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88/71 A heavy p.m. storm
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85/72 Showers and thunderstorms
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82/72 A thunderstorm
L.I. South Shore
87/70 A thunderstorm
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83/70 A thunderstorm in the area
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A slow-moving storm will bring rounds of showers and storms to New England early in the
week, while stormy weather will persist in the Midwest and the Ohio Valley. Rain is forecast
across the Northwest, with strong storms possible in the Plains.
Highlight: Early Week Outlook
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Metropolitan Almanac
In Central Park, for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday ............... 93%
Est. normal ............. 97%
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this month...................... +2.3° this year......................... +2.4°
Precipitation (in inches)
Yesterday ............. Trace
Record .................... 2.11
For the last 30 days
Actual ..................... 1.08
Normal .................... 4.49
For the last 365 days
Actual ................... 41.17
Normal .................. 49.93
LAST 30 DAYS
Air pressure
High ........... 29.92 1 a.m.
Low .............. 29.81 noon
Humidity
High ............. 63% 6 a.m.
Low .............. 47% 1 a.m.
Cooling Degree Days
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
Yesterday................................................................... 1 1
So far this month...................................................... 23 5
So far this season (since January 1) ........................ 27 9
Normal to date for the season ................................. 24 9
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United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
87/ 72 T 88/ 70 PC
Bridgeport 78/ 64 0 83/ 68 T 86/ 66 PC
Caldwell 78/ 64 0.02 89/ 66 T 89/ 67 PC
Danbury 78/ 55 0.05 84/ 61 T 82/ 59 PC
Islip 78/ 65 0.02 86/ 69 T 87/ 68 PC
Newark 82/ 68 0.02 89/ 70 T 89/ 70 PC
Trenton 84/ 61 0.02 87/ 66 T 88/ 66 PC
White Plains 77/ 62 0.02 84/ 65 T 84/ 63 PC
Albany 71/ 64 0.03 83/ 66 T 83/ 64 T
Albuquerque 93/ 66 0 92/ 63 PC 91/ 62 W
Anchorage 65/ 51 0 60/ 51 PC 62/ 51 R
Atlanta 85/ 71 0.02 89/ 72 PC 88/ 74 PC
