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High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4

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Bridgeport 68/ 54 0.75 60/ 45 PC 63/ 53 PC

Caldwell 62/ 53 0.90 60/ 38 PC 63/ 48 PC

Danbury 60/ 52 1.31 57/ 33 PC 60/ 45 PC

Islip 66/ 54 0.18 58/ 41 PC 63/ 52 PC

Newark 62/ 52 1.24 61/ 42 PC 63/ 50 PC

Trenton 60/ 51 1.14 58/ 37 S 62/ 46 PC

White Plains 60/ 52 1.24 57/ 40 PC 60/ 49 PC

Albany 51/ 38 0.25 55/ 34 PC 57/ 45 PC

Albuquerque 71/ 47 0 79/ 49 S 80/ 48 S

Anchorage 37/ 32 0 41/ 33 PC 39/ 32 C

Atlanta 70/ 45 0 66/ 49 S 70/ 55 PC

Atlantic City 66/ 46 0.27 60/ 45 S 64/ 56 PC

Austin 77/ 54 0 79/ 68 PC 90/ 71 PC

Baltimore 58/ 40 0.23 62/ 39 S 66/ 47 PC

Baton Rouge 65/ 50 Tr 76/ 60 S 83/ 66 S

Billings 58/ 31 Tr 32/ 19 Sn 28/ 26 Sn

Birmingham 69/ 43 Tr 70/ 53 S 76/ 58 S

Boise 66/ 47 0 67/ 43 PC 62/ 44 PC

Boston 71/ 46 0.35 56/ 42 R 60/ 48 S

Buffalo 53/ 39 0.01 56/ 45 PC 62/ 47 C

Burlington 53/ 41 0.63 55/ 39 PC 60/ 48 PC

Casper 65/ 41 Tr 47/ 21 PC 47/ 28 C

Cedar Rapids 53/ 36 0.01 64/ 34 W 43/ 25 PC

Champaign 60/ 35 0 66/ 46 W 58/ 35 C

Charleston, W.Va. 58/ 33 0.16 61/ 41 S 69/ 51 PC

Charlotte 73/ 45 0 64/ 42 S 67/ 48 S

Chattanooga 66/ 42 Tr 67/ 48 S 71/ 54 S

Chicago 54/ 39 0.01 64/ 45 W 48/ 36 Sh

Cincinnati 57/ 36 0 62/ 47 S 63/ 50 PC

Cleveland 53/ 36 Tr 57/ 46 PC 60/ 45 PC

Colorado Springs 55/ 47 0 77/ 36 PC 54/ 32 PC

Columbia, Mo. 61/ 43 Tr 72/ 48 W 53/ 36 Sh

Columbia, S.C. 78/ 51 0.31 69/ 45 S 72/ 52 PC

Columbus 55/ 33 0 59/ 44 PC 62/ 49 PC

Concord, N.H. 61/ 42 0.26 54/ 31 R 60/ 36 PC

Dallas-Ft. Worth 72/ 51 0 77/ 68 S 86/ 58 W

Dayton 56/ 35 0 62/ 46 PC 62/ 46 PC

Denver 67/ 48 0 72/ 32 PC 55/ 37 PC

Des Moines 53/ 43 0 68/ 35 W 44/ 30 R

Detroit 55/ 35 0 57/ 47 C 60/ 38 C

El Paso 76/ 52 0 89/ 58 S 90/ 55 S

Eugene 69/ 51 0 66/ 45 PC 67/ 53 PC

Fairbanks 23/ 15 0 30/ 18 PC 27/ 22 PC

Fargo 44/ 32 0.02 40/ 21 Sn 38/ 18 C

Fort Myers 90/ 74 0 89/ 72 PC 88/ 74 T

Fresno 92/ 63 0 93/ 62 S 92/ 60 S

Gainesville, Fla. 88/ 60 0 78/ 63 S 84/ 66 PC

Grand Rapids 53/ 34 0.02 56/ 47 W 50/ 34 Sh

Greensboro 68/ 42 0.14 61/ 40 S 64/ 47 S

Greenville, S.C. 70/ 43 0 63/ 41 S 66/ 48 S

Harrisburg 61/ 38 Tr 62/ 37 S 65/ 48 PC

Hartford 65/ 43 1.00 58/ 35 PC 62/ 44 PC

Honolulu 86/ 75 0 86/ 75 C 87/ 75 Sh

Houston 64/ 56 0.53 79/ 71 PC 85/ 70 PC

Indianapolis 57/ 37 0 64/ 49 PC 62/ 42 Sh

Jackson 69/ 44 0.02 74/ 54 S 81/ 64 S

