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B10 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST.FRIDAY, MAY 27 , 2022

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 Low Normal Record high Record low

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:

Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

73° 2:07 p.m. 61° 4:00 a.m. 79°/61° 96° 1880 42° 1899

71° 3:59 p.m. 59° 6:00 a.m. 77°/56° 92° 2021 38° 1967

73° 4:00 p.m. 60° 3:00 a.m. 78 °/56° 94° 2021 41° 1967

Washington 1:05 a.m. 6:44 a.m. 1:52 p.m. 7:10 p.m.
Annapolis 4:14 a.m. 10:39 a.m. 4:02 p.m. 9:57 p.m.
Ocean City 12:16 a.m. 6:05 a.m. 12:12 p.m. 6:31 p.m.
Norfolk 2:20 a.m. 8:17 a.m. 2:10 p.m. 8:41 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:01 a.m. 6:53 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 5:54 p.m.

74 ° 64 ° 79 ° 62 ° 83 ° 66 ° 90 ° 71 ° 93 ° 73 ° 94 ° 72 °

Sun 5:47 a.m. 8:24 p.m. Moon 4:14 a.m. 5:53 p.m. Venus 4:04 a.m. 5:11 p.m. Mars 2:57 a.m. 2:58 p.m. Jupiter 2:57 a.m. 3:04 p.m. Saturn 1:23 a.m. 11:56 a.m.

May 30 New

June 7 First Quarter

June 14 Full

June 20 Last Quarter

0.00" 6.01" 3.31" 18.61" 15.50"

0.00" 6.06" 3.95" 16.43" 16.47"

Tr ace 5.04" 3.21" 18.67" 16.59"

Blue Ridge: Today, humid, a couple of showers, a heavy
thunderstorm. High 61 to 66. Winds south–southwest
12– 25 mph. Tonight, a couple of showers, a heavy
thunderstorm; however, a thunderstorm in central parts.
Low 49 to 53.

Atlantic beaches: Today, cloudy, breezy. A couple of
showers, a thunderstorm, mainly later in central parts; a
morning shower in spots, then a thunderstorm in the north.
A thunderstorm in the south. High 71 to 81. Winds south
10– 20 mph.

Pollen: High Grass High Tr ees Moderate Weeds Low Mold Moderate

UV: Moderate 3 out of 11+

Air Quality: Good Dominant cause: Particulates

76/64

81/68

71/66

75/65

78/66

73/66

75/63

75/60

77/57

80/69

78/69

76/63 80/66

73/60

69/52 74/64 60°

60°

65°

64°

Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly cloudy, a couple of
showers, thunderstorms. Wind south 6–12 knots. Waves 2 feet or
less. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, cloudy, a couple
of showers, thunderstorms. Wind south 8–16 knots. Waves 1–2 feet
on the Lower Potomac; 2–4 feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River
Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be around 3.80 feet today, rising
to 3.90 Saturday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 77/64/t 71/54/t Albuquerque 92/59/pc 91/59/pc Anchorage 68/50/pc 66/53/s Atlanta 80/62/pc 83/64/s Austin 96/66/s 96/70/pc Baltimore 75/63/t 79/60/t Billings, MT 74/54/sh 64/48/sh Birmingham 79/59/s 83/62/s Bismarck, ND 81/54/pc 81/59/pc Boise 75/51/pc 64/46/r Boston 78/64/c 73/60/t Buffalo 71/56/sh 69/56/pc Burlington, VT 77/64/sh 72/53/sh Charleston, SC 82/67/t 85/67/s Charleston, WV 73/57/t 73/53/sh Charlotte 80/60/t 83/61/s Cheyenne, WY 82/52/pc 79/51/c Chicago 63/52/sh 77/62/pc Cincinnati 67/53/sh 73/58/pc Cleveland 73/56/sh 69/57/pc Dallas 89/68/s 96/73/s Denver 86/55/pc 86/56/c