Atlantic City 83/ 74 0.06 85/ 72 T 85/ 71 PC
Austin 92/ 74 0 92/ 77 PC 95/ 77 PC
Baltimore 92/ 71 Tr 91/ 69 T 91/ 71 PC
Baton Rouge 90/ 75 0 91/ 76 T 90/ 75 C
Birmingham 87/ 71 0 91/ 73 PC 90/ 74 PC
Boise 87/ 55 0 66/ 48 PC 60/ 51 R
Boston 83/ 65 0 82/ 67 T 73/ 65 T
Buffalo 72/ 64 0.40 79/ 62 PC 82/ 62 S
Burlington 81/ 65 0 82/ 66 T 78/ 62 T
Casper 91/ 57 0 84/ 52 W 84/ 49 W
Charlotte 88/ 70 0 88/ 70 T 89/ 71 C
Chattanooga 83/ 74 0.01 88/ 74 T 92/ 75 C
Chicago 87/ 70 0 87/ 72 T 93/ 75 PC
Cincinnati 80/ 67 0.03 82/ 69 T 86/ 69 T
Cleveland 81/ 67 0.31 81/ 63 PC 82/ 63 PC
Colorado Springs 87/ 56 0.01 90/ 59 PC 91/ 60 S
Columbus 81/ 69 0.05 86/ 68 T 88/ 67 PC
Concord, N.H. 78/ 57 0 85/ 62 T 76/ 58 T
Dallas-Ft. Worth 92/ 75 0 90/ 76 W 93/ 76 T
Denver 91/ 60 0 92/ 61 PC 95/ 59 PC
Des Moines 86/ 70 0.22 90/ 73 T 90/ 71 PC
Detroit 85/ 64 0.87 85/ 64 PC 86/ 67 PC
El Paso 100/ 76 0 98/ 75 PC 96/ 72 W
Fargo 91/ 68 0 92/ 71 W 93/ 76 PC
Hartford 79/ 61 0.16 85/ 63 T 82/ 60 T
Honolulu 89/ 74 0 88/ 74 S 88/ 75 Sh
Houston 90/ 77 Tr 89/ 79 PC 90/ 78 PC
Indianapolis 77/ 70 0.77 85/ 72 T 92/ 73 T
Jackson 91/ 73 0 92/ 73 T 91/ 74 PC
Jacksonville 95/ 72 0 96/ 71 T 96/ 75 PC
Kansas City 80/ 72 1.00 92/ 74 PC 88/ 74 C
Key West 93/ 84 0 90/ 84 PC 89/ 82 PC
Las Vegas 107/ 83 0 102/ 70 W 90/ 69 S
Lexington 79/ 69 Tr 81/ 70 T 86/ 69 T
Little Rock 89/ 75 0 92/ 76 PC 89/ 75 T
Los Angeles 80/ 63 0 72/ 62 PC 73/ 57 Sh
Louisville 83/ 72 Tr 86/ 75 T 92/ 73 T
Memphis 87/ 75 0.07 91/ 77 PC 90/ 77 PC
Miami 93/ 82 0 94/ 81 PC 93/ 78 PC
Milwaukee 83/ 62 0 80/ 64 PC 82/ 68 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 88/ 69 0 85/ 73 T 88/ 72 T
Nashville 85/ 72 0 90/ 72 T 94/ 73 T
New Orleans 92/ 78 Tr 91/ 79 T 91/ 78 C
Norfolk 94/ 74 0 90/ 72 T 87/ 73 C
Oklahoma City 91/ 71 0 89/ 72 W 92/ 74 W
Omaha 88/ 74 0.02 93/ 77 PC 92/ 75 PC
Orlando 96/ 76 0 97/ 75 T 96/ 77 PC
Philadelphia 89/ 74 0.07 88/ 72 T 91/ 72 PC
Phoenix 107/ 80 0 105/ 80 W 100/ 75 W
Pittsburgh 83/ 67 Tr 84/ 63 T 85/ 64 PC
Portland, Me. 84/ 60 0 77/ 61 T 73/ 60 T
Portland, Ore. 71/ 56 0 72/ 56 Sh 77/ 59 PC
Providence 80/ 64 0 84/ 67 T 81/ 65 T
Raleigh 91/ 71 0 89/ 70 T 91/ 71 PC
Reno 97/ 64 0 80/ 47 W 76/ 52 PC
Richmond 93/ 70 0 89/ 70 T 90/ 71 C
Rochester 80/ 65 0.19 82/ 62 PC 83/ 63 S
Sacramento 89/ 57 0 85/ 57 S 89/ 58 S
Salt Lake City 96/ 71 0 89/ 51 W 67/ 53 R
San Antonio 90/ 74 0 92/ 75 PC 94/ 76 C
San Diego 73/ 65 0 70/ 65 PC 70/ 61 Sh
