C10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Sunday will be a lot like Saturday. Hot and humid. High temperatures in the mid-90s. But less chance of rain than Saturday. Not zero probability but low, less than a 1-in-4 chance. Sunday night, mid- to upper 70s in most of the area. A few places may drop to the low 70s.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Absent
Absent Absent
Harrisburg Hagerstown
92/73 91/73
Baltimore 94/75
Washington 93/76
Richmond Charlottesville
92/69 94/75
Norfolk 92/78
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, shower or thunderstorm south. High 78-90. Wind west-southwest 4-8 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, evening shower or thunderstorm south. Low 62-68. Wind south- southwest 3-6 mph. •Monday, partly sunny, thunderstorm.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 92/78
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, partly sunny, shower or thunderstorm south. High 88-92. Wind southwest 7-14 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, evening shower or thun- derstorm south. Low 75- 79. Wind west-southwest 7-14 mph. •Monday, partly sunny, afternoon thunderstorm.
Upper Potomac River: Today, partly
sunny. Wind west 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny, thun- derstorm south. Wind west 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.1 feet today, falling to 3.0 feet on Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 90/76
Ocean City 91/77
Dover 92/75
Absent
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 71 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 93/75
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 98/70/t Anchorage 61/56/r Atlanta 88/72/t Austin 97/74/s Baltimore 94/75/pc Billings, MT
Birmingham 88/73/t
85/68/pc 87/65/t 99/71/t 64/57/c 89/74/pc 97/75/pc 92/72/t
90/57/s 84/58/pc 90/74/t
Bismarck, ND 83/56/s 76/55/t Boise 95/58/s
89/58/s
Boston 90/73/pc 90/72/t Buffalo 81/70/t
82/64/pc
Burlington, VT 83/67/pc 83/62/t Charleston, SC 92/74/pc 91/75/pc Charleston, WV 88/72/pc 86/71/t Charlotte 90/71/t
92/71/t
Cheyenne, WY 89/61/s 89/58/t Chicago 91/69/t
Cincinnati 93/74/pc 89/73/t Cleveland 90/73/t
98/64/t 88/66/t 88/68/t 86/69/pc 83/69/pc
Dallas 101/79/s 98/80/s Denver 97/65/s Des Moines
Detroit 90/68/t El Paso
85/67/pc 100/75/s 101/74/s
Fairbanks, AK 70/54/sh 65/53/c Fargo, ND
82/59/s 73/55/t
Hartford, CT 90/68/pc 93/68/t Honolulu 87/73/s
Houston 95/77/pc 93/77/t Indianapolis 93/74/t Jackson, MS
89/73/t 93/74/t 92/74/t
Jacksonville, FL 95/72/pc 93/75/pc Kansas City, MO 92/73/t 96/77/pc Las Vegas
111/84/s 109/85/s 88/75/s
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow Louisville 95/76/pc
98/76/pc 96/76/t 88/68/s 81/65/pc 90/75/t
Memphis 96/78/pc 96/79/t Miami 90/79/t Milwaukee 90/66/t Minneapolis 86/61/s Nashville 93/76/pc
91/80/t
82/67/pc 76/61/t 89/75/t
New Orleans 90/77/t 92/76/t New York City 93/79/pc 93/77/t Norfolk 92/78/t
96/77/t
Oklahoma City 102/77/s 98/75/s Omaha 87/67/t Orlando 94/76/s Philadelphia 93/75/pc
91/70/t 93/77/t 92/73/t
Phoenix 112/89/pc 112/87/pc Pittsburgh 88/72/pc 85/66/t Portland, ME 87/65/pc 84/64/t Portland, OR
72/53/pc 76/56/pc
Providence, RI 93/72/pc 91/72/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 94/75/t Sacramento 100/61/s St. Louis
95/78/t 95/79/t
St. Thomas, VI 89/80/sh 89/78/sh Salt Lake City 99/72/s 97/69/s San Diego
74/66/pc 70/67/pc
San Francisco 75/55/pc 67/52/pc San Juan, PR 89/78/sh 88/79/sh Seattle 70/54/pc 75/56/pc Spokane, WA 82/54/s 80/55/s Syracuse 83/70/pc Tampa 93/78/t Wichita 99/74/s
84/63/t 93/78/t 99/75/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
92/73/t 95/73/t 100/62/s 95/59/s 96/73/t 89/56/s
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KLMNO Today Partly sunny
93° 76°
Wind west 7-14 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 65/58/r 67/59/t Amsterdam 72/60/pc Athens 93/75/s Auckland 60/47/s Baghdad 109/76/s Bangkok 90/79/t Beijing 90/75/s Berlin 76/57/pc Bogota 65/46/r Brussels 74/54/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 90/67/s
73/63/pc 93/76/s 59/46/pc 111/75/s 90/78/r
88/75/pc 80/62/s 65/45/sh 80/61/s
Buenos Aires 50/38/r 54/39/r Cairo 101/76/s 101/73/s Caracas 82/72/t Copenhagen 75/53/pc Dakar 85/81/c Dublin 68/54/sh Edinburgh 67/53/pc Frankfurt 78/58/s Geneva
81/54/s
Ham., Bermuda 82/75/s 83/75/s Helsinki 88/60/pc
78/61/s
Ho Chi Minh City 91/77/r 91/76/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 111/86/s Istanbul 90/74/s Jerusalem 86/62/s Johannesburg 64/36/s Kabul 106/60/s
94/84/t Lagos 85/73/c
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 114° Needles, Calif. Low: 34° West Yellowstone, Mont.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
Mother, daughter sharing life again
reunion from C1
physician with the hospital’s Med- ical House Call Program. “That’s the mission.” “The patients that we care for are really the most ill and dis- abled elders,” De Jonge said. “These are folks with multiple chronic illnesses, often physical or mental disabilities, and have been in the health-care system with a lot of high costs for an ex- tended period of time.”
