/t 75/60/pc 71/58/pc 85/58/pc 87/71/t 90/80/t
Milwaukee 72/55/pc 68/54/s Minneapolis 62/46/sh Nashville 93/68/s
69/53/pc 87/66/t
New Orleans 90/76/t 92/75/t New York City 86/72/s 87/65/pc Norfolk 86/69/s
89/67/s
Oklahoma City 88/71/t 83/70/t Omaha 74/51/s Orlando 92/75/t Philadelphia 89/69/s Phoenix 102/78/t Pittsburgh 88/59/s
77/63/c 92/73/t
87/62/pc 97/72/s 73/52/s
Portland, ME 76/60/pc 75/56/t Portland, OR
71/55/sh 69/55/pc
Providence, RI 84/66/s 81/59/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/65/s Sacramento 82/54/s St. Louis
90/65/s 93/65/pc 84/51/s 70/45/pc 92/58/s 75/50/pc
84/60/pc 81/62/pc
St. Thomas, VI 91/81/t 89/79/s Salt Lake City 83/59/s 88/56/pc San Diego
77/53/pc 68/63/pc 65/60/pc
San Francisco 67/57/pc 65/54/pc San Juan, PR 88/76/sh 86/76/t Seattle 68/52/sh 69/53/pc Spokane, WA 70/47/pc 72/46/c Syracuse 86/61/pc Tampa 90/75/t
73/55/sh 92/75/t
Wichita 81/64/pc 82/69/t NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO
Today Sunny
89° 70°
Wind south 7-14 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland Portland Sacramento Sacramento
San Francisc Los Angeles
San Francisco Los Angele
Fronts Cold
Warm Stationary
Pressure Centers
High Low
San Francisco Los Angeles
Calga Calgary Calgary Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denver Denve Phoenix Phoenix St. Loui Dalla Houston MonterreMonterrey Monterrey 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 70/58/t 71/58/t Amsterdam 64/52/r Athens 83/70/s Auckland 60/49/r Baghdad 112/74/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 77/63/pc
66/53/r 89/71/s 60/49/s 111/73/s
Bangkok 92/79/pc 93/79/pc Beijing 87/66/r Berlin 66/50/s Bogota 65/46/t Brussels 62/56/r
86/65/s 69/59/pc 66/46/r 68/49/r
Buenos Aires 70/50/s 70/50/pc Cairo 100/76/s 97/72/s Caracas 84/73/t Copenhagen 62/50/pc Dakar 89/80/t Dublin 63/50/r Edinburgh 59/51/r Frankfurt 64/57/r Geneva
85/74/t 65/58/r
65/57/pc 90/78/c 61/48/sh 63/53/sh 66/59/r 64/55/r
Ham., Bermuda 84/79/sh 84/77/pc Helsinki 63/52/pc
63/50/s
Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/t 89/77/t Hong Kong
90/81/sh 91/83/t
Islamabad 101/76/s Istanbul 81/64/pc Jerusalem 85/64/s Johannesburg 84/47/s Kabul 99/52/s
95/83/t
Lagos 83/75/t Lima 71/59/s
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 104° Needles, Calif. Low: 17° Stanley, Idaho
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
100/74/s 82/70/s 84/61/s 79/46/pc 98/52/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/80/s 88/79/sh Kolkata
94/83/t 81/73/t 71/58/s
London 70/55/sh Madrid 79/54/pc Manila 88/79/r Mexico City
Montreal 77/64/sh
Tomorrow 79/64/s
72/55/sh 77/52/s 83/77/c
73/54/t 77/55/t 72/59/sh
Moscow 57/37/pc 59/39/pc Mumbai 89/78/r Nairobi 84/54/sh New Delhi
90/77/r 87/54/sh
Oslo 63/51/s Ottawa
88/79/t 89/79/pc 57/48/pc 68/53/sh
80/60/sh
Paris 65/55/sh 73/58/s Prague 65/47/pc
60/52/c
Rio de Janeiro 73/65/r 73/65/sh Riyadh 103/78/s 103/77/s Rome 82/67/pc 78/66/r Santiago 79/45/s
San Salvador 86/72/t 87/73/t Sarajevo
73/46/pc
Seoul 83/72/pc 75/70/r Shanghai 88/77/s Singapore 88/79/pc Stockholm 64/52/pc Sydney 64/50/c Taipei 90/79/pc Tehran 90/76/s
Tokyo 88/77/pc 83/76/r Toronto 84/61/pc Vienna 66/57/pc
40° 60° 80° 100° 120°
PAST TEN DAYS
0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6"
79/41/pc 82/45/pc
89/75/s 86/78/sh 63/50/sh 64/48/s 88/77/pc 91/75/s
69/54/c 69/64/sh
Warsaw 65/45/sh 61/44/s Yerevan 98/62/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 114° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 3° Islas Orcadas, Argentina
97/58/s
Rise Set
7:29 p.m.