San Francisco 70/ 55 0 69/ 54 W 74/ 55 S
San Jose 84/ 56 0 74/ 53 W 80/ 57 S
San Juan 90/ 80 0.01 90/ 78 Sh 89/ 78 PC
Seattle 64/ 53 0.44 71/ 55 Sh 77/ 57 PC
Sioux Falls 87/ 69 Tr 90/ 71 PC 93/ 72 S
Spokane 77/ 49 Tr 66/ 55 PC 73/ 54 R
St. Louis 86/ 75 0.01 95/ 79 PC 95/ 76 PC
St. Thomas 91/ 81 0 90/ 80 PC 89/ 80 Sh
Syracuse 78/ 66 0.28 82/ 63 T 84/ 62 S
Tampa 95/ 79 0 96/ 78 PC 94/ 80 PC
Toledo 85/ 64 0.76 88/ 63 PC 89/ 64 PC
Tucson 102/ 73 0 100/ 72 S 98/ 69 W
Tulsa 94/ 78 0.01 91/ 78 W 92/ 77 W
Virginia Beach 90/ 73 0 86/ 72 T 85/ 70 C
Washington 91/ 73 Tr 90/ 74 T 90/ 73 PC
Wichita 97/ 75 Tr 97/ 75 W 95/ 75 T
Wilmington, Del. 88/ 72 0.19 88/ 69 T 90/ 68 PC
Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Algiers 85/ 68 0 87/ 64 S 91/ 68 PC
Cairo 93/ 73 0 96/ 73 S 95/ 71 S
Cape Town 63/ 52 0.63 63/ 50 PC 64/ 48 C
Dakar 88/ 73 0 87/ 77 PC 87/ 79 PC
Johannesburg 63/ 39 0 61/ 36 S 62/ 36 S
Nairobi 75/ 55 0 76/ 55 PC 76/ 52 PC
Tunis 90/ 73 0 88/ 70 S 89/ 69 S
Baghdad 111/ 82 0 111/ 79 PC 111/ 80 PC
Bangkok 95/ 81 0 92/ 78 PC 92/ 78 T
Beijing 91/ 67 0 91/ 69 C 86/ 68 C
Damascus 100/ 61 0 99/ 64 PC 98/ 64 PC
Hong Kong 91/ 82 0.15 91/ 83 Sh 91/ 82 C
Jakarta 91/ 79 0.01 91/ 76 PC 93/ 76 PC
Jerusalem 86/ 65 0 84/ 66 S 83/ 64 S
Karachi 97/ 86 0 96/ 85 W 96/ 87 T
Manila 91/ 78 0.32 91/ 79 T 89/ 79 T
Mumbai 90/ 84 0.06 91/ 81 T 91/ 81 T
South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
New Delhi 103/ 83 0 99/ 86 PC 99/ 84 PC
Riyadh 111/ 81 0 112/ 83 PC 114/ 82 PC
Seoul 84/ 68 0 85/ 68 PC 86/ 69 C
Shanghai 83/ 78 0.36 82/ 74 T 82/ 72 Sh
Singapore 88/ 81 0.01 88/ 80 T 87/ 78 T
Sydney 61/ 50 0 62/ 47 PC 61/ 46 C
Taipei City 93/ 80 0 99/ 83 C 97/ 83 T
Tehran 90/ 68 0 92/ 73 PC 92/ 74 PC
Tokyo 82/ 72 0.07 75/ 70 R 79/ 71 PC
Amsterdam 73/ 62 0.86 68/ 56 T 66/ 58 T
Athens 88/ 77 0 90/ 70 S 92/ 72 S
Berlin 88/ 61 0.02 81/ 61 T 75/ 57 T
Brussels 76/ 66 0.25 70/ 55 T 66/ 55 T
Budapest 88/ 64 0 90/ 65 PC 89/ 62 T
Copenhagen 75/ 64 0 74/ 60 T 72/ 58 T
Dublin 62/ 55 0.45 58/ 50 Sh 59/ 50 Sh
Edinburgh 66/ 54 0.29 60/ 53 R 60/ 51 Sh
Frankfurt 84/ 63 0.05 75/ 57 T 74/ 55 PC
Geneva 86/ 66 0 78/ 59 T 74/ 53 PC
Helsinki 86/ 54 0 78/ 57 PC 72/ 58 T
Istanbul 84/ 72 0 84/ 65 S 84/ 66 S
Kiev 84/ 57 0 82/ 64 T 83/ 65 PC
Lisbon 79/ 64 0.03 82/ 63 S 81/ 61 S
London 68/ 61 0.27 68/ 52 W 67/ 55 W
Madrid 91/ 63 0 95/ 68 S 99/ 69 S
Moscow 84/ 63 0 77/ 54 T 72/ 52 PC
