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NormalRichmondNorfolkOcean CityAnnapolisDoverCape MayBaltimoreCharlottesvilleLexingtonWashingtonVirginia BeachKitty HawkHarrisburg PhiladelphiaHagerstownDavisOCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:TemperaturesPrecipitationfor the 48 contiguous states excludes AntarcticaYesterday's NationalSnow, past 24 hours
Snow, season total49° 1:00 a.m.
40° 9:00 a.m.
52°/37°
75° 2006
14° 193647° 12:02 a.m.
38° 8:17 a.m.
51°/31°
75° 2006
4° 196749° 12:08 a.m.
40° 8:00 a.m.
50°/32°
75° 2006
12° 1967Washington 4:04 a.m. 9:12 a.m. 3:42 p.m. 9:08 p.m.
Annapolis 12:38 a.m. 5:39 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 6:53 p.m.
Ocean City 2:03 a.m. 8:31 a.m. 2:55 p.m. 8:48 p.m.
Norfolk 4:03 a.m. 10:26 a.m. 4:55 p.m. 10:48 p.m.
Point Lookout 1:59 a.m. 7:34 a.m. 2:37 p.m. 9:54 p.m.
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33 °Sun 7:09 a.m. 4:46 p.m.
Moon 6:37 p.m. 9:11 a.m.
Venus 4:52 a.m. 3:23 p.m.
Mars 2:01 p.m. 2:51 a.m.
Jupiter 10:24 a.m. 8:04 p.m.
Saturn 10:31 a.m. 8:15 p.m.Dec 7
Last
QuarterDec 14
NewDec 21
First
QuarterDec 29
Full0.02"
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0.11"
52.40"
36.89"
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Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny, brisk. High 36–40.
Wind west 10–20 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 17–29. Wind
northwest 6–12 mph. Thursday, mostly sunny. High 43–47.
Wind west 6–12 mph. Friday, cloudy, few showers. High
45–49. Wind southwest 6–12 mph.
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly sunny. High 47 –52. Wind
west 10–20 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 30–36. Wind west
7–14 mph. Thursday, sunny. High 52–58. Wind west 6– 12
mph. Friday, cloudy, afternoon shower. High 57–64. Wind
southwest 7–14 mph.
Pollen: Low
Grass Low
Tr ees Low
Weeds Low
Mold LowUV: Low
2 out of 11+Air Quality: Good
Dominant cause: Particulates52/ 2752/ 3649/3048/3448/3247/3348/2954/2944/2754/3450/3946/29 46/3344/3037/19 48/33
56°59°58°64°Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, small craft advisory, mostly
sunny. Wind west 7–14 knots. Waves around a foot. • Lower Potomac
and Chesapeake Bay: Today, small craft advisory, mostly sunny. Wind
west 10–20 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and 1–3 feet
on Chesapeake Bay.• Ri ver Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be
around 4.10 feet today, falling to 4.00 Thursday. Flood stage at Little
Falls is 10 feet.
Albany, NY 38/29/sf 45/32/pc
Albuquerque 37/20/pc 40/22/s
Anchorage 34/17/sn 22/7/c
Atlanta 54/30/s 57/44/pc
Austin 65/37/pc 57/34/pc
Baltimore 48/29/s 53/37/s
Billings, MT 39/26/s 47/33/s
Birmingham 55/32/s 55/48/t
Bismarck, ND 36/18/c 44/20/s
Boise 41/21/s 39/19/s
Boston 44/35/pc 50/39/s
Buffalo 40/34/sf 43/38/pc
Burlington, VT 39/29/sn 45/36/pc
Charleston, SC 55/33/s 63/47/c
Charleston, WV 42/21/s 49/34/pc
Charlotte 54/27/s 58/38/s
Cheyenne, WY 27/17/pc 43/27/s
Chicago 45/27/s 44/28/pc
Cincinnati 43/24/pc 45/36/c
Cleveland 40/26/pc 42/33/pc
Dallas 53/36/r 49/33/c
Denver 30/17/pc 43/25/sDes Moines 42/21/pc 39/24/pc
Detroit 43/28/s 42/31/pc
El Paso 50/32/s 47/25/pc
Fairbanks, AK 18/0/pc 5/–12/sn
Fargo, ND 34/21/pc 39/22/pc
Hartford, CT 44/29/pc 50/35/s
Honolulu 84/70/pc 86/74/s
Houston 66/40/r 57/40/s
Indianapolis 43/25/s 44/30/c
Jackson, MS 58/43/pc 56/43/t
