C10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
With winds coming in from the south and southwest, temperatures take a ride well up into the 80s despite a bit of cloud cover in the afternoon. It will be a little warm, but the humidity won’t be bad and there shouldn’t be any rain in the skies over the Washington area.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Absent
Absent Absent
Harrisburg Hagerstown
80/58 84/58
Baltimore 84/60
Washington 84/64
Richmond Charlottesville
88/60 88/62
Norfolk 80/64
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny. High 80-87. Wind light, variable. •Tonight, clear. Low 52-61. Wind light, variable. •Monday, sunny. High 74-79. Wind north-northeast 4-8 mph. •Tuesday, mostly sunny. High 73-83. Wind south- southwest 4-8 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 80/62
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, rough surf and rip cur- rents. High 77-82. Wind east 6-12 mph. •Tonight, clear. Low 59-67. Wind north 3-6 mph. •Monday, sunny, rough surf and rip currents. High 74-79. Wind north-northeast 10- 20 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny. Wind southwest 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestrict- ed. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Wind south 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.6 feet today, holding steady Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 84/66
Ocean City 78/59
Dover 80/61
Absent
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
5 out of 11+, Moderate
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 4 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 82/60
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 87/60/s Anchorage 65/46/s Atlanta 92/69/s
73/45/pc 67/42/s 85/60/pc 62/46/pc 93/69/s
Austin 90/70/pc 91/72/pc Baltimore 84/60/s Billings, MT
77/52/pc Birmingham 94/68/s
70/46/pc 69/44/c 95/67/s
Bismarck, ND 58/46/pc 62/43/c Boise 79/50/c
Boston 73/58/pc 70/52/s Buffalo 66/46/c
72/47/pc 66/49/pc
Burlington, VT 67/43/pc 63/39/s Charleston, SC 87/67/s 90/69/s Charleston, WV 86/57/pc 84/60/pc Charlotte 90/64/s
93/63/s
Cheyenne, WY 87/51/s 87/42/t Chicago 63/55/c
74/64/pc
Cincinnati 88/61/pc 87/65/pc Cleveland 70/50/r Dallas 97/73/s Denver 88/55/s Des Moines
69/56/pc 93/74/s 95/50/t
Detroit 65/49/r El Paso
66/61/pc 87/65/s 70/56/pc
88/65/s 86/68/pc
Fairbanks, AK 66/36/s 64/36/s Fargo, ND
64/49/pc 72/47/r
Hartford, CT 78/49/pc 69/44/pc Honolulu 88/74/s
88/73/s
Houston 94/73/pc 91/75/pc Indianapolis 82/62/pc Jackson, MS
86/66/s 95/67/s 95/66/s
Jacksonville, FL 89/68/s 92/67/s Kansas City, MO 80/69/pc 89/68/s Las Vegas
99/71/s 97/67/s
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 90/66/pc Memphis 94/70/s Miami 88/78/s Milwaukee 62/53/c Minneapolis 64/51/pc Nashville 92/60/s
95/63/s 94/69/s 80/60/pc 76/60/pc 90/70/s 95/72/s 89/79/s 69/62/pc 82/60/r 94/64/s
New Orleans 92/75/s 93/74/pc New York City 80/64/pc 78/60/pc Norfolk 80/64/s
79/61/s
Oklahoma City 92/68/s 90/70/s Omaha 66/60/pc 88/65/s Orlando 92/72/s Philadelphia 82/60/pc Phoenix 106/82/s Pittsburgh 76/54/c
Portland, ME 70/49/pc 70/44/s Portland, OR
91/71/s 75/54/pc 107/77/s 72/52/pc
70/57/sh 69/55/sh
Providence, RI 75/57/pc 72/49/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/62/s Sacramento 75/53/pc St. Louis
91/60/s 94/60/s 76/45/c 80/44/s 84/55/s 82/52/s
90/69/pc 90/69/s
St. Thomas, VI 90/81/pc 88/79/sh Salt Lake City 87/56/s 76/49/pc San Diego
72/61/pc 71/62/pc
San Francisco 68/55/pc 67/54/pc San Juan, PR 91/78/pc 89/77/sh Seattle 66/56/sh 63/52/sh Spokane, WA 63/50/r 65/46/sh Syracuse 66/45/c Tampa 91/75/t Wichita 90/68/s
66/42/pc 91/74/s 92/68/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Partly sunny
84° 64°
Wind southeast 4-8 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
Seattl Seattle Portland 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 70/57/t 72/56/t Amsterdam 57/55/sh Athens 91/72/s Auckland 58/50/sh Baghdad 102/68/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 82/63/s
