C10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
A pleasant summer day. Maybe a little warmer than Saturday, and probably a bit more humid. But the sun will shine, and it is unlikely to rain. Temperatures could graze 90. Sunday night, more humidity. But it will be cool enough. Probably down to the mid-70s, even in warm places.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Absent
Absent Absent
Harrisburg Hagerstown
87/65 88/66
Baltimore 90/68
Washington 92/68
Richmond Charlottesville
92/64 92/69
Norfolk 86/71
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny, afternoon thunderstorm. High 80-92. Wind south- southeast 3-6 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, evening shower or thunderstorm. Low 57- 68. Wind light, variable. •Monday, mostly sunny, afternoon thunderstorm.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 86/69
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, partly sunny. High 84-88. Wind south- east 6-12 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 68-72. Wind south 3-6 mph. •Monday, mostly sunny, afternoon shower or thunderstorm. High 86- 91. Wind south 4-8 mph. •Tuesday, mostly sunny. High 88-94.
Upper Potomac River: Today, partly
sunny. Wind southeast 5-10 knots. Waves less than 1 foot. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind south- east 5-10 knots. Waves less than 1 foot on the lower Potomac, 1 foot on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, holding steady Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 88/72
Ocean City 87/70
Dover 89/70
Absent
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
7 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 87 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 88/70
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 90/65/t Anchorage 61/56/r
84/64/s 85/64/t 90/65/t 64/55/r
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles
Atlanta 96/76/pc 95/77/pc Austin 98/76/s Baltimore 90/68/pc Billings, MT
99/76/s 92/72/s
Birmingham 98/75/pc
90/61/s 92/60/pc 99/75/pc
Bismarck, ND 96/63/s 98/67/t Boise 92/63/pc 90/60/t Boston 84/69/s Buffalo 85/68/s
85/69/t 85/68/t
Burlington, VT 83/65/s 83/61/t Charleston, SC 94/75/t 92/73/t Charleston, WV 92/59/pc 95/63/s Charlotte 91/72/pc
96/72/s
Cheyenne, WY 86/58/t 89/56/t Chicago 90/73/pc 89/72/t Cincinnati 94/63/s Cleveland 88/67/s
93/60/t
98/66/s 90/70/t
Dallas 102/79/t 103/81/s Denver 92/61/t Des Moines
92/75/pc 93/76/t
Detroit 88/68/pc 91/71/t El Paso
92/70/pc 90/70/t
Hartford, CT 88/65/s 91/66/t Honolulu 89/74/pc Houston 96/78/t Indianapolis 94/69/s Jackson, MS
94/76/t 96/75/t
Jacksonville, FL 94/75/t 93/75/t Kansas City, MO 96/77/s 98/77/pc Las Vegas
98/71/t 99/75/s 97/73/t 99/73/pc
Fairbanks, AK 71/53/c 69/52/sh Fargo, ND
89/74/pc 96/79/s 94/70/pc
Tomorrow Louisville 96/68/s
98/77/pc 98/78/t 75/60/pc 77/60/pc 98/70/s
Memphis 98/78/pc 100/80/s Miami 90/78/t Milwaukee 88/72/t Minneapolis 92/74/pc Nashville 96/67/pc
91/77/t 86/73/t 91/74/t 98/71/s
New Orleans 94/78/t 93/80/t New York City 85/74/s 91/75/pc Norfolk 86/71/pc 90/72/t Oklahoma City 101/77/s 100/77/s Omaha 96/76/s Orlando 94/77/t Philadelphia 88/70/pc
99/76/pc 93/75/t
92/74/pc
Phoenix 102/80/pc 104/83/s Pittsburgh 86/64/s
Portland, ME 80/61/s 83/63/t Portland, OR
Providence, RI 87/68/s 89/68/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 92/69/pc Sacramento 85/51/s St. Louis
90/68/pc 77/58/s 76/56/pc
95/69/pc 97/71/s 91/54/t 90/54/s 94/70/s 85/53/s
98/75/s 98/78/s
St. Thomas, VI 90/80/s 89/81/sh Salt Lake City 80/60/t 86/61/t San Diego
67/60/pc 67/61/pc
San Francisco 62/52/pc 62/52/pc San Juan, PR 90/78/pc 90/78/pc Seattle 72/55/pc 71/54/pc Spokane, WA 82/56/pc 81/54/s Syracuse 84/65/s Tampa 93/78/t Wichita 102/76/s
88/65/t 91/77/t 99/75/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Partly sunny
92° 68°
Wind south-southeast 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 68/60/t 68/61/t Amsterdam 70/52/sh Athens 95/76/s Auckland 56/51/sh Baghdad 118/82/s Bangkok 90/79/t Beijing 88/72/c Berlin 72/63/sh Bogota 66/43/t Brussels 71/51/sh