Three years, few visits Williams, the daughter of a well
driller, was born in Tampa in 1900, the year the Wright Broth- ers went to Kitty Hawk, N.C. She was married, though she declines to talk about her husband. Sim- mons, her only child, said her fa- ther was a fireman on the Atlantic Coast railroad. He has been dead for decades, she said.
Williams appears thin and frail but erect as she sits in her wheel- chair. She leans close to see visi- tors because her eyesight is so poor, but she wears bracelets, earrings and rings and has her nails done in pink. Her face looks like a sculpture in wood. She has dia-
betes and high blood pressure, as well as glaucoma and poor hearing, De Jonge said. She survived a life- threatening infec- tion four years ago, was in and
“It’s a slower-growing cancer.” Three years passed. Mother and daughter managed only a few visits. Simmons said she was com- fortable at the nursing home but felt there was something missing. Six months ago she announced that she wanted to go home. The house-call program is
staffed by a team of doctors, nurse practitioners and social workers who visit elders in their homes and coordinate the complex care they often require. The program has 600 patients enrolled in the neighborhoods around the hospi- tal.
The waiver program also al- lowed Simmons to get a home health-care aide, and a social worker with the house-call pro- gram, Sari Greene, coordinated the move. One day this month, De Jonge and Greene drove to see how the two women were doing. Williams, whose first name is pronounced Eddy, wore a gold- trimmed white dress she had de- signed, a jeweled lavender pin
PHOTOS BY LINDA DAVIDSON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Above, social worker Sari Greene gets an impromptu blessing of sorts from 110-year-old Eddye Williams. At left, Williams is examined by Eric De Jonge, a doctor with the house-call program.
It was a painful wait, she said, but “I know that God will answer. . . . I know that God won’t let me down. . . . All I have to do is have patience.”
A different kind of care
Williams and her daughter, Edythe Simmons, 85, live together again after three years apart.
out of hospice, and has suffered a minor stroke. Through a District “Medicaid
Waiver” program, she has had a 16-hours-a-day home-care aide. She maintains her health, she says, by consuming bread-and- butter pickles and papaya juice. She had lived with her wheel- chair-bound daughter for many years until 2007, when Simmons learned she had breast cancer that had spread to her bone and fractured one of her legs. Simmons, a retired teacher, was taken to the hospital, and then to a nursing home where she was stabilized. “Turns out that in elderly women metastatic breast cancer is not as life-threatening as in young women,” De Jonge said.
and a silver necklace and cross. She sat in her wheelchair beside her daughter.
Simmons, who has no children, rested in a new hospital bed the program had just acquired for her. A jovial woman in eyeglasses and big earrings, she said of the bed: “I’m so comfortable. I use it like a toy.” The two women often held hands. An elegant framed photograph of Simmons as a smil- ing young woman hung on the wall.
“So how do you feel about your daughter coming home?” De Jonge said as he prepared to ex- amine Williams. “Oh, I’m delighted,” she said.
“Three long years. . . . To stay to- gether now, and to pray together.”
Simmons said she felt like a dif- ferent person being home, with her mother’s “spirit going into mine.” De Jonge checked Williams’s vi- tal signs and entered the data into a laptop, as his patient recited some of her poetry. “I get a lot of joy out of this kind
of relationship, and the trust that we have,” the doctor said. “I get a lot of hugs, affection, and it really makes my day worthwhile.” His program, however, loses
money, he said, because Medicare pays for only about 60 percent of its costs.
But a pilot program in the new health-care overhaul bill will test a different approach: Successful house-call projects could share with the government savings gen- erated by treating elders outside of hospitals. “We’re not asking Medicare to spend more money,” De Jonge said, only to better fund
care of its most fragile patients. As Williams sat in her bed- room, where a plaster image of Jesus is attached to the door, Greene, the social worker, asked her how she has been able to live so long.
