C12 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Showers are likely in the morning but should decrease in coverage during the afternoon, when any showers would be more intermittent. Nonetheless, the frontal system crossing the region is a slow mover, so expect mostly cloudy skies all day. Low humidity, highs in the mid-70s.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Absent
Absent Absent
Harrisburg Hagerstown
68/57 70/55
Baltimore 72/57
Washington 72/62
Richmond Charlottesville
74/52 78/60
Norfolk 73/65
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly cloudy, shower. High 70-76. Wind north at 5-10 mph. •Tonight, clear. Low 45- 55. Wind light and vari- able. •Monday, mostly sunny. High 71-80. Wind west 8-16 mph. •Tuesday, sunny. High 70-78. Wind northwest 12-25 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 75/62
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly cloudy, showers. High 70-74. Wind southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, evening shower, clearing. Low 60-65. Wind light and variable. •Monday, sunny, warmer. High 76- 81. Wind west 6-12 mph. •Tuesday, sunny, warm. High 80-85.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
cloudy, showers. Wind southeast 6-12 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility 3 miles in rain. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly cloudy, showers. Winds southeast 6-12 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.3 feet today, holding steady Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 73/64
Ocean City 72/61
Dover 70/61
Absent
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
2 out of 11+, Low
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good
Ozone, 41 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 72/62
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 86/60/s Anchorage 64/48/s
68/55/sh 74/53/c 84/62/pc 65/47/s
Atlanta 90/64/pc 87/67/s Austin 96/75/t Baltimore 72/57/sh Billings, MT
Birmingham 88/63/pc 85/56/s
95/74/pc 79/58/s
77/47/s 77/47/s 90/66/s
Bismarck, ND 74/43/s 69/44/s Boise 85/53/s
Boston 66/58/pc 71/59/c Buffalo 70/56/c
71/52/c
Burlington, VT 68/53/pc 70/51/sh Charleston, SC 90/71/t 87/65/s Charleston, WV 76/52/pc 84/55/s Charlotte 84/60/pc
85/59/s
Cheyenne, WY 82/44/s 79/45/s Chicago 80/60/s
Cincinnati 78/52/pc 85/57/s Cleveland 72/56/pc Dallas 94/79/t Denver 86/49/s Des Moines
82/61/s 79/59/s
Detroit 74/57/pc 77/54/c El Paso
Fairbanks, AK 67/41/s 68/41/s Fargo, ND
70/45/s 64/41/s
Hartford, CT 68/57/pc 76/55/c Honolulu 88/72/pc Houston 96/77/t Indianapolis 78/58/s Jackson, MS
92/61/pc 90/62/s
Jacksonville, FL 92/71/t 92/70/t Kansas City, MO 85/66/s 84/65/t Las Vegas
96/73/s 97/71/s
88/72/pc 95/75/t
85/58/pc 92/68/pc 93/68/pc 74/54/pc
77/56/pc 94/73/pc 87/50/pc
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow Louisville 80/58/pc
88/60/pc 91/60/s 80/60/pc 82/60/pc 87/62/s
Memphis 86/61/pc 89/65/s Miami 90/79/t Milwaukee 76/61/s Minneapolis 76/55/s Nashville 82/57/pc
90/78/t
74/54/pc 70/48/s 89/58/s
New Orleans 92/74/t 92/72/pc New York City 70/65/sh 78/66/pc Norfolk 73/65/sh
76/63/s
Oklahoma City 90/70/s 92/68/pc Omaha 84/61/s Orlando 94/75/t Philadelphia 72/62/sh
79/62/s 93/73/t
79/63/pc
Phoenix 102/80/pc 104/80/pc Pittsburgh 72/53/pc 77/54/pc Portland, ME 64/51/pc 67/53/sh Portland, OR
78/54/pc 77/55/pc
Providence, RI 67/59/pc 73/59/c Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 78/60/sh Sacramento 88/49/s St. Louis
83/60/c 84/58/s 86/47/s 84/49/s 81/59/s 88/52/s
82/61/s 86/64/pc
St. Thomas, VI 89/79/s 89/79/pc Salt Lake City 79/53/s 83/57/s San Diego
70/62/pc 73/61/pc
San Francisco 70/53/pc 71/53/pc San Juan, PR 89/78/pc 88/78/pc Seattle 69/54/c
71/53/pc
Spokane, WA 74/47/c 76/49/pc Syracuse 68/53/sh Tampa 90/77/t Wichita 88/68/s
73/51/sh 91/77/t 85/66/t
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Showers
72° 62°
