B8 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast A brief return Tuesday to near-normal
temperatures in the low- to mid-80s. Humidity levels will also drop. But clouds might take over as the day progresses with an outside chance at a late shower. Overnight lows in the 60s. Cloudy Wednesday, with rain possible.
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 Low Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
83/65 81/65
Baltimore 82/66
Washington 85/68
Richmond Charlottesville
84/63 85/67
Norfolk 80/68
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly cloudy, thunderstorm. High 80- 85. Wind south-southeast 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, thunderstorm. Low 58-63. Wind south 3-6 mph. •Wednesday, mostly cloudy, thunder- storms. High 81-86. Wind southwest 8-16 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 79/69
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny over northern areas, partly sunny to the south. High 75-80. Wind east- northeast 10-18 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, thunderstorm over south- ern areas. Low 63-68. Wind east-southeast 7-14 mph. •Wednesday, thun- derstorms.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
cloudy. Wind east-northeast 8-16 knots. Waves around 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind east-northeast 10-20 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac River and 2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.4 feet today, dropping to 3.3 feet on Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 81/68
Ocean City 76/66
Dover 79/64
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 6 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 81/63
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City Today Albany, NY
Albuquerque 89/60/s Anchorage 55/48/r Atlanta 95/74/t
78/55/s 67/58/sh 92/61/s 58/50/r 93/73/t
Austin 93/74/pc 95/73/s Baltimore 82/66/c Billings, MT
83/69/t Birmingham 93/74/t
81/53/pc 72/50/t 91/71/t
Bismarck, ND 76/51/pc 86/67/t Boise 74/49/t Boston 78/57/s
60/47/t 68/55/sh
Buffalo 74/61/pc 73/60/t Burlington, VT 74/52/s 68/52/sh Charleston, SC 97/76/t 95/75/t Charleston, WV 89/71/t 89/62/t Charlotte 95/71/t
92/71/t
Cheyenne, WY 76/50/s 82/52/pc Chicago 80/62/t Cincinnati 90/70/t Cleveland 81/68/t
83/60/pc 85/62/t 81/63/t
Dallas 96/76/pc 96/76/pc Denver 82/53/s Des Moines
Detroit 75/64/t El Paso
79/60/pc 85/69/s 78/60/t
98/68/s 98/72/s
Fairbanks, AK 67/49/pc 69/49/c Fargo, ND
88/74/s
Houston 94/74/pc 92/74/s Indianapolis 86/68/t Jackson, MS
94/72/t 92/71/t
Jacksonville, FL 96/75/t 94/74/t Kansas City, MO 82/65/pc 89/71/pc Las Vegas
101/74/s 97/71/s 74/55/t 81/65/pc
Hartford, CT 76/55/s 72/59/sh Honolulu 87/74/s
84/63/pc 90/57/pc
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 91/72/t Memphis 95/76/t Miami 92/80/t Milwaukee 71/61/t Minneapolis 74/58/t Nashville 94/73/t
94/72/t 91/74/t 77/59/pc 75/59/pc 88/65/t 93/76/t
91/79/pc 75/59/pc 81/67/s 92/68/t
New Orleans 91/76/t 90/76/t New York City 79/63/s 75/68/t Norfolk 80/68/pc 87/75/t Oklahoma City 90/71/t 92/73/pc Omaha 80/63/pc 88/70/s Orlando 96/75/t Philadelphia 81/63/s Phoenix 103/74/s Pittsburgh 80/67/t
96/75/t 82/70/t
103/74/s 82/62/t
Portland, ME 77/49/s 66/52/c Portland, OR
64/51/sh 65/52/c
Providence, RI 78/56/s 71/57/sh Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 85/67/t Sacramento 86/52/s St. Louis
95/73/t 92/73/t 85/48/s 67/45/s 92/73/t 80/53/s
88/68/t 90/71/pc
St. Thomas, VI 90/79/sh 90/79/r Salt Lake City 86/61/pc 79/46/pc San Diego
68/61/pc 69/59/pc
San Francisco 68/50/pc 69/51/s San Juan, PR 89/78/pc 89/78/pc Seattle 64/49/sh 67/50/pc Spokane, WA 70/48/pc 69/47/c Syracuse 79/59/s Tampa 92/78/t
71/58/t 92/77/t
Wichita 86/69/pc 90/71/pc NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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KLMNO Today Mostly cloudy
85° 68°
Wind east 7-14 mph
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FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland
San Francisco Los Angele
San Francisc 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 76/59/pc 75/58/t Amsterdam 65/46/s Athens 95/80/s Auckland 54/45/sh Baghdad 118/86/s Bangkok 92/80/t Beijing 102/75/s Berlin 71/51/pc Bogota 66/46/c Brussels 65/48/pc
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 77/61/s
