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Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
quality data); National Weather Service
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TemperaturesPrecipitationfor the 48 contiguous states excludes AntarcticaYesterday's NationalSnow, past 24 hours
Snow, season total43° 3:00 p.m.
30° 4:00 a.m.
47 °/34°
72 ° 2013
4° 194242° 2:00 p.m.
22° 5:50 a.m.
45°/28°
70 ° 2013
4° 198941° 2:00 p.m.
25° 5:41 a.m.
46°/29°
71° 2013
5° 1942Washington 4:54 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 4:39 p.m. 10:05 p.m.
Annapolis 1:34 a.m. 6:35 a.m. 12:52 p.m. 7:43 p.m.
Ocean City 2:55 a.m. 9:26 a.m. 3:50 p.m. 9:42 p.m.
Norfolk 4:50 a.m. 11:16 a.m. 5:43 p.m. 11:45 p.m.
Point Lookout 2:58 a.m. 8:32 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 10:37 p.m.
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46 ° 61
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47 ° 56
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40 ° 51
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Sun 7:23 a.m. 4:50 p.m.
Moon 7:58 p.m. 10:11 a.m.
Venus 9:01 a.m. 6:48 p.m.
Mars 5:31 a.m. 3:10 p.m.
Jupiter 10:46 a.m. 9:27 p.m.
Saturn 9:55 a.m. 7:58 p.m.Dec 26
Last
QuarterJan 2
NewJan 9
First
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Full0.00"
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Tr aceBlue Ridge: Today, sunny; windy in southern parts this
morning. High 34 to 38. Winds northwest 15–25 mph.
Tonight, clear. Low 20 to 24. Winds northwest 7–14 mph.
Thursday, mostly sunny; however, some clouds in northern
parts. High 36 to 41.
Atlantic beaches: Today, a morning shower, becoming
windier. High 47 to 51. Winds northwest 12–25 mph.
Tonight, clear. Low 26 to 34. Winds northwest 8–16 mph.
Thursday, mostly sunny; ideal weather for one of the busiest
travel days of the year.
Pollen: Low
Grass Low
Tr ees Low
Weeds Low
Mold LowUV: Low
2 out of 11+Air Quality: Good
Dominant cause: Particulates52/2 4
51/32
48/31
45/2 7
47/26
46/32
48/26
51/26
43/20
51/ 36
50/36
43/2 6 47/29
40/25
30/18 49/29
48°
50°
49°
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Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, clouds giving way to sun.
Wind northwest 10–20 knots. Waves 1–3 feet. Visibility clear. •
Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, turning sunny. Wind
northwest 10–20 knots. Waves 1–3 feet on the Lower Potomac; 2–4
feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls
will be around 3.00 feet today, falling to 2. 90 Thursday. Flood stage
at Little Falls is 10 feet.
Albany, NY 40/22/pc 31/26/pc
Albuquerque 54/33/pc 54/39/c
Anchorage 18/15/sn 21/8/pc
Atlanta 53/31/s 57/38/s
Austin 72/53/pc 76/59/s
Baltimore 48/26/pc 45/32/pc
Billings, MT 44/32/pc 44/29/pc
Birmingham 53/28/s 61/42/pc
Bismarck, ND 30/20/c 40/24/c
Boise 40/37/sh 44/34/sn
Boston 44/26/r 33/27/s
Buffalo 33/25/sf 35/31/sn
Burlington, VT 38/18/sf 24/16/pc
Charleston, SC 61/35/c 58/34/s
Charleston, WV 38/21/s 52/41/s
Charlotte 59/26/s 52/35/s
Cheyenne, WY 55/36/pc 55/37/pc
Chicago 33/27/s 43/36/s
Cincinnati 36/23/s 48/41/s
Cleveland 31/23/pc 39/35/c
Dallas 64/49/pc 74/60/pc
Denver 62/34/pc 63/41/cDes Moines 44/29/s 50/38/s
Detroit 30/23/s 37/32/sn
El Paso 68/42/c 72/49/c
Fairbanks, AK –2/–4/sn 2/–17/sn
Fargo, ND 22/12/pc 27/24/pc
Hartford, CT 43/25/r 37/27/s
Honolulu 78/69/sh 79/69/c
Houston 70/55/s 78/65/pc
Indianapolis 34/24/s 46/38/s
Jackson, MS 59/34/s 67/51/s
Jacksonville, FL 61/37/pc 66/39/s
Kansas City, MO 50/38/s 55/47/pc