Des Moines 75/57/s 82/66/pc Detroit 73/57/sh 74/59/pc El Paso 101/70/s 101/70/s Fairbanks, AK 72/48/pc 74/50/s Fargo, ND 80/58/pc 78/59/c Hartford, CT 78/64/t 74/54/t Honolulu 84/72/s 84/73/pc Houston 93/67/s 94/74/s Indianapolis 67/50/sh 75/57/pc Jackson, MS 80/58/s 85/63/s Jacksonville, FL 84/66/t 89/67/s Kansas City, MO 78/60/s 85/72/s Las Vegas 99/73/s 94/68/s Little Rock 81/59/s 86/66/s Los Angeles 72/58/pc 70/59/pc Louisville 70/57/sh 76/59/pc Memphis 77/59/s 83/64/s Miami 89/77/t 89/77/t Milwaukee 60/52/pc 72/59/pc Minneapolis 77/59/s 81/64/t Nashville 74/59/c 79/61/pc New Orleans 87/70/s 87/71/s New York City 75/65/t 77/63/t Norfolk 81/68/t 82/66/t

Oklahoma City 83/64/s 88/73/pc Omaha 80/63/s 85/71/s Orlando 90/72/t 89/72/t Philadelphia 80/66/t 79/63/t Phoenix 104/76/s 101/74/pc Pittsburgh 74/57/t 71/53/pc Portland, ME 72/61/c 69/52/t Portland, OR 63/52/sh 60/50/r Providence, RI 74/63/c 74/57/t Raleigh, NC 77/64/t 82/61/pc Reno, NV 78/54/pc 69/45/pc Richmond 76/64/t 83/62/sh Sacramento 82/55/pc 77/49/pc St. Louis 69/56/sh 80/66/s St. Thomas, VI 85/77/pc 85/78/c Salt Lake City 85/59/pc 72/50/t San Diego 67/60/c 67/61/pc San Francisco 67/55/pc 66/51/pc San Juan, PR 87/76/pc 88/77/c Seattle 59/49/r 58/47/r Spokane, WA 62/44/c 58/47/c Syracuse 76/59/sh 70/50/t Tampa 88/76/t 88/74/t Wichita 82/64/s 85/71/s

Addis Ababa 82/55/c 82/54/pc Amsterdam 59/50/pc 58/48/sh Athens 88/69/s 87/68/s Auckland 60/47/s 63/56/s Baghdad 99/70/s 103/74/s Bangkok 92/80/t 93/80/sh Beijing 94/66/pc 99/74/c Berlin 65/46/r 61/47/c Bogota 64/50/r 64/50/c Brussels 65/47/pc 61/44/sh Buenos Aires 58/47/s 56/44/pc Cairo 95/71/s 97/73/s Caracas 74/64/t 74/64/pc Copenhagen 58/47/pc 62/49/c Dakar 80/73/pc 81/74/c Dublin 63/44/pc 60/42/pc Edinburgh 59/43/pc 61/42/pc Frankfurt 71/46/pc 66/43/pc Geneva 78/55/pc 72/50/t Ham., Bermuda 79/73/s 81/75/pc Helsinki 59/45/sh 57/46/sh Ho Chi Minh City 87/78/t 87/78/t Hong Kong 87/80/r 87/80/r

Islamabad 102/79/s 102/78/s Istanbul 80/63/s 81/66/s Jerusalem 87/63/s 88/64/s Johannesburg 69/46/s 66/46/s Kabul 82/60/s 77/55/s Kingston, Jam. 85/78/t 86/77/t Kolkata 99/84/s 100/84/t Kyiv 73/52/c 66/48/pc Lagos 87/75/t 89/76/t Lima 65/59/pc 66/59/pc Lisbon 91/62/s 79/61/s London 66/48/pc 65/47/pc Madrid 87/59/s 89/60/s Manila 96/80/t 93/80/t Mexico City 79/53/s 79/53/c Montreal 74/62/r 72/54/c Moscow 58/45/sh 58/45/c Mumbai 92/83/pc 92/83/s Nairobi 77/59/t 74/59/c New Delhi 103/86/pc 103/84/pc Oslo 50/47/sh 61/43/c Ottawa 71/58/r 71/52/sh Paris 72/48/pc 68/45/pc Prague 65/44/sh 61/42/sh

Rio de Janeiro 80/68/s 82/69/pc Riyadh 106/83/s 111/82/s Rome 89/65/pc 82/63/t San Salvador 82/69/r 82/69/t Santiago 60/43/c 58/41/c Sarajevo 82/55/t 72/50/t Seoul 76/57/s 82/62/s Shanghai 85/69/pc 72/68/pc Singapore 90/78/t 90/79/t Stockholm 55/45/sh 52/43/sh Sydney 70/54/pc 68/52/sh Taipei City 76/73/r 85/74/sh Tehran 82/66/s 84/71/s Tokyo 75/66/r 80/68/s Toronto 73/56/sh 72/53/pc Vienna 79/55/c 68/47/c Warsaw 60/46/r 57/46/sh

