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B6 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.MONDAY, AUGUST 10 , 2020

AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST

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T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm FrontStationary Front

NATIONAL Today Tomorrow

High

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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,

sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,

sn-snow, i-ice

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:

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Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

88° 2:49 p.m.

74° 6:00 a.m.

87 °/71°

102° 1930

57° 1989

91° 3:59 p.m.

69° 6:00 a.m.

87 °/65°

97 ° 2001

47 ° 1989

91° 3:00 p.m.

70° 5:13 a.m.

86°/66°

101° 1930

53° 1989

Washington 1:09 a.m. 8:08 a.m. 1:32 p.m. 7:53 p.m.
Annapolis 4:44 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 4:47 p.m. 11:35 p.m.
Ocean City 12:29 a.m. 6:46 a.m. 12:59 p.m. 7:19 p.m.
Norfolk 2:28 a.m. 8:34 a.m. 2:54 p.m. 9:18 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:54 a.m. 6:16 a.m. 12:29 p.m. 7:27 p.m.

93

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76 ° 93

°

76 ° 90

°

76 ° 87

°

76 ° 85

°

75 ° 86

°

75 °

Sun 6:17 a.m. 8:09 p.m.

Moon 11:54 p.m. 12:48 p.m.

Venus 2:50 a.m. 5:13 p.m.

Mars 11:00 p.m. 11:37 a.m.

Jupiter 6:29 p.m. 4:00 a.m.

Saturn 6:58 p.m. 4:40 a.m.

Aug 11

Last

Quarter

Aug 18

New

Aug 25

First

Quarter

Sep 2

Full

0.00"

3.93"

0.95"

31.05"

24.51"

0.00"

2.97"

1.11"

29.55"

25.67"

0.00"

3.78"

1.04"

29.58"

25.70"

Blue Ridge: Today, partly sunny. High 76–82. Wind
southwest 4–8 mph. Tonight, mostly clear. Low 60–65.
Wind southwest 4–8 mph. Monday, partly sunny. High
76 –82. Wind southwest 5–10 mph. Tuesday, partly sunny,
thunderstorm in spots. High 73–79.

Atlantic beaches: Today, partly sunny. High 80– 87. Wind
southeast 5–10 mph. Tonight, mostly clear. Low 70–74.
Wind south 4–8 mph. Monday, partly sunny, afternoon
thunderstorm around. High 82–88. Wind southeast 6–12
mph. Tuesday, partly sunny. High 82–88.

Pollen: Moderate

Grass Moderate

Tr ees Moderate

Weeds Low

Mold Moderate

UV: Very High

9 out of 11+

Air Quality: Moderate

Dominant cause: Ozone

92/ 72

89/75

82/72

90/74

89/71

84/72

93/72

92/71

92/69

86/ 74

84/73

95/73 92/73

92/70

84/61 93/76

73°

75°

81°

76°

Waterways: Up per Potomac River: Today, partly sunny. Wind variably
4–8 knots. Waves less than a foot. Visibility unrestricted. • Lower
Poto mac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny, humid. Wind
variable 6–12 knots. Waves less than a foot on the Lower Potomac,
1–2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• Ri ver Stages: The stage at Little
Falls will be around 3.70 feet today, falling to 3.40 Tuesday. Flood
stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 88/70/t 93/71/pc

