B10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Hot, hot, and very hot. And slightly more humid. Highs should again soar into the upper 90s and low 100s. Wind should again be light and variable. And again, no precipitation is expected around the area.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Low Moderate
Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
102/72 99/73
Baltimore 104/79
Washington 100/78
Richmond Charlottesville
98/70 100/74
Norfolk 96/77
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, hot. High 89-100. Wind east 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 57-73. •Thursday, partly sunny, hot, thunderstorms in the north. High 87-99. Wind north-northeast 4-8 mph. •Friday, partly sunny, hot. High 87-100.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 93/74
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, hot, humid. High 88-96. Wind east 6-12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, warm, humid. Low 71-77. Wind east-northeast 3-6 mph. •Thursday, partly sunny, afternoon thun- derstorms south. High 85-89. Wind east-south- east 6-12 mph.
Upper Potomac River: Today, partly
sunny, hot. Wind northeast 3-6 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny, hot. Wind northeast 6-12 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, holding steady Thursday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 96/77
Ocean City 94/71
Dover 101/75 Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
9 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Unhealthy sens grps
Ozone, 135 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 100/78
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 84/66/pc Anchorage 62/54/r Atlanta 96/73/s Austin 93/73/t
Birmingham 95/74/s
96/71/pc 91/70/t 88/66/t 67/54/r 97/76/s 91/73/t
Baltimore 104/79/pc 96/76/t Billings, MT
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow Louisville 98/74/s
89/74/t 90/75/pc 74/60/pc 74/62/pc 97/74/s
74/50/s 81/54/s 98/75/s
Bismarck, ND 79/55/s 83/54/s Boise 88/59/s
93/65/pc
Boston 88/69/pc 85/68/pc Buffalo 94/70/s
92/72/pc
Burlington, VT 93/70/pc 92/71/t Charleston, SC 94/74/s 94/74/pc Charleston, WV 98/66/s 97/69/s Charlotte 98/71/s
98/72/pc
Cheyenne, WY 64/46/t 71/48/t Chicago 89/70/t Cincinnati 98/69/s Cleveland 94/69/s Dallas 89/77/t Denver 72/52/t Des Moines
84/68/t
94/71/pc 93/71/pc 90/76/t 73/53/t
86/68/t 83/64/t
Detroit 93/72/pc 89/69/t El Paso
89/69/pc 89/70/pc
Fairbanks, AK 70/50/pc 76/54/pc Fargo, ND
78/58/t 79/57/pc
Hartford, CT 96/70/pc 88/69/pc Honolulu 87/75/s Houston 88/76/t Indianapolis 96/71/pc Jackson, MS
88/75/s 88/78/t
86/71/pc 90/71/t 95/71/pc
Jacksonville, FL 92/70/s 96/74/pc Kansas City, MO 87/70/t 85/66/t Las Vegas
104/78/s 105/81/s
Memphis 93/77/pc 95/77/pc Miami 90/77/t Milwaukee 86/71/t Minneapolis 84/65/t Nashville 96/73/s
91/78/t 83/65/t
84/62/pc 96/76/s
New Orleans 89/77/t 92/77/t New York City 102/77/pc 91/76/pc Norfolk 96/77/pc 88/73/t Oklahoma City 88/71/t 87/72/t Omaha 86/65/t
84/62/pc
Orlando 93/73/pc 94/74/pc Philadelphia 100/78/pc 93/75/t Phoenix 108/80/s Pittsburgh 94/69/s
94/63/s 97/63/s
108/85/s 95/69/pc
Portland, ME 84/65/pc 80/64/pc Portland, OR
Providence, RI 90/68/pc 87/70/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
102/74/s 98/69/pc 93/62/s 96/64/s
Richmond 100/74/pc 93/71/t Sacramento 91/59/s St. Louis
94/60/s 90/76/t 89/74/t
St. Thomas, VI 89/81/s 90/80/sh Salt Lake City 88/61/s 93/65/pc San Diego