Las Vegas 57/47/c 65/53/sh
Little Rock 53/35/s 62/55/pc
Los Angeles 66/54/c 60/53/r
Louisville 41/26/s 54/44/s
Memphis 52/35/s 61/51/pc
Miami 74/55/s 75/60/s
Milwaukee 31/26/s 41/33/s
Minneapolis 29/21/pc 35/26/c
Nashville 46/25/s 59/46/pc
New Orleans 62/46/s 68/57/s
New York City 46/30/r 40/36/s
Norfolk 51/32/pc 44/32/sOklahoma City 60/39/pc 62/48/pc
Omaha 50/29/s 54/35/pc
Orlando 66/46/pc 71/49/s
Philadelphia 47/29/pc 42/33/pc
Phoenix 72/55/c 73/56/c
Pittsburgh 32/21/pc 39/34/c
Portland, ME 39/21/r 29/18/s
Portland, OR 49/43/sh 46/38/sh
Providence, RI 49/27/r 37/26/s
Raleigh, NC 55/26/pc 49/31/s
Reno, NV 49/40/c 46/37/r
Richmond 52/24/pc 46/32/s
Sacramento 52/49/r 55/46/r
St. Louis 44/35/s 59/47/pc
St. Thomas, VI 84/75/s 84/74/pc
Salt Lake City 41/33/c 46/38/sn
San Diego 65/53/c 65/56/r
San Francisco 57/53/r 57/48/r
San Juan, PR 85/73/pc 86/73/sh
Seattle 50/40/sh 44/37/sh
Spokane, WA 38/34/sn 38/28/sn
Syracuse 38/24/sf 34/29/c
Tampa 66/49/pc 71/52/s
Wichita 56/34/pc 57/38/pcAddis Ababa 75/49/pc 77/50/s
Amsterdam 35/31/c 45/42/sh
Athens 52/44/pc 52/42/pc
Auckland 74/62/c 77/63/pc
Baghdad 64/43/pc 64/43/pc
Bangkok 90/71/s 91/73/pc
Beijing 41/19/pc 35/18/c
Berlin 33/27/c 35/34/sf
Bogota 66/49/c 67/50/sh
Brussels 37/32/c 45/43/c
Buenos Aires 80/70/s 78/70/s
Cairo 65/54/s 63/53/c
Caracas 74/68/sh 74/67/pc
Copenhagen 37/34/sf 36/32/c
Dakar 80/71/pc 81/72/pc
Dublin 48/46/r 54/43/sh
Edinburgh 37/36/sh 44/41/sh
Frankfurt 35/26/c 40/38/c
Geneva 39/28/c 45/34/c
Ham., Bermuda 76/68/pc 73/61/c
Helsinki 14/10/c 27/13/c
Ho Chi Minh City 90/75/t 86/74/tHong Kong 71/65/pc 71/65/c
Islamabad 65/45/c 68/45/s
Istanbul 42/33/pc 42/34/pc
Jerusalem 53/49/c 53/47/c
Johannesburg 73/59/t 78/55/t
Kabul 56/34/sh 56/29/s
Kingston, Jam. 84/73/sh 84/74/pc
Kolkata 76/56/pc 77/57/pc
Lagos 92/73/pc 91/76/pc
Lima 71/64/pc 73/65/pc
Lisbon 61/56/sh 61/54/sh
London 43/40/c 53/46/c
Madrid 58/44/sh 55/49/sh
Manila 87/76/t 87/76/pc
Mexico City 69/44/s 71/45/s
Montreal 34/11/sn 19/11/s
Moscow –4/–6/pc 10/8/c
Mumbai 87/70/pc 86/70/pc
Nairobi 75/60/r 77/60/t
New Delhi 69/51/pc 70/54/pc
Oslo 32/20/c 23/15/c
Ottawa 32/8/sf 17/10/pc
Paris 38/32/c 50/46/pc
Prague 30/22/c 36/34/cRio de Janeiro 88/73/s 77/71/t
Riyadh 68/52/pc 71/53/s
Rome 55/42/c 57/49/sh
San Salvador 85/64/pc 86/61/s
Santiago 89/56/s 85/56/s
Sarajevo 32/19/s 39/32/sf
Seoul 44/23/pc 45/28/pc
Shanghai 61/44/pc 62/50/pc
Singapore 86/76/r 85/76/t
Stockholm 22/20/sf 28/17/c
Sydney 77/70/c 76/69/t
Taipei City 68/66/r 74/68/r
Tehran 51/35/s 51/40/pc
Tokyo 54/41/pc 51/42/s
Toronto 33/22/pc 34/28/sn
Vienna 32/24/pc 34/31/c
Warsaw 27/20/sf 29/28/sfToday
Partly sunny,
windyThursday
Partly sunnyFriday
Mostly cloudySaturday
Cloudy,
showerSunday
Partly sunny,
breezyMonday
Showers
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Statistics through 5 p.m. TuesdayDifference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +4.6° yr. to date: +0.9°High: Vero Beach, FL 82°
Low: Rolla, ND –15°World
High: Marble Bar, Australia 116°
Low: Delyankir, Russia –70°Weather map features for noon today.WIND:WNW 12–25 mph
HUMIDITY:LowCHNCE PRECIP:5%
FEELS*:41°
W:
H:
P:
FEELS:45°
WSW 4–8 mph
Low0%
W:
H:P:
FEELS:50°
S 4–8 mph
Moderate5%
W:
H:P:
FEELS:59°
S 7–14 mph
Moderate65%
W:
H:P:
FEELS:51°
NW 10–20 mph
Moderate5%
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H:P:
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E 4–8 mph
Moderate30%
Sunny and windy
Sunshine is back in a big way. Too
bad it’s going to be so futile in
keeping us feeling comfortable.