Albuq uerque 95/66/t 95/66/s

Anchorage 62/54/sh 63/53/c

Atlanta 90/74/t 93/74/t

Aust in 99/74/s 99/74/s

Baltimore 93/72/pc 91/74/pc

Billings, MT 86/59/s 93/63/s

Birmingham 94/73/t 93/73/t

Bismarck, ND 84/56/s 90/65/s

Boise 90/60/s 96/60/s

Boston 90/72/pc 92/73/s

Buffalo 90/74/pc 84/66/t

Burlington, VT 88/72/pc 93/69/c

Charleston, SC 90/75/t 88/74/t

Charleston, WV 93/69/t 90/70/pc

Charlotte 89/71/t 89/72/pc

Cheyenne, WY 82/56/pc 88/57/pc

Chicago 90/69/t 84/65/pc

Cincinnati 87/72/pc 88/71/t

Cleveland 91/70/pc 83/66/t

Dallas 98/78/s 98/78/s

Denver 87/60/pc 94/61/pc

Des Moines 81/62/t 83/65/c

Detroit 89/72/t 86/64/c

El Paso 103/77/t 104/76/s

Fairbanks, AK 64/50/c 62/49/c

Fargo, ND 79/57/s 84/64/s

Hartford, CT 95/71/s 96/72/s

Honolulu 88/76/pc 88/75/pc

Houston 96/77/s 95/77/s

Indianapolis 86/71/t 85/68/t

Jackson, MS 95/73/t 95/73/t

Jacksonville, FL 94/72/t 91/72/t

Ka nsas City, MO 90 /67/t 84/69/t

Las Vegas 106/79/s 105/79/s

Little Rock 96/74/pc 92/72/pc

Los Angeles 83/60/s 84/60/s

Louisville 89/74/t 90/74/t

Memphis 96/77/pc 94/74/pc

Miami 92/80/pc 92/80/t

Milwaukee 87/66/t 81/64/pc

Minneapolis 80/60/s 84/64/s

Nashville 93/74/t 91/72/pc

New Orleans 93/77/pc 93/78/pc

New York City 90/75/pc 90/73/s

Norfolk 89/75/t 89/76/t

Oklahoma City 95/73/pc 93/71/t

Omaha 81/63/pc 86/70/c

Orlando 93/74/t 93/75/t

Philadelphia 92/73/pc 91/73/t

Phoenix 112/87/s 110/89/s

Pittsburgh 91/66/pc 88/69/t

Portland, ME 84/66/s 87/70/pc

Portland, OR 88/56/s 79/54/s

Providence, RI 89/71/pc 90/73/s

Raleigh, NC 89/71/t 88/72/pc

Reno, NV 95/64/c 92/59/pc

Richmond 92/72/s 91/73/pc

Sacramento 94/62/s 91/59/s

St. Louis 94/73/t 86/73/t

St. Thomas, VI 90/81/pc 90/81/pc

Salt Lake City 95/70/s 95/70/s

San Diego 76/64/pc 76/65/pc

San Francisco 75/60/pc 73/59/pc

San Juan, PR 90/79/pc 90/80/pc

Seattle 81/56/s 74/53/s

Spokane, WA 88/60/s 84/52/s

Syracuse 92/72/t 91/68/c

Tampa 92/78/t 92/77/t

Wichita 97/71/t 93/71/pc

Addis Ababa 68/55/sh 72/57/c

Amster dam 90/70/pc 91/71/pc

Athens 90/75/s 93/73/s

Auckland 60/47/pc 61/52/r

Baghdad 106/80/pc 106/79/pc

Bangkok 92/80/t 92/79/t

Beijing 91/71/t 95/75/c

Berlin 86/66/pc 89/65/pc

Bogota 68/50/t 68/50/t

Brussels 92/69/pc 93/71/pc

Buenos Aires 65/42/pc 56/42/s

Cairo 95/78/s 94/76/s

Caracas 75/64/t 75/66/t

Copenhagen 78/63/pc 76/60/pc

Dakar 86/80/t 87/80/t

Dublin 65/58/t 69/56/pc

Edinburgh 65/55/t 69/59/t

Frankfurt 97/72/t 93/70/pc

Geneva 88/66/t 89/67/pc

Ham., Bermuda 85/78/s 86/80/t

Helsinki 74/50/pc 69/49/pc

Ho Chi Minh City 90/76/t 88/76/t

Hong Kong 91/82/t 91/81/t

Islamabad 92/77/t 94/79/r

Istanbul 87/73/pc 86/72/s

Jerusalem 81/67/s 82/69/s

Johannesburg 68/39/pc 68/47/s

Kabul 97/67/pc 98/65/pc

Kingston, Jam. 90/81/pc 89/79/pc

Kolkata 91/81/t 92/81/t

Lagos 83/73/sh 85/72/pc

Lima 65/58/pc 64/58/pc

Lisbon 79/64/pc 78/64/s

London 92/68/pc 91/69/pc

Madrid 94/70/s 85/64/pc

Manila 90/79/t 91/79/t

Mexico City 74/56/t 74/57/t

Montreal 83/70/pc 89/67/t

Moscow 77/58/pc 67/53/pc

Mumbai 85/79/t 85/79/t

Nairobi 77/53/pc 79/57/pc

New Delhi 89/79/t 92/79/t

Oslo 71/56/t 75/58/pc

Ottawa 87/69/t 86/59/t

Paris 95/71/pc 97/72/pc

Prague 87/64/t 84/61/pc

Rio de Janeiro 80/70/s 83/69/pc

Riyadh 108/81/pc 106/81/pc

Rome 89/71/s 87/69/s

San Salvador 87/70/t 85/69/t

Santiago 63/32/pc 63/33/pc

Sarajevo 81/57/t 83/59/t

Seoul 85/77/t 81/75/t

Shanghai 92/82/t 96/81/t

Singapore 89/81/pc 89/81/t

Stockholm 74/49/pc 72/50/pc

Sydney 60/51/pc 62/49/pc

Taipei City 96/81/t 88/79/sh

Tehran 99/77/pc 101/80/pc

Tokyo 91/80/pc 93/81/s

Toronto 90/70/s 83/59/t

Vienna 90/66/t 86/66/pc

Warsaw 86/64/t 84/57/t

Today

Partly sunny

Tuesday

Partly sunny

Wednesday

T-storms

Thursday

Showers,

t-storm

Friday

Shower or

t-storm

Saturday

T-storms

possible

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

through 5 p.m.yesterday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +1.7° yr. to date: +2.8°

High: Needles, CA 110°

Low: Walden, CO 30°

World

High: Doha, Qatar 118°

Low: Summit Station, Greenland 6°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND:S 4–8 mph

HUMIDITY:High

CHNCE PRECIP:15%

FEELS*:101°

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:102°

S 6–12 mph

Very High

25%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:98°

S 6–12 mph

Very High

40%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:97°

ESE 4–8 mph

Very High

60%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:93°

ENE 6–12 mph

Very High

60%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:94°

ENE 6–12 mph

Very High

35%

Mostly sunny

A bit more of a southerly wind
component will push temperatures a
few degrees. Under mostly sunny
skies, high temperatures will top out
in the low 90s, but the combined
heat and humidity will push the heat index close
to 100 degrees at times. Once again, one can’t
completely rule out an isolated shower or
downpour in the afternoon. Warm and muggy
again at night, with dew-point values in the low
to mid-70s.