Wind east-southeast 4-8 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY SeattlSeattle Seattle Portlan 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 68/60/t 69/59/t Amsterdam 65/49/sh Athens 79/68/t Auckland 63/54/sh Baghdad 107/71/s Bangkok 90/79/t Beijing 90/66/s Berlin 76/60/pc Bogota 67/47/t Brussels 66/46/sh
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 84/70/pc
63/55/pc 82/67/s 63/48/pc 109/72/s 89/77/t 90/66/s 67/51/sh 68/47/t
62/52/pc
Buenos Aires 65/50/s 65/50/pc Cairo 98/73/s Caracas 84/73/t Copenhagen 69/61/sh Dakar 88/79/t Dublin 63/52/pc Edinburgh 63/52/s Frankfurt 74/53/t Geneva
73/58/t
95/70/s 84/74/t 63/49/s 90/79/pc 67/58/c 66/57/sh 66/49/c 60/52/pc
Ham., Bermuda 84/70/s 84/70/s Helsinki 63/45/c
64/43/r
Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/t 89/77/t Hong Kong
86/79/t 88/79/t
Islamabad 99/74/s Istanbul 76/66/sh Jerusalem 84/61/s Johannesburg 76/50/s Kabul 93/48/s
96/82/t Lagos 83/74/t
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 101° Wharton, Texas Low: 19° Big Piney, Wyo.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
100/72/s 73/62/s 83/58/s 82/45/s 90/48/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/79/r 88/80/sh Kolkata
93/80/c 82/75/pc
Lima 69/55/pc 69/54/pc
London 70/50/s Madrid 86/59/s Manila 87/78/s Mexico City
Tomorrow 91/72/s
63/54/pc 87/57/s 86/77/t
74/52/t 75/51/t Montreal 70/57/pc 68/54/sh
Moscow 62/43/sh 59/45/s Mumbai 90/79/sh
Nairobi 84/53/pc 86/54/s New Delhi
89/78/t 93/79/t
Oslo 64/48/sh 62/48/pc Ottawa
68/53/c 69/52/sh
Paris 73/51/sh 67/52/pc Prague 71/50/s
75/52/sh
Rio de Janeiro 86/72/s 87/72/s Riyadh 101/76/s 102/76/s Rome 80/61/s Santiago 54/41/pc
San Salvador 87/73/t 86/73/t Sarajevo
72/48/c
Seoul 84/66/c Shanghai 84/77/r Singapore 88/79/t Stockholm 65/52/c
79/60/s 60/40/pc
72/51/pc 86/64/sh 84/79/t 90/79/t
64/50/sh
Sydney 73/52/pc 72/50/sh Taipei 92/79/s Tehran 80/69/s
90/81/s 85/72/s
Tokyo 86/79/pc 84/75/t Toronto 70/56/pc Vienna 72/57/s Warsaw 68/51/s Yerevan 87/58/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 116° Makkah, Saudi Arabia Low: 4° Summit Station, Greenland
72/53/sh 71/56/c 70/55/s 93/57/s
Rise Set
89/79/pc Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston New New Monterre Monterrey nterrey Orleans OrleanOrleans ew Miami Miami Dallas Dallas Atlant Atlanta Atlanta
CharlestoCharleston Tampa
Tampa
Charleston Tamp
San Francisco San Francisco Portland Helena
Salt La
Salt City
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver Columbus Columbus St. Loui St. Louis St. Louis Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Chicago cago Calga Calgary Calgary Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Monday Mostly sunny
79° 64°
Wind northwest 6-12 mph
Tuesday Sunny
82° 60°
Wind west-northwest 10-20 mph
Wednesday Sunny
75° 57°
Wind northwest 8-16 mph Thursday Mostly sunny
76° 63°
Wind southeast 5-10 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.
80° at 4:00 p.m. 57° at 7:00 a.m. 81°/64°
98° in 1983 40° in 1917
None 0.00” 1.38” 21.36” 27.64”
74% at 7:00 a.m. 30% 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
30.08” 29.95”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
79° at 2:26 p.m. 47° at 7:00 a.m. 80°/58°
99° in 1983 40° in 1976
None 0.00” 1.43” 26.59” 29.66”
89% at 5:00 a.m. 34% at 4:00 p.m.
30.08” 29.95”
Normal Record
78° at 3:00 p.m. 50° at 3:42 a.m. 80°/59°
100° in 1983 43° in 1917
None Trace 1.48” 28.26” 29.81”
89% at 4:00 a.m. 34% at 3:00 p.m.
30.05” 29.95”
Apparent Temperature:
79°
(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. Saturday ..............4 This month....... 143 This season .... 1901 Normal to yesterday ...... 1419 Last season .... 1309
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
Point Lookout 4:30 a.m. 10:35 a.m. 5:31 p.m. Moon phases
Sep 15 First Quarter
Sep 23 Full
Sep 30 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:47 a.m.
7:21 p.m.
11:52 a.m. 9:44 p.m.
5:38 a.m. 6:39 p.m.
10:31 a.m. 8:45 p.m.
10:00 a.m. 8:54 p.m.
7:47 p.m. 7:42 a.m.
8:04 a.m. 8:08 p.m.
7:42 p.m. 7:40 a.m.