63/51/sh 91/69/s 60/52/sh 102/70/s
Bangkok 90/79/pc 91/79/s Beijing 72/64/s Berlin 60/52/s Bogota 66/45/t Brussels 60/51/sh
72/57/r 60/54/r 67/47/t 64/51/r
Buenos Aires 66/49/pc 70/53/pc Cairo 94/71/s
94/74/s
Caracas 86/74/sh 83/73/t Copenhagen 58/50/sh Dakar 89/78/t Dublin 60/53/sh Edinburgh 56/50/sh Frankfurt 62/51/s Geneva
66/48/s
59/50/pc 89/79/sh 62/54/pc 61/50/pc 67/52/pc 70/48/s
Ham., Bermuda 84/83/r 84/73/r Helsinki 57/48/sh
Islamabad 96/63/s Istanbul 86/72/s Jerusalem 83/64/s Johannesburg 84/46/s Kabul 88/39/s
91/80/t Lagos 82/74/t
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 108° Chandler, Ariz. Low: 18° Poplar, Mont.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. 59/52/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/t 90/78/pc Hong Kong
95/82/t 91/81/r 99/65/s 77/67/s 88/65/s 80/48/s 94/41/s
Kingston, Jam. 87/79/pc 86/78/sh Kolkata
93/80/t 84/75/pc Lima 71/58/pc 70/57/pc
London 61/54/pc Madrid 81/60/s Manila 87/77/t Mexico City
Tomorrow 79/59/s
66/50/pc 79/57/pc 86/77/pc
Montreal 64/46/pc Moscow 59/45/s Mumbai 88/79/sh
Oslo 58/46/s Ottawa
Paris 64/52/s Prague 61/44/s
72/54/t 74/55/t 61/44/s 56/42/sh 89/80/r
Nairobi 85/57/pc 84/60/t New Delhi
65/45/pc 85/76/t 87/78/t
56/43/sh 63/43/pc 71/51/s 64/50/pc
Rio de Janeiro 71/66/c 80/72/s Riyadh 98/75/s Rome 79/59/t Santiago 73/42/s
99/74/s 78/61/s 66/38/s
San Salvador 85/73/t 85/73/t Sarajevo
65/42/t
Seoul 77/66/sh Shanghai 88/75/pc Singapore 90/81/t Stockholm 57/46/pc Sydney 68/54/c Taipei 88/77/r Tehran 81/67/s Tokyo 82/70/s Toronto 64/47/pc Vienna 63/48/pc
69/43/pc 81/70/sh 90/73/pc 90/81/t
59/50/sh 70/48/c 90/79/t 83/69/s 82/72/sh 63/52/pc 66/55/s
Warsaw 59/45/pc 62/46/s Yerevan 87/57/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 111° Quaisumah, Saudi Arabia Low: -20° Summit Station, Greenland
87/57/s
Rise Set
7:10 p.m.
5:14 p.m. 3:20 a.m.
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston San Francisco San Francisco Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denver Denve St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
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St. Paul ChiChicag Columbus Columbus Chicago cago Boston Boston Bosto
Philadelphia Washington
Philadelphia Washington
New Yor Washingto New York ew York Calga Calgary Calgary Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw Ottawa ttawa
Monday Sunny
79° 57°
Wind north 8-16 mph Tuesday Mostly sunny
79° 66°
Wind south-southeast 7-14 mph
Wednesday Mostly sunny
87° 68°
Wind southwest 8-16 mph Thursday Mostly sunny
89° 68°
Wind southwest 7-14 mph
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
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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.
79° at 5:00 p.m. 58° at 6:07 a.m. 79°/61°
91° in 1927 45° in 1937
None 0.71” 2.29” 22.07” 28.55”
72% at 8:00 a.m. 37% at 5:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
20° 40° 60° 80° 100°
PAST TEN DAYS
0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6"
Normal TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010 Actual
30.27” 30.17”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
79° at 3:33 p.m. 54° at 7:00 a.m. 78°/55° 91° in 1978 37° in 1990
None 0.55” 2.34” 27.14” 30.57”
86% at 7:00 a.m. 40% at 4:00 p.m.
30.27” 30.15”
Normal Record
76° at 5:00 p.m. 50° at 5:05 a.m. 78°/56° 91° in 1978 40° in 1931
None 0.96” 2.46” 29.22” 30.79”
89% at 5:00 a.m. 39% at 5:00 p.m.
30.26” 30.16”
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....... 201 This season .... 1959 Normal to yesterday ...... 1466 Last season .... 1354
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
12:15 a.m. 5:59 a.m. 12:58 p.m. 6:26 p.m. 3:23 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 3:19 p.m. 9:20 p.m. 5:24 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 5:54 p.m.
none
Point Lookout 6:08 a.m. 11:23 a.m. 5:28 p.m. Moon phases
Sep 23 Full
Sep 30 Last Quarter
Oct 7 New
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:53 a.m.
