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WORLD Today TomorrowSources: 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,
sh - showers, t -thunderstorms, sf -snow flurries,
sn -snow, i -iceMoon Phases Solar systemNATIONOFFICIAL RECORDRise SetREGION
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NormalRichmondNorfolkOcean CityAnnapolisDoverCape MayBaltimoreCharlottesvilleLexingtonWashingtonVirginia BeachKitty HawkHarrisburg PhiladelphiaHagerstownDavisOCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:TemperaturesPrecipitationfor the 48 contiguous states excludes AntarcticaYesterday's National92° 3:45 p.m.
79° 4:00 a.m.
88°/71°
101° 2006
55° 189592° 5:00 p.m.
77° 5:00 a.m.
88°/65°
99° 2002
52° 199894° 3:33 p.m.
78° 5:00 a.m.
86°/67°
100° 1955
55° 1998Washington 2:59 a.m. 8:27 a.m. 3:47 p.m. 8:59 p.m.
Annapolis 6:02 a.m. 12:33 p.m. 5:49 p.m. 11:47 p.m.
Ocean City 2:11 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 1:58 p.m. 8:23 p.m.
Norfolk 4:03 a.m. 10:04 a.m. 4:04 p.m. 10:31 p.m.
Point Lookout 1:50 a.m. 8:55 a.m. 1:57 p.m. 7:43 p.m.
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72 ° 80
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72 ° 85
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72 ° 85
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73 ° 85
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73 ° 88
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73 °Sun 6:11 a.m. 8:17 p.m.
Moon 8:43 p.m. 5:51 a.m.
Venus 2:53 a.m. 5:12 p.m.
Mars 11:20 p.m. 11:51 a.m.
Jupiter 6:59 p.m. 4:31 a.m.
Saturn 7:27 p.m. 5:10 a.m.Aug 3
FullAug 11
Last
QuarterAug 18
NewAug 25
First
Quarter0.00"
0.00"
0.21"
27.12"
23.77"0.00"
0.00"
0.24"
26.58"
24.80"Tr ace
Tr ace
0.24"
25.80"
24.90"Blue Ridge: Today, cloudy, showers, thunderstorms.
High 69–73. Wind south 4–8 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy,
showers, thunderstorms. Low 59–63. Wind south 4–8 mph.
Tu esday, mostly cloudy, shower, thunderstorm. High 70–74.
Wind north–northwest 7–14 mph.
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy, shower,
thunderstorm. High 86–90. Wind south 7–14 mph. Tonight,
mostly cloudy, showers, thunderstorms. Low 73–77. Wind
south 15–25 mph. Tuesday, Tropical Storm Isaias, rain, very
windy. High 80–88. Wind south 20–40 mph.
Pollen: Moderate
Grass Low
Tr ees Moderate
Weeds Low
Mold ModerateUV: Moderate
5 out of 11+Air Quality: Good
Dominant cause: Ozone87/7190/7786/ 7586/ 7288/7286/ 7586/ 7183/6980/6887/7886/ 7686/72 88/7482/6975/63 84/72
74 °75°81°76°Waterways: Upper P otomac River : Today, small craft advisory,
showers, thunderstorms. Wind south 15–25 knots. Waves 1–2 feet.
- Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay : Today, small craft advisory,
showers, thunderstorms. Wind south 15–25 knots, gusts 30 knots.
Waves 1–3 feet lower Potomac and Bay.• River Stages : The stage at
Little Falls will be around 3.00 feet today, falling to 2.90 Tuesday.
Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
Albany, NY 84/68/pc 74/66/r
Albuq uerque 95/67/pc 96/67/pc
Anchorage 67/54/c 69/56/pc
Atlanta 88/70/t 89/70/t
Aust in 99/73/c 99/74/c
Baltimore 86/71/t 79/70/r
Billings, MT 92/61/t 88/59/c
Birmingham 90/70/s 88/68/pc
Bismarck, ND 81/55/s 80/60/pc
Boise 93/61/s 94/63/s
Boston 90/73/pc 80/71/t
Buffalo 80/67/pc 78/60/t
Burlington, VT 83/66/c 77/67/t
Charleston, SC 81/73/r 91/74/c
Charleston, WV 82/66/t 82/63/pc
Charlotte 84/67/r 87/69/c
Cheyenne, WY 83/56/t 81/54/t
Chicago 74/61/c 73/57/pc
Cincinnati 80/65/pc 77/58/c
Cleveland 79/65/pc 75/60/t
Dallas 91/71/pc 93/75/pc
Denver 90/62/t 90/59/tDes Moines 76/54/pc 76/57/pc
Detroit 78/63/t 74/56/pc
El Paso 100/76/s 103/78/pc
Fairbanks, AK 63/54/sh 65/53/c
Fargo, ND 77/51/pc 78/60/pc
Hartford, CT 91/71/pc 79/68/r
Honolulu 88/76/pc 88/76/sh
Houston 96/74/pc 96/75/pc
Indianapolis 78/62/t 75/54/c
Jackson, MS 91/69/s 89/65/s
Jacksonville, FL 85/74/t 93/74/t
Ka nsas City, MO 76/55/pc 76/59/pc
Las Vegas 110/83/s 108/81/s
Little Rock 86/65/t 84/63/pc
Los Angeles 86/63/pc 83/63/pc
Louisville 84/68/pc 80/62/c
Memphis 86/67/t 83/65/pc
Miami 92/80/c 91/80/c
Milwaukee 70/59/c 70/57/pc
Minneapolis 74/55/pc 75/58/pc
Nashville 88/68/t 82/64/pc
New Orleans 94/78/pc 93/78/pc
New York City 87/74/pc 75/71/r
Norfolk 90/77/t 88/74/rOklahoma City 82/63/s 83/65/s
Omaha 78/53/s 78/60/s
Orlando 89/78/c 92/77/t
Philadelphia 88/74/c 79/71/r
Phoenix 113/89/s 112/87/s
Pittsburgh 82/65/t 79/59/t
Portland, ME 90/69/pc 78/70/t
Portland, OR 83/61/pc 86/60/s
Providence, RI 92/73/pc 84/70/t
Raleigh, NC 83/68/r 85/70/t
Reno, NV 95/60/s 96/61/s
Richmond 87/71/t 82/70/r
Sacramento 96/60/s 88/58/s
St. Louis 77/62/c 77/59/s
St. Thomas, VI 88/81/pc 89/80/pc
Salt Lake City 100/69/s 96/71/s
San Diego 75/66/pc 75/64/pc
San Francisco 72/57/s 67/57/pc
San Juan, PR 91/79/t 91/79/t
Seattle 81/60/pc 82/57/s
Spokane, WA 86/58/s 88/60/s
Syracuse 82/68/pc 78/64/t
Tampa 92/81/c 93/78/pc
Wichita 82/60/s 81/63/pcAddis Ababa 68/57/sh 61/57/sh
Amster dam 66/51/t 69/58/pc
Athens 92/75/s 91/74/s
Auckland 61/46/pc 62/46/s
Baghdad 114/83/pc 114/84/pc
Bangkok 90/81/sh 90/79/t
Beijing 99/73/pc 99/76/pc
Berlin 74/55/pc 72/53/pc
Bogota 67/46/t 65/48/t
Brussels 70/51/t 72/56/pc
Buenos Aires 67/61/pc 70/60/pc
Cairo 100/79/s 98/74/s
Caracas 78/67/t 76/66/pc
Copenhagen 68/54/pc 67/54/pc
Dakar 87/80/c 88/80/pc
Dublin 63/53/pc 70/59/c
Edinburgh 62/50/pc 65/59/c
Frankfurt 71/58/pc 76/55/pc
Geneva 68/54/c 70/55/pc
Ham., Bermuda 87/79/t 86/78/pc
Helsinki 71/54/r 67/54/c
Ho Chi Minh City 86/76/t 86/77/tHong Kong 87/80/sh 88/81/t
Islamabad 99/77/s 94/78/pc
Istanbul 84/72/s 85/72/s
Jerusalem 88/67/s 84/69/s
Johannesburg 71/42/pc 71/41/pc
Kabul 95/65/pc 95/63/pc
Kingston, Jam. 89/81/t 88/80/t
Kolkata 96/83/t 93/81/t
Lagos 83/74/c 83/72/pc
Lima 64/59/s 64/59/s
Lisbon 79/63/pc 86/65/s