Jacksonville 87/ 61 0 73/ 64 PC 80/ 66 PC

Johnstown, Pa. 48/ 32 0.04 52/ 39 S 57/ 46 PC

Kansas City 61/ 48 0 72/ 42 W 47/ 34 Sh

Key West 91/ 79 0.01 87/ 80 T 86/ 80 Sh

Knoxville 63/ 37 0.04 63/ 40 S 69/ 49 S

Lansing 53/ 34 0.01 55/ 47 C 52/ 33 Sh

Las Vegas 88/ 61 0 91/ 63 S 91/ 63 S

Lexington 56/ 33 Tr 61/ 44 S 65/ 53 PC

Little Rock 67/ 42 0 70/ 56 S 76/ 60 C

Los Angeles 94/ 66 0 93/ 62 S 82/ 63 S

Louisville 60/ 39 0 66/ 51 S 67/ 54 C

Lubbock 68/ 47 0 91/ 51 S 78/ 38 S

Madison 51/ 33 Tr 58/ 37 W 44/ 27 C

Memphis 66/ 43 0 69/ 56 S 75/ 61 C

Miami 89/ 76 0.82 87/ 78 T 86/ 79 T

Milwaukee 53/ 37 0 59/ 43 Sh 47/ 32 C

Mpls.-St. Paul 44/ 37 0.04 54/ 29 PC 42/ 27 C

Mobile 72/ 50 0.04 74/ 57 S 81/ 64 S

Monterey, Calif. 89/ 59 0 75/ 55 S 68/ 54 PC

Nashville 63/ 38 0.03 67/ 50 S 72/ 60 PC

New Orleans 73/ 60 Tr 77/ 66 S 84/ 71 PC

Norfolk 74/ 53 Tr 62/ 53 S 69/ 59 S

Oklahoma City 66/ 48 0 75/ 58 W 66/ 42 W

Omaha 57/ 47 0 69/ 34 PC 45/ 31 C

Orlando 90/ 70 0 85/ 71 PC 85/ 72 Sh

Philadelphia 59/ 44 0.97 60/ 42 S 65/ 51 PC

Phoenix 101/ 69 0 98/ 67 S 97/ 68 S

Pittsburgh 55/ 33 0.21 58/ 41 S 64/ 48 PC

Portland, Me. 63/ 46 0.12 51/ 36 R 58/ 44 S

Portland, Ore. 65/ 51 0 64/ 52 C 62/ 52 PC

Providence 71/ 45 0.20 58/ 39 R 61/ 47 PC

Raleigh 68/ 44 0.79 63/ 41 S 68/ 48 S

Reno 74/ 41 0 82/ 44 S 82/ 43 S

Richmond 56/ 42 1.14 61/ 40 S 68/ 48 S

Rochester 51/ 34 0.04 56/ 38 PC 62/ 47 C

Sacramento 94/ 55 0 93/ 55 S 90/ 54 S

Salt Lake City 65/ 47 0 72/ 46 S 70/ 48 S

San Antonio 78/ 59 0 78/ 66 PC 90/ 72 PC

San Diego 82/ 64 0 86/ 64 PC 79/ 65 PC

San Francisco 91/ 62 0 85/ 59 S 76/ 56 PC

San Jose 94/ 62 0 91/ 60 S 84/ 56 S

San Juan 84/ 78 0.77 87/ 77 Sh 88/ 77 Sh

Savannah 86/ 58 0 74/ 56 S 79/ 61 PC

Seattle 61/ 51 0 57/ 51 C 60/ 53 Sh

Shreveport 71/ 46 Tr 74/ 63 S 82/ 67 PC

Sioux Falls 52/ 42 Tr 57/ 25 W 41/ 26 PC

South Bend 55/ 35 0.01 61/ 48 W 55/ 35 Sh

Spokane 61/ 43 0 56/ 39 PC 49/ 42 R

St. Louis 63/ 45 0 71/ 52 W 60/ 42 Sh

St. Thomas 84/ 79 0.90 86/ 79 Sh 87/ 78 Sh

Syracuse 51/ 36 0.36 59/ 39 PC 62/ 50 PC

Tampa 92/ 71 0 88/ 72 S 88/ 73 T

Toledo 57/ 34 0 60/ 48 PC 63/ 39 C

Tucson 100/ 64 0 98/ 62 S 95/ 63 S

Tulsa 68/ 52 0 73/ 59 W 64/ 43 Sh

Virginia Beach 74/ 53 0.01 62/ 53 S 68/ 55 S

Waco 74/ 50 0 76/ 69 S 87/ 64 PC

Washington 59/ 43 0.16 62/ 43 S 65/ 50 S

West Palm Beach 86/ 77 0 85/ 79 PC 84/ 78 T

Wichita 65/ 49 0 76/ 46 W 51/ 36 W

Wilkes-Barre 54/ 37 0.14 60/ 37 S 61/ 49 PC

Wilmington, Del. 59/ 40 0.86 60/ 39 S 63/ 48 PC