68/49/s 96/81/s 57/46/s
London 64/45/pc Madrid 67/46/pc Manila 88/79/r
116/85/pc Mexico City 92/80/sh 96/74/pc 75/55/c 67/46/c 69/55/pc
Buenos Aires 64/46/s 57/46/c Cairo 97/74/s Caracas 82/72/t Copenhagen 63/50/pc
99/74/s 81/73/t 68/53/s
Dakar 76/69/pc 78/69/pc Dublin 63/46/pc Edinburgh 59/49/pc Frankfurt 66/56/sh Geneva
64/59/r
Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/r 91/78/sh Hong Kong
89/81/t 90/80/t
Islamabad 108/75/pc 106/76/pc Istanbul 91/75/s Jerusalem 81/61/s Johannesburg 45/23/s Kabul 86/56/c
90/75/s 83/62/s 48/21/s 89/54/pc
Kingston, Jam. 88/79/r 89/79/r Kolkata
98/83/pc Lagos 85/74/r
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 104° Palm Springs, Calif. Low: 24° Bodie State Park, Calif.
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AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. PETULA DVORAK Let good vs. evil crash it out so we can cash in dvorak from B1
high bamboo and paper statues, a Japanese rice paddy, and a New Mexican adobe plaza,” according to the festival’s Web site. The Park Service has to look
at each request for use and de- cide whether the permit appli- cations that groups submit “al- low for the use and enjoyment of these sites in the manner in which they were intended,” Line said.
And that means they have to allow some odious stuff. Last year, the Ku Klux Klan
submitted an application to have a rally on the Mall, Line said. The agency acknowledged the group’s right to gather and speak, although the Klan ulti- mately didn’t go through with it, he said. Even Michaele and Tareq Sala- hi, under investigation for crash- ing a White House state dinner last year, got to claim the pre- cious piece of Mall for their an- nual polo match last weekend. So if faux celebrities and the
country’s most notorious hate group have a place next to Me- kong river crafts and ritual mo- nastic dance, what’s wrong with the Transformers getting their time? Couldn’t “Transformers 3” do for the Mall what “Night at the Museum” did for the Smith- sonian? The story line is, after all, a
solid one, with its saga of the good Autobots vs. the evil Decep- ticons. The animated and film versions deal with teamwork, morality, underdogs and the cor- ruptive pull of power. Sounds like Washington ma- terial to me. But, alas, just because Bum- blebee is the cute robot, Prowl is the one who likes nature and their good leader is a solid-heart- ed war veteran, that’s not enough to get the go-ahead from our rangers. “We have to remain content-
neutral,” Line told me. Whatever is on the permit for an event is what they have to look at. A polo match, even if it in- volves heinous celebrities, is a sport. Cool. Autobots, even if they are crushing evil, are going to be blowing stuff up. Not cool. “And you think we wouldn’t be questioned if we had allowed these pyrotechnic scenes?” Line asked.
Plus there’s that pesky thing about commercializing the Mall. Remember back in 2003, when Pepsi, the National Foot- ball League and Britney Spears’s bellybutton staged a giant, 11- day commercial on our sacred land?
At the time, the powers-that- be thought it would be a nice way to honor veterans by letting them stand in the mud in fenced-
off pens that were hundreds of yards away from Britney’s on- stage gyrations. It was supposed to be the kickoff for the NFL sea- son and Pepsi Vanilla (which was about as successful as Crystal Pepsi), but it turned out to be a debacle that made headlines af- ter the Senate passed legislation forbidding this kind of market- ing of the Mall. I’m sorry, this is different. Think about it. The Trust for
the National Mall has to go around Washington hat in hand, constantly asking folks for mon- ey to repair the crumbling con- crete, pull the weeds, replace the ravaged turf, fix the scary bath- rooms and refurbish a national park that disappoints visitors ev- ery year with its up-close shabbi- ness. The federal budget for park maintenance keeps getting cut. Yet more than 25 million people descend on this important space every year. If Hollywood wants to spend a gazillion dollars to let the good guys and bad guys crash it out on film, why not take producer Ste- ven Spielberg’s money and use it to fix the park service’s long- standing wish list? “It’s not that easy,” Line ex- plained to me. I know. But what could be more American?