Nice 79/ 70 0 80/ 69 S 87/ 70 PC
Oslo 84/ 57 0 69/ 52 T 66/ 52 T
Paris 75/ 64 0 74/ 56 PC 72/ 56 PC
Prague 84/ 55 0 83/ 60 T 69/ 54 T
Rome 86/ 59 0 85/ 64 S 83/ 66 S
St. Petersburg 80/ 67 0 73/ 53 PC 76/ 62 C
Stockholm 82/ 59 0 80/ 60 PC 72/ 53 T
Vienna 85/ 63 0.01 89/ 67 PC 74/ 59 T
Warsaw 79/ 63 0.13 83/ 66 T 76/ 58 T
Acapulco 85/ 78 0 88/ 77 T 89/ 79 T
Bermuda 81/ 77 0 83/ 77 T 82/ 76 R
Edmonton 57/ 54 0.14 63/ 50 Sh 68/ 49 Sh
Guadalajara 75/ 60 0 82/ 60 T 85/ 63 T
Havana 88/ 73 0 90/ 72 PC 91/ 74 PC
Kingston 90/ 82 0.01 92/ 79 W 91/ 78 PC
Martinique 90/ 80 0 89/ 78 PC 88/ 77 PC
Mexico City 71/ 55 0.05 78/ 56 T 78/ 56 T
Monterrey 82/ 74 0.05 92/ 71 PC 94/ 73 PC
Montreal 72/ 66 0.08 79/ 64 Sh 77/ 64 T
Nassau 88/ 80 0.01 89/ 81 PC 89/ 79 PC
Panama City 84/ 77 0.08 85/ 75 T 85/ 74 T
Quebec City 70/ 59 0.04 74/ 59 Sh 74/ 59 R
Santo Domingo 91/ 76 0.05 92/ 75 PC 91/ 73 PC
Toronto 82/ 66 0.01 83/ 64 PC 84/ 64 S
Vancouver 63/ 59 0 71/ 56 PC 70/ 57 S
Winnipeg 83/ 64 0 88/ 71 W 88/ 73 C
Buenos Aires 55/ 46 0 55/ 49 C 56/ 50 C
Caracas 85/ 75 0.22 87/ 74 T 86/ 73 T
Lima 66/ 60 0 65/ 59 C 65/ 59 PC
Quito 62/ 49 0 68/ 49 C 68/ 48 PC
Recife 84/ 72 0.01 85/ 76 Sh 85/ 75 S
Rio de Janeiro 81/ 70 0 71/ 68 C 74/ 68 C
Santiago 54/ 37 0 61/ 45 C 51/ 38 R
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Harbor.
Wind will be from the south at 5-10 knots. Wave heights
will be a foot or less on Long Island Sound and New
York Harbor, and 3-4 feet on the ocean. Visibility will be
reduced at times in afternoon thunderstorms.
Atlantic City .................... 1:24 a.m. .............. 2:19 p.m.
Barnegat Inlet ................. 1:41 a.m. .............. 2:31 p.m.
The Battery ..................... 2:12 a.m. .............. 3:06 p.m.
Beach Haven .................. 3:08 a.m. .............. 3:57 p.m.
Bridgeport ...................... 5:29 a.m. .............. 6:05 p.m.
City Island ....................... 5:12 a.m. .............. 5:55 p.m.
Fire Island Lt. .................. 2:36 a.m. .............. 3:25 p.m.
Montauk Point ................ 3:09 a.m. .............. 3:54 p.m.
Northport ....................... 5:34 a.m. .............. 6:09 p.m.
Port Washington ............. 5:25 a.m. .............. 6:04 p.m.
Sandy Hook .................... 1:50 a.m. .............. 2:39 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet ............. 1:42 a.m. .............. 2:24 p.m.
