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Showers and thunderstorms will be widespread across the northern Plains and Midwest
this weekend. A southwesterly flow of air will deliver unseasonably warm air into the
Northeast. The Northwest will be cool, with rain along the coast.
JET STREAM
Highlight: The Weekend Outlook
Houston
Atlanta
New York
Minneapolis
Seattle
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VERY WARM
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Metropolitan Almanac
In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Temperature
this month............. +0.1°
Avg. daily departure
from normal
................ +0.7°
Avg. daily departure
from normal
this year
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday............... 77%
Est. normal............. 80%
Precipitation (in inches)
Yesterday............... 0.
Record.................... 3.
For the last 30 days
Actual..................... 2.
Normal.................... 4.
For the last 365 days
Actual................... 58.
Normal.................. 49.
LAST 30 DAYS
Air pressure Humidity
Cooling Degree Days
Trends
High......... 30.28 10 a.m.
Low............ 30.18 1 a.m.
High............. 77% 3 a.m.
Low.............. 48% 4 p.m.
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Yesterday..................................................................... 0
So far this month...................................................... 104
So far this season (since January 1)...................... 1168
Normal to date for the season............................... 1059
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Cities
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Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
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PC ............. Partly cloudy
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SS .......... Snow showers
T ............ Thunderstorms
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W ........................ Windy
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Recreational Forecast
Sun, Moon and PlanetsWe a t h e r R e p o r t Meteorology by AccuWeather
SunJupiterSaturnMoonMarsVenusNational ForecastBoatingLast Quarter New First Quarter FullSep. 21 Sep. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 13Beach and Ocean Temperatures2:26 p.m. 5:09 p.m.RISE 6:40 a.m.
SET 6:59 p.m.
NEXT R 6:41 a.m.
R 1:25 p.m.
S 10:44 p.m.