Strong northwest winds, sustained
around 15 to 25 mph, keep highs in
the mid-40s feeling about 10 degrees chillier than
that. Gusts are near or past 40 mph.
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ried they may have been exposed
outside of school.
The high school’s Home School
Association stirred fears with an
email Friday warning the commu-
nity to follow coronavirus proto-
cols strictly.
“While only 7 positive Covid
cases have been communicated
publicly via formal notification
letters, teachers and students are
reporting mass absences and posi-
tive cases to the HSA Board,” it
wrote. “We believe there are up-
wards of 30 positive cases at
School Without Walls that are cur-
rently under investigation via
DCPS Covid response protocols
and worry the communications
lag risks the health and safety of
our school community and fami-
lies.”
Two days later, on Sunday, the
school sent a formal notice of
29 positive cases.
Goldberg decided to send her
children to school double-
masked: one surgical mask and
one KN-95.
“I thought through the risk of
exposure versus what I thought
were the benefits of being in
school consistently,” Goldberg
said. She decided the risks, given
their vaccinations, were minimal.
But Goldberg fears D.C. schools
might again move to virtual learn-
ing, so it’s important, she said, to
take advantage of in-person
c lasses while they are offered. “As
long as we’re in-person,” she said,
“I’ll send them.”
Hours later, Oyster-Adams
made an announcement: It was
going virtual, too.
[email protected]
[email protected]that and do it safely.”
Schools Chancellor Lewis D.
Ferebee has previously said the
system takes a three-layered ap-
proach when it comes to deciding
to move a school virtual: seek
guidance from D.C. Health, exam-
ine how many students have been
required to quarantine, and con-
sider whether the school can con-
tinue to operate — especially if a
high number of staff members
cannot come in.
But the details of what is con-
sidered a critical mass of people
out are unclear. Richard Jackson,
who heads the Council of School
Officers, a union for mid-level
leadership, said the school system
has “been somewhat evasive”
when asked.
“We just want a clear line
around what are the benchmarks
that a school reaches in order to be
viewed as a school that can go
virtual, and that hasn’t been made
clear,” Jackson said.
Deb Goldberg, who has two
children in D.C. Public Schools,
said many parents at both those
schools debated keeping their
children home this week given the
case surge, though Goldberg de-
cided to send hers in.
At Oyster-Adams Bilingual
School, where she has a seventh-
grade son, Goldberg said parents
on a WhatsApp text chain were
buzzing about a possible exposure
on a bus trip, not sure what to do
about it. Her older son is in ninth
grade at School Without Walls,
where rumors were flying of a
significant outbreak. Her children
have not been identified by the
school as close contacts of people
with the virus, but Goldberg wor-West Elementary School both
closed at 1 p.m. Tuesday, following
nine other D.C. Public Schools
campuses.
For D.C. students who chose to
attend classes Tuesday, hallways
usually filled with their peers
seemed noticeably emptier. Prin-
cipals have been stressed over how
to carry out operations while
classes — and at certain points,
entire grade levels — went virtual,
moving staff members into quar-
antine. Teachers who were already
burned out as a result of the pan-
demic are navigating how to edu-
cate children while dealing with
their own anxiety about the
spread of the virus.
“I think there’s a lot of kids who
aren’t in school because they don’t
feel safe to come to school,” said
Eric Washington, a teacher at Co-
lumbia Heights Educational Cam-
pus. And “there’s a lot of teachers
who are frustrated about the fact
that they do have to come to
school.”
A teacher at Marie Reed El-
ementary School, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity be-
cause they were not authorized to
speak publicly, said the Adams
Morgan school also saw “an un-
usual number of absences” on
Tuesday.
“It’s probably a mixed bag be-
tween kids whose parents are
afraid of them getting infected
and some kids who are actually
sick or tested positive,” the teacher
said. “In our second grade, three
kids were exposed, and more than
half of kids weren’t there.”
The teacher estimated that Ma-
rie Reed’s sick adults, though, out-
numbered its sick students.
In May, when cases were declin-
ing in the region, Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D) pledged that all D.C.
children would be required to re-
turn to school buildings in the fall,
unless they had a doctor-approved
medical exemption. She said in
August that if cases reached “a
trend of concern,” her administra-
tion would do what is “necessary.”
“We know what they have lost
in being out of school and being
disconnected from school, and
we’re going to do everything as a
government to keep our children
connected,” Bowser said during a
news conference Monday. “Hav-
ing said that, we recognize that
our school leaders have to operate
the buildings and they’re going to
let us know what they need to doSCHOOLS FROM B1
Virus cases keep many students home
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