Stamford ........................ 5:30 a.m. .............. 6:04 p.m.
Tarrytown ....................... 4:01 a.m. .............. 4:55 p.m.
Willets Point .................... 5:15 a.m. .............. 5:56 p.m.
High Tides
New York City 80/ 72 Tr
Metropolitan Forecast
TODAY .................................Thunderstorms
High 88. There will be showers and thun-
derstorms, mainly in the afternoon, as a
cold front sweeps through the region.
Some of these storms may be heavy.
Humid conditions are expected.
TONIGHT ................................Patchy clouds
Low 73. Conditions will dry out tonight as
the cold front passes. The sky will be
clear, with a few patchy clouds. Overnight
temperatures will be higher than normal.
TOMORROW ............................Mostly sunny
High 87. High pressure will bring a mostly
sunny sky. Wind will help create condi-
tions that are a bit less humid.
TUESDAY ...................Spotty thunderstorms
The day will be cooler, with a partly sunny
sky. Showers or thunderstorms will reach
parts of the area in the afternoon. It will
be cloudy and humid overnight.
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY ................Spotty thunderstorms
Wednesday will be cloudy, with showers
or thunderstorms in spots. High, 83.
Thursday will be warmer, with some sun-
shine and showers. High, 88.
Showers and thunderstorms will contin-
ue east along a cold front from New
England, south to the Mid-Atlantic to
around Virginia, trailing westward through
the Ohio Valley and back northwest into
Illinois and Iowa. A few storms will
produce heavy rain.
A very strong cold front will move
through the Northwest, with showers and
thunderstorms developing from Idaho and
Montana into Wyoming and the Dakotas.
Showers will continue in parts of Oregon
and Washington, as well. Afternoon thun-
derstorms in the Dakotas could be strong
to severe, with gusty winds and hail.
Severe, scattered storms will form late
in the day in West Texas. The rest of the
nation will be quieter, with sunshine.
Most beaches will be more cloudy than
sunny this afternoon, as showers and
thunderstorms spread over the coast due
to a cold front passing through. Other-
wise, conditions will remain humid. High
temperatures will range from the 70s to
the north to near 90 farther south.
As communities across the
country reconsider statues and
monuments of historical figures,
protesters in Washington, D.C.,
are increasing calls to remove the
Emancipation Memorial, a statue
of a freed slave crouching before
President Abraham Lincoln, after
attempts in the past week to tear it
down have intensified the debate
over its value.
The bronze memorial in Lincoln
Park dates back to 1876 and was
intended to commemorate the
Emancipation Proclamation, the
executive order signed by Lincoln
that ended slavery in the Confed-
eracy. Though the funds for the
memorial were raised by freed
slaves, they did not have a say in
what it would depict. It has long
drawn controversy for the posi-
tion of the freed slave at the feet of
Lincoln, whose left hand hovers
above the slave’s shirtless back.
The push to remove the statue
comes amid a broader campaign
unfolding across the country to re-
move or topple statues and monu-
ments that are seen by some as
honoring racist historical figures.
Discussions around the Emanci-
pation Memorial, however, have
proved to be more thorny, with ev-
eryone from local residents to
President Trump debating what
the interaction between the two
figures was intended to convey.
“The meaning is degrading,”
said Marcus Goodwin, a candi-
date for the District of Columbia
Council. “To see my ancestors at
the feet of Lincoln — it’s not im-
agery that inspires African-Amer-
icans to see themselves as equal in
this society.”
Mr. Goodwin has led calls for
the memorial, also known as the
Freedman’s Memorial, to be taken
down through a legal process, in-
cluding a petition that prompted
Representative Eleanor Holmes
Norton, Democrat of the District
of Columbia, to announce she will
introduce legislation before the
House of Representatives to re-
move the memorial.
“The statue fails to note in any
way how enslaved African-Ameri-
cans pushed for their own emanci-
pation,” Ms. Norton said in a state-
ment on Tuesday. “It is time it was
placed in a museum.”