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R 3:27 p.m.S 11:42 a.m.
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S 7:26 p.m.United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
70/ 56 S 80/ 65 S
Bridgeport 71/ 56 0 70/ 53 S 79/ 61 S
Caldwell 72/ 55 0 73/ 52 S 83/ 61 S
Danbury 68/ 47 0 70/ 43 S 78/ 53 S
Islip 70/ 56 0 70/ 52 S 79/ 60 S
Newark 72/ 58 0 71/ 53 S 82/ 63 S
Trenton 70/ 55 0 71/ 50 S 79/ 57 S
White Plains 69/ 54 0 69/ 50 S 79/ 59 S
Albany 70/ 41 0 73/ 48 S 80/ 55 S
Albuquerque 84/ 62 0 83/ 60 PC 83/ 57 S
Anchorage 59/ 54 0.54 60/ 50 C 55/ 47 R
Atlanta 87/ 68 0 81/ 61 S 83/ 64 S
Atlantic City 71/ 57 Tr 70/ 56 S 79/ 63 S
Austin 95/ 72 0.08 96/ 74 C 95/ 73 T
Baltimore 77/ 52 0 75/ 50 S 83/ 56 S
Baton Rouge 89/ 73 0 89/ 74 PC 87/ 71 PC
Birmingham 96/ 72 0 86/ 62 S 85/ 64 S
Boise 64/ 46 0.01 64/ 45 Sh 67/ 44 PC
Boston 63/ 50 0.01 67/ 55 S 82/ 65 S
Buffalo 75/ 54 0 76/ 57 S 78/ 60 S
Burlington 69/ 43 0 73/ 51 S 79/ 60 S
Casper 80/ 50 0 85/ 47 S 73/ 40 PC
Charlotte 80/ 58 Tr 77/ 53 S 80/ 55 S
Chattanooga 91/ 66 0 84/ 61 S 85/ 58 S
Chicago 82/ 64 0 84/ 66 PC 84/ 68 PC
Cincinnati 86/ 64 0 83/ 67 S 82/ 66 S
Cleveland 81/ 58 0 83/ 61 S 84/ 67 S
Colorado Springs 81/ 51 0 85/ 55 PC 83/ 49 S
Columbus 84/ 61 0 82/ 60 S 83/ 63 S
Concord, N.H. 65/ 35 0.01 70/ 40 S 79/ 52 S
Dallas-Ft. Worth 93/ 74 0 83/ 71 C 89/ 72 PC
Denver 83/ 53 0 88/ 60 PC 85/ 49 S
Des Moines 87/ 71 0.10 81/ 68 T 84/ 68 C
Detroit 78/ 61 0 79/ 63 S 81/ 66 S
El Paso 93/ 68 0 90/ 69 PC 93/ 70 S
Fargo 78/ 57 0.15 77/ 64 S 82/ 65 T
Hartford 68/ 41 Tr 72/ 46 S 80/ 56 S
Honolulu 90/ 79 0 89/ 77 PC 88/ 76 Sh
Houston 81/ 74 2.45 85/ 74 T 87/ 75 T
Indianapolis 84/ 62 0 84/ 68 S 83/ 65 S
Jackson 98/ 70 0 92/ 68 PC 88/ 64 PC
Jacksonville 85/ 71 0.09 82/ 66 Sh 85/ 68 PC
Kansas City 90/ 70 0 89/ 68 PC 85/ 68 PC
Key West 91/ 81 0.01 88/ 79 PC 88/ 81 Sh
Las Vegas 94/ 71 0 89/ 65 S 86/ 66 S
Lexington 90/ 64 0 85/ 64 S 86/ 64 S
Little Rock 96/ 71 0 92/ 71 S 79/ 69 C
Los Angeles 83/ 66 0 79/ 62 PC 80/ 62 PC
Louisville 91/ 68 0 88/ 71 S 86/ 68 T
Memphis 97/ 73 0 94/ 72 S 88/ 71 PC
Miami 91/ 77 0.03 87/ 77 PC 88/ 80 Sh
Milwaukee 74/ 61 0 79/ 64 PC 77/ 64 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 85/ 63 0.35 82/ 66 PC 82/ 69 C
Nashville 94/ 70 0 89/ 66 S 87/ 63 S
New Orleans 93/ 77 0 93/ 77 PC 88/ 76 PC
Norfolk 75/ 63 0 72/ 61 S 77/ 62 S
Oklahoma City 89/ 69 0 87/ 64 PC 81/ 68 C
Omaha 89/ 71 0.20 85/ 69 T 85/ 70 C
Orlando 90/ 73 0.03 85/ 70 Sh 87/ 70 PC
