WEATHER, NEW ENGLAND, NATION The Republican, Monday, June 9, 2008 'THE WEATHER FORECAST A I REGIONAL WEATHER Today's highs and tonight's lows. Ottawa Buffalo Albany New York Philadelphia SUN MOON Washington, D.C. First quarter Full moon: June 10 June 18 The Republican. DAILY AND SUNDAY ALMANAC National Weather Service Supplementary Weather Observation Station at The Republican TEMPERATURE Yesterday's high 92 at 3:00 p.m. Yesterday's low 65 at 6:00 a.m.
Normal high 77 Normal low. 56 Record high 95 in 1976 Record low 40 in 1944 Normal, record temperatures and rainfall recorded at Westover Air Reserve Base ATMOSPHERE WIND Yesterday's high humidity Low humidity High barometric pressure 29.92 in. Low barometric pressure 29.79 in. Peak wind 14 mph at 5:00 p.m. Air Quality Yesterday Not available Today Not available Pollen count Grass Low Trees High Weeds Absent Mold Moderate Source: American Lung Assoc.
of Western Mass. PRECIPITATION Rain yesterday Trace Month total 1.50 inches Last quarter New moon Year total 24.57 inches June 26 July 2 FOR THE LATEST FORECAST SEE FORECAST Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast CITY temperatures are given for selected cities. CITY Hartford! City Albuquerque Seattle Athens 3 Atlantic City Baghdad Baltimore Beijing Burlington Billings Berlin Forecasts and graphics, Charleston, SC Minneapolis Dublin with the exception of Charlotte Detroit (HUMID Jerusalem abc40 forecasts, provided Dallas New York by AccuWeather.com Des Moines Chicago Kabul Fairbanks Francisco Kansas Washington Lima Honolulu Lisbon Las Vegas London Louisville Los Angeles, Madrid 5:14 a.m./8:25 p.m.
Miami Beach DRY Atlanta Mexico City 11:47 a.m./12:28 a.m. Nashville El Paso Montreal of 15:11 New Orleans Moscow Length day. New York City Nassau Day of year 161 Orlando New Delhi Houston Philadelphia Fronts Paris. Phoenix Cold Miami Rio Portland, ME Rome The moon starts this evening in the Salt Lake City Warm .4 Seoul west-southwest, with Saturn and San Francisco Precipitation Sydney Regulus to its right. Mars is farther San Juan Stationary Tokyo right and lower.
Active robots are at Seattle Showers 1-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Vienna both planets and the moon. St. Louis -10s -0s Os 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Warsaw Patrick Rowan WEATHER (W): s-sunny, pc- portly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, 1-roin, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice live.com A MAP TONIGHT TOMORROW WEDNESDAY THURSDAY7 FRIDAY ED CARROLL will Midsummer continue heat today m. a 1 1 and tomorrow. Look Quebec for a few afternoon it -PA 2 thunderstorms each day.
I Montreal Hazy sun; hot Mainly clear Afternoon Not as hot Partly sunny Mostly sunny and humid with sunshine and pleasant and pleasant Watch abc40 Montpeller High 95 66 Low 94 High 66 Low 88 High 53 Low 80 High Low 52 High 78 52 Low 5:30, weather 6 at 11. 5, 4.0 Augusta Concord What to expect: A Bermuda high will still dominate the eastern half of the country keeping temperatures up on the hot side. A cool front will drop in later tomorrow, bringing an end to the hot weather. and injured five people who were brought to area hospitals. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Dennis Schain says the lightning struck shortly after 5 p.m.
yesterday near the West Beach parking area. He says one of the victims was "very seriously" injured. Hammonasset is Connecticut's largest shoreline park, with more than 2 miles of beach along Long Island Sound. New England briefs I Boy, man drown in Connecticut TRUMBULL, Conn. Police say a 4-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pool in Trumbull and a 56-year-old man died after being swept into the Housatonic River in Kent on the first day of an expected four-day heat wave.
Trumbull police say the boy was visiting a home on Old Hollow Road from Pennsylvania and died shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday. The homeowners and neighbors did not comment. State police say Rafael Morquecho of Dover Plains, N.Y., was swept into the Housatonic River in Kent shortly after 8 p.m. Troopers say he was trying to save his 17-year-old niece, who had fallen into the river and was being pulled downstream.
The niece was able to make it to a small island and was rescued. Tufts Health Plan wants back in R.I. PROVIDENCE, R.I. A Massachusetts-based health insurer has applied for a license to reopen operations in Rhode Island. But Tufts Health Plan says it will only sell insurance after changes in state law allow it to operate under the same rules as leading competitors.
The company says it will also begin operations after securing deals with hospitals pay reimbursem*nts similar to those paid by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island and UnitedHealthcare of New England. The Providence Journal says a state health insurance commissioner official did not foresee major obstacles to the application. 3 valedictorians shine at Dartmouth HANOVER, N.H. In a historic first, three seniors shared valedictorian honors at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, including two from Massachusetts. Three students graduated yesterday with perfect 4.0 grade point averages.
