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quality data); National Weather Service

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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

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Harrisburg Philadelphia

Hagerstown

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Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

71° 1:57 p.m.

61° 7:09 a.m.

67°/50°

84° 1979

29° 1895

69° 2:30 p.m.

58° 8:00 a.m.

66°/43°

85° 1979

26° 19 74

72° 1:49 p.m.

58° 4:36 a.m.

66°/44°

85° 1979

31° 1952

Washington 5:26 a.m. 10:41 a.m. 5:08 p.m. 10:45 p.m.
Annapolis 1:54 a.m. 7:13 a.m. 1:29 p.m. 8:16 p.m.
Ocean City 3:29 a.m. 9:50 a.m. 4:14 p.m. 10:09 p.m.
Norfolk 5:25 a.m. 11:50 a.m. 6:17 p.m. none
Point Lookout 3:20 a.m. 9:04 a.m. 4:09 p.m. 11:09 p.m.

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Sun 7:26 a.m. 6:18 p.m.

Moon 8:05 p.m. 10:14 a.m.

Venus 11:33 a.m. 8:32 p.m.

Mars 7:01 a.m. 6:06 p.m.

Jupiter 3:29 p.m. 1:54 a.m.

Saturn 2:39 p.m. 12:34 a.m.

Oct 28

Last

Quarter

Nov 4

New

Nov 11

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Quarter

Nov 19

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0.00"

0.42"

2.62"

39.63"

34.46"

0.00"

0.49"

2.64"

29.80"

35.80"

0.00"

0.24"

2.86"

33.64"

37.08"

Blue Ridge: Today, clouds yielding to sun in central parts;
partly sunny elsewhere. High 50 to 55. Winds west–
northwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, partly cloudy; however,
cloudy in southern parts. Low 43 to 47. Winds west–
southwest 4–8 mph.

Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy; after a cloudy
start, sun returns in the south. High 65 to 71. Winds
northwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 51 to 55.
Winds northwest 4–8 mph. Sunday, mostly cloudy in central
parts; mostly sunny elsewhere.

Pollen: Moderate

Grass Low

Trees Low

Weeds Low

Mold Moderate

UV: Low

2 out of 11+

Air Quality: Good

Dominant cause: Particulates

72/50

71/55

68/52

66/51

66/49

65/51

67/49

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62/45 64/49

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51/ (^44) 68/53
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Waterways: Upper P otomac River : Today, partly sunny. Wind
west–northwest 4–8 knots. Waves less than a foot. Visibility clear.

• Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay : Today, mostly cloudy. Wind
  northwest 4–8 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac and
  the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages : Th e stage at Little Falls will be
  around 3.00 feet today, rising to 3.10 Sunday. Flood stage at Little
  Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 53/38/c 55/45/pc