91/60/s 69/63/pc 68/63/pc
San Francisco 71/54/pc 72/55/pc San Juan, PR 90/79/c 91/79/sh Seattle 87/60/s
Spokane, WA 84/58/s 90/60/s Syracuse 94/67/s Tampa 91/75/t Wichita 88/71/t
92/72/pc 91/78/pc 84/66/t
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Partly sunny, hot
100° 78°
Wind northeast 6-12 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle 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 69/59/t 69/58/t Amsterdam 72/63/pc Athens 91/76/s Auckland 54/50/c Baghdad 120/80/s Bangkok 90/80/t Beijing 94/74/pc Berlin 74/58/s Bogota 66/50/r Brussels 80/59/s
82/73/t
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 90/72/pc
81/67/pc 89/70/s 54/44/pc 119/78/s 90/79/t 90/71/s 82/66/s 64/48/r 86/65/s
Buenos Aires 59/47/pc 61/47/s Cairo 100/75/s 101/75/s Caracas 81/72/t Copenhagen 72/59/s Dakar 82/72/s Dublin 66/54/c Edinburgh 68/53/c Frankfurt 79/62/s Geneva
81/55/s
Ham., Bermuda 80/75/sh 82/75/t Helsinki 81/64/pc
Islamabad 104/80/s Istanbul 90/71/s Jerusalem 88/66/s Johannesburg 60/36/s Kabul 99/61/s
Ho Chi Minh City 91/76/sh 89/76/t Hong Kong
London 75/60/pc Madrid 99/70/s Manila 91/79/t Mexico City
Montreal 94/76/t Moscow 82/64/s Mumbai 90/75/r Nairobi 77/53/t New Delhi
Oslo 68/55/s Ottawa
94/72/t
77/64/pc 87/79/pc 64/54/c 65/55/pc 88/67/s 87/59/s
80/59/pc
93/82/pc 91/81/sh 104/83/t 80/66/s 88/68/s 58/35/s 100/59/s
Kingston, Jam. 89/79/r 89/78/r Kolkata 90/81/sh 91/84/s Lagos 82/75/r
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 106° Frederick, Md. Low: 31° Leadville, Colo.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. 81/75/sh Lima 68/56/pc 70/57/pc
Paris 82/61/s Prague 74/52/s
Tomorrow 87/65/s
79/59/c 99/70/s 87/78/sh
72/57/t 71/57/r
88/76/pc 77/64/t 88/77/r 77/55/c
91/82/t 95/83/t 64/52/r
92/71/pc 88/69/s 79/55/s
Rio de Janeiro 79/68/s 79/69/s Riyadh 108/82/s 108/81/s Rome 89/69/s Santiago 54/36/pc
86/68/s 59/36/s
San Salvador 84/74/t 85/74/t Sarajevo
71/43/c
Seoul 86/68/s Shanghai 89/75/pc Singapore 84/77/r Stockholm 73/57/pc Sydney 63/44/c Taipei 95/80/pc Tehran 104/82/s
76/47/s 83/68/pc 85/74/pc 84/77/r 77/65/s 63/44/sh 91/78/c 102/84/s
Tokyo 86/75/sh 79/73/pc Toronto 92/70/t Vienna 75/57/s Warsaw 71/51/r
Yerevan 105/65/s 107/67/s The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 122° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: -15° Islas Orcadas, Argentina
Rise Set
8:36 p.m.
1:44 a.m. 4:44 p.m.
90/70/pc 81/63/s 78/58/s
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta CharlestoCharleston Charleston Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Winnipeg Winnipe Winnipeg Ottaw
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul Ottawa ttawa Bosto ChiChicag Columbus Columbus Chicago cago Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Thursday Evening storms
94° 74°
Wind east-southeast 7-14 mph Friday Partly sunny
94° 75°
Wind southeast 6-12 mph Saturday Storms possible
88° 72°
Wind south 8-16 mph
Sunday Sunny
89° 70°
Wind north 7-14 mph
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
102° at 4:00 p.m. 77° at 5:13 a.m. 88°/69°
103° in 1999 57° in 1979
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
None 0.00” 0.67” 13.60” 19.83”
73% at 4:00 a.m. 20% at 5:00 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
30.06” 30.00”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
100° at 5:00 p.m. 69° at 5:00 a.m. 87°/63° 102° in 1977 45° in 1979
None 0.00” 0.72” 18.00” 21.60”
89% at 5:00 a.m. 23% at 5:00 p.m.