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 95/69/pc
72/57/s 95/77/s 56/47/s 116/81/s 91/80/t
91/74/pc 74/58/pc 67/44/pc 78/56/s
Buenos Aires 59/37/pc 59/36/s Cairo 101/75/s 99/76/s Caracas 83/73/t Copenhagen 72/60/r Dakar 87/77/c Dublin 64/56/s Edinburgh 67/55/s Frankfurt 76/56/sh Geneva
83/74/t 72/62/r
80/55/s
88/78/pc 64/52/pc 63/50/sh 82/61/s 81/61/pc
Ham., Bermuda 84/78/r 86/76/sh Helsinki 87/59/pc
75/52/c
Ho Chi Minh City 86/77/t 85/75/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 92/81/t Istanbul 91/77/s Jerusalem 88/60/s Johannesburg 71/41/s
98/84/t
90/83/t 91/82/sh 97/80/t 89/80/s 86/64/s 67/31/s
Kabul 98/61/pc 102/60/s Kingston, Jam. 89/81/r 88/81/sh Kolkata
99/87/t Lagos 79/74/r
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 102° Pecos, Texas Low: 33° Truckee, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. 82/73/pc Lima 69/55/pc 68/57/pc
London 73/54/s Madrid 98/69/s Manila 82/78/t Mexico City
Montreal 78/63/t
Tomorrow 91/67/s
72/56/pc 94/70/pc 84/78/t
77/57/t 77/57/t 79/63/t
Moscow 95/66/pc 95/64/s Mumbai 89/81/r Nairobi 78/55/r New Delhi
90/81/r 79/57/pc 97/81/t 98/82/s
Oslo 73/62/pc 71/59/r Ottawa
76/64/t
Paris 79/59/s Prague 76/56/pc
81/64/t 84/60/s 78/55/pc
Rio de Janeiro 82/71/s 79/65/s Riyadh 105/81/s 105/80/s Rome 84/67/s Santiago 59/36/pc
88/66/s 64/34/s
San Salvador 85/73/t 86/73/t Sarajevo
79/52/sh
Seoul 92/75/t Shanghai 87/73/s Singapore 89/79/pc Stockholm 72/58/pc Sydney 63/45/s Taipei 93/80/s Tehran 91/76/s
83/49/s 95/72/pc 88/74/s 89/79/t
71/57/sh 64/50/s 94/80/s 92/76/s
Tokyo 85/76/sh 87/76/pc Toronto 84/68/pc Vienna 80/63/pc
87/68/t 84/66/s
Warsaw 80/60/pc 75/55/s Yerevan 102/66/s 101/65/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 121° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 11° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
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 Helena
Salt La
Salt City
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver Columbus Columbus St. Loui St. Louis St. Louis Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Monday Mostly sunny
96° 74°
Wind south-southwest 6-12 mph Tuesday Mostly sunny
94° 75°
Wind northwest 7-14 mph
Wednesday Thunderstorms
94° 76°
Wind west-northwest 6-12 mph Thursday Mostly sunny
93° 77°
Wind south-southwest 8-16 mph
SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2010
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
87° at 4:00 p.m. 68° at 5:39 a.m. 88°/70°
104° in 1918 58° in 2004
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
None 0.60” 0.77” 19.37” 23.59”
65% at 7:00 a.m. 34% 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
29.99” 29.89”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
85° at 5:00 p.m. 59° at 5:36 a.m. 87°/64°
97° in 2007 49° in 1994
None 1.08” 0.82” 23.25” 25.27”
89% at 6:00 a.m. 35% at 5:00 p.m.
30.00” 29.90”
Normal Record
86° at 3:51 p.m. 60° at 5:49 a.m. 86°/65°
105° in 1918 53° in 2004
None 0.62” 0.84” 24.14” 25.43”
86% at 6:00 a.m. 38% at 5:00 p.m.
29.98” 29.88”
Apparent Temperature:
86°
(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 ............ 13 This month....... 109 This season .... 1388 Normal to yesterday ...... 1001 Last season ...... 871
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
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1:14 a.m. 6:47 a.m. 2:18 p.m. 7:26 p.m. 4:05 a.m. 11:12 a.m. 4:15 p.m. 10:03 p.m. 12:30 a.m. 6:17 a.m. 12:26 p.m. 6:53 p.m. 2:23 a.m. 8:21 a.m. 2:23 p.m. 8:51 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:09 a.m. 7:20 a.m. 12:19 p.m. 6:11 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 9 New
Aug 16 First Quarter
Aug 24 Full
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:15 a.m.
8:12 p.m.
4:17 a.m. 7:07 p.m.
8:37 a.m. 9:13 p.m.
10:05 a.m. 10:04 p.m.
10:26 a.m. 10:18 p.m.
10:12 p.m. 10:17 a.m.
10:02 a.m. 10:16 p.m.
10:02 p.m. 10:04 a.m.
