C10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Yet another shot at showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon as a cold front comes through. Cooler and less humid air await us behind the front, but it won’t arrive in time to keep Sunday from being another hot and humid day with highs in the high 80s to low 90s.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Low Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
84/53 85/52
Baltimore 90/58
Washington 90/60
Richmond Charlottesville
90/56 94/60
Norfolk 90/66
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, showers, a strong thun- derstorm. High 73-90. Wind west-southwest 10-20 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 51-55. Wind northwest 4-8 mph. •Monday, partly sunny. High 65-78. Wind north- northwest 4-8 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 84/66
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, partly sunny, strong afternoon thunder- storms. High 84-92. Wind southwest 10-20 mph. •Tonight, variably cloudy, a shower or thunder- storm early. Low 60-67. Wind north-northwest 10-20 mph. •Monday, mostly sunny. High 74-78.
Upper Potomac River: Today, variably
cloudy, severe afternoon thunderstorms. Wind southwest 15-20 knots. Waves 1-2 feet. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, variably cloudy, severe afternoon thunderstorms. Wind south- west 10-15 knots. Waves 2 feet. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.6 feet today, ris- ing to 3.8 feet Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 90/61
Ocean City 84/60
Dover 88/61
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Particulates, 39 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 88/58
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
68/51/r 67/48/s
Albuquerque 101/69/s Anchorage 67/49/pc Atlanta 87/65/t Austin 96/76/s Baltimore 90/58/t Billings, MT
Birmingham 90/65/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
100/68/pc 69/49/sh 87/65/pc 93/73/t
79/53/pc
72/54/c 76/49/pc 88/64/pc
Bismarck, ND 75/53/pc 74/53/pc Boise 75/52/t Boston 72/58/r Buffalo 66/49/t
75/55/pc 74/54/s 66/51/s
Burlington, VT 59/49/r 65/47/t Charleston, SC 90/73/t 86/66/pc Charleston, WV 82/57/t 75/50/pc Charlotte 92/71/t
87/61/pc
Cheyenne, WY 82/56/c 88/51/pc Chicago 74/52/t Cincinnati 78/56/t Cleveland 69/50/t Dallas 99/78/s
73/54/pc 77/57/pc 70/50/pc 100/78/s
Denver 89/63/pc 95/55/pc Des Moines
78/56/pc 74/65/pc
Detroit 71/52/sh 74/53/pc El Paso
106/74/s 106/78/s
Fairbanks, AK 68/50/pc 74/53/pc Fargo, ND
74/56/sh 67/56/t
Hartford, CT 76/54/t 74/48/s Honolulu 87/73/s Houston 95/78/t Indianapolis 76/55/t Jackson, MS
87/74/s 94/77/t
74/57/pc 96/69/t 93/69/pc
Jacksonville, FL 90/76/t 90/69/t Kansas City, MO 80/59/pc 85/72/pc Las Vegas
108/78/s 107/83/s Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 82/61/pc Memphis 90/69/t Miami 93/78/t
92/67/t 92/72/pc 85/60/pc 85/60/pc 80/62/pc 91/72/pc 91/78/t
Milwaukee 68/51/sh 67/53/pc Minneapolis 74/54/sh Nashville 86/63/t
70/59/pc 85/64/pc
New Orleans 92/77/t 94/76/t New York City 87/63/t 76/61/s Norfolk 90/66/pc 75/61/pc Oklahoma City 92/68/s 97/77/pc Omaha 80/56/pc 81/67/pc Orlando 94/76/t Philadelphia 88/58/t Phoenix 110/79/s Pittsburgh 76/53/t
92/75/t 77/56/s 109/80/s 71/45/pc
Portland, ME 64/51/r 67/48/pc Portland, OR
67/54/r 68/51/pc
Providence, RI 80/58/t 75/52/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 94/60/t Sacramento 87/57/pc St. Louis
94/64/pc 84/58/pc 87/58/pc 87/57/pc 81/56/pc 86/56/pc
80/59/pc 82/67/pc
St. Thomas, VI 89/79/pc 90/79/s Salt Lake City 92/59/pc 83/62/pc San Diego
66/49/pc 73/63/pc 72/63/pc
San Francisco 68/54/pc 67/52/pc San Juan, PR 90/78/pc 91/78/sh Seattle 65/51/r