Philadelphia 73/ 55 0 74/ 53 S 81/ 61 S
Phoenix 102/ 80 0 102/ 73 S 97/ 71 S
Pittsburgh 77/ 54 0 77/ 53 S 80/ 59 S
Portland, Me. 63/ 41 Tr 67/ 45 S 79/ 55 S
Portland, Ore. 66/ 56 0.39 70/ 57 S 68/ 58 PC
Providence 65/ 45 Tr 70/ 48 S 80/ 60 S
Raleigh 79/ 56 0 75/ 50 S 80/ 55 S
Reno 66/ 43 0 65/ 41 PC 71/ 42 S
Richmond 79/ 53 0 75/ 50 S 82/ 55 S
Rochester 73/ 51 0 77/ 54 S 80/ 57 S
Sacramento 78/ 53 0 79/ 55 S 86/ 55 S
Salt Lake City 82/ 57 0 73/ 49 PC 64/ 47 Sh
San Antonio 98/ 76 0.08 96/ 74 PC 95/ 73 S
San Diego 76/ 66 0 75/ 64 PC 76/ 64 PC
San Francisco 72/ 58 0.03 73/ 57 PC 78/ 58 S
San Jose 75/ 56 0.06 76/ 55 PC 82/ 58 S
San Juan 92/ 79 0.06 90/ 79 C 91/ 79 PC
Seattle 67/ 51 0.12 69/ 56 PC 69/ 56 PC
Sioux Falls 81/ 61 0.15 83/ 70 PC 83/ 68 C
Spokane 60/ 47 0.08 66/ 47 PC 64/ 48 C
St. Louis 90/ 69 0 90/ 71 S 87/ 70 PC
St. Thomas 90/ 81 0.01 89/ 80 Sh 89/ 80 Sh
Syracuse 72/ 47 0 75/ 52 S 79/ 57 S
Tampa 94/ 71 0 89/ 73 PC 90/ 74 PC
Toledo 82/ 57 0 83/ 64 S 84/ 67 S
Tucson 98/ 72 0 96/ 67 PC 95/ 66 S
Tulsa 93/ 73 0 91/ 69 S 80/ 70 T
Virginia Beach 73/ 62 0 70/ 60 PC 74/ 59 S
Washington 79/ 57 0 76/ 56 S 83/ 61 S
Wichita 91/ 69 0 91/ 67 PC 80/ 68 C
Wilmington, Del. 74/ 50 0 74/ 51 S 81/ 58 S
Africa Yesterday Today TomorrowAsia/Pacific Yesterday Today TomorrowAlgiers 84/ 69 0.02 83/ 68 PC 86/ 71 C
Cairo 93/ 70 0 94/ 73 S 91/ 70 S
Cape Town 72/ 54 0 87/ 59 PC 68/ 54 PC
Dakar 90/ 79 0 87/ 77 C 87/ 80 C
Johannesburg 87/ 57 0 84/ 54 S 81/ 56 S
Nairobi 82/ 53 0 81/ 51 S 81/ 54 C
Tunis 90/ 73 0 89/ 73 PC 87/ 75 PCBaghdad 106/ 81 0 106/ 74 S 110/ 77 S
Bangkok 93/ 77 0.29 88/ 78 T 89/ 77 T
Beijing 79/ 55 0 78/ 59 C 84/ 57 PC
Damascus 95/ 59 0 102/ 67 S 100/ 60 S
Hong Kong 92/ 81 0.24 91/ 78 PC 90/ 77 S
Jakarta 91/ 77 0 93/ 76 PC 92/ 74 S
Jerusalem 90/ 61 0 88/ 69 S 84/ 64 S
Karachi 93/ 80 0 97/ 81 S 98/ 82 S
Manila 88/ 77 0.82 84/ 78 R 82/ 76 R
Mumbai 88/ 77 0.56 86/ 79 Sh 86/ 79 ShSouth America Yesterday Today TomorrowNorth America Yesterday Today TomorrowEurope Yesterday Today TomorrowNew Delhi 95/ 80 0.14 89/ 77 PC 91/ 78 PC
Riyadh 108/ 76 0 109/ 78 S 107/ 75 S
Seoul 78/ 59 0 77/ 57 PC 77/ 62 C
Shanghai 85/ 70 0 81/ 68 PC 82/ 70 PC
Singapore 92/ 81 0 91/ 80 PC 91/ 80 PC
Sydney 63/ 58 0.83 69/ 60 Sh 72/ 60 PC
Taipei City 82/ 76 0.26 83/ 74 C 83/ 72 Sh
Tehran 97/ 75 0 96/ 75 S 97/ 75 S
Tokyo 73/ 68 0.46 79/ 66 S 74/ 67 CAmsterdam 61/ 48 0.02 63/ 45 PC 65/ 48 S
Athens 85/ 69 0 86/ 69 S 80/ 66 T