Albuq uerque 73/46/s 70/48/s

Anchorage 42/37/pc 44/35/c

Atlanta 75/54/s 80/60/pc

Aust in 86/70/c 87/70/pc

Baltimore 67/49/c 69/60/c

Billings, MT 62/39/c 62/45/c

Birmingham 77/56/s 80/66/s

Bismarck, ND 50/36/c 42/36/sh

Boise 58/46/sh 54/48/r

Boston 60/45/c 60/50/s

Buffalo 54/41/sh 54/47/pc

Burlington, VT 50/34/pc 54/41/c

Charleston, SC 79/56/s 80/64/s

Charleston, WV 63/50/c 74/56/pc

Charlotte 75/50/s 79/56/s

Cheyenne, WY 61/38/c 57/37/pc

Chicago 55/41/pc 53/50/r

Cincinnati 59/51/pc 69/60/r

Cleveland 55/40/sh 52/51/r

Dallas 87/72/pc 88/68/pc

Denver 69/42/c 64/41/pc

Des Moines 58/46/s 53/41/r

Detroit 56/39/c 53/46/r

El Paso 85/59/s 82/56/s

Fairbanks, AK 35/24/pc 28/24/sn

Fargo, ND 49/35/c 48/34/sh

Hartford, CT 59/39/c 59/45/pc

Honolulu 85/74/s 86/74/pc

Houston 84/73/t 87/74/pc

Indianapolis 55/49/pc 67/57/t

Jackson, MS 84/63/s 84/69/pc

Jacksonville, FL 84/57/s 82/67/pc

Ka nsas City, MO 63/57/sh 73/44/r

Las Vegas 76/56/pc 76/59/pc

Little Rock 84/68/pc 80/62/t

Los Angeles 70/55/pc 70/57/pc

Louisville 64/56/pc 75/63/t

Memphis 80/68/t 83/68/pc

Miami 84/76/t 85/75/t

Milwaukee 53/40/pc 54/49/pc

Minneapolis 50/37/pc 50/36/c

Nashville 72/59/c 81/63/pc

New Orleans 84/72/s 85/74/pc

New York City 59/49/c 60/57/pc

Norfolk 71/55/pc 76/62/s

Oklahoma City 84/67/pc 83/52/pc

Omaha 61/48/pc 52/39/r

Orlando 89/72/pc 88/72/sh

Philadelphia 64/49/c 63/58/pc

Phoenix 86/62/s 83/64/s

Pittsburgh 53/42/sh 52/52/r

Portland, ME 56/35/c 58/43/s

Portland, OR 59/51/r 59/50/r

Providence, RI 62/43/c 62/49/s

Raleigh, NC 73/50/s 78/59/s

Reno, NV 56/47/sh 58/43/r

Richmond 72/50/pc 75/61/pc

Sacramento 64/57/c 62/53/r

St. Louis 62/57/sh 77/53/t

St. Thomas, VI 87/78/s 87/78/sh

Salt Lake City 49/41/r 59/54/pc

San Diego 69/60/pc 69/60/pc

San Francisco 64/60/r 64/56/r

San Juan, PR 89/77/pc 89/78/sh

Seattle 55/47/r 56/49/r

Spokane, WA 53/42/sh 52/42/r

Syracuse 54/40/c 59/47/pc

Tampa 90/74/s 89/73/pc

Wichita 83/67/pc 74/44/pc

Addis Ababa 74/48/s 75/48/s

Amster dam 56/43/pc 55/44/pc

Athens 75/63/pc 75/58/t

Auckland 59/58/r 63/59/c

Baghdad 88/63/s 89/57/s

Bangkok 88/74/t 88/74/pc

Beijing 63/35/s 65/35/s

Berlin 51/36/pc 54/37/s

Bogota 67/48/sh 66/49/sh

Brussels 56/40/pc 56/44/pc

Buenos Aires 70/53/pc 75/62/s

Cairo 81/62/s 80/64/s

Caracas 76/66/t 75/65/t

Copenhagen 52/43/s 53/45/pc

Dakar 88/79/pc 87/78/pc

Dublin 57/54/r 59/45/sh

Edinburgh 58/56/c 61/48/sh

Frankfurt 54/35/pc 56/35/s

Geneva 55/37/s 60/40/s

Ham., Bermuda 79/76/t 82/73/t

Helsinki 39/25/c 40/38/pc

Ho Chi Minh City 90/76/t 90/75/t

Hong Kong 77/67/pc 79/68/s

Islamabad 71/58/pc 66/55/t

Istanbul 67/57/s 61/51/sh

Jerusalem 71/60/s 72/60/s

Johannesburg 84/54/s 81/52/s

Kabul 69/36/s 66/39/s

Kingston, Jam. 88/79/t 89/79/pc

Kolkata 90/75/pc 89/74/pc

Lagos 81/73/t 86/76/t

Lima 65/57/pc 65/57/pc

Lisbon 75/55/s 74/58/s

London 58/48/pc 58/50/pc

Madrid 67/38/s 69/41/s

Manila 92/79/t 89/79/t

Mexico City 73/55/t 66/54/t

Montreal 48/35/pc 51/39/pc

Moscow 47/38/pc 42/28/c

Mumbai 90/75/s 89/75/pc

Nairobi 82/58/c 84/58/s

New Delhi 86/70/pc 81/67/t

Oslo 48/38/s 52/48/pc

Ottawa 48/32/c 52/36/pc

Paris 58/38/s 59/43/pc

Prague 50/31/pc 51/30/s

Rio de Janeiro 81/71/s 85/70/r

Riyadh 95/76/s 98/70/s

Rome 72/56/pc 74/51/pc

San Salvador 84/69/t 83/69/t

Santiago 75/47/s 86/53/s

Sarajevo 52/36/sh 53/27/s

Seoul 63/43/s 63/46/s

Shanghai 70/59/pc 70/58/pc

Singapore 87/77/t 87/76/t

Stockholm 39/28/pc 48/42/pc

Sydney 80/63/pc 67/56/s

Taipei City 70/69/r 73/72/r

Tehran 66/50/s 68/43/s

Tokyo 64/51/s 64/55/s

Toronto 51/38/c 53/44/pc

Vienna 54/32/s 53/39/s

Warsaw 48/36/sh 49/33/pc

Today

Partly sunny

Sunday

Partly cloudy

Monday

Cloudy

Tuesday

Shower

Wednesday

Partly Cloudy

Thursday

Cloudy, rain

possible

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

Statistics through 5 p.m. Friday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +5.7° yr. to date: +0.8°