Spokane, WA 62/48/t 69/48/pc Syracuse 64/47/t
69/49/s
Tampa 90/78/pc 90/78/t Wichita 85/62/t
92/76/pc NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Thunderstorms
90° 60°
Wind southwest 12-25 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY SeattlSeattle Portlan Seattle Portland San Francisc Portland Salt
San Francisco Los Angele
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 77/59/s 74/58/t Amsterdam 77/64/t Athens 78/67/t Auckland 64/54/t Baghdad 113/78/s Bangkok 92/81/t Beijing 91/68/s Berlin 83/66/pc Bogota 67/45/t Brussels 82/55/t
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 73/57/s
65/54/pc 81/67/s 58/50/sh 106/72/s 91/79/pc 90/66/pc 77/57/t 67/45/c 69/59/pc
Buenos Aires 64/52/s 60/50/s Cairo 101/72/pc 97/70/s Caracas 82/72/t Copenhagen 71/60/pc Dakar 87/74/s Dublin 64/52/sh Edinburgh 63/52/sh Frankfurt 87/70/t Geneva
82/72/t 71/59/r
90/74/pc 64/53/r
81/61/t
59/44/pc 80/60/sh 70/54/pc
Ham., Bermuda 81/72/pc 81/75/s Helsinki 57/41/c
Ho Chi Minh City 91/77/t 91/77/r Hong Kong
84/77/pc 82/77/t
Islamabad 107/74/s Istanbul 76/65/r Jerusalem 82/59/s Johannesburg 72/39/s Kabul 90/49/s
108/86/c Lagos 86/74/t
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 111° Pecos, Texas Low: 32° Piute, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
99/69/pc 71/65/sh 81/55/s 74/39/s 89/54/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/78/s 88/79/sh Kolkata
Lima 74/61/pc 73/61/s 61/46/c
London 73/54/sh Madrid 88/58/pc Manila 87/78/t Mexico City
Montreal 61/50/r
Tomorrow 76/57/s
72/54/sh 88/57/s 87/78/r
80/54/t 78/55/t 64/46/t
Moscow 59/44/pc 58/44/r Mumbai 92/82/s Nairobi 82/59/t New Delhi
103/80/c 98/82/t
Oslo 71/50/pc 70/54/r Ottawa
67/47/r
Paris 82/56/t Prague 78/55/s
66/50/c 74/60/pc 80/54/t
Rio de Janeiro 70/60/s 73/64/s Riyadh 105/83/s 104/79/s Rome 79/61/s Santiago 66/41/s
81/61/s 64/43/s
San Salvador 89/73/s 88/73/t Sarajevo
77/48/pc
Seoul 84/64/t Shanghai 79/63/s Singapore 86/79/r Stockholm 64/45/pc
81/49/t 84/63/c 81/64/s 88/79/t 61/52/r
Sydney 63/45/sh 63/43/pc Taipei 81/72/r Tehran 92/76/s Tokyo 79/64/s Toronto 66/49/r
110/86/pc Vienna 82/63/s 86/74/r
Warsaw 74/53/s
80/71/pc 93/77/s 77/64/pc 70/52/s 84/67/t 80/62/t
Yerevan 101/64/pc 87/59/pc The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 119° Quaisumah, Saudi Arabia Low: 8° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
8:31 p.m.
1:47 a.m. 2:47 p.m.
91/81/s 80/60/pc
Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix DalDallalas
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas
Atlanta ew
Atlanta New
Atlant New
CharlCharlesto OrleanOrleans Orleans Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston eston San Francisco
Salt La
Lake CiCity
Lake City
ke Columbus Columbus Denver Denver Denve St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Calga Calgary Calgary Helena Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Chicago cago Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Philadelphia Washington Washington Monday Partly sunny
77° 58°
Wind northwest 8-16 mph Tuesday Mostly sunny
80° 63°
Wind west-northwest 7-14 mph
Wednesday A thunderstorm
78° 67°
Wind north-northeast 10-20 mph
Thursday Partly sunny
84° 67°
Wind northwest 10-20 mph
Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
91° at 3:30 p.m. 73° at 6:00 a.m. 81°/62°
100° in 1925 48° in 1926
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
None 0.39” 0.56” 12.12” 16.59”
78% at 6:00 a.m. 46% at 2:00 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
29.81” 29.75”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
89° at 3:40 p.m. 66° at 4:51 a.m. 80°/56°
90° in 2002 40° in 1976
0.01” 0.08” 0.70” 16.79” 17.51”
93% at 5:00 a.m. 54% at 4:00 p.m.