London 73/51/pc 75/58/pc
Madrid 92/64/pc 93/68/s
Manila 90/80/t 91/79/t
Mexico City 72/57/t 76/56/t
Montreal 78/65/pc 75/66/t
Moscow 71/55/pc 76/57/pc
Mumbai 86/80/r 82/79/r
Nairobi 74/51/pc 75/54/c
New Delhi 97/82/t 98/82/pc
Oslo 67/51/sh 66/52/pc
Ottawa 76/62/pc 72/62/r
Paris 74/55/pc 78/57/s
Prague 64/54/r 62/51/pcRio de Janeiro 73/63/s 74/63/s
Riyadh 115/85/pc 113/82/pc
Rome 86/70/s 81/64/pc
San Salvador 85/70/t 86/70/t
Santiago 65/42/pc 69/43/pc
Sarajevo 87/63/s 80/58/t
Seoul 81/75/t 82/76/t
Shanghai 94/81/pc 90/82/sh
Singapore 88/80/pc 88/81/sh
Stockholm 71/52/pc 70/52/pc
Sydney 68/48/pc 71/44/s
Taipei City 86/80/r 91/80/t
Tehran 100/73/pc 95/72/pc
Tokyo 84/76/pc 86/77/pc
Toronto 75/65/pc 77/58/t
Vienna 74/61/r 70/58/t
Warsaw 77/61/r 73/56/rToday
Showers,
t-stormsTuesday
Heavy rain,
windWednesday
Partly sunny,
t- stormThursday
Afternoon
t-stormFriday
Mostly cloudy,
t-stormSaturday
Mostly cloudy,
t-stormW Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W
through 5 p.m.yesterdayDifference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +4.1° yr. to date: +2.8°High: Borrego Springs, CA 113°
Low: Walden, CO 34°World
High: Dammam, Saudi Arabia 122°
Low: Summit Station, Greenland 2°Weather map features for noon today.WIND: SSW 6–12 mph
HUMIDITY: HighCHNCE PRECIP: 60%FEELS*: 91°W:
H:P:FEELS: 79°S 8–16 mph
High90%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 92°WNW 4–8 mph
High40%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 92°N 4–8 mph
High55%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 92°NE 4–8 mph
High40%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 94°NE 4–8 mph
High40%There’s a s torm front coming
It will be mostly cloudy and humid
for much of the first part of the day,
save for some scattered showers and
thunderstorms. Highs will be in the
mid-to-upper 80s with
uncomfortable humidity levels. The chances for
rain w ill increase dramatically as we head toward
the second half of the day, and especially
overnight, as Tropical Storm Isaias moves closer
to the Mid-Atlantic region. Heavy rain will be will
be prevalent o vernight, with anywhere from
three to six inches possible by Tuesday.
The Weather
WASHINGTONPOST.COM/WEATHER. TWITTER: @CAPITALWEATHER. FACEBOOK.COM/CAPITALWEATHERIn 2015, a group of Newlands’s
descendants wrote the commis-
sion to criticize their forefather’s
racism but defend the fountain
that bears his name.
“Our family’s complicated his-
tory is not unique, and as Ameri-
cans we should all engage in
honest dialogue about how to
embody our country’s best ide-
als,” the letter said. “Renaming
the Newlands Fountain would
not help achieve these goals — it
would merely erase a n important
reminder of our complicated his-
tory.”
The letter’s signatories did not
respond to a request for com-
ment emailed to an address in
the letter.