5:38 a.m. 6:46 p.m.
Normal TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010 Actual
HoustoHouston Dallas Dallas St. Louis St. Louis Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Tamp Tampa Miami Miami Tampa Atlanta Atlanta Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Chicago cago Columbus Columbus Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto Charleston Charlesto Charleston New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia
Wednesday Storms possible
89° 61°
Wind west-northwest 8-16 mph
Thursday Sunny
78° 59°
Wind northwest 12-25 mph
Friday Sunny
81° 65°
Wind northwest 7-14 mph
Saturday Partly sunny
86° 68°
Wind south 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 3:37 p.m. 62° at 7:00 a.m. 82°/65°
98° in 1954 47° in 1909
None 0.00” 0.73” 21.36” 26.99”
72% at 2:00 a.m. 28% at 4:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
30.22” 30.11”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
84° at 4:00 p.m. 56° at 7:00 a.m. 82°/59°
98° in 1983 45° in 1972
None 0.00” 0.78” 26.59” 29.01”
71% at 3:00 a.m. 34% at 3:00 p.m.
30.22” 30.11”
Normal Record
82° at 3:59 p.m. 57° at 3:00 a.m. 81°/60°
98° in 1983 46° in 1962
None Trace 0.78” 28.26” 29.11”
71% at 3:00 a.m. 48% at 5:00 p.m.
30.22” 30.11”
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. Monday .............. 10 This month......... 90 This season .... 1848 Normal to yesterday ...... 1376 Last season .... 1286
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 A
2:02 a.m. 7:25 a.m. 2:38 p.m. 7:54 p.m. 4:34 a.m. 11:10 a.m. 4:54 p.m. 11:06 p.m. 12:54 a.m. 6:52 a.m. 1:07 p.m. 7:22 p.m. 2:44 a.m. 8:55 a.m. 3:05 p.m. 9:21 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:38 a.m. 7:18 a.m. 12:58 p.m. 7:14 p.m. Moon phases
Sep 8 New
Sep 15 First Quarter
Sep 23 Full
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:42 a.m.
6:10 a.m. 6:57 p.m.
10:31 a.m. 8:58 p.m.
10:04 a.m. 9:06 p.m.
8:08 p.m. 8:05 a.m.
8:20 a.m. 8:26 p.m.
8:02 p.m. 8:01 a.m.
Sep 30 Last Quarter
Loudoun store owner, wife and kin killed in car crash by Jenna Johnson
The owner of Nichols Hard- ware, a historic family-owned shop in Loudoun County, his wife and one of her relatives were killed in a single-car accident near Front Royal on Sunday after- noon.
Edward E. “Ted” Nichols III, his wife, Karen Nichols, and five of her relatives were traveling on Route 55 in Warren County. The driver, Robert F. Louer, 65, of Flor-
ida, ran his Chevy Suburban off the side of the road, over-correc- ted and drove over an embank- ment into a tree about 2 p.m., Vir- ginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler said. Everyone in the vehicle was wearing a seat belt, and alcohol was not a factor, Tyler said. Ted Nichols, 64, and Karen Nichols, 63, were killed, as was Doris D. Louer, who had recently turned 90. All lived in Purcellville. Two passengers, Marilyn F.