Berlin 61/ 44 0.04 61/ 43 PC 61/ 46 PC
Brussels 63/ 44 0 63/ 43 S 67/ 47 S
Budapest 64/ 47 0 64/ 41 S 64/ 41 S
Copenhagen 56/ 47 0.14 59/ 47 PC 61/ 51 PC
Dublin 64/ 43 0 65/ 48 S 64/ 54 S
Edinburgh 61/ 44 0 65/ 48 PC 68/ 48 S
Frankfurt 66/ 41 0 63/ 40 PC 68/ 45 S
Geneva 68/ 57 0 67/ 44 S 71/ 51 S
Helsinki 52/ 37 0.05 51/ 30 Sh 51/ 37 PC
Istanbul 82/ 69 0 79/ 66 S 72/ 60 PC
Kiev 54/ 46 0.09 58/ 41 Sh 55/ 38 Sh
Lisbon 77/ 62 0 77/ 62 PC 76/ 63 PC
London 68/ 46 0 71/ 51 S 71/ 53 S
Madrid 82/ 58 0 83/ 62 PC 77/ 61 T
Moscow 55/ 42 0 51/ 33 PC 49/ 34 R
Nice 77/ 69 0 77/ 66 PC 75/ 65 PC
Oslo 57/ 40 0 54/ 40 PC 64/ 43 PC
Paris 66/ 46 0 68/ 48 S 73/ 53 S
Prague 58/ 42 0 56/ 39 PC 59/ 40 PC
Rome 82/ 63 0 79/ 61 T 78/ 57 S
St. Petersburg 52/ 40 0.02 51/ 38 PC 50/ 36 C
Stockholm 54/ 39 0 51/ 34 PC 52/ 45 PC
Vienna 64/ 48 0.02 60/ 40 PC 63/ 42 S
Warsaw 57/ 43 0.21 58/ 40 T 58/ 43 PCAcapulco 84/ 74 Tr 87/ 78 T 88/ 78 T
Bermuda 87/ 75 1.03 79/ 73 R 80/ 73 PC
Edmonton 58/ 39 0 64/ 43 S 63/ 38 PC
Guadalajara 81/ 62 0 77/ 61 T 81/ 60 T
Havana 90/ 72 0.12 88/ 70 PC 90/ 73 PC
Kingston 91/ 78 0.02 90/ 78 T 90/ 79 T
Martinique 90/ 77 0 88/ 73 PC 89/ 76 Sh
Mexico City 72/ 57 0 72/ 56 T 75/ 55 T
Monterrey 93/ 72 0 93/ 74 PC 92/ 72 PC
Montreal 67/ 48 0 72/ 54 S 76/ 59 PC
Nassau 87/ 79 0.08 86/ 78 Sh 85/ 78 Sh
Panama City 86/ 75 0.39 84/ 74 T 84/ 75 T
Quebec City 62/ 42 0 67/ 51 S 72/ 50 PC
Santo Domingo 84/ 75 0.38 85/ 75 T 88/ 75 T
Toronto 70/ 54 0 74/ 55 C 79/ 60 PC
Vancouver 62/ 53 0.23 64/ 54 C 65/ 55 C
Winnipeg 76/ 67 0.18 70/ 57 PC 78/ 60 TBuenos Aires 70/ 39 0 65/ 38 PC 67/ 45 S
Caracas 87/ 75 0.49 84/ 73 T 84/ 75 T
Lima 64/ 59 0 65/ 60 PC 65/ 60 PC
Quito 64/ 49 0.22 70/ 56 R 70/ 58 R
Recife 82/ 73 0.10 83/ 75 PC 82/ 73 C
Rio de Janeiro 93/ 73 0 85/ 76 S 90/ 74 S
Santiago 71/ 39 0 66/ 42 PC 70/ 45 SFrom Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Harbor.
Small craft advisory is in effect on the ocean. Wind will
be northeast at 10-20 knots. Waves will be 4-6 feet on
the ocean, 1-3 feet on Long Island Sound and 1-2 feet on
New York Harbor.Atlantic City .................. 11:13 a.m. ............ 11:34 p.m.
Barnegat Inlet ............... 11:30 a.m. ............ 11:59 p.m.
The Battery ................... 11:50 a.m. ......................... ---
Beach Haven ................ 12:39 a.m. ............ 12:50 p.m.
Bridgeport ...................... 3:05 a.m. .............. 3:16 p.m.
City Island ....................... 2:43 a.m. .............. 2:55 p.m.