Chanda Tuck Garfield, the
commissioner who wrote the
resolution, said at the meeting
that whatever his accomplish-
ments, Newlands used “racist
language, to be frank, to divide
our community.” She brought the
resolution forward in the name
of the recently deceased con-
gressman and civil rights activist
John Lewis.
“We are full of good, honest,
hard-working people who want a
better way of life, and we want an
equitable place to live,” she said.
[email protected]Reno neighborhood named for
the senator. Newlands was “an
old-time, 19th-century unrecon-
structed Democrat,” Rowley said,
who “believed that the United
States was for White people
only.”
“We need not freeze remote
past values in public spaces
when they are clearly archaic
and profoundly offensive,” he
wrote in an email.
Not everyone supports renam-
ing the fountain. Resident Jac-
queline Arrowsmith said she
grew up two blocks from the
fountain and has lived in the
Chevy Chase area for more than
40 years.
In a letter to the commission,
Arrowsmith said the fountain
“does not honor Senator New-
lands for his views on race and
ethnicity, it honors his achieve-
ments as a developer.”
“If renaming the fountain
would bring back George Floyd,
Breonna Taylor, or Ahmaud Ar-
bery, I would be all for it,” the
letter said. “But such a symbolic
gesture would not revive the
people of color killed, or heal
those injured, or free those un-
justly arrested. This whole en-
deavor seems to be a quick fix to
assuage white guilt.”Nevada at Reno who wrote a
book about the senator and
spoke at the commission meet-
ing, said Newlands was also a
progressive who supported
women’s suffrage.
However, Rowley said he sup-
ported the fountain name
change and another under dis-
cussion in Newlands Park, ament said. “Should the commu-
nity vote to rename the fountain,
we wholeheartedly support their
decision and commit to support-
ing the necessary steps required
to make the change.”
Newlands’s legacy is not limit-
ed to racism.
William D. Rowley, a professor
emeritus at the University ofHistoric Places, but its plaque
wasn’t placed until 1990 by the
Park Service and the Chevy
Chase Land Co., which Newlands
founded. The Park Service must
determine which laws protect
which parts of the memorial.
“We acknowledge that the
name of the fountain and associ-
ated plaque represent a contro-
versial figure and chapter of
American history,” Park Service
spokeswoman Katelyn Liming
wrote in an email. “Rock Creek
Park is committed to working
with the community and part-
ners to create exhibits for the site
that provide more context
around Newlands and a more
holistic history.”
Chevy Chase Land Co., which
is still a player in the region’s real
estate market, didn’t respond to
a request for comment, but a
statement recently posted to its
website said that “despite Sena-
tor Newlands’ accomplishments,
his views on race contradict the
ideals of our company fabric.”
“We are committed to taking a
collaborative, community-first
approach to investing in our
neighborhoods, and we recog-
nize that the Francis Griffith
Newlands Memorial Fountain
has a divisive impact,” the state-Floyd, the effort to strip New-
lands’s name from the 87-year-
old fountain has been years in
the making.
In 2014, the commission —
made up of nonpartisan elected
officials who offer advice that
D.C. leaders listen to, but need
not follow — considered a pro-
posal to rename it “Chevy Chase
Fountain.” The matter was tabled
to give the community more time
to consider the idea.
Six years later, neighborhood
officials are done thinking about
it — but can’t act unilaterally.
The National Park Service is
determining what it can change
about the memorial without an
act of Congress, but only Con-
gress — with a bill sponsored by a
supportive member — can
change the name.
“Because the fountain was
specified by Congress as a memo-
rial, specifically, it would take an
act of Congress to un-memorial-
ize it,” Bradley Krueger, the agen-
cy’s Rock Creek Park cultural
resource specialist, said at the
meeting.