For Marcia E. Cole, those criti-
cizing the memorial are ignoring
its context, one that she has tried
to defend in heated conversations
with protesters at Lincoln Park.
“He’s on one knee, clearly in the
act of rising,” Ms. Cole said of the
freed slave depicted in the memo-
rial. “He’s seizing his own agency.”
Some critics of the memorial,
impatient with the lack of a re-
sponse from government officials,
announced their intention in the
past week to take matters into
their own hands and tear it down.
“When I look at that statue, I’m
reminded my freedom and my lib-
eration is only dictated by white
peoples’ terms,” said Glenn Fos-
ter, 20, who formed The Freedom
Neighborhood, a local group that
has organized efforts to topple the
memorial. “We’re trying to let the
government know we’re not going
to wait any longer for our freedom
to happen.”
Word spread quickly of the
group’s intentions, and on Friday,
supporters of the statue showed
up alongside those prepared to
topple it, as well as those who
wanted to wait for the legal
process to play out.
“Things have gone from zero to
100 in a matter of days,” said Ms.
Cole, who often portrays Charlotte
Scott, the African-American wom-
an who raised funds for the memo-
rial after Lincoln’s assassination,
in re-enactments and other events
organized by a group associated
with the African-American Civil
War Museum. Scott is remem-
bered in a plaque below the me-
morial.
But tensions were not limited to
the streets of Washington. Mr.
Trump, speaking at a Fox News
forum on Thursday, slammed the
protesters who want to tear down
the memorial, calling them “riot-
ers” and “bad people.”
“I can see the controversy, but I
can also see the beauty in it,” Mr.
Trump said of the memorial.
“I can understand certain
things being taken down,” he add-
ed. “But we ought to go through a
process, legally.”
The memorial sits in Lincoln
Park, which is federal land under
the jurisdiction of the Interior De-
partment. So although mayors
and governors across the country
have responded to calls from local
protesters by removing statues
and monuments seen as racist,
Washington’s mayor does not
have that authority.
Representative Kevin McCar-
thy of California, the minority
leader, wrote Wednesday on Twit-
ter that he had spoken about the
memorial with David Bernhardt,
the interior secretary, who had
conveyed to him that Mr. Trump
would “not allow the Emancipa-
tion Memorial of President Lin-
coln to be destroyed by the left-
wing mob.”
Ms. Norton, the congresswom-
an, said that she would work with
the National Park Service, the In-
terior Department agency that
manages the park, to determine
whether the memorial could be re-
moved without congressional di-
rection. If not, she said, she in-
tends to push forward legislation
in Congress directing that the me-
morial be removed.
Katie Liming, a spokeswoman
for the National Park Service, said
that the service “appreciates the
community’s engagement” and
that park staff has met with mem-
bers of the community regarding
the memorial. But with the Trump
administration at the helm, it is
unlikely that the National Park
Service will remove the memorial.
“If we had autonomy, it would
be a different situation,” said Ms.
Cole, who ultimately would like to
see a peaceful solution that ap-
peases all parties. She is not
against placing the memorial in a
museum.
A replica of the memorial also
stands in Boston, the home of its
sculptor, Thomas Ball, who is
white. Thousands have also
signed a petition to remove the
replica.
Mr. Goodwin said that the de-
piction of a freed slave in the me-
morial is probably one that even
Lincoln himself would not have
approved.
He pointed to an anecdote
penned by a U.S. Navy officer who
served in the Civil War, when
freed slaves knelt before the presi-
dent after their emancipation. Ac-
cording to Admiral David Porter,
Lincoln was “much embar-
rassed.”
“Don’t kneel to me,” Lincoln
said. “That is not right.”
National Debate Swells Over Ambiguous Statue
By AISHVARYA KAVI
Some see the Emancipation Memorial in Washington as degrad-
ing; others have said it honors slaves “seizing their own agency.”
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