Jacksonville, FL 57/36/s 70/55/pc
Kansas City, MO 48/31/c 38/25/c
Las Vegas 58/35/s 55/34/s
Little Rock 53/38/r 46/36/r
Los Angeles 76/49/s 72/45/s
Louisville 46/27/s 48/40/r
Memphis 55/39/pc 46/38/sh
Miami 73/63/s 76/67/pc
Milwaukee 46/29/s 41/30/pc
Minneapolis 39/27/pc 38/25/pc
Nashville 50/29/s 51/42/pc
New Orleans 64/59/s 71/52/t
New York City 46/36/pc 51/43/s
Norfolk 52/36/s 58/42/sOklahoma City 40/33/r 38/27/c
Omaha 44/22/pc 39/23/pc
Orlando 62/47/pc 74/58/c
Philadelphia 46/33/pc 50/39/s
Phoenix 69/48/s 67/39/s
Pittsburgh 39/23/pc 42/32/pc
Portland, ME 42/29/pc 46/34/s
Portland, OR 48/35/s 47/33/pc
Providence, RI 46/31/pc 51/38/s
Raleigh, NC 52/27/s 58/38/s
Reno, NV 47/22/s 48/22/s
Richmond 52/27/s 56/39/s
Sacramento 63/36/s 64/35/s
St. Louis 50/31/pc 43/31/sn
St. Thomas, VI 84/75/pc 83/74/pc
Salt Lake City 40/20/s 39/21/s
San Diego 73/51/s 71/48/s
San Francisco 60/45/pc 61/44/s
San Juan, PR 84/74/pc 83/73/sh
Seattle 51/34/s 48/36/s
Spokane, WA 37/23/s 37/24/s
Syracuse 38/32/sf 47/37/pc
Tampa 63/48/pc 75/59/pc
Wichita 39/30/sn 37/22/snAddis Ababa 73/48/pc 74/47/pc
Amsterdam 43/40/pc 44/40/sh
Athens 58/48/pc 61/53/c
Auckland 71/61/pc 69/56/pc
Baghdad 67/55/s 67/52/pc
Bangkok 86/75/pc 89/71/s
Beijing 38/18/pc 39/19/s
Berlin 36/24/s 34/27/pc
Bogota 67/47/r 69/48/pc
Brussels 45/40/pc 43/40/sh
Buenos Aires 81/65/t 80/61/s
Cairo 71/57/pc 72/56/s
Caracas 83/68/t 81/68/pc
Copenhagen 42/34/pc 38/36/pc
Dakar 83/74/pc 83/74/pc
Dublin 46/36/pc 40/29/sh
Edinburgh 46/35/pc 39/30/sh
Frankfurt 35/31/pc 36/34/pc
Geneva 39/29/pc 40/35/pc
Ham., Bermuda 72/65/r 72/66/pc
Helsinki 38/29/pc 32/29/c
Ho Chi Minh City 90/75/pc 91/73/sHong Kong 75/59/s 72/56/s
Islamabad 76/48/pc 73/49/pc
Istanbul 49/46/c 57/45/s
Jerusalem 58/45/s 60/45/s
Johannesburg 82/53/s 73/55/pc
Kabul 63/32/pc 61/32/pc
Kingston, Jam. 86/75/pc 86/75/c
Kolkata 84/61/pc 85/62/pc
Lagos 89/76/pc 90/75/pc
Lima 74/65/c 73/65/pc
Lisbon 61/44/pc 58/53/pc
London 45/37/pc 43/36/sh
Madrid 50/29/pc 48/35/pc
Manila 84/76/sh 85/76/t
Mexico City 72/48/pc 74/47/c
Montreal 38/28/sn 40/35/c
Moscow 26/18/pc 25/20/c
Mumbai 92/75/pc 91/75/pc
Nairobi 77/60/pc 76/59/pc
New Delhi 82/53/pc 81/55/pc
Oslo 35/29/sn 32/30/sn
Ottawa 31/23/sn 38/31/c
Paris 46/40/pc 45/40/r
Prague 31/24/pc 31/24/cRio de Janeiro 81/75/t 89/79/pc
Riyadh 72/61/pc 78/63/pc
Rome 56/44/r 56/45/sh
San Salvador 85/66/t 86/68/sh
Santiago 85/54/s 86/54/s
Sarajevo 39/34/r 51/39/r
Seoul 42/25/pc 40/20/s
Shanghai 57/44/pc 52/42/pc
Singapore 87/78/t 87/78/sh
Stockholm 37/33/pc 37/35/c
Sydney 77/62/pc 78/69/c
Taipei City 69/61/sh 67/62/r
Tehran 55/44/pc 51/42/pc
Tokyo 51/48/r 55/47/pc
Toronto 39/30/s 40/33/pc
Vienna 32/29/pc 33/32/sn
Warsaw 31/25/s 34/31/cToday
Sunny, breezyThursday
Mostly sunnyFriday
Clouds, p.m.
showerSaturday
Windy, rain
likelySunday
Partly sunnyMonday
Partly sunny,
briskFSaSuMTu WThFSaSuMTu WThF
Statistics through 5 p.m. TuesdayDifference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +0.5° yr. to date: +2.5°High: Corona, CA 84°
Low: Daniel, WY –14°World
High: Bourke, Australia 118°
Low: Delyankir, Russia –50°Weather map features for noon today.WIND:WNW 10–20 mph
HUMIDITY:LowCHNCE PRECIP:0%FEELS*:41°W:
H:P:FEELS:52°SSW 4–8 mph
Low0%
W:
H:P:FEELS:53°SSW 6–12 mph
Moderate40%
W:
H:P:FEELS:40°NW 15–25 mph
High60%
W:
H:P:FEELS:40°S 8–16 mph
Moderate20%
W:
H:P:FEELS:38°NNW 10–20 mph
Moderate10%Clear skies
It will be a bright and crisp start —
and it will stay that way.