Louer, 62, and Cynthia Louer Fus- selle, 51, were flown to Inova Fair-
fax Hospital. The driver and an- other passenger, David Louer, 71, were taken to a hospital. Nichols Hardware in down- town Purcellville was founded about 100 years ago. Handed down through three generations, the store has kept its historic charm and handwritten receipts. Last year, a film crew began work on a documentary, “Nichols: The Last Hardware Store.”
When store employees showed up for work Monday, they were met by Ted Nichols’s uncle, Ken
Nichols, who closed the store for the day. Pat Smale, who has worked there for 25 years, said he did not know when it will reopen. “The whole crew is devastated,” he said. “There’s no man in there who hasn’t worked there 15, 20 years. It’s a family.” Sunday’s crash was the second major tragedy for the Nichols family in three years. In Septem- ber 2007, Nichols’s father, Edward E. Nichols Jr., apparently killed his wife, Margaret H. Nichols, and then himself in their Loudoun
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common dipper in a single buck- et,” Hanson said, and the children kept getting each other sick. “By the second year we were there, ev- ery kid had his own tin cup.” Ila Mae also started a campaign to rid their tiny community of a bedbug infestation, persuading women to embrace a mattress- burning campaign. A Works Prog- ress Administration mattress fac- tory in a nearby town provided cotton and covers and allowed them to make their own replace- ments.
“She really was quite a remark- able woman. Watching her move and watching Dad deal with vari- ous issues got me very interested in public life and in politics,” Han- son said. His father’s work ethic and easy manner left an imprint. “He was just really a very good, friendly man who was generally regarded as the best thing that happened to his boss,” Hanson said. “He met people well. He had a very good sense of humor. And he was, in a very quiet way, I think, quite persuasive and charming.” Rice, 37, is the grandson of sharecroppers from Round O, S.C., where his mother, Vivian Elaine, was one of 15 brothers and sisters. He grew up in Montgomery’s
Layhill Village community near Aspen Hill and remembers watch- ing his parents help bring togeth- er neighbors opposed to widening Layhill Road. He also saw his mother rebound from a violent family tragedy by pushing a broader legal fight she believed
would protect others. His aunt, Mildred Horn, cousin
Trevor, and a nurse were mur- dered just down the road from Rice’s family home in 1993. “My mother was actually the one who found the bodies that day,” he said. Prosecutors said the man con-
victed of the killings relied on a how-to guide called “Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independ- ent Contractors,” published by Colorado publishing house Pala- din Press. His mother later joined family members to sue Paladin in a case that pitted victims’ rights against freedom of speech. The publishing house’s insurance company decided to settle with the family, and Paladin stopped publishing the guide. “My mother said, ‘There’s a book out there, how to be a hit man, that’s instructing people how to kill people!’ ” Rice recalled. “Here my mother was, already go- ing though the trauma of losing a sister that way, but then to also say, ‘I want to protect others.’ Mil- lie and Trevor were gone. The book would only hurt others.” “When I look at the courage of
my mother — I get a lot from my parents, when it comes to seeing what they went through,” Rice said. His father, Moses, had been a Marine fighting in Da Nang, and they found their own path through an era of racial inequality to “continuously fight for what was right.” “It made me understand how I needed to do the same. It wasn’t just for my family; I also wanted to make sure I did it for my com- munity,” Rice said.