Abidjan 84/ 78 0.04 83/ 76 T 84/ 77 T

Algiers 75/ 49 0 75/ 49 S 76/ 50 S

Cairo 86/ 70 0 87/ 66 S 88/ 69 S

Cape Town 82/ 54 0 71/ 54 C 69/ 54 C

Casablanca 70/ 52 0 72/ 53 S 81/ 58 PC

Dakar 90/ 79 0 89/ 80 PC 89/ 81 S

Johannesburg 86/ 62 0 83/ 62 S 87/ 65 PC

Nairobi 80/ 59 0.02 77/ 59 T 78/ 58 C

Tunis 70/ 59 0 73/ 55 S 72/ 54 PC

Almaty 69/ 36 0 70/ 43 S 72/ 39 S

Auckland 61/ 47 0 61/ 47 PC 65/ 59 PC

Baghdad 96/ 70 0 96/ 63 PC 96/ 63 PC

Bali 87/ 75 0.02 86/ 78 PC 86/ 78 PC

Bangkok 86/ 77 0.79 84/ 74 T 82/ 73 R

Beijing 66/ 45 0 72/ 42 S 71/ 41 PC

Damascus 86/ 53 0 87/ 48 PC 90/ 51 PC

Dhaka 96/ 81 0 95/ 78 PC 92/ 78 T

Hanoi 81/ 72 0.12 75/ 68 C 73/ 68 C

Hong Kong 86/ 76 0 84/ 73 PC 84/ 72 PC

Islamabad 92/ 56 0 90/ 61 PC 89/ 59 PC

Jakarta 92/ 76 0.22 91/ 77 T 91/ 77 Sh

Jerusalem 79/ 62 0 79/ 61 S 81/ 62 S

Karachi 102/ 75 0 102/ 80 PC 97/ 76 C

Kolkata 95/ 82 0 97/ 81 Sh 94/ 80 T

Kuala Lumpur 88/ 77 0.19 93/ 77 PC 92/ 75 PC

Lahore 96/ 65 0 94/ 67 PC 94/ 66 PC

Manila 93/ 78 0 89/ 78 T 86/ 78 C

Melbourne 61/ 46 0.22 68/ 51 R 59/ 46 PC

Mumbai 91/ 81 0.06 91/ 79 R 90/ 80 PC

New Delhi 94/ 64 0 93/ 71 PC 93/ 72 PC

Riyadh 90/ 65 0 91/ 60 PC 92/ 61 S

Seoul 61/ 43 0.02 66/ 42 S 68/ 45 S

Shanghai 63/ 58 0.25 72/ 60 C 72/ 61 PC

Singapore 90/ 77 0.07 90/ 79 T 90/ 79 T

Sydney 69/ 63 0.02 80/ 67 C 74/ 59 Sh

Taipei City 86/ 72 0.09 79/ 73 T 79/ 73 C

Tehran 78/ 55 0 74/ 51 PC 74/ 51 PC

Tel Aviv 85/ 72 0 83/ 69 S 84/ 71 S

Tokyo 64/ 54 0.16 57/ 55 R 66/ 58 PC

Vladivostok 56/ 32 0.01 56/ 46 S 59/ 37 S

Amsterdam 54/ 40 0 53/ 43 PC 55/ 44 Sh

Athens 77/ 63 0 79/ 61 PC 78/ 62 Sh

Barcelona 63/ 46 0 65/ 50 PC 67/ 52 S

Belgrade 60/ 50 0 54/ 41 C 57/ 38 Sh

Berlin 52/ 40 0.01 51/ 41 C 49/ 39 Sh

Brussels 52/ 40 0 53/ 41 PC 55/ 43 C

Budapest 52/ 46 0.45 50/ 42 C 54/ 38 Sh

Copenhagen 54/ 41 0.14 52/ 45 PC 52/ 42 C

Dublin 54/ 39 0.12 52/ 43 PC 55/ 49 PC

Edinburgh 51/ 36 0 51/ 42 C 50/ 45 PC

Frankfurt 54/ 41 0.16 50/ 40 PC 54/ 42 C

Geneva 57/ 43 0 55/ 42 PC 56/ 38 PC

Helsinki 43/ 30 0 49/ 39 PC 43/ 30 R

Istanbul 75/ 61 0 77/ 61 PC 71/ 60 PC

Kiev 55/ 48 0.03 53/ 43 R 49/ 41 C

Lisbon 70/ 54 0 68/ 55 PC 73/ 59 PC

London 55/ 45 0 56/ 45 PC 57/ 46 PC

Madrid 61/ 37 0 65/ 42 PC 70/ 45 PC

Moscow 50/ 36 0.13 42/ 35 PC 47/ 35 R

Nice 65/ 54 0 65/ 53 PC 65/ 53 PC

Oslo 52/ 36 0 49/ 35 PC 48/ 29 PC

Paris 55/ 42 0 55/ 42 PC 58/ 41 C

Prague 48/ 43 0.62 46/ 37 C 49/ 39 C

Rome 64/ 55 0.19 64/ 48 Sh 66/ 48 PC