30.08” 30.02”
Normal Record
105° at 4:00 p.m. 75° at 4:09 a.m. 87°/65°
105° in 2010 51° in 1979
None 0.00” 0.72” 19.16” 21.46”
70% at 3:00 a.m. 20% at 4:00 p.m.
30.05” 29.99”
Apparent Temperature:
105°
(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. Tuesday ............. 25 This month......... 88 This season ...... 801 Normal to yesterday ........ 516 Last season ...... 447
J A S O N D J F M A M J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington 4:25 a.m. 11:57 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 11:21 p.m. Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
Point Lookout 5:28 a.m. 9:41 a.m. 3:28 p.m. 10:52 p.m. Moon phases
July 11 New
July 18 First Quarter
July 25 Full
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:49 a.m.
6:37 a.m. 9:22 p.m.
9:15 a.m. 10:54 p.m.
10:56 a.m. 11:40 p.m.
12:17 a.m. 12:23 p.m.
11:55 a.m. 12:16 a.m.
12:09 a.m. 12:12 p.m.
Aug 3 Last Quarter
1:59 a.m. 9:20 a.m. 1:37 p.m. 7:20 p.m. 3:57 a.m. 10:01 a.m. 4:38 p.m. 11:05 p.m. 12:04 a.m. 5:52 a.m. 11:51 a.m. 6:26 p.m.
Bail bond company, Md. family at odds
Firm says it refunded $12,000 in cash; dispute may land in civil court
by Ruben Castaneda There is no dispute that Alvaro
Rubio Salazar’s father paid $15,000 to Washington & Gray, a Hyattsville-based bail bond firm, to secure his son’s release on a marijuana charge. The Rubios, their attorney and the bail bond firm agree that there no longer was a need for the bond when Prince George’s Coun- ty prosecutors dropped the charge a short while later. Everyone agrees that the Rubio family was entitled to a refund of at least $12,000. But that’s where all the har-
mony ends. Epolinar Rubio, Rubio Sala-
zar’s father, said the bail bond firm never repaid him. The bail bond company claims it paid Rubio — in cash. “What this bondsman has done
LINDA DAVIDSON/THE WASHINGTON POST Along with heat warnings, the National Weather Service issued a Code Orange air-quality alert — for ozone pollution — for the region. Region sweats out triple-digit heat wave heat from B1
Thursday, but “they’re not going to do anything as far as giving us relief that day,” said Andy Wood- cock, a National Weather Service meteorologist. This week’s heat comes on the heels of a stretch in June that broke two daily records. The 100 degrees measured June 24 and the 99 on June 27 contributed to making June “above normal for the entire month,” Witt said. The continued heat and dra-
matically increased demand has power companies asking custom- ers to conserve and keep from cranking thermostats down. Us- age has increased by 55 percent in Northern Virginia compared with the average June, according to Dominion Virginia Power. At Baltimore Gas & Electric, Tues- day’s peak usage was an estimat- ed 6,900 megawatts — not hitting the 7,198-megawatt record set in August 2006, but far higher than
the normal 5,500 megawatts, said Linda Foy, a BG&E spokeswom- an.