Adapting to change Hanson, 79, trained artillery-
targeting instructors while serv- ing in the Army in the mid-1950s and moved to Montgomery Coun- ty in 1959. He earned a PhD in public administration and a law degree from American University and has spent half a century working on the problems of local government in Montgomery and around the country as an aca- demic and planner. Rice graduated from the Uni-
versity of Maryland with a degree in computer science in 2003 and became a senior sales manager at one of the premier Marriott hotels in the Bethesda-based national chain. He resigned to run for state delegate and has served since 2007. While in the legislature, he worked as a business develop- ment consultant for the govern- ment of Puerto Rico and now sells insurance and bonds. Montgomery’s upcounty coun- cil district (District 2) stretches across the county’s north and west, covering Germantown, large planned subdivisions such as Montgomery Village and rural communities including Barns- ville. Also running in the Demo- cratic primary are consultant Sharon Dooley, information tech- nology specialist Charles Kirch- man, and Eddie Kuhlman, presi- dent of the Commissioners of Poolesville. Republican activist Robin Ficker is the GOP nominee. Driving Hanson’s bid for a seat on the council is a question he has wrestled with for decades, includ- ing in a 2003 book. “Why is it so difficult for local governments to adapt to the kinds
of changes that the world is un- dergoing?” Hanson asked, includ- ing broad demographic shifts in where people live and the jobs they do, and upheavals driven by new technology. His answer: Government offi- cials in certain places tend to lock themselves into particular ways of solving problems, which can stunt their effectiveness. “Trying to fig- ure out how you do things differ- ently, and how you introduce into these deep civic and political cul- tures new ways of thinking, is the real conundrum,” Hanson said. Drawing in diverse voices to cre- ate a “yeasty” center of ideas and action is a key, he said. He has been successful at shak- ing things up in the past. In the 1960s, he was a key ad-
vocate of reforming Montgom- ery’s constitution, or charter, to create an elected county exec- utive. Previously, county manag- ers had been appointed by the County Council, but his efforts paid off in 1970 when the first election was held. Hanson is also regarded as the father of Mont- gomery’s vast agricultural reserve, where home building was sharply limited to save farmland and con- centrate development elsewhere. In recent years, his focus has been on directing growth near an ex- panding transit system and trying to protect the park system. Rice has emphasized his colle- gial approach and the political contacts he has built up in Annap- olis at a time when the General Assembly could foist large new fi- nancial burdens on localities such as Montgomery, including costs associated with teacher pensions.
home. Nichols Jr. ran the family hardware store for years and also was a member of the Town Coun- cil. Relatives said at the time that the couple, both 87, had struggled with health issues: She had Alz- heimer’s disease, and he was los- ing his sight. After the deaths, Ted Nichols took over ownership and manage- ment of the store, with help from his uncle. In an interview last year with The Washington Post, Nich- ols said he worried who would take over next, as no one in the fourth generation appeared inter- ested.
johnsonj@washpost.com
Courthouse displays at issue in Loudoun
Crowd expected at hearing on policy for religious content
by Caitlin Gibson Frederick Frederick MARYLAND
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Rice said he was drawn from community activism to life in public office after concluding that bringing disparate interests to- gether to get things done is some- thing “that’s actually in my skill set. I’m good at that.” He showed that approach as a state delegate, he said, by engineering a suc- cessful legislative effort to address the soaring costs of college text- books and building support to pass an anti-bullying bill. “I’ve got more relationships than anyone else who’s in this race,” Rice said. He has been en- dorsed by Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and points to close ties with Senate President Thom- as V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) and Montgomery Del. Sheila E. Hixson (D), chairwoman of the House’s powerful ways and means committee. “District 2 needs somebody
who’s going to be an effective lead- er, not just someone who wants to serve,” Rice said. “The only person who would be an effective leader is me.”
larism@washpost.com Bow 26
Scores of Loudoun County res- idents are scheduled to speak Tuesday night against a county board commission’s recommen- dation that would disallow reli- gious holiday displays on the grounds of the county court- house, according to the Leesburg Town Council. The dispute began in Novem-
ber, when a resident-led com- mission decided that the county should ban unattended displays at the courthouse after the coun- ty received increased requests to use the public space. When the commission denied a rotary group’s application to place a Christmas tree on court grounds, the new policy drew residents’ attention and ire. The board then established a
policy allowing as many as 10 groups to install displays on the courthouse grounds at a time, on a first-come, first-served basis. But the resident-led commission has continued to express con- cern that the new policy has cre- ated a cluttered and unmanage- able situation. In July, the com- mission asked the board to consider reinstating the ban on unattended religious displays prior to the upcoming holiday season. The board is expected to make a decision at its business meeting on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. The county hearing seeking public comment on the matter is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tues- day at the County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street SE in Leesburg.
gibsonc@washpost.com
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