St. Petersburg 45/ 35 0 46/ 35 PC 40/ 37 C

Stockholm 47/ 30 0.37 49/ 33 PC 41/ 32 PC

Vienna 48/ 41 0.40 49/ 40 C 53/ 37 C

Warsaw 47/ 39 0.03 47/ 39 C 48/ 36 Sh

Acapulco 88/ 74 0.04 88/ 76 T 88/ 77 T

Bermuda 81/ 75 0 81/ 75 PC 82/ 76 S

Calgary 39/ 30 0.03 25/ 12 PC 24/ 15 Sn

Edmonton 32/ 28 0.13 30/ 11 S 29/ 13 S

Guadalajara 82/ 58 0 82/ 56 PC 84/ 57 PC

Havana 90/ 72 0.12 86/ 74 T 85/ 74 T

Kingston 91/ 81 0 90/ 79 T 89/ 78 T

Martinique 88/ 75 0 87/ 75 Sh 88/ 74 PC

Mexico City 68/ 51 0 75/ 51 PC 77/ 53 PC

Monterrey 75/ 69 0.01 83/ 61 PC 89/ 63 S

Montreal 52/ 50 0.45 56/ 41 S 57/ 47 C

Nassau 90/ 79 0.30 86/ 78 T 86/ 78 Sh

Panama City 90/ 73 0.03 87/ 75 T 85/ 74 T

Quebec City 50/ 48 0.22 47/ 32 R 56/ 40 PC

Santo Domingo 88/ 73 0.02 88/ 73 T 89/ 71 T

Toronto 52/ 37 0 56/ 45 S 58/ 41 C

Vancouver 55/ 48 0.09 53/ 47 R 54/ 48 C

Winnipeg 32/ 18 Tr 38/ 21 PC 37/ 20 PC

Bogota 66/ 52 0.06 67/ 49 C 67/ 49 C

Buenos Aires 70/ 63 0 77/ 67 PC 82/ 71 S

Caracas 91/ 75 0.15 90/ 75 T 89/ 75 T

Lima 75/ 61 0 67/ 60 S 67/ 60 PC

Quito 70/ 50 0 70/ 51 C 69/ 52 Sh

Recife 84/ 77 0.01 85/ 76 PC 85/ 76 PC

Rio de Janeiro 77/ 70 0.05 75/ 67 PC 79/ 70 PC

Santiago 73/ 48 0 83/ 50 PC 78/ 47 PC

Sao Paulo 63/ 59 0.08 69/ 58 PC 77/ 63 C

A storm will leave the Northeast today.
Dry air is forecast to sweep from the Ap-
palachians to the Mid-Atlantic and south-
ern New England areas rather quickly.
Rain will fall for a time farther north with
localized flooding. As cold air catches up
with the storm over the mountains of
northern New England, a change to snow
is likely over the high elevations with a few
inches expected over the ridges and peaks
in the White Mountains of New Hamp-
shire.
Another storm will spread rain across

the Upper Midwest. Snow is forecast to

fall over the northern tier in parts of Min-

nesota and North Dakota. A third storm is

forecast to spread snow across western

and southern Montana and northern

Wyoming with rain showers farther south

to northern Colorado.

Areas from the Mid-Atlantic to the

Southeast, southern Plains, Southwest

and Northwest will have a dry day with

sunshine. Heat will continue to bake the

Southwest ahead of a cooldown next

week. Showers and thunderstorms will

continue in South Florida while rain will

have stopped in coastal Texas.

The tropical Atlantic is forecast to be-

come active during the coming week. Two

established systems may exist at the same

time by the end of the week.