Although officials from area power suppliers say there have been no heat-related outages in the region, they warn that it takes conservation to keep from creat- ing too heavy a burden on the electrical grid. “We’re just asking people to
conserve: Leave the drapes closed, or not to use high-heat ap- pliances,” said Bob Hainey, a Pep- co spokesman. He suggested leaving thermostats at 78 de- grees. There is additional concern about people without air condi- tioning, with extra precautions recommended for those most susceptible to heat exhaustion — children and the elderly. Emergency officials across the region said Tuesday that they have responded to calls for hy- perthermia, but none appeared to be life-threatening. However,
the heat has caused at least four deaths in the region since May, officials said. Three deaths were reported between June 18 and June 24 in Virginia, said state De- partment of Health spokesman Larry Hill. In the District, a man died in May from heat-related causes, according to the D.C. medical examiner’s office. The District opened four cool- ing centers Tuesday, but few resi- dents took advantage during the day, said Cornell Chappelle, dep- uty director for community part- nerships at the D.C. Department of Health and manager of a cool- ing center on Rhode Island Av- enue NE. The city was planning to open eight homeless shelters overnight for those seeking to avoid the heat. City pools, libraries and senior wellness centers will also have extended hours through Thurs- day, officials said. Beth Finley, who has lived in the Washington area for 35 years,
sat down at McPherson Square to “play Sudoku and clear my mind,” she said. But the heat got to her, she said, and she had to cut short her afternoon diver- sion. “After a couple minutes, you have to go get some water,” Finley said.
Eric Johnson of Mount Pleas- ant doesn’t have an air condition- er, and said he has to cope with ceiling fans until he gets “$20,000 to have air condition- ing put in.” Johnson, who was raised in the
District, said that Tuesday’s heat was among the worst he could re- call, but that he knows it’s yet an- other bout of odd weather that comes and goes in the region. “The snow eventually went
away,” Johnson said, “and the heat will, too.”
rojasr@washpost.com lucasp@washpost.com
Staff writer Lena H. Sun contributed to this report.
is indefensible,” said Gary H. Ger- stenfield, a lawyer for the Rubios. Gerstenfield filed an appeal
with Lelia E. Newman, bond commissioner for the Seventh Ju- dicial Circuit in Maryland, which includes Prince George’s. In March, Newman sided with the bond company. In a letter to owner Antoine C. Washington, Newman noted that last Decem- ber, Washington had produced a receipt showing the bail bond outfit had returned $12,000 in cash to Rubio. The handwritten receipt is signed by Washington — but not by Rubio. Gerstenfield said he plans on
filing a lawsuit against Washing- ton & Gray this week seeking to recover the $12,000. An employee at Washington &
Gray referred a phone call to A. Dwight Pettit, an attorney for the firm. Pettit said neither he nor Washington would comment be- cause the Maryland Insurance Administration is reviewing — at Gerstenfield’s request — whether the bail bond company properly kept records in the case. Newman said she cannot com- ment because she may become a witness if a civil case is filed against Washington & Gray.
Gerstenfield said the bond company is trying to take advan- tage of unsophisticated people who are not knowledgeable about the criminal justice system. Epolinar Rubio, 50, is a natu-
ralized citizen from Mexico who has worked in construction in the Washington area for more than 20 years. In an interview conducted in Spanish, Rubio said he thought Washington & Gray was a govern- ment agency. Rubio — who paid for the bond with a check — said the $12,000 in dispute represents a significant portion of his sav- ings. “What they’re doing is wrong,” Rubio said. The squabble over the $12,000 began March 25, 2007, when Ru- bio Salazar, now 24, was arrested by Prince George’s police for pos- session with intent to distribute marijuana. A court commissioner set a bond of $15,000. Rubio Salazar was not aware at the time that there was a warrant for his arrest in a separate mari- juana distribution case, Gersten- field said. The charge stemming from the
March 2007 arrest was dropped, nullifying the conditions of the $15,000 bond, Gerstenfield said. No bond was set for the remain- ing drug charge. When Rubio Salazar failed to appear at a court date in Novem- ber 2007, a warrant was issued, but no cash bond was forfeited because none had been ordered. However, Washington & Gray ap- parently believed that it was still on the hook for the bond, Ger- stenfield said. A little more than two weeks
after the missed court date, Ru- bio Salazar was arrested by coun- ty police, not by a bounty hunter, Gerstenfield said. “Washington & Gray collected $15,000 on a bond that did not exist,” Gerstenfield wrote to New- man and to the Maryland Insur- ance Administration in January. In a letter to Newman last De-
cember, Washington wrote that Rubio’s money was refunded “im- mediately after my fugitive recov- ery agents put him back into cus- tody. At that point, I considered the case closed and destroyed the file.”
castanedar@washpost.com
Staff Researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.
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