Today Heavy t-storms

Saturday Showers

Sunday Mostly sunny

Monday Mostly sunny, hot

Tuesday Mostly sunny, hot

Wednesday Mostly sunny, hot

Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su Statistics through 5 p.m. Thursday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –0.3° yr. to date: +0.2°

High: Needles, CA 105° Low: Boulder, WY 19°

World High: Sibi, Pakistan 115° Low: Hall Beach, Canada –2°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND:S 8–16 mph HUMIDITY:Very High

CHNCE PRECIP:95%

FEELS*:76°

W: H:

P:

FEELS:81°

W 7–14 mph High

55% W: H:

P:

FEELS:89°

S 4–8 mph High

0% W: H:

P:

FEELS:94°

SSW 6–12 mph High

5% W: H:

P:

FEELS:98°

W 6–12 mph High

5% W: H:

P:

FEELS:98°

NW 6–12 mph High

10%

Tempestuous day ahead

Showers are possible this morning,
but any threatening storm activity
should hold off until afternoon,
when we could see some breaks in
the clouds. We’ll probably see a lot of
clouds and occasional rain. An isolated tornado is
possible, along with large hail. Highs should
reach for the mid- and upper 70s. Winds are from
the south about 10 mph.

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round trip airfare cost about $300. By the time she was ready to buy a ticket in late April, she said, she was s tunned t o discover the lowest fare had nearly tripled. “I saw that and thought, ‘No way that’s happening,’ ” Romero said. Travel experts say history shows that gas price spikes, such as during the Great Recession and after the Sept. 11, 200 1, terrorist attacks, often shorten — but don’t stop — the great American road trip. In a recent study, Eylon’s firm found that almost 60 percent of those surveyed said rising gas prices would “impact” or “greatly impact” their travel plans in the next six months, including by taking fewer or shorter trips. Only 6 percent said they were canceling travel plans — slightly above the 5 percent cancellation rate typical for family emergencies, work de- mands and other problems, he said. “They’re going to keep traveling,” h e said. “They’re just going to find w ays to reduce their spending to reallocate their travel budget.” Larry Roessner, 70, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., laughed in apparent disbelief when asked how much it cost to fill his R V as he a nd his wife, Darleen, 66, headed to the Atlan- tic City area. He paid $159 at the Shell station in Stevensville on Thursday, even though he started with the tank partially full. Roessner estimated gas for the two-day drive would total $600 to $700 — far more than last year but probably l ess than he might lose at a craps table in Atlantic City. “I’m retired,” Roessner said. “What else am I going to do?... We’re going to go h ave fun and not worry about it.” But o thers said inflation has put a summer trip off limits. Meggan Wagner, 40, who is un- employed, said she usually travels several times every summer from her home in southern Iowa to Wisconsin. But this year, she said, she’ll pass on the nine-hour drive. “Not only are the gas prices going up, food is going up, too, which makes it twice a s bad,” Wag- ner said. “You either choose to go somewhere or you choose to eat, and this year I’m kind of cutting back.”

Erin Cox and Laura Vozzella contributed to this report.

roughly 2.5 million customers over the weekend, a 25 percent increase. Even so, the carrier on Thursday announced reductions to its summer schedule, saying it would cut roughly 100 flights per day between July 1 and Aug. 7. United, Delta and several other U.S. carriers are still grappling with staffing shortages as they scramble to replace the estimated 50,000 workers who left the industry during the pandemic. As a result, despite greater demand, many carriers are flying pared- down schedules as they try to avoid the kind of delays and can- cellations that upended the plans of tens and thousands of travelers last summer and fall. Those d ynamics — fewer flights combined with higher demand — are pushing up ticket prices, put- ting flights out of reach for some. Los Angeles resident Ellie Romero, 25, who works in com- munications, said she had been saving for a trip to Atlanta this summer to visit family she hasn’t seen since the pandemic started. When she checked in March,

into tourism pitches. Jessica Waters, a spokeswoman for Ocean City, touted the Mary- land beach town’s proximity — “less than a tank away” — from millions of residents in D.C., Balti- more and Philadelphia. “Gas prices a re higher, but a trip to Ocean C ity is s till m uch cheaper than traveling to most other b each destinations,” Waters said. “It’s certainly cheaper than airfare.” Even so, airlines say they are expecting big crowds. Bookings are up 3 percent compared with the same period in May 2019, but air travelers are spending 24 percent more, according to data collected by Adobe Analytics that is used by companies in the travel industry. United A irlines said t his Memo- rial Day weekend will be one of its busiest t his year. The carrier said it expected 2.6 million people to fly between Thursday and Tuesday — a 50 percent increase over last year and roughly 90 percent of the number who flew during the Me- morial Day travel period in 2019. Delta Air Lines said it will carry