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Big tree falls without warning in Montgomery House hit less than
The tree was
2 days after storm; no clear connection
by Martin Weil
A large tree toppled Saturday morning with little or no warning onto a house in Montgomery County in what might have been one of the last effects of Thurs- day’s thunderstorms. It was not clear Saturday night
why the tree fell about 7 a.m. on the Colesville area house. But it heavily damaged the
two-story, single-family house, in the 13500 block of Collingwood Terrace, and trapped a couple in- side for a time, said Capt. Oscar Garcia of the county Fire and Rescue Service. The tree fell less than 48 hours
PHOTOS BY XIAOMEI CHEN/THE WASHINGTON POST
Eunice Naomi Lewis, with daughter Ruth Lewis Shuler, places boxwood cuttings on the slave memorial at Mount Vernon. The women were paying respects to their ancestors during the annual Quander family reunion, which drew people from all over the East Coast.
For descendants of slaves, a powerful connection VIRGINIA reunion from C1
morial to the hundreds of slaves who lived and died here in the 1700s. Somewhere nearby, the Quander matriarch and field la- borer Suckey Bay is buried in an unmarked grave. Two hundred years after her
death, judges, doctors, professors and their children placed box- wood twigs on the memorial, murmuring the names of the de- ceased. “Look how far we’ve come,” said Gloria Tancil Holmes. “It brings tears to my eyes.” That distance, traversed over
generations, isn’t just about the family’s financial or professional successes, Tancil Holmes said. It’s about a willingness to recognize the ugly truth about American slavery. “For years, it was some- thing that people didn’t really want to talk about, even our own family.” Then Mount Vernon officials
Malachia Brantley Jr., a Quander descendant and participant in the family’s 85th reunion, photographs the slave memorial at the estate.
began making an effort to docu- ment the estate’s ties to slavery. They erected a permanent memo- rial to the first president’s 316 slaves. They built a cabin that would tell the story of a typical
slave family. Tancil Holmes’s mother started giving tours that detailed the role of slaves on the estate. “Things just started evolving,” she said. Saturday marked an-
other chapter in that evolution: For the second time in Mount Vernon’s history, an African American family held a reunion on the grounds. “The time has finally come. The
day is finally here,” Rohulamin Quander, the founder of the Quander Historical Society, told his extended family. “None of us should be embarrassed about our history that includes enslave- ment.” This weekend’s reunion is the Quander family’s 85th. Previous gatherings have taken the group to Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey but never Mount Ver- non, a place of weighty symbol- ism.
“I grew up hearing so much about Mount Vernon, about our family’s connection to this place,” said Larry Mitchell of Chesa- peake, Va. “And now I’m finally here. It’s frightening and it’s mag- nificent.”
sieffk@washpost.com
Turning car injures motorcycle deputies
Two Loudoun County sheriff ’s deputies were seriously injured Saturday when their motorcycles were cut off by an oncoming vehi- cle. Department spokesman Kraig Troxell said the two depu- ties, who remain hospitalized with injuries that are not consid- ered life-threatening, had been serving as escorts for an event near the West Virginia border. The deputies, part of the de-
partment’s motorcycle unit, were traveling south on Harpers Ferry Road (Route 671) when a vehicle heading north attempted to turn left into a parking lot. One deputy swerved out of the way and lost control, Troxell said, and the oth- er was hit by the vehicle. Both deputies were airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital. The sheriff ’s office did not re- lease the names of the deputies
after a punishing storm that felled trees like flower stalks, but whether it came down as a de- layed consequence of the storm was “hard to tell,” Garcia said. Garcia said the tree’s trunk was as much as eight feet in diameter. At least two residents of the street said they had heard that
the tree might have been rotten inside.
A woman who lives on Colling- wood Terrace said she had “no idea” why the huge tree came down. The storm, she said, “may have loosened” its root structure. The tree was “very, very old,” said the woman, Judy Siebenberg. The tree came down with “a big
thump,” she said, and the sight of it lying across the neighboring house “was horrific.” Garcia said that firefighters ex-
tricated the two occupants of the house and that they were unin- jured. Meanwhile, in Northern Vir- ginia, where scores of trees went down before the fury of Thurs- day’s storm, about 1800 homes and businesses remained without electricity Saturday night despite steady progress in restoring pow- er, according to figures from Do- minion Virginia Power.
weilm@washpost.com LOCAL DIGEST
because their families had not yet been notified. No charges had been filed against the driver. The incident is under investigation. — Ann E. Marimow
MARYLAND
Two people killed in car crash
Two people died after a man drove a station wagon into on- coming traffic Saturday morning near Interstate 495 in Bethesda, Montgomery County police said. Donald Duvall, 64, of Chevy
Chase was northbound on Old Georgia Road near the intersec- tion with Interstate 495 in his Buick Roadmaster when he crossed over into southbound traffic. He hit a minivan being driven by Nadia Nawaz, 37, of Rockville. Both died at the scene, police said. The cause of the crash was still under investigation.
— Rick Rojas
“very, very old.” — Colesville resident Judy Siebenberg
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