Fire Island Lt. ................ 12:07 a.m. ............ 12:18 p.m.
Montauk Point .............. 12:54 a.m. .............. 1:11 p.m.
Northport ....................... 3:04 a.m. .............. 3:22 p.m.
Port Washington ............. 2:48 a.m. .............. 3:07 p.m.
Sandy Hook .................. 11:32 a.m. ......................... ---
Shinnecock Inlet ........... 11:38 a.m. ......................... ---
Stamford ........................ 3:00 a.m. .............. 3:17 p.m.
Tarrytown ....................... 1:34 a.m. .............. 1:39 p.m.
Willets Point .................... 2:43 a.m. .............. 2:55 p.m.High TidesNew York City 69/ 60 0
Metropolitan ForecastTODAY .....................................Mostly sunny
High 70. High pressure along the east
coast will keep the region dry under
plenty of sunshine. Cool conditions will
continue for this time of year, along with a
northeastern breeze.TONIGHT ..............................................Clear
Low 56. An area of high pressure will be
in control of the weather across the re-
gion through the night. It will be clear, dry
and cooler than normal, with a light and
variable breeze.TOMORROW ..................Sunny and warmer
High 80. The stretch of dry weather will
continue. The day will begin cool but the
afternoon will feature a warming trend,
with most places 5 to 10 degrees higher
than today.SATURDAY ................Sunny and very warm
A large area of high pressure will remain
in place across the East. This will mean
another dry day, with sunshine and a very
warm afternoon for late September.SUNDAY
MONDAY ..................Some sunshine, warm
Sunday will be another very warm day,
with sunshine and patchy clouds and a
high of 85. Monday will yield partly sunny
skies, with very warm conditions. The
high will be 85.While Hurricane Humberto moves past
Bermuda, much of the eastern third of
the nation will be dry and sunny after
patchy morning fog burns off today. A few
storms will riddle the Southeast coast,
while rough surf and seas are in store
from Florida to Maine.
Meanwhile, torrential rain and flooding
problems from Tropical Storm Imelda are
forecast for parts of eastern Texas and
western Louisiana, spreading to southern
Arkansas. Showers and storms will ad-
vance across the Upper Midwest.
While a few storms are expected to dot
the Southwest, a pocket of cool air will
trigger clouds, showers and high-country
snow from the Great Basin to the north-
ern Rockies. Most areas from Southern
California to western Oregon and Wash-
ington can expect a dry day.A large area of high pressure moving
across the East will provide plenty of
sunshine at the beaches. Conditions at
the beaches will be rough surf and rip
currents, especially from the Jersey Shore
south. Highs will range from the 60s to
the lower 70s. Rough surf and rip cur-
rents will continue into the weekend.Pennsylvanians cannot stomp
their feet fast enough.
They are trying. But no matter
how many spotted lanternflies
they crush underfoot, they cannot
seem to keep the hordes of the in-
vasive insect from flapping in
their faces, sucking nutrients
from valuable vineyards and lurk-
ing in their nightmares. Even af-
ter death, they pester commuters
when their carcasses crunch un-
derfoot on city sidewalks.
The inchlong creatures, which
look a bit like moths and hide scar-
let wings beneath gray spotted
ones, moved into Philadelphia in
recent weeks, swarming around
parks and skyscrapers and draw-
ing a clear response from offi-
cials: “Kill it!” a state website
blares by way of advice to resi-
dents who encounter the flies.
“Squash it, smash it... just get rid
of it.”
In response to the insect infil-
tration, the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Agriculture has quaran-
tined 14 counties — regulating
what can be taken in and out —
and has set up a portal and a hot-
line (1-888-4BADFLY) to report
sightings of the species, which is
native to parts of Asia.
The lanternflies have already
been spotted in eight states, from
Virginia to Massachusetts, lead-
ing to quarantines and yearlong
abatement efforts. Left alive, the
pests could continue flying into
more states, injuring trees, reduc-
ing fruit yields and hurting farm-
ers’ bottom lines.