FOCUS: TROPICS MAY TURN ACTIVE NEXT

WEEK Two areas of disturbed weather will

be closely monitored in the Atlantic basin

next week. The first in the western Carib-

bean may organize early in the week as it

moves toward Cuba. The second may

develop southeast of Bermuda late week.

WASHINGTON — A 36-year
veteran of the Justice Department
this week accused Attorney Gen-
eral William P. Barr of abusing his
power to sway the election for
President Trump and said he was
quitting, making him the third sit-
ting prosecutor to issue a rare
public rebuke of the attorney gen-
eral.
“Barr’s resentment toward
rule-of-law prosecutors became
increasingly difficult to ignore, as
did his slavish obedience to Don-
ald Trump’s will,” Phillip Halpern,
a federal prosecutor in San Diego,
said in a letter published Wednes-
day in The San Diego Union-Trib-
une. “This career bureaucrat
seems determined to turn our de-
mocracy into an autocracy.”
Mr. Halpern said he chose to re-
tire as well, calling Mr. Barr “a
well-trained bureaucrat” without
prosecutorial experience and al-
leging that he scorned honest
apolitical prosecutors and selec-
tively meddled in the criminal jus-
tice system to help Mr. Trump’s al-

lies.

He said he would have quit ear-

lier but stayed on because he wor-

ried that the department under

Mr. Barr would have interfered in

his prosecution of former Repre-

sentative Duncan D. Hunter, Re-

publican of California, who

pleaded guilty in December to

conspiracy to steal campaign

funds.

The condemnations by Mr.

Halpern and the two other pros-

ecutors, one in Seattle and one in

Boston, broke with a longstanding

practice by Justice Department

lawyers not to publicly discuss in-

ternal affairs.

“I have never seen sitting pros-

ecutors go on the record with con-

cerns about the attorney general,”

said Paul Butler, a professor at

Georgetown Law who served as a

federal prosecutor during Mr.

Barr’s earlier tour as attorney

general in the George Bush ad-

ministration. “This is unprece-

dented.”

He said that during Mr. Barr’s

first stint as attorney general, line

prosecutors did not feel the sense

of crisis that they feel now.

“Trump is the difference,” Mr. But-

ler said. “Barr was attorney gen-

eral, but he was still beholden to

the president, and he didn’t put

the pressure on the attorney gen-

eral that Trump has.”

Kerri Kupec, a Justice Depart-

ment spokeswoman, did not re-

spond to a request for comment on

the letters or to a question about

whether the two prosecutors still

at the department who spoke out

would face disciplinary action.

More than 110,000 people work

at the Justice Department, and in-

ternal disagreement is common,

as at any large organization; the

disputes sometimes spill into view

through news reports. The de-

partment and its prosecutors

have come under tremendous

scrutiny under Mr. Trump, as he

has publicly criticized prosecu-

tors for charging his allies and

said that he wanted them to put

his political enemies in jail.

Mr. Butler pointed to a recent

book by Andrew Weissmann, a

prosecutor on the Russia investi-

gation, as an example of how the

norm of the department’s rank

and file remaining quiet had soft-

ened. Mr. Weissmann’s book gives

an inside looking into some of the

deliberations that took place dur-

ing the investigation and criti-

cized the special counsel, Robert

S. Mueller III, for being overly

cautious.

Mr. Mueller publicly pushed

back on some of Mr. Weissmann’s

claims in a rare public statement.

“Even five years ago, that

would have been shocking,” Mr.

Butler said of the back-and-forth.

But he argued that the three

prosecutors’ critiques of Mr. Barr

were particularly unusual. “Most

people in the past would have

been afraid that they would be

tainted or blackballed from future

jobs for publicly criticizing the at-

torney general,” Mr. Butler said.

“But I don’t think that these letter

writers will suffer consequences

outside of the department.”

Mr. Halpern, who worked under

six presidents of both parties, said

that he observed colleagues quit-

ting and that highly qualified law-

yers seemed unwilling to apply to

be federal prosecutors because of

how Mr. Barr helmed the depart-

ment.

“I always believed the depart-

ment’s past leaders were dedi-

cated to the rule of law and the

guiding principle that justice is

blind,” Mr. Halpern said. “That is a

bygone era, but it should not be

forgotten.”

Accusing Barr of Abusing His Power, Veteran Prosecutor Exits Justice Dept.

Attorney General William P. Barr was criticized by Phillip

Halpern, the third federal prosecutor to publicly denounce him.

OLIVER CONTRERAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By KATIE BENNER

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