In Maryland, an automatic increase in the gas tax will send prices even higher starting July 1, adding 6.6 cents per gallon. The tax, which is tied to inflation and collected at the wholesale level, will increase from 36.1 cents per gallon to 42.7 cents. Democrats who lead the state’s General A ssembly did not support a special session to stave off the increase or offer another tempo- rary gas tax holiday, saying such efforts offer marginal relief for motorists while starving the state of money needed for roads, transit and bridges. In Virginia, Gov. Glenn Young- kin’s (R) plans to suspend a sched- uled increase in the 26.2 cents-per- gallon gas tax and to suspend the tax altogether for three months have stalled in protracted budget negotiations between the Repub- lican-led House and the Demo- cratic-controlled Senate. The Gen- eral Assembly returns to Rich- mond on Wednesday to vote on a compromise budget bill — t oo late for Memorial Day motorists. The cost of filling up is playing

said of her trip. “But I’m constant- ly looking at gas prices, trying to find the cheapest one.... One of the things I’m looking forward to on Chincoteague is riding my bike everywhere.” Dixon said she also planned to drive to a family wedding in Maine in late July, but she’ll probably cut back on eating out and other nice- ties to save up. “I have to go,” she said. “It will affect how I spend my money in other ways. I can’t spend money on other things if I have t o use it on gas.” Several recent surveys, including by travel consultants and industry groups, show that concerns about gas prices have surpassed those about the coronavirus. In a recent Washington Post- Schar School poll, 72 percent of Americans said they “definitely” or “probably” plan to take a vaca- tion this summer. About 6 in 10 said gas prices were a “major fac- tor” in their plans, w hile a bout 1 in 4 cited c oncerns about the c orona- virus, according to the poll taken in late April and early May.

hicles to cross the bridge over the
long weekend, about the same as
pre-pandemic Memorial Day
weekends.
An ominous sign: Last week-
end, days before the holiday, Sun-
day’s westbound backups reached
5.5 miles, the authority said.
Last y ear’s Memorial Day week-
end marked the first major travel
period after the distribution of
coronavirus vaccines, but they
were limited. This year, vaccines
are widely available. Moreover,
travel industry experts say, some
people who put off traveling have
more savings t o put t oward higher
costs. Some also booked plane
tickets and hotel rooms months
ago, before prices surged.
An April survey by AAA found
that more than 50 percent of D.C.
residents said they planned to
travel more this summer than last
year, despite rising gas prices.
More than half said they were less
worried about the pandemic, and
about 1 in 3 said it would be their
first significant summer trip since

Though most said they
didn’t consider the price of gas
when making plans, about 1 in 4
said they were taking fewer or
shorter trips because of it, AAA
said.
“I think this year, especially
with vaccines being readily avail-
able and m any people being vacci-
nated, many people have a desire
to travel,” said Ragina Ali, spokes-
woman for AAA Mid-Atlantic.
“Overwhelming, pent-up demand
for people to resume some kind of
normalcy seems to be outweigh-
ing the costs.”
Some motorists who headed
out Thursday winced at t he c ost of
filling up. However, none men-
tioned concerns about the pan-
demic or considerations to cancel
plans because of gas costs. Travel-
ing, many said, felt like something
they needed to do, despite the
added expense.
At a Shell station in Stevens-
ville, Md., where regular gas was
$4.49 a gallon, Amalya D ixon b ris-
tled at the $50 to fill up, even with
her tank starting at a quarter full.
Dixon, 61, said she and her daugh-
ter, Lina Flefel, 26, were driving to
Chincoteague Island, Va., where
Dixon was moving from Silver
Spring. The moving van wasn’t far
behind.
“I had to move,” Dixon, an artist,

TRAVEL FROM B1

Busy summer expected even as costs for fuel, airfare grow

SALWAN GEORGES/THE WASHINGTON POST Reagan National Airport on May 18. An April survey by AAA found that more than 50 percent of D.C. residents said they planned to travel more this summer than last year. Travel experts say some people who put off traveling have more savings to put toward higher costs.

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