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New York Post, Monday, August 19, 2019

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Post Weather Report

Almanac

Athens 89/74/s 89/73/s

Baghdad 111/81/s 114/83/s

Beijing 89/71/pc 79/66/t

Berlin 78/54/pc 78/56/c

Cairo 93/74/s 94/77/s

Dublin 63/47/pc 63/53/sh

Geneva 75/60/t 66/57/r

Hong Kong 90/81/sh 89/80/t

Jerusalem 84/65/s 83/67/s

Kabul 89/58/s 93/59/s

London 70/52/pc 71/55/pc

Madrid 89/69/pc 88/65/s

Mexico City 76/53/t 76/55/pc

Montreal 85/61/t 84/62/s

Moscow 71/57/c 79/63/s

Paris 73/56/pc 73/53/pc

Rio de Janeiro 77/69/c 74/67/sh

Rome 84/63/s 86/68/s

Sydney 61/46/s 65/51/s

Tokyo 91/78/t 89/76/pc

World cities TODAY TOMORROW

Albany 89/67/pc 86/69/t

Danbury 90/68/pc 87/69/t

Glens Falls 88/61/t 84/64/s

Gr Barrington 89/66/t 86/66/t

Kingston 92/68/t 88/70/t

Liberty 87/64/t 83/65/t

Monticello 88/64/t 85/66/t

Newburgh 91/70/t 88/71/t

Poughkeepsie 92/69/t 89/70/t

Saratoga Springs 88/64/t 84/66/s

Stroudsburg 91/69/t 87/69/t

Torrington 89/68/t 87/68/t

Syracuse 85/64/t 85/68/s

Regional cities TODAY TOMORROW

Sun and Moon

Coney Island 11:01a 11:13p 11:38a 11:52p

Fire Island 11:00a 11:17p 11:44a 11:59p

Hempstead 2:02a 2:24p 2:40a 3:02p

Huntington 2:14a 2:36p 2:53a 3:15p

Jones Inlet 10:45a 10:57p 11:22a 11:36p

Montauk Point 12:04a 12:34p 12:46a 1:16p

Port Washington 1:58a 2:19p 2:35a 2:57p

Sandy Hook 11:05a 11:17p 11:42a 11:56p

New York Tides TODAY TOMORROW

YESTERDAY’S CONDITIONS AT CENTRAL PARK THROUGH 6PM

Temperature

High Tide for 1st 2nd 1st 2nd

Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,

c-cloudy, sh-showers, r-rain, t-thunder-

storms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice

Sunrise today ......................... 6:09 a.m.

Sunset tonight ........................ 7:49 p.m.

Moonrise today .................... 10:06 p.m.

Moonset today ....................... 9:49 a.m.

High: 90, Low: 75, Mean: 83

Departure from Normal

Yesterday: +7 degrees

Precipitation

Yesterday: 0.04”, Month: 1.82”, Year:

35.01”, Normal year to date: 31.50”

Cooling Degree days yesterday ..............

Total for the month (normal) ......215 (196)

Total since Jan. 1 (normal) ..........944 (835)

Last year to date ...................................

Heat Index (at noon yest.) ..................... 93

UV index (for Mon.) ............. 8 (Very High)

Humidity (at noon) ............................. 72%

Last

Aug 23

New

Aug 30

First

Sep 5

Full

Sep 14

Forecasts and

graphics provided by

AccuWeather, Inc. ©

Forecast data is current as of 6

p.m. yesterday. Temperatures are

today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Monday Tuesday

Wednesday Thursday

Today: Humid

with partial

sunshine. High 85

to 91.

Tonight: Partly

cloudy, warm and

humid. Low 73

to 79.

A p.m.

t-storm.

High 85

to 91.

Evening

A t- storm. Low 71

to 77.

Tomorrow

night: A late-night

t-storm in spots.

Low 72 to 78.

Tomorrow:

Some sun, very

warm; a p.m.

t-storm. High 84

to 90.

Shower or

t-storm.

High 83

to 89.

Evening

Partly cloudy. Low

61 to 67.