E-mail me at
dvorakp@washpost.com.
101/86/c 86/76/t
Lima 70/57/pc 70/58/s
66/50/pc 64/53/sh 67/63/r 71/58/t
Ham., Bermuda 80/71/pc 79/70/pc Helsinki 65/45/sh
61/45/pc
Montreal 73/54/s Moscow 70/50/r Mumbai 91/83/t Nairobi 81/59/sh New Delhi
Oslo 57/43/s Ottawa
74/56/s
Tomorrow 79/63/s
68/49/s 73/48/pc 89/79/sh
79/55/t 77/57/t
70/59/pc 70/46/sh 93/83/t 82/57/t
109/86/c 108/85/pc 67/52/s 70/57/c
Paris 65/49/sh 68/56/pc Prague 74/53/sh
58/49/sh
Rio de Janeiro 79/68/s 83/70/s Riyadh 106/83/s 106/82/s Rome 82/68/pc 78/57/pc Santiago 59/43/c
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San Salvador 84/73/t 87/72/t Sarajevo
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Seoul 77/64/r Shanghai 85/68/pc Singapore 86/79/r Stockholm 59/49/sh Sydney 64/46/s Taipei 86/77/sh Tehran 95/79/s Tokyo 78/72/r Toronto 69/58/pc Vienna 78/67/sh Warsaw 73/54/s
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Yerevan 98/63/pc 102/61/pc The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 125° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 3° Summit Station, Greenland
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Wednesday Thunderstorms
86° 70°
Wind south-southwest 8-16 mph
Thursday Mostly sunny
86° 68°
Wind northwest 8-16 mph Friday Mostly sunny
88° 70°
Wind northeast 6-12 mph
Saturday Partly sunny
90° 73°
Wind south 8-16 mph
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
91° at 3:01 p.m. 79° at 2:00 a.m. 84°/65°
98° in 1994 49° in 1933
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
Trace 0.53” 1.49” 12.26” 17.52”
61% at 2:00 a.m. 48% 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
29.91” 29.83”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
90° at 3:59 p.m. 72° at 4:02 a.m. 83°/59°
98° in 1994 41° in 1979
None 0.14” 1.96” 16.85” 18.77”
84% at 2:00 a.m. 51% at 5:00 p.m.
29.92” 29.83”
Normal Record
90° at 3:17 p.m. 73° at 3:00 a.m. 83°/61°
98° in 1994 46° in 1978
None 0.99” 1.63” 18.60” 18.94”
80% at 3:00 a.m. 45% at 1:00 p.m.
29.89” 29.83”
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. Monday .............. 20 This month....... 193 This season ...... 434 Normal to yesterday ........ 234 Last season ...... 234
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
5:33 a.m. 10:44 a.m. 6:20 p.m. 11:27 p.m. 1:13 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 3:04 p.m. 8:36 p.m. 4:32 a.m. 10:28 a.m. 4:31 p.m. 10:54 p.m. 12:00 a.m. 6:26 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 6:31 p.m.
Point Lookout 4:04 a.m. 11:12 a.m. 4:40 p.m. 10:25 p.m. Moon phases
June 19 First Quarter
June 26 Full
July 4 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:42 a.m.
4:50 a.m. 7:21 p.m.
8:31 a.m. 11:08 p.m.
11:20 a.m. 12:38 a.m.
1:39 a.m. 1:40 p.m.
1:16 p.m. 1:41 a.m.
1:35 a.m. 1:38 p.m.
July 11 New
LOCAL DIGEST
The remains of Army Spec. Brian M. Anderson of Harrisonburg, Va., arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Anderson died while supporting U.S. military action in Afghanistan, according to the Defense Department.
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TRANSPORTATION
Metro track worker on leave after arrest
Metro has placed a track work- er on paid administrative leave after he was arrested Thursday by Metro Transit Police and charged with being drunk in public and impeding a police officer with force.