5:25 a.m. 6:29 p.m.
10:28 a.m. 8:25 p.m.
9:57 a.m. 8:39 p.m.
7:17 p.m. 7:10 a.m.
7:40 a.m. 7:42 p.m.
7:13 p.m. 7:11 a.m.
1:16 a.m. 7:25 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 7:53 p.m. none
Oct 14 First Quarter
‘We decided that we had to do something about this’ marbury from C1
mission posts, which many of its members have done. A handful of community bloggers regularly chide city leaders about quality- of-life issues. One of the area’s more outspoken new voices, Nik- ki Peele, began an initiative this month called “Eat Shop Live Ana- costia,” that touts Anacostia’s emerging businesses and estab- lished art galleries, with an eye toward re-branding the image of the sometimes-troubled neigh- borhood. Peele, 33, writes the Congress
Heights on the Rise blog, which highlights civic issues and takes local leaders to task. “There is a lot of new energy out here, there’s no question,” she said.
‘Worth the fight’
Marbury Plaza consists of gar- den apartments and two red- brick high-rises — one 11 stories and the other 12 stories — in the 2300 block of Good Hope Road SE.
When it opened in 1968, chil- dren weren’t allowed in the com- plex, codifying it as a place for young, hip urban professional with disposable income. The high-rises offered grand views of the cityscape and became a must- stop for political candidates. In the 1970s, longtime residents said, soul singer Isaac Hayes had an apartment there and threw parties in the community room. “People all up and down Good
Hope would come here for those parties or to house parties,” said Thomas Singleton, 61, who said he lived in Marbury Plaza off and on for 27 years before moving out for good several years ago. He was never particularly active in the complex, he said, but watched as services crumbled and residents moved to the suburbs. Tenants have been pushing for improvements at Marbury Plaza for nearly 20 years, usually with minimal results. A tenants group tried unsuccessfully to buy the complex in the late 1990s, and sporadic campaigns to force man- agement to make repairs through small tenant strikes have dotted the history of the complex. One of the darkest moments occurred in 2005, when a laundry room explo- sion lead to the deaths of a toddler and her mother, and exposed long-standing security and main-
“When I was growing up, I heard nothing but great stories about Marbury Plaza — how it was the place to be.”
— Lee Edwards, tenant who has been active for years in efforts to improve the complex
into your building that had these marble floors and chandeliers downstairs but the problems in all the units,” she said, noting that she was pleased with the result. “It took a long time, but it was worth the fight.”
Need for drastic action Several residents said the re-
cent activism at the complex was an expression of years of frustra- tion as management companies were switched constantly. “It really just started as a way of
PHOTOS BY JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST Jimmy Singleton, who moved to Marbury Plaza a decade ago and runs a convenience store in the complex, helps customer Bernice Hill, 65.
tenance issues. In a walk-through of the com-
plex in 2008, inspectors found 825 housing code violations, in- cluding the presence of mold and widespread electrical outages. Peter Bonnell, a senior vice president at building manager Urban Investment Partners, said workers have corrected the vio- lations. “We think these improve- ments will return Marbury to its former glory,” Bonnell said in Au- gust when the settlement was signed. The building is about 90 percent occupied, he said. April Goggans, 31, president of
Residents of Marbury Plaza can expect to see improvements after the owners of the once-grand apartment complex in Anacostia agreed to pay $5 million for repairs to settle a rent strike.
the Marbury Plaza Concerned Tenants’ Association, has been praised by tenants and city offi- cials for organizing the rent strike and keeping the 85 or so tenants together. A Marbury resident since 2006, Goggans said she was frustrated by the state of the building and by the owners’ refus- al to pump more money into the property. “It was so infuriating to walk
saying: ‘No more,’ ” said Jimmy Singleton, 43, a native Washing- tonian who moved into the com- plex 10 years ago. He joined the strike from the beginning and now runs the once-shuttered con- venience store in a basement at the complex. “All of us respected what the older residents had done in terms of trying to organize peo- ple, but we knew drastic action was necessary.” Goggans said she knew it would be hard to keep the strikers together. Withholding rent was risky and, in the end, only 15 per- cent of the complex’s residents did so, about $500,000 over near- ly two years. But city officials took notice of the strike and eventually got involved in negotiations. “They came to the table under- standing they had to be pragmatic and results oriented,” said D.C. At- torney General Peter Nickels, who helped broker a deal between the strikers and the management company. “It was obvious there had been long-standing com- plaints about Marbury Plaza for years, but [residents] understood that you have to negotiate and have an endgame strategy. That was really important in getting change done.”
jenkinsc@washpost.com
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