And then there’ is the daily an-
noyance.
“If it would just leap away, peo-
ple wouldn’t mind it as much, but
it seems to always be in your
mouth — or on you and trying toget in your mouth,” said George
Holmes, the mayor of Hamburg
Borough in Berks County, Pa.,
where the flies were first found in- They are believed to have ar-
rived among a shipment of stones
from Asia.
Pennsylvanians have come up
with many other methods of pul-
verizing the lanternflies, involv-
ing baseball bats, questionable
chemical solutions and even
stacks of textbooks. Mr. Holmes’s
dog, Josephine, has a knack for
leaping into the air and snagging
the bugs with her teeth before
spitting them out and stomping on
them. Still, no method has been
more popular than the classic
foot-stomp, which seems to have
united residents as if it were a
service requirement of living in
the state.
“I saw a couple stomp on them,
as everyone is taking great pride
in doing,” said Dan Urevick-Ack-
elsberg, a lawyer in Philadelphia,
who was quick to add that he had
also done his part. “I saw one and I
stepped on it, and I looked around
and there were a bunch of car-
casses. And then you realize,
they’re fluttering all over the
place.”
The bugs can be quite clumsy,
flying haphazardly into pedestri-
ans and windshields, said Heather
Leach, an entomologist who stud-
ies spotted lanternflies at Penn-
sylvania State University.
Much about the pests remains
unknown, Ms. Leach said, adding
that their foray into urban areas is
worrisome, in part because they
will have more opportunities
there to hitch rides to other states
— as one did in 2018, when it trav-
eled in a car from Pennsylvania to
a mall in Albany, N.Y. On Monday,
a bug believed to be a spotted
lanternfly arrived by boat inBrooklyn, according to Customs
and Border Protection, whose ag-
ricultural specialists were trying
to “mitigate the pest threat,” a
spokesman said.
In Eastern Pennsylvania, the
flies have already wreaked havoc
in vineyards like those at the Man-
atawny Creek Winery in Berks
County, where lanternflies have
been gnawing away at the farm’s
10 acres of grapevines for two
years.
“The volume of grapes has been
reduced dramatically,” said Col-
leen Norheim, the winery’s tast-
ing room manager. “I have a feel-
ing they’ll never go away unless
they get a true enemy that annihi-
lates them.”
Scientists are looking for just
such a nemesis. They have floated
a plan to release tiny wasps from
China that prey on the lantern-
flies, but more research is needed
before that idea could be feasible.
In the meantime, Pennsylvani-
ans will have to go on squashing
the bugs one at a time, or else
avoid them altogether.
Michelina Beaumont, a sopho-
more at Lehigh University in
Bethlehem, Pa., said she was
haunted by the thought of feeling
the bugs’ bodies crush under her
shoe, so she has been tiptoeing to
class each day.
“My response is zigzaggingacross campus and not interact-
ing with them,” Ms. Beaumont
said. “They jump, they’re big,
they’re scary. It’s like all of your
worst nightmares coming to fru-
ition.”
Officials in nearby states, in-
cluding New York, Maryland and
Connecticut, where the lanternfly
has been found in smaller num-
bers, are hoping to avoid Pennsyl-
vania’s predicament.Virginia discovered an infesta-
tion last year in Frederick County
and has been trying to eradicate it
since then, using insecticides and
herbicides. Elaine Lidholm, a
spokeswoman for the Virginia De-
partment of Agriculture and Con-
sumer Services, said the infesta-
tion had not spread.
“We’re trying very hard to keep
it that way,” she said. “But, you
know, the things can fly.”Pennsylvanians Combat an Invasion With Their Feet
Spotted lanternflies, an invasive species, stuck on a flytrap in
Montgomery County, Pa. Many residents prefer to stomp them.DANIEL VASTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMESBy NICHOLAS
BOGEL-BURROUGHS‘It’s like all of your
worst nightmares
coming to fruition.’