Robert Moss, an employee of Many prefer old standard Md. plates plates from B1
how it was selected and the politi- cal nuances that must be consid- ered when changing a license plate. The state commission, which
Pencek directs, approached the Maryland Motor Vehicle Admin- istration about creating a license plate that would draw attention to the coming bicentennial. At the same time, the commis- sion had hired a design consul- tant to create a multipurpose logo for the bicentennial and the relat- ed Star-Spangled Banner Trail, which is operated by the National Park Service. “There was a sort of method to the madness,” Pencek said. “We
didn’t want to have 15 different looks, depending on the applica- tion. We were trying to brand the flag.” There was another issue when it came to the plate. The standard-issue plate com-
petes with two other Maryland plates that each cost an addition- al $20 initially and $10 more each year. One shows a great heron and the other a farm scene. The additional charges support the Chesapeake Bay Trust and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation.
Although many people pur- chase license plates to help fund the organizations’ efforts, there are those who order plates just because they like the way it looks.
If the standard-issue 1812 plate were the most beautiful of the three, it could cost the bay trust and agricultural foundation much-neededmoney. “We didn’t want to compete with the other background plates,” Pencek said. “There was an intention to be beautiful, but not more beautiful than the bay plate or the farm plate.” The 1812 plate will be issued as standard — no added charges — until 2015, when the black-and- white model will return. People who have the black-and- white plates can retain them and transfer them to newly purchased vehicles.
halseya@washpost.com
Metro’s Track and Structures/ Systems Maintenance Depart- ment, was off duty at the time of his arrest at Pentagon City Sta- tion. Police noticed Moss was un- steady on his feet and ap- proached him. Moss, who has worked for Metro since 2006, ran from and then struggled with of- ficers as they apprehended him, Metro said. “Robert Moss is on paid admin-
istrative leave pending the out- come of an investigation by Met- ro,” Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.
— Ann Scott Tyson VIRGINIA
Two men indicted in fatal 2009 attack A Loudoun County grand jury
Monday indicted two men in an attack on a couple in the Lans- downe area last year, and pros- ecutors are seeking the death
penalty against one of them. William and Cynthia Bennett were taking a pre-dawn walk along Riverside Parkway on March 22, 2009, when two men jumped out of a van and beat and stabbed them, authorities said. William Bennett, 57, was killed. Cynthia Bennett survived. Darwin G. Bowman, 19, of An- nandale was charged Monday with two counts of capital mur- der, with prosecutors offering two possible theories: that he killed William Bennett during the course of a robbery or that during the attack on the Bennetts, he committed murder and rape. Jaime Ayala, now 18, of Sterling, who told investigators that he was driving the van but did not attack the Bennetts, was charged with first-degree murder. Both men were charged with rape, ag- gravated malicious wounding and two counts of robbery. A third man suspected in the
attack, Anthony R. Roberts, 20, of Middleburg, was not charged Monday. He is serving seven years in prison for burglarizing a Leesburg gun store three weeks after the homicide. Prosecutors may attempt to secure the coop- eration of Bowman or Ayala be- fore charging Roberts, whom Ayala accused of leading the at- tack, according to testimony at Ayala’s preliminary hearing last year.
— Tom Jackman
State predicting budget surplus
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s ad-
ministration is predicting that Virginia will conclude this fiscal year with a budget surplus, a sign that the state’s economy might be turning around. McDonnell (R) announced
Monday that state tax collections dipped just 0.2 percent in May, compared with May 2009. The statistic was encouraging be- cause state budget writers had predicted that revenue would de- cline 2.3 percent in May. McDonnell’s office said the
state remains on pace to end the year with a surplus, which wasn’t the case last year. The state will need to take in
$1.37 billion in June to ensure that it ends the year with a sur- plus, not an unreasonable expec- tation given that Virginia collect- ed $1.5 billion in June 2009, when the economy was softer. This month’s revenue report contains other encouraging news. For instance, sales tax col- lections — an indicator of eco- nomic activity — grew by 6.5 per- cent in May after increasing by 7.3 percent in April. It was the first time sales tax receipts had grown for two months in a row since November and December 2008.
— Rosalind Helderman
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