Another complication: The
fountain, dedicated in 1933, is
listed in the National Register of
FOUNTAIN FROM B1
O∞cials face hurdles in removing senator’s name from Chevy Chase fountain
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST
The Chevy Chase Advisory Neighborhood Commission will begin
discussions on a new name for this fountain in the neighborhood.BY JASON SAMENOW
AND JEFF HALVERSONTropical Storm Isaias, which is
skirting the east coast of Florida,
has become increasingly likely to
deluge the Mid-Atlantic and, in
some areas, produce tropical-
storm-force winds.
The National Weather Service
has issued both tropical storm
and flash flood watches for the
region, mainly for the potential
for hazardous conditions be-
tween late Monday night and
Tuesday night. The flood watch
covers rain hazards, while the
tropical storm watch describes
the possibility of sustained winds
of at least 39 mph.
Three to six inches of rain, with
locally heavier amounts, are pre-
dicted.
“This amount of rain is likely to
result in significant flash flooding
of small streams and creeks Mon-
day night into Tuesday evening,”
the Weather Service office serving
the District and Baltimore wrote
Sunday afternoon.
Low-lying, poor drainage areas
will also be susceptible to flood-
ing.
In addition to the rain, areas
east of Interstate 95 — especially
close to the Chesapeake Bay —
may contend with tropical-storm-
force wind gusts on Tuesday ex-
ceeding 40 mph for a time.
The combination of wind and
rain could cause downed trees
and power outages. The immedi-
ate D.C. region is under a tropical
storm watch for the possibility of
winds this strong, but they are
unlikely unless the storm track
shifts to the west.
There is higher confidence inheavy rainfall. The Weather Ser-
vice has placed the entire region
in an elevated-risk zone for “ex-
cessive rainfall” late Monday
through Wednesday morning,
while the Middle Atlantic River
Forecast Center has highlighted
the possibility of “significant” riv-
er flooding.
Moderate coastal flooding is
also possible along the shores of
the Tidal Potomac and Chesa-
peake from a surge of water up
those waterways as the storm
pushes north. That could affect
vulnerable zones such as Alexan-
dria, the District’s Southwest Wa-
terfront, Georgetown and Annap-
olis, prompting a coastal flood
watch for water levels one to three
feet above normal.
Moisture surging ahead of the
tropical storm could fuel scat-
tered showers and thunderstormsMonday afternoon and night,
which could be locally heavy and
produce gusty w inds. B ut Monday
will not be a washout, and some
areas may not see much.
The main slug of rain ahead of
Isaias is likely to arrive between
late Monday night and dawn
Tuesday, and continue into Tues-
day evening. While shifts in
where the heaviest rain and stron-
gest winds are expected are possi-
ble, models are consistent in pre-
dicting widespread amounts of
two to five inches, while some
show small pockets up to eight
inches.
The core of the storm moving
north-northeastward along the
East Coast will encounter a preex-
isting, mid-latitude system that
will prolong the period of rainfall
and increase amounts.
[email protected]CAPITAL WEATHER GANG
Isaias to bring threat of ‘significant’ fl ooding
BY MARTIN WEILThree men were missing in the
Potomac River on Sunday night
after apparently going into the
water from a boat, the D.C. fire
department said.
After searching for the men for
more than two hours, authorities
began conducting “a recovery op-
eration,” the fire department said.
The number of people missing
appeared t o be one of the largest in
any incident in the Washington
area on the Potomac in years.
The search began about
5:40 p.m. Sunday after a “credible
report” w as r eceived t hat the t hree
had fallen into the water “from a
vessel” and had not resurfaced,
the fire department said. The site
was near Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, a military installation
that extends along the Potomac
River near the District’s southern
tip.
It was not clear why the men
entered the water. In an interview
Sunday night, Vito Maggiolo, a
spokesman for the fire depart-
ment, said he did not know.
The men had been on a power-
boat with at least one other per-
son, according to Maggiolo.
The report that they had gone
into the water was made over ma-
rine radio, he said. It was not clear
who made it.
The m en were not identified.
Personnel involved in the
search came from a variety of
agencies in the Washington area,
the D.C. fire department said.
[email protected]THE DISTRICT3 men missing in Potomac;
o∞cials start recovery e≠ort