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AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST

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T-storms Rain ShowersSnow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm FrontStationary Front

NATIONAL Today Tomorrow

High

Low

Normal

Record high

Record low

Reagan Dulles BWI

Reagan Dulles BWI

Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)

WORLD Today Tomorrow

Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized

Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air

quality data); National Weather Service

* AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®

combines over a dozen factors for an accurate

measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,

shsn- showers, -snow, i-icet-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,

Moon Phases Solar system

NATION

OFFICIAL RECORD

Rise Set

REGION

Past 24 hours

Total this month

Normal

Total this year

Normal

Richmond

Norfolk

Ocean City

Annapolis

Dover

Cape May

Baltimore

Charlottesville

Lexington

Washington

Virginia Beach

Kitty Hawk

Harrisburg Philadelphia

Hagerstown

Davis

OCEAN:

OCEAN:

OCEAN:

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Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

92° 2:11 p.m.

72° 5:00 a.m.

86°/69°

100° 1874

53° 1908

92° 3:50 p.m.

69° 6:00 a.m.

86°/64°

94° 2009

47° 1976

95° 3:07 p.m.

71° 6:02 a.m.

85°/65°

97° 1899

51° 2000

Washington 12:43 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 1:10 p.m. 7:46 p.m.
Annapolis 4:43 a.m. 9:51 a.m. 4:39 p.m. 11:27 p.m.
Ocean City 12:24 a.m. 6:38 a.m. 12:55 p.m. 7:17 p.m.
Norfolk 2:17 a.m. 8:24 a.m. 2:44 p.m. 9:10 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:55 a.m. 6:09 a.m. 12:18 p.m. 7:13 p.m.

93 ° 73 ° 77 ° 63 ° 81 ° 66 ° 81 ° 67 ° 80 ° 70 ° 85 ° 72 °

Sun 6:28 a.m. 7:54 p.m.

Moon 11:46 p.m. 12:57 p.m.

Venus 6:39 a.m. 8:05 p.m.

Mars 6:45 a.m. 8:07 p.m.

Jupiter 3:11 p.m. 12:44 a.m.

Saturn 5:25 p.m. 2:57 a.m.

Aug 23

Last

Quarter

Aug 30

New

Sep 5

First

Quarter

Sep 14

Full

0.36"

1.58"

2.04"

30.37"

25.51"

1.12"

4.31"

2.47"

29.36"

26.94"

Trace

1.04"

2.28"

25.74"

26.84"

Blue Ridge: Today, morning fog, partly sunny, afternoon
thunderstorm. High 76–80. Wind southwest 4–8 mph.
Tonight, partly cloudy, shower, thunderstorm. Low 61–65.
Wind west 4–8 mph. Friday, variably cloudy, showers,
thunderstorm. High 67–71.

Atlantic beaches: Today, partly sunny, humid, afternoon
thunderstorm. High 88–95. Wind southwest 6–12 mph.
Tonight, mostly cloudy, shower, thunderstorm. Low 72–77.
Wind southwest 6–12 mph. Friday, mostly cloudy, heavy
thunderstorms. High 80–88.

Pollen: Low

Grass Low

Trees Low

Weeds Low

Mold High

UV: Very High

8 out of 11+

Air Quality: Moderate

Dominant cause: Ozone

95/74

94/76

88/73

92/72

92/72

87/73

92/70

93/71

90/69

91/76

89/76

90/67 92/69

89/66

78/61 93/73

76°

76°

83°

65°

Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, hot, humid, afternoon
thunderstorm. Wind southwest 5–10 knots. Waves around a foot.

• Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, hot, humid, afternoon
  thunderstorm. Wind southwest 5–10 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the
  lower Potomac, 1–3 feet on the Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little
  Falls will be around 3.1 feet today, holding nearly steady on Friday.
  Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 82/59/pc 77/53/s

Albuquerque 94/65/pc 93/66/pc

Anchorage 67/52/pc 66/51/pc

Atlanta 92/73/t 91/73/t

Austin 97/74/s 98/75/pc

Baltimore 92/70/pc 76/61/t

Billings, MT 89/60/pc 78/62/t

Birmingham 91/73/t 89/72/t

Bismarck, ND 79/61/pc 75/64/t

Boise 83/56/pc 87/62/s

Boston 90/68/pc 78/62/s

Buffalo 75/57/s 73/55/s

Burlington, VT 81/56/pc 75/54/pc

Charleston, SC 92/76/pc 92/76/pc

Charleston, WV 87/66/t 77/55/t

Charlotte 92/72/t 89/70/t

Cheyenne, WY 81/55/t 79/54/s

Chicago 76/61/pc 74/58/s

Cincinnati 82/66/t 79/58/pc

Cleveland 73/58/t 73/58/s

Dallas 98/78/s 97/77/pc

Denver 87/59/t 87/58/s

Des Moines 79/57/pc 79/58/pc

Detroit 77/59/pc 74/57/s

El Paso 96/74/c 96/73/t

Fairbanks, AK 59/42/c 59/41/pc

Fargo, ND 74/53/s 77/62/pc

Hartford, CT 90/62/pc 80/55/s

Honolulu 92/77/pc 91/78/pc

Houston 94/75/s 91/75/t

Indianapolis 80/61/t 78/56/pc

Jackson, MS 90/71/pc 87/71/t

Jacksonville, FL 92/74/pc 92/74/pc

Kansas City, MO 79/66/t 81/65/pc

Las Vegas 107/79/s 105/79/s

Little Rock 90/72/t 85/71/t

Los Angeles 87/65/pc 83/63/pc

Louisville 87/71/t 84/62/c

Memphis 90/73/t 87/72/t

Miami 90/79/pc 89/78/t

Milwaukee 73/61/s 71/59/s

Minneapolis 75/55/s 76/58/s

Nashville 89/71/t 85/69/t

New Orleans 89/77/pc 84/75/t

New York City 90/67/pc 78/63/pc

Norfolk 94/76/t 88/70/t

Oklahoma City 92/69/pc 87/68/pc

Omaha 79/62/pc 82/65/pc

Orlando 91/74/t 90/75/t

Philadelphia 92/69/pc 78/62/pc

Phoenix 108/84/pc 104/82/pc

Pittsburgh 77/56/t 74/53/pc

Portland, ME 86/63/pc 78/56/pc

Portland, OR 75/55/pc 80/56/pc

Providence, RI 90/65/pc 80/59/pc

Raleigh, NC 93/72/t 90/65/t

Reno, NV 91/62/s 96/65/s

Richmond 95/74/pc 85/63/t

Sacramento 97/63/s 95/61/s

St. Louis 82/66/t 81/63/pc

St. Thomas, VI 88/80/pc 90/80/pc

Salt Lake City 91/64/pc 88/67/s

San Diego 74/65/pc 74/64/pc

San Francisco 77/58/pc 80/60/pc

San Juan, PR 88/79/pc 89/78/pc

Seattle 73/56/pc 74/56/pc

Spokane, WA 78/55/pc 81/58/pc

Syracuse 79/57/pc 74/53/s

Tampa 92/77/pc 91/77/t

Wichita 82/68/t 83/69/pc

Addis Ababa 70/55/t 69/55/t

Amsterdam 73/53/pc 77/57/s

Athens 93/80/s 93/77/s

Auckland 58/51/sh 57/49/sh

Baghdad 109/79/s 111/80/s

Bangkok 91/78/t 92/78/t

Beijing 91/65/s 89/64/pc

Berlin 80/55/pc 82/58/s

Bogota 69/46/pc 67/49/pc

Brussels 76/53/s 79/56/s

Buenos Aires 59/40/pc 61/48/pc

Cairo 96/75/s 96/76/s

Caracas 74/67/t 75/67/pc