High: Zapata, TX 96°

Low: Angel Fire, NM 8°

World

High: Fitzroy Crossing, Australia 110°

Low: Magadan, Russia –29°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND: WNW 6–12 mph

HUMIDITY: Moderate

CHNCE PRECIP: 15%

FEELS*: 69°

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 70°

SSE 6–12 mph

Moderate

10%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 75°

S 8–16 mph

Moderate

25%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 59°

NW 10–20 mph

Moderate

55%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 61°

NW 8–16 mph

Moderate

5%

W:

H:

P:

FEELS: 63°

E 7–14 mph

High

35%

A seasonably brisk Saturday

Saturday will be a lot like Friday, but
perhaps a few degrees cooler. Partly
sunny skies and light winds will
team up to deliver a pretty nice one.
Highs will be mainly in the mid-60s,
with maybe a few spots in the upper 60s. Winds
will be light from the northwest.

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Guide dogs — the subset of
service dogs who work with peo-
ple who are blind and visually
impaired — can’t read six-feet
markers or social-distancing
signs and can sometimes inad-
vertently cause their handler to
get too close to another person.
This has happened to Chari
Chauvin, who is blind, and her
guide dog, a 3-year-old female
yellow Lab named Haviland.
They were in a large store
recently when Haviland allowed
Chauvin to get too close to an-
other shopper, who reacted
harshly. “Can you please step
back?” the woman said, accord-
ing to Chauvin, who is 59 and
lives in Oregon.
Chauvin apologized and
moved away, without clarifying
that she is blind, which is not
always evident even with a guide
dog in a vest.
“It kind of hurts your feelings a
little bit. You have to realize it was
that person’s anxiety talking and
has nothing to do with me,”
Chauvin said.
Another time on a train, Havi-
land, who couldn’t read signs
instructing riders to avoid cer-
tain seats, allowed Chauvin to sit
next to someone without realiz-
ing it. Again, the person reacted
negatively.
“There are many ways to say
something to people that come
across a lot more kindly,” Chau-
vin said. “I wasn’t trying to sit
close to that person to potentially
infect them.”
Guide Dogs for the Blind, the
largest guide dog school in North
America, with campuses in Cali-
fornia and Oregon, produced fli-
ers and a PSA calling for “com-
passion during covid.”
The organization has shared
tips for creative social distancing,
like pushing a shopping cart or
holding a long cane while having
the guide dog heel.
“The dog doesn’t understand

SERVICE DOGS FROM B1

social distancing,” said Cheryl

Vincent, director of training on

the group’s Oregon campus. “If a

blind person gets too close, just

mention, ‘Hey, I’m here.’ ”

Mask-wearing, another wide-

spread tactic for combating the

spread of the coronavirus, has

eliminated a major tool for many

people who are deaf or hard of

hearing: reading lips.

Cara Miller, a professor of

psychology at Gallaudet Univer-

sity in Northeast D.C., said when

she enters a store with her guide

dog Turf, for example, it’s much

harder for her to answer ques-

tions an employee might have

about her dog when everyone is

masked up.

“I have far fewer visual cues

these days about a l ot of human

spoken conversation, much of

which I would get with lip read-

ing,” she said. “A lot of those cues

I’m getting from Turf now.” Turf

often alerts her by looking at the

person speaking and taking her

to that person.

As Miller worked from home

for the much of the pandemic,

Turf took on additional duties,

such as alerting her to deliveries.

Previously, when she was in her

office, he’d typically lie under the

desk, said Miller, who does re-

search on interaction between

humans and animals.

Some people who are going out

less to avoid public interaction i n

the time of coronavirus search for

ways to keep their dogs’ skills

sharp.

Guide Dogs for the Blind train-

ers developed “boredom busters”

such as hide-and-seek, shaking

paws and turning mealtime into

a game.

Ellen Torop, program director

for the Canine Companions’

Northeast region, which runs

from Maine to Virginia, said the

organization moved its dog train-

ings to Zoom when the pandemic

made in-person classes impossi-

ble, and they remain popular.