Williams leaned her aged face close and began to caress Greene’s arms and hair with her hands. The old woman talked about the importance of connecting with nature, and listening to “what makes you tick.” “The moon has a story to tell,” she said. “The stars have a story to tell.” It was a mystical moment. A
picture of her as a young woman wearing hoop earrings and a pink corsage hung over a bed. A large wall clock that appeared to have stopped sat face up on a chair. Williams talked about the stars and the ocean as she stroked Greene’s arm, then began to recite what sounded like a poem. It ended with the gentle re-
frain: “Go home now . . . ” “Go home now . . . ” “Bye, bye . . . bye-bye.”
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90/81/t 88/81/sh 111/84/s 92/75/s 85/63/s 60/39/s 104/60/s
Kingston, Jam. 87/80/r 88/79/r Kolkata
92/84/t 85/73/s
Lima 69/57/pc 69/56/s
84/71/t 75/63/s 90/81/pc 72/57/c 65/58/sh 84/63/s 82/55/s
London 73/62/pc Madrid 99/64/s Manila 83/78/t Mexico City
Montreal 79/64/pc Moscow 91/68/s Mumbai 90/83/r Nairobi 74/58/r New Delhi
Oslo 71/51/s Ottawa
80/66/pc
Paris 77/57/s Prague 73/53/pc
Tomorrow 85/61/s
77/63/pc 100/64/s 87/78/t
74/53/t 73/51/t 79/63/t
90/66/pc 91/83/r 73/53/r
100/83/c 99/82/pc 73/55/r 79/62/t 84/62/s 77/53/s
Rio de Janeiro 73/65/r 75/68/pc Riyadh 106/81/pc 105/82/s Rome 90/65/s Santiago 52/31/s
90/70/s 55/32/s
San Salvador 84/74/t 84/72/t Sarajevo
75/57/t
Seoul 84/72/r Shanghai 90/79/sh Singapore 88/79/t Stockholm 75/59/c Sydney 64/46/s Taipei 91/77/s Tehran 97/81/s Tokyo 90/75/s Toronto 84/68/t Vienna 77/60/r Warsaw 88/63/t
78/55/t 86/70/r
91/75/pc 87/78/t
74/61/pc 63/45/pc 93/79/s 98/78/s 91/79/pc 80/64/pc 75/62/r
73/63/pc Yerevan 101/64/pc 102/64/s The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 122° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 10° Maquinchao, Argentina
Rise Set
8:31 p.m.
2:03 p.m. none
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas 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. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChicagChicago Columbus Columbus St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston Chicago PhiPhiladelphialadelphia Washingto Ottawa ttawa Bosto Washington Washington Boston Boston New Yor New York ew York Monday Thunderstorm
93° 74°
Wind west-southwest 7-14 mph Tuesday Thunderstorm
90° 76°
Wind south-southwest 8-16 mph
Wednesday Thunderstorm
92° 76°
Wind northwest 7-14 mph Thursday Thunderstorm
94° 77°
Wind west-southwest 8-16 mph
SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2010
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
93° at 5:00 p.m. 77° at 1:00 a.m. 89°/70°
102° in 1980 56° in 1929
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
0.01” 3.80” 1.99”
17.40” 21.15”
76% at 2:00 a.m. 39% 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
30.00” 29.91”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
92° at 1:41 p.m. 71° at 5:00 a.m. 88°/64°
100° in 1988 55° in 1976
0.30” 2.09” 2.01” 20.09” 22.89”
100% at 3:39 a.m. 38% at 2:00 p.m.
30.01” 29.91”
Normal Record
94° at 5:00 p.m. 74° at 4:37 a.m. 88°/66°
101° in 1988 58° in 1987
0.22” 3.05” 2.10” 22.21” 22.84”
90% at 4:00 a.m. 37% at 2:00 p.m.
29.98” 29.89”
Apparent Temperature:
98°
(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 ............ 20 This month....... 296 This season .... 1009 Normal to yesterday ........ 681 Last season ...... 581
J A S O N D J F M A M J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
1:50 a.m. 9:09 a.m. 2:18 p.m. 9:10 p.m. 5:57 a.m. 10:59 a.m. 5:17 p.m.
none
1:10 a.m. 7:32 a.m. 1:54 p.m. 8:22 p.m. 3:15 a.m. 9:23 a.m. 3:57 p.m. 10:18 p.m.
Point Lookout 2:05 a.m. 7:03 a.m. 1:25 p.m. 8:24 p.m. Moon phases
July 18 First Quarter
July 25 Full
Aug 3 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:57 a.m.
7:38 a.m. 9:40 p.m.
9:34 a.m. 10:40 p.m.
10:45 a.m. 11:12 p.m.
11:35 p.m. 11:41 a.m.
11:15 a.m. 11:35 p.m.
11:25 p.m. 11:28 a.m.
Aug 9 New
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