Bridgeport

87/

Stamford

88/

Peekskill

90/

White Plains

88/

Garden

City

87/

Sussex

91/

Newark

92/

Paterson

93/

Asbury Park

88/

Manasquan

88/

Toms River

92/

Long Beach

86/

Atlantic City

91/

Ocean City

86/

La G

90/

Sandy Hook

85/

Long Beach

83/

Deer Park

86/

Huntington

86/

JFK

86/

Montauk

82/

Riverhead

85/70 Southampton

81/

Pollen: Low. Predominant pollen: Ragweed

AQI rating: (for Mon.) ........................Moderate

AIR QUALITY

Showers

T-storms

Rain

Flurries

Snow

Ice

Cold

Warm

Stationary

Fronts

Shown are noon positions of

weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for

the day. Forecast high/low tempera-

tures are given for selected cities.

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Monday, August 19, 2019

It was a funeral for ice.

With poetry, moments of

silence and political

speeches about the urgent

need to fight climate change,

Icelandic officials, activists

and others bade goodbye to

what once was a glacier.

Icelandic geologist Oddur

Sigurdsson pronounced the

Okjokull glacier extinct

about a decade ago.

But on Sunday, he brought

a death certificate to the ma-

de-for-media memorial.

After about 100 people

made a two-hour hike up a

volcano, children installed a

memorial plaque to the gla-

cier, now called just “Ok,”

minus the Icelandic word

for glacier.

The glacier used to stretch

6 square miles, Sigurdsson

said. Residents reminisced

about drinking pure water

thousands of years old from

Ok.

“The symbolic death of a

glacier is a warning to us,

and we need action,” former

Irish president Mary Robin-

son said. AP

Restrictions were tight-

ened again in much of Indi-

an-administered Kashmir on

Sunday, despite India’s gov-

ernment saying it was gradu-

ally restoring phone lines and

easing a nearly two-week se-

curity lockdown.

Soldiers manned nearly de-

serted streets and limited the

movement of the few pedes-

trians who came out of their

homes in Srinagar, the re-

gion’s main city.

The security crackdown

and a news blackout were in-

stalled following an Aug. 5

decision by India’s Hindu na-

tionalist government to

downgrade the autonomy of

the Muslim-majority region.

Authorities started easing re-

strictions on Saturday. But

the Press Trust of India news

agency said the restrictions

returned in parts of Srinagar

amid violence on Saturday.

About 300 Kashmiris re-

turned on Sunday from a Hajj

pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Many became emotional

when seeing relatives they

were unable to contact. AP

By JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

Hong Kong enjoyed a

rare calm weekend after 10

weeks of civil unrest, with

no violent clashes re-

ported Sunday as nearly

2 million protesters turned

streets into seas of umbrel-

las amid torrential rains.

Riot police who have re-

peatedly clashed with pro-

democracy demonstrators

kept a low profile and did

not attempt to block the

paths of the umbrella-

wielding protesters flow-

ing through the city.

When one group of dis-

sidents lingered outside a

government complex,

other protesters, and not

police, encouraged them

to go home.

“We hope to see whether

the government gives a re-

sponse to this peaceful

protest,” said 24-year-old-

Michael Leung, who was

ushering his fellow dem-

onstrators away. “If we get

a negative response, we

cannot control the next

[gathering].”

Bonnie Leung, an orga-

nizer for the Civil Human

Rights Front (CHRF),

which had launched three

earlier massive marches in

the embattled city since

June, said, “We hope we

can show the world that

Hong Kong people can be

totally peaceful.”

Jimmy Shan of the CHRF

said the group estimated

that at least 1.7 million

people took part in Sun-

day’s rally.

The earlier protests had

been increasingly marked

by violent skirmishes with

police and included a mass

invasion of the city’s air-

port that forced hundreds

of flight cancellations over

two days.

A former British colony,

Hong Kong was returned

to Chinese control in 1997

under the framework of

“one country, two sys-

tems” — which promised

the island’s residents cer-

tain democratic rights not

afforded to people on the

mainland.

But many pro-democ-

racy Hongkongers pushed

back this year, accusing

the central government of

increasingly eroding their

freedoms.

Protesters are demand-

ing the resignation of

Hong Kong leader Carrie

Lam, democratic elections

and an independent inves-

tigation into alleged police

abuses.

With Wire Services

[email protected]

Finally, Hong calm

Peace ‘rains’ as protests spark no clashes

Bringing

tears to

their ice

Kashmir

lockdown

reinstated

GOOD-BRELLAS: A massive protest is soaked, but

violence-free, on Sunday in beleaguered Hong Kong.

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