Copenhagen 70/57/c 72/58/pc

Dakar 85/79/c 87/80/r

Dublin 68/57/c 71/54/pc

Edinburgh 65/58/sh 70/56/pc

Frankfurt 79/55/s 82/59/s

Geneva 77/58/pc 79/58/pc

Ham., Bermuda 85/77/pc 85/79/t

Helsinki 69/54/c 67/55/r

Ho Chi Minh City 90/79/t 89/78/t

Hong Kong 91/80/t 91/82/t

Islamabad 95/76/s 96/77/s

Istanbul 86/72/s 86/75/s

Jerusalem 87/67/s 88/71/s

Johannesburg 72/46/s 77/47/s

Kabul 94/63/s 93/63/s

Kingston, Jam. 88/80/t 88/79/t

Kolkata 91/78/t 90/79/t

Lagos 84/76/c 83/76/t

Lima 65/59/s 65/59/s

Lisbon 88/69/s 91/66/s

London 76/56/pc 78/56/s

Madrid 92/66/pc 93/67/pc

Manila 88/80/t 87/80/t

Mexico City 72/57/t 74/57/pc

Montreal 77/54/pc 74/56/s

Moscow 75/51/c 72/51/s

Mumbai 86/79/sh 87/79/sh

Nairobi 75/52/pc 77/56/pc

New Delhi 93/79/t 94/80/pc

Oslo 60/51/r 67/53/r

Ottawa 75/51/pc 71/51/pc

Paris 81/57/s 83/59/s

Prague 74/52/pc 77/59/pc

Rio de Janeiro 73/64/sh 72/64/sh

Riyadh 110/80/s 109/78/s

Rome 85/68/pc 86/68/pc

San Salvador 88/70/pc 88/70/pc

Santiago 82/45/s 77/47/pc

Sarajevo 84/57/t 85/60/pc

Seoul 87/68/pc 85/67/pc

Shanghai 92/78/pc 91/79/pc

Singapore 89/80/t 89/80/pc

Stockholm 68/53/c 65/56/c

Sydney 66/44/pc 64/43/s

Taipei City 95/80/t 95/81/s

Tehran 93/73/s 94/74/s

Tokyo 88/79/c 86/76/t

Toronto 73/55/pc 73/54/pc

Vienna 75/61/t 81/64/pc

Warsaw 74/53/pc 78/54/pc

Today

T-storm

Friday

Showers

Saturday

Partly sunny

Sunday

Partly sunny

Monday

Cloudy

Tuesday

Partly sunny

SaSu M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa

through 5 p.m.yesterday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +3.5° yr. to date: +2.7°

High: Thermal, CA 116°

Low: Bridgeport, CA 31°

World

High: Basrah, Iraq 121°

Low: Summit Station, Greenland –26°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND:WSW 6–12 mph

HUMIDITY:High

CHNCE PRECIP:40%

FEELS*:99°

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:78°

NNW 6–12 mph

Moderate

55%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:83°

NE 7–14 mph

Low

5%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:82°

ENE 7–14 mph

Low

10%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:79°

ENE 8–16 mph

Moderate

25%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:86°

ENE 6–12 mph

High

25%

Hot and sticky, then stormy

Partly to mostly sunny skies with hot
and humid conditions once again.
Highs in the low 90s, combined with
dew points in the low to mid-70s,
will push the heat index over the
century mark at times. Clouds increase in the
afternoon with more widespread showers and
thunderstorms developing in the late afternoon
and early evening hours. Scattered showers and
storms linger into the overnight hours. Lows in
the upper 60s to around 70 degrees.