29.81” 29.76”
Normal Record
87° at 12:00 p.m. 71° at 4:34 a.m. 80°/58°
101° in 1925 44° in 1997
Trace 0.80” 0.60” 18.41” 17.91”
87% at 5:00 a.m. 52% at 12:00 p.m.
29.78” 29.75”
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. Saturday ............ 17 This month......... 79 This season ...... 320 Normal to yesterday ........ 150 Last season ...... 152
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
3:44 a.m. 10:35 a.m. 4:05 p.m. 10:23 p.m. 1:05 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 12:38 p.m. 6:51 p.m. 2:57 a.m. 9:09 a.m. 3:34 p.m. 9:49 p.m. 4:52 a.m. 10:57 a.m. 5:22 p.m. 11:50 p.m.
Point Lookout 3:38 a.m. 8:42 a.m. 2:59 p.m. 10:00 p.m. Moon phases
June 12 New
June 19 First Quarter
June 26 Full
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:43 a.m.
4:40 a.m. 6:37 p.m.
8:14 a.m. 11:07 p.m.
11:32 a.m. 1:02 a.m.
2:11 a.m. 2:10 p.m.
1:55 p.m. 2:20 a.m.
2:10 a.m. 2:12 p.m.
July 4 Last Quarter
SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010
Poultry plant fined $1 million Record penalty in Md.
for allegedly ignoring 12 years of warnings
by Lorraine Mirabella
State labor officials imposed a record $1 million fine Friday on an Eastern Shore poultry proc- essor that inspectors say has ig- nored warnings to improve a dan- gerous workplace for more than a decade. The penalty against Allen Fam-
PHOTOS BY JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST Members of Cuties for the Cure have handprints on their shirts to encourage breast self-examination.
To raise money and awareness, Komen teams wear cause proudly
komen from C1
er sister had had the disease. One morning, she felt a lump. Within a week, she said, she was on the phone with her sister. “We’re going to treat it, and it’s
going to be fine,” Harrington said, knowing by the silence that her sister and best friend was start- ing to cry. In May 2009, Harrington had
her left breast removed, followed by chemotherapy and radiation — an ordeal that led the two sis- ters to sign up for their first Glob- al Race.
On a speaker-phone call in
March, the sisters and their hus- bands discussed T-shirt slogans that would serve as their team name. “Three boobs and four nuts?” Too much, they decided, know-
ing that children in their family would be joining the team. “Walkers for Knockers?” Perfect. Within two months,
they had sold 700 Walkers for Knockers T-shirts, part of a pre- race fundraising drive that col- lected $10,900 and counting. “We figured that we needed to do it with humor,” Harrington said Saturday before the race. “Because people look at you a dif- ferent way when you have cancer.
The Walkers for Knockers team sold 700 shirts in two months as part of a pre-race fundraiser that collected more than $10,000.
People give you that cancer look. And it’s horrible. And they feel sorry for you. I don’t want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to know that I have breast cancer, which isn’t a dirty word. . . . If I have to worry about breast can- cer, I am going to do it with a smile, and this team name gives me a smile.” The Walkers for Knockers team, made up of two dozen friends and family members, struck out on the 3.1-mile course. Harrington’s sister, Rosanne
Howard, 49, who continues to be cancer-free, pushed an empty wheelchair in case Harrington’s neuropathy — brought about by the chemotherapy — got to be too much for her feet. Two hours later, Harrington was laboring, with the finish line in sight. “Are you sure you want to walk?” Howard asked her sister. “We’ve got the wheelchair.” “No, I have to do this,” said
Harrington, who did.