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two young children.

“We would just stand outside and

watch and cry,” sh e said. “They were

so beautiful, it’s a b eautiful idea.”

Her friend posted on a local

email list, asking for anybody who

was free on July 25 and wanted to

provide joy. They were to gather at

a nearby community center and

form a surprise birthday parade

for Willkens. Diane also contacted

the Montgomery County Police

Department. Her daughter, Casey,

got word to the Bethesda-Chev y

Chase Rescue Squad.

On that Saturday, all of Willk-

ens’s children were gathered

wearing matching shirts that read

“Aged to Perfection” with a picture

of his face on it. They talked and

celebrated, eventually shifting the

gathering in the front lawn. Diane

went to the community center to

check on the parade.

“I honestly thought they’d send

one [police] car,” Diane said.

“They sent eight.”

The squad cars, lights flashing

and sirens sounding, were joined

purpose.”

In that time, Willkens has made

more than 300 masks. Most of

them have gone to Suburban Hos-

pital in Bethesda, which has been

accepting drop-off deliveries of

PPE. Willkens said making those

deliveries feels good but doesn’t

make his work special. It doesn’t

feel like an act of charity. It just

feels right.

“These masks for me were just

putting something in the box,”

Willkens said. “I didn’t want to sit

around here doing nothing.”

Before long, summer had ar-

rived and with it his 90th birthday.

Originally he had planned to trav-

el to Tennessee to see some of his

14 great-grandchildren. But as the

national numbers of coronavirus

cases and deaths continued to

rise, he canceled those plans.

“I sorely miss seeing those chil-

dren,” Willkens said.

Thinking of ways to make the

big day special, Diane remem-

bered the drive-by birthday pa-

rades her neighbors held for their

rience with a machine, he had

always been surrounded by sew-

ing. His wife of 67 years, Marie, had

been a h ome economics teacher

and often made garments for their

children. She died three years ago.

“Right up until the end, she was

sewing,” Willkens said.

Diane got him acquainted with

a machine, and together they

looked up a guide to mask-mak-

ing. Despite his inexperience, and

his being left-handed on a stan-

dard machine, Willkens finished

his first mask two days after his

kitchen table announcement. By

the end of the week he found a

rhythm.

Soon, it took over his days. He

spent the entire ty of this spring at

the sewing machine, starting work

after breakfast and going until

dinner. Diane estimates her father

spent the final months of his 89th

year working 10 hours a d ay.

“He loves to ha ve a mission,” she

said. “He’s very dedicated, he

doesn’t like to be idle and he

thinks everyone needs to have a

BY MICHAEL ERRIGO

Dan Willkens has always made
things. The 90-year-old Chevy
Chase resident likes to create with
his hands, likes to watch hard work
lead to a finished product. Decades
ago, in his career as a mechanical
engineer in manufacturing, he
used to say, “You have to put some-
thing in the box.” In his retirement,
he took up woodworking, making
gifts for his children, grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren. It
always felt good to produce some-
thing useful, something thought-
ful, something sturdy.
In late March, as the coron avi-
rus pandemic took hold of th e
country and local hospitals faced a
shortage of personal protective
equipment, he saw an opportunity
to make something new. Dan, who
lives with his daughter Diane, an-
nounced the idea at the kitchen
table one night.
“They need masks,” he said.
“Why couldn’t I m ake them?”
Although Willkens had no expe-

MARYLAND

90-year-old mask-maker gets a birthday parade

past four months trying to serve

his community, the parade func-

tioned both as a celebration and a

thank you. To Diane, it confirmed

her belief that “if you give joy, you

get joy .” To Willkens, it was simpler.

“It means that people care,” he

said. “In spite of all the animosity

and the things going on... people

still care about people.”

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by several rescue vehicles and

more than 30 vehicles of friends,

neighbors and strangers. Sur-

rounded by his children, Willkens

watched the parade go by, his

arms waving and tears in his eyes.

“It was unbelievable,” Willkens

said. “All of a sudden here comes

this parade out of the clear blue

sky. Just amazing.”

For a man who had spent the

DIANE WILLKENS

Dan Willkens has been making masks since late March, often

working 10 hours a day. He has made more than 300 masks.

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Historical lessons meet historic times

From left, Leslie Ledesma, Jose Escobar, Gabriela Rojas

and Bianca Ledesma of Cary, N.C., listen to Kerry

McClure talk history at Carlyle House Historic Park on

Sunday in Alexandria. McClure draws people for tours

from a safe distance and holds a fan to cover her mouth.

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