6:33 a.m. 11:39 a.m. 6:31 p.m. 11:58 p.m. 3:17 a.m. 8:26 a.m. 2:27 p.m. 9:27 p.m. 4:48 a.m. 11:08 a.m. 5:37 p.m. 11:28 p.m. 12:39 a.m. 6:42 a.m. 1:11 p.m. 7:32 p.m. none
Oct 7 New
Going from ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘Don’t Keep the Change’ obama from C1
But even an industry that might have seemed recession- proof apparently can’t survive the doldrums that hit the president near the midterm elections. Two years into his presidency,
Obama’s approval ratings have fallen like those of most of his predecessors, who tended to dip in the polls about halfway through a term. Then again, most presidents aren’t an industry unto themselves. The people who have made bank despite a bad econo- my are certainly taking notice. Souvenir vendors in Washing-
ton say once-thriving sales of the garish merchandise fawning over the president are nowhere near what they were. Sales peaked at the height of Obamamania, be- tween the election and the inau- guration, but vendors said that Obama paraphernalia still moved from their shelves through much of 2009. Freddy Vinoya, of Souvenir
World in the District, said he has seen sales, and shoppers’ interest, taper off since October, when the store opened. In Union Station, the souvenir shop once dubbed the Obama Store because of its mostly Oba- ma-related selection (save for the Michael Jackson memorabilia of the same vein that popped up af- ter his death) has closed. A jew- elry-repair shop stands in its place near the food court. “That moment in history is
gone,” said Molly Andolina, a pro- fessor of political science at De- Paul University, in the president’s adopted home town of Chicago. “You’re going to only see the en- thusiasts” continue to buy, she said. Using merchandise sales as a measure of public opinion is any- thing but definitive. The down- ward trend in sales could simply mean that the market has been exhausted: How many Obama shirts can one person own, any- way? The trend in sales, however, does mirror the trend in the presi- dent’s popularity. “The Democratic base is less ex- cited than the Republican base,” Andolina said. “Obama has lost the enthusiasm.” She added: “It’s very typical to be doing poorly at this point.” The reason the president was
selling so well was the support he had from independents — the people, politically active or other- wise, who don’t typically buy cam- paign T-shirts. Yet they snapped up the $5 shirts from street ven- dors, as well as haughtier (and ex- ponentially more expensive) op- tions from top-flight designers such as Diane Von Furstenburg, Donna Karan and Beyoncé’s own House of Dereon. The independents, though,
have left Obama behind. “Bottom line: Obama is not do- ing well,” Scott Keeter, director of survey research for the Pew Re- search Center, said of the presi- dent’s standing with independ- ents. Forty-two percent of inde- pendents disapprove of his job performance, according to Pew’s most recent polling data. A similar figure has shown up in the sales figures of a Web site selling political merchandise. CafePress, a California-based site that allows customers to upload their own designs and make them available for others to buy, has used its T-shirt sales as a sort of cultural barometer of polit- ical opinion. What sales have been lost in merchandise supporting the president have been made up by products ripping Obama and his policies, said Amy Maniatis, vice president of CafePress. The posi- tive-to-negative ratio has fallen to 60 to 40, Maniatis said. That fig- ure had been at 90 percent posi- tive just months ago. “Obama’s still quite healthy,” she said, using the T-shirt rubric. “You slowly see he’s being crit- icized, and [there’s] a huge amount of merchandise related to every policy decision. . . . Peo- ple are just engaged with this presidential term.” The change in Obama’s politi-
cal fortunes led Tini Cherkaoui, manager of Discount Souvenirs and Novelties in the District, to alter her inventory. The merchan- dise touting hope and “Change We Can Believe” has been re- placed by items taunting those themes. “It used to be that anything Obama — it was just hot,” she said, as a group of tourists wear- ing anti-Obama T-shirts milled around on the sidewalk. “Now, they’re just against Obama.” That change doesn’t bother her. In her years in the novelty busi-
JUANA ARIAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
At P.D. Souvenirs, Delfina Perez-Garcia shows off an anti-Obama T-shirt as Marina Mancilla observes. “The Democratic base is less excited than the Republican base,” a political science professor noted.
At one Web site, what sales have been lost in merchandise supporting the president have been made up by products ripping Obama and his policies.
ness, she said, she has learned that Republicans are bigger spenders than Democrats. So she’s trying to appeal to the new merchandising trend. A wall of the store now has shirts of a more conservative variety: “Don’t Tread on Me.” “We Need Jobs. Not This Ho-
pey-Changey Thing.” “Don’t Keep the Change.” A life-size poster of a smiling
Obama used to bring people up to the store to take their picture with the “president,” and often lead them to buy a little piece of the Obama moment to take home, Cherkaoui said. Then customers started making derisive com- ments about the president, and the Obama that once brought in business is now stowed away in the storage room.
rojasr@washpost.com
DOMINIC BRACCO II/THE WASHINGTON POST
Obama merchandise, such as this play on Grant Wood’s famous “American Gothic” painting, is for sale at America! in Pentagon City.
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