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ily Foods is the largest ever levied in a single inspection by the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health division of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, officials said. In- spectors say they found 51 vio- lations at Allen’s large processing plant in Hurlock while investigat- ing a December incident in which a worker was seriously injured. Labor and Industry Commis- sioner Ron DeJuliis said the state imposed such a high fine because the 90-year-old Seaford, Del., pro- ducer has racked up nearly 200 vi- olations in the past dozen years but has made little headway in correcting problems. “The biggest problem we have
here is repeated warnings over the years, and a lot of times they’d repair something or take care of the problem and then go right back to the same habits,” DeJuliis said. “That flies in the face of the standards we set. They willfully ignored a lot of it.” An Allen executive said the
third-generation, family-run busi- ness plans to contest the citation, which it said resulted from the state adopting “a more aggressive enforcement policy.” “We have a good, professionally administered safety program, in- cluding inspections twice a year by an independent safety expert, which are monitored by MOSH’s consultation unit,” Tracy Morris, Allen’s vice president of human resources, said in a statement. “The citation in this case is not an accurate reflection of our safety record.” Morris said Friday that the company had no further com- ment. The company has 15 days to appeal or pay the fine.
Allen, which employs 1,800 people in Maryland, is among the largest poultry producers in the state, selling 600 million pounds of chicken a year, mostly in the Northeast and west to Chicago. Maryland ranked eighth in the nation in 2008 in both the num-
LOCAL DIGEST THE DISTRICT
Police investigate two fatalities D.C. police are investigating
two fatalities that occurred in Southeast Washington, one an apparent homicide victim who died of multiple gunshot wounds, the other a cyclist who was struck by two cars.
About 2:55 a.m. Saturday, po- lice responded to the 1600 block of W Street SE to investigate a possible shooting and found a male juvenile shot multiple times, said Eric Frost, a police spokesman. The victim, later identified as Durand Lucas, 17, of the 2300 block of Pitts Place SE, was found on the grass with “no signs of life,” Frost said. He was pronounced dead at the of- fice of the chief medical examin- er at 5:39 a.m., Frost said. There are no suspects, and no arrests have been made. The shooting is being investigated as a homi-
cide. In the other incident, a male
cyclist heading southwest in the 1400 block of Southern Avenue SE about 10:45 p.m. Friday was struck by a 2004 Chevy Subur- ban. The driver initially left the scene, unaware that he had hit someone, but soon returned, po- lice said. The victim, David H. Williams, 42, of the 3400 block of 22nd Street SE, was later struck by a second car — a dark blue com- pact, possibly a Toyota or Nissan — carrying three people, police said. An eyewitness flagged down an ambulance and the second car left, police said. Asked whether Williams could
have been alive after the first ve- hicle struck him, Frost said, “We don’t know. . . . They can’t say whether the second car defini- tively caused death or not.” Frost described the location as a “dark area, and at that time, it’s not heavily traveled.” He said the span of time between the strikes
was not known. Williams was taken to Prince
George’s Hospital Center and pronounced dead at 11:38 p.m., police said.
— Jonathan Mummolo
Man shot, wounded in NE carjacking
A man was shot and wounded during a carjacking at a Citgo gas station in the 1300 block of Kenil- worth Avenue NE on Saturday, D.C. police said. Police spokesman Eric Frost said three males in a stolen BMW approached the victim between 11:30 a.m. and noon and stole his black Lexus at gunpoint, shoot- ing him multiple times in the arm. The assailants fled in both vehicles toward Interstate 295, and the BMW was found aban- doned in the District, Frost said. The investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests. — Jonathan Mummolo
ber of broiler chickens — young chickens raised for meat — and pounds of broilers produced, ac- cording to Delmarva Poultry In- dustry. In December, an employee at
the Hurlock plant suffered a seri- ous hand injury while reaching beneath a conveyor belt that had no shields near moving machine parts, state labor officials said. In other incidents, DeJuliis said, workers at the plant have suffered cuts on hands or arms. Other violations have involved in- adequate testing of equipment, improperly posted emergency signs, electrical problems, and in- adequate safety training and fire protection, he said. Inspectors issued four citations alleging violations of occupation- al and safety and health laws. Maryland Labor Secretary Alex- ander M. Sanchez said the penalty shows the state’s commitment to protecting workers from prevent- able on-the-job injuries, partic- ularly in the poultry processing industry. Nationally, the rate of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in the poul- try and egg production industry is 52 percent higher than that for all industries combined, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. —The Baltimore Sun
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