Unfortunately, we’ve still got those
winds to deal with, and they will
probably strengthen d uring the day.
Highs will be in the mid- to u pper 40s i n most
locations. Winds out of the north and northwest
will blow at about 20 mph, with gusts past
30 mph.
The Weather
WASHINGTONPOST.COM/WEATHER. TWITTER: @CAPITALWEATHER. FACEBOOK.COM/CAPITALWEATHERBY JULIE ZAUZMERThe D.C. Council gave initial
approval Tuesday to bills aimed at
correcting historical injustices —
including renaming a recreation
center and park to honor a man
born into slavery, whose descen-
dants owned land appropriated
for the park, and granting free
fishing licenses to members of
two Native American tribes based
on a pre-Revolutionary treaty.
Under the legislation, Lafa-
yette Recreation Center and Lafa-
yette Park in Chevy Chase w ould
be renamed Lafayette-Pointer to
include George Pointer, who
bought his own freedom at age 19
and became an accomplished en-
gineer who helped shape the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
Like other bills that passed a
preliminary vote Tuesday, they
will require a second vote in two
weeks, and the approval of D.C.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), to
become law.
James Fisher, an eighth-gener-
ation descendant of Pointer, told
the council in September that
Pointer earned money to buy his
freedom in part by working for
George Washington, the first
president.
“His life story is extraordinary,
but what is so amazing is that 247
years have passed with him being
virtually unknown,” said Fisher,
who added that a book and a
college course on Pointer and his
descendants are in the making.
Pointer’s granddaughter
bought land along Broad Branch
Road that the family owned for
more than 80 years before they
were abruptly evicted in 1928, in
an eminent domain proceeding to
make space for the school that is
now Lafayette Elementary and
the adjacent park. Both served a
mostly White community.
(The school and park are sepa-
rate from Lafayette Square, the
federal park in front of the White
House that also bears the name of
Marquis de Lafayette, the French
military tactician who helped the
United States win the Revolution-
ary War.)
“The legacy of Black land loss
and the fracturing it causes suc-
ceeding generations is difficult, if
not almost impossible, to over-
come,” Fisher testified. “Havingthe opportunity to regain that
place called home is a step to-
wards regaining some of that...
It will be a beginning for our
family’s healing from an unimagi-
nable loss.”
The Department of Parks and
Recreation said that signage re-
flecting the name change would
cost $18,000.
The park was not on a list of
dozens of sites — including rec-
reation centers, public housing
and public schools — recom-
mended for renaming in Septem-
ber by a mayoral committee be-
cause their namesakes enslaved
others, crafted racist or discrimi-
natory policy or otherwise perpet-
uated injustice.
That list included long-en-
dorsed ideas like removing Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson’s name
from one of the city’s most promi-
nent public high schools, as well
as more controversial proposals.
The committee castigated re-
vered founding father Benjamin
Franklin for his racist writings,
for example, and said national
anthem writer Francis Scott Key
should not have a school named
for him because he enslaved peo-
ple.
Many of the group’s recom-
mendations involve historical fig-
ures who are nearly unknown
among the public today. The
group behind the list has yet to
publish the detailed explanation
it promised in September of whythose people’s actions could dis-
qualify them from being name-
sakes of city property.
Once that report is issued, the
council (and, in the case of
schools, the student community)
will have the option of pursuing
legislation to give new names to
any or all of the contested sites.
Another bill approved on a first
vote on Tuesday gives a hint of
what sort of namesakes the coun-
cil might choose as replacements.
The Diverse Washingtonians
Commemorative Works Amend-
ment Act calls for the University
of the District of Columbia to
create a list by the end of next year
of up to 12 Washingtonians “who
left positive and indelible marks
on American or District culture or
history” and ought to be com-
memorated publicly in the city.
The bill calls for those figures to
“reflect diversity of culture, race,
gender or gender identity, sexual
orientation, or disability status.”
The council also approved leg-
islation inspired by a 1666 treaty
between British colonists and Pis-
cataway Indians. Though the
terms of the treaty were unfavor-
able to the Piscataway, it did allow
them the unfettered right to hunt,
fish and crab.
The bill would restore that
right, permitting card-carrying
members of two Piscataway tribes
to obtain free fishing licenses in
the District.
[email protected]THE DISTRICTCouncil votes to rename park and
center, honor Native American treaty
SALWAN GEORGES/THE WASHINGTON POST
In September, a committee recommended renaming sites such as
Woodrow Wilson High School. On Tuesday, the D.C. Council
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