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approach next year’s races. Many
outside groups have begun aim-
ing resources toward Virginia,
which is the only state in the
country with the balance of pow-
er at stake in its elections this
year.
Republicans are defending
narrow majorities of 20-19 in the
state Senate and 51-48 in the
House of Delegates, with one
vacancy in each chamber.
“It’s not surprising — I mean,
Everytown comes in every single
year [since 2011],” said John Find-
lay, executive director of the Re-
publican Party of Virginia. “If the
gun issue was as potent as Every-
town thinks it is, we would’ve had
Democrat majorities in the
House and Senate for the past
eight years.”
Guns became a major political
issue in the state after a May 31
mass shooting in Virginia Beach,
where a gunman killed 12 people
at a municipal building before
being killed by police. Gov. Ralph
Northam (D) summoned the
General Assembly to a special
session last month to consider
gun-control legislation, but Re-
publican leaders adjourned after
90 minutes without debating any
proposed bills.
Instead, Republicans referred
more than 60 pieces of legislation
to the State Crime Commission,
which met for two days this week
to hear testimony from experts
and presentations from bill spon-
sors. The General Assembly won’t
take up the issue again until
Nov. 18 — after the elections.
Democrats believe the issue is
especially powerful in suburban
districts that are represented by
Republicans but have been tilting
blue in recent elections. Every-
town said its data backs that up.
The group, which was founded
by billionaire former New York
mayor Michael Bloomberg, said it
conducted a “battleground mes-
saging poll” that showed about
6 in 10 voters in swing districts
said Republican opposition to

GUNS FROM B1

gun control was a convincing

reason to vote against the party’s

candidates.

The message-testing was con-

ducted in suburban areas at the

end of July and beginning of

August — before the mass shoot-

ings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio,

that inflamed the topic nation-

wide. Voters were also given

statements that questioned Re-

publican records on health care,

the environment and taxes, the

group said, and gun control was

among the most persuasive.

Specifically, the Everytown

poll found a positive reaction to

the idea of “red flag” laws, which

allow authorities to temporarily

seize guns from someone deemed

a threat to themselves or others.

The group said it also believes

Virginians oppose the way Re-

publicans handled the special

legislative session on gun control.

It has created two digital ads

on those themes: one saying GOP

lawmakers “chose the NRA over

Virginians’ safety,” the other say-

ing they refused “to take action to

prevent gun deaths.”

They’ll be directed at voters in

three Senate districts: the Lou-

doun County contest for the seat

of retiring Sen. Richard H. Black

(R) between Democrat John Bell

and Republican Geary Higgins,

as well as one in suburban Rich-

mond and another in Virginia

Beach — and 10 House districts.

Those include going after in-

cumbent Del. Tim Hugo (R-Fair-

fax), the only Republican in the

Northern Virginia House delega-

tion, as well as House Speaker

Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights)

and House Appropriations Chair-

man Chris Jones (R-Suffolk), both

of whom saw their districts be-

come considerably more blue un-

der court-ordered redistricting.

Republicans have accused

Democrats — and especially

Northam — of using the tragedy

of mass shootings for political

purposes. Before the Crime Com-

mission convened on Tuesday,

Senate Majority Leader Thomas

K. Norment (R-James City) said

Northam was “pandering” and

“irresponsible” to be pushing for

immediate legislative action to

restrict guns.

But several Republicans have

suggested ways to address the

issue. House Majority Leader

Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah) has

proposed programs to increase

community policing and break

the cycle of gang membership,

and Hugo has expressed support

for a type of red-flag law that

allows authorities to take a per-

son into custody if they are found

to pose a danger.

Cox, also speaking before the

Crime Commission, said Republi-

cans have been consistent in be-

lieving that gun violence is a

complex problem that requires

study. “We’re committed to that

deliberative approach,” he said.

[email protected]

Scott Clement contributed to this

report.

Everytown launches ad blitz targeting Va. GOP lawmakers

PHOTOS BY STEVE HELBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE:

Kris Brown, of the gun-control

group Brady, at the Virginia

Crime Commission meeting on

gun issues Tuesday. The group

Moms Demand Action, part of

Everytown for Gun Safety, also

attended. Fairfax resident Ed

Gomez holds a sign with a

photo from Gov. Ralph

Northam’s yearbook page.

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