Both organizations rely on

people, known as “puppy raisers,”

to work with the dogs for their

first 16 months, before they’re

transferred to handlers for for-

mal training.

But with fewer opportunities

for puppies to socialize and get

comfortable in public spaces,

Torop said, “Some dogs are com-

ing in and they’re just not as

confident.”

Canine Companions’ usual at-

trition rate for prospective serv-

ice dogs is 50 percent, and it’s too

early to say whether the pandem-

ic will produce fewer dogs ready

for the rigors of service.

“The jury is still out,” Torop

said. “So with pandemic dogs

who are starting to come in now,

we have to ask ourselves, is that

lack of socialization or just the

dog?”

In the meantime, Torop em-

phasizes the importance of on-

going training, including a new

command called “Say hi.” Pre-

pandemic, a handler might let

their dog shake hands with a new

friend, but now that touching

isn’t a g ood idea, the dog can

shake its paw in greeting.

Such an interaction points to

the emotional and psychological

value of living with a dog amid

the isolation of the pandemic.

“A presence of a dog in your life

can often make that emptiness go

away, regardless of whether

they’re alerting you to a sound or

picking up a pen,” Torop said.

That’s the case for Janette Ra y,

59, of Alexandria, who lost an

arm to sarcoma as a child and

started working with her third

service dog, Cheshire, this year

after his predecessor, Paisley,

slowed down and retired in the

spring.

“I was so elated because I was

so stressed out about not being

about to have a dog,” she said.

“Although I d idn’t go out, [Pais-

ley] still helped me with laundry

and closing doors and getting

things out. And she was my

confidante. I would talk to her,

she would be there.”

When Ray attended a two-

week training course with

Cheshire on Long Island, every-

one wore masks, and she met the

people who raised him as a puppy

by video instead of in person to

avoid potential exposure.

“What people don’t under-

stand is he is the reason I get up

in the morning and have the

energy to go to work,” said Ray,

who retired from the Pentagon

and now works for General Dy-

namics. “He takes all of the

burden from me every day by

doing things. He watches over

me, and when I’m not in the room

he’s looking for me.”

Pandemic aside, experts say,

that’s the value a service dog

brings to a person who needs

help.

Bruce Hamon, 77, a Vietnam

veteran from Ashland, Va., who

suffers from PTSD, said his 31 / 2 -

year-old golden retriever-yellow

Lab mix named Swain has helped

alleviate some of his anxiety.

Swain pokes him with his nose

in the night when he senses

Hamon having a night terror, and

positions himself between

Hamon and groups of people

heading in his direction in a

store, a situation that would oth-

erwise make Hamon uncomfort-

able.

Before the pandemic, it wasn’t

unusual for him to go to Walmart

at 2 a .m. to avoid crowds. Now,

even with the coronavirus, Swain

makes it possible for him to safely

go out with less fear.

At the height of the pandemic,

taking care of Swain gave Hamon

a sense of purpose.

“We’ve gotten through covid

together,” he said.

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Service dogs navigate challenges presented by the pandemic

AMANDA VOISARD FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

When Janette Ray met Cheshire for training, everyone wore

masks, and she met the people who raised him by video.

BY CLARENCE WILLIAMS

AND MARTIN WEIL

A D.C. police officer opened fire

in Northwest Washington on Fri-

day as a struggle developed with

someone at the wheel of a car,

police said.

A man who had been shot dur-

ing the incident on Kennedy

Street NW was in surgery Friday

evening, said D.C. Police Chief

Robert J. Contee III. Contee said

the man had been hit in the torso.

The of ficer suffered cuts and

bruises, Contee said.

It began shortly before 5 p.m.

Friday, when officers stopped a

man after receiving a report about

an armed man chasing someone,

Contee said.

After officers felt a gun in the

man’s clothing, Contee said, the

man broke away, ran and got into a

vehicle in th e 300 block of Ken-

nedy Street.

One officer also got into the

vehicle and a struggle continued

there, the chief said.

With the man driving, the vehi-

cle sped off with the officer in the

back seat, pleading with the man

to stop, according to the chief.

Police examined body-camera

footage, the chief said.

At some point the officer fired

before rolling out the door, the

chief said, adding that neither the

man’s car nor a w eapon had been

found.

Many officers were posted in

the area, which had been designat-

ed for special attention in a fall

crime initiative from Mayor Muri-

el E. Bowser.

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Peter Hermann contributed to this

report.

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