College spokeswoman Susan Knapp said the salutatorian just missed joining the group with a 3.99 average. She identified the students as Nicholas Christman of Falmouth, Jean Ellen Cowgill of Lexington, and Margaret Fitchet of Etna, N.H. Daniel J.K. Mahoney of Brookline, is the salutatorian. Lightning injures 5 at Hammonasset MADISON, Conn.
State officials say lightning struck a pavilion at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison Boston NATIONAL NATIONAL WEATHER MAP TODAY WORLD Lauper lives up to name The singer had plenty of star-studded company at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods and outshown them all. Truck inspections down, crashes up HARTFORD, Conn. necticut's effort to inspect more trucks on its highways after the fatal Avon Mountain crash in 2005 has dropped off and crashes of large trucks have increased, state figures show. Roadside truck inspections decreased 20 percent to about 18,600 in 2007, compared with the previous year, the data show. There were also 988 nonfatal accidents involving large trucks last year, about 140 more than in 2006.
And the number of tickets issued to truck drivers has declined. Four people were killed and 19 injured in the Avon crash. A dump truck lost its brakes going down the hill on Route 44 and smashed into a line of cars stopped at a traffic light at the bottom. The crash prompted Gov. M.
Jodi Rell to order more state truck inspectors onto the roads, after learning that truck inspections had declined sharply. Truck inspections jumped 30 percent in 2006, the year after the accident. There are 22 truck inspectors in Connecticut, and their salaries are paid for with state and federal government funds. Officials at the state Department of Motor Vehicles say five jobs are vacant because federal aid dried up. R.I.
firefighters back cancer study PROVIDENCE, R.I. Firefighters are used to rushing into burning buildings, and now some are worrying if they may also end fighting an another threat cancer. Rhode Island firefighters are pushing a bill that would authorize the Department of Health to study the rate of cancer among members of their profession. Supporters of the bill say they want to find out if years of battling smoke-filled blazes could cause a spike in cancer. There are few solid statistics on the rate of cancer among firefighters in Rhode Island.
The bill, which has passed the state Senate, would also create an education campaign to warn firefighters about the possible cancer risks associated with the job. Compiled from wire reports By DONNIE MOORHOUSE Music writer MASHANTUCKET Cyndi Lauper spent enough time in the front row of the Grand Theater at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods on Friday night to warrant having to purchase a ticket. Lauper headlined the "True Colors" tour at the casino's theater and delivered as great a performance as the venue is likely to see. Lauper repeatedly went into the crowd to encourage, cajole, and coax fans to participate. Fans not caught up in the reverie were singled out and seemed to fan the flames of Lauper's energy even more.
Her closing set was part of a multi-act extravaganza that featured rock sets from The Cliks, Tegan and Sara, and the B-52s, augmented by an appearance from Rosie O'Donnell and hosted by Carson Kressley. Thousands routed by storms Rising water forced people to flee their homes, and at least 5 people were killed in the Midwest. By TOM MURPHY Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Wicked weekend storms pounded the country from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up houses and killing at least eight people. Rescuers in boats continued to pluck people from rising waters in Indiana yesterday, a day after more than 10 inches of rain deluged much of the state. In Iowa, pumps and thousands of sandbags were sent to the Iowa City area, where officials fear a reservoir could top a spillway and flood the city of about 63,000 by tomorrow.
The Indiana flooding killed at least one person, a man who drowned in his vehicle about 50 miles south of Indianapolis, said John Erickson, a spokesman for the state Department of Homeland Security. Another person was reported missing after falling off a boat about 30 miles southwest of Even amongst all that star power, and in the face of upstart young rockers and legends alike, Lauper stood out as vital and inspired. This year's "True Colors" tour is dedicated to empowering the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender community and to also encourage fans to get out and vote. Lauper didn't use the forum to endorse a candidate or cause, other than urging the audience to exercise the right to vote. In fact, the event was far less about preaching and more about music than one might expect.
Only the occasional, subtle shot at the current administration seeped from the stage. The subtlety made the message all the more powerful. Lauper was nothing short of brilliant, opening the show with "Change of Heart" perched in the torch of a repli- an angst-ridden "Time After ca of the Statue of Liberty. She Time," and a duet with Cliks came down from that perch to singer Lucas Silveira on a make her first foray into the punked-up "Money Changes seats. Everything." The entire roster Rosie O'Donnell joined her of acts showed up in stage to sing backing vocals on (with giant balloons) for Chair," and she eryday People" and "True Colheaded back out into the ors." crowd to start up a new song Rosie O' Donnell was more "Set Your Heart.
(Where Are poignant than funny as she all My shared the dark side of growShe offered a new arrange- ing up without her mother, ment of "She-Bop," rocking up who died in 1973. She interthe dance hit and went back jected well-placed one-liners into the crowd for another and expertly fought off a hecknew Life." song She laid "Into on The the Night monologue, all geared toward ler during her 15-minute stage the theme of equality and inapron and sang seductively to clusiveness. Cons a security guard during "I The B-52s spent a good porDrove All Night." tion of their 30-minute set in- Lauper closed the set with troducing songs from their "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," new album "Funplex," but also and returned to encore, ac- found time to deliver classics companied only by handclaps "Roam," "Love Shack" and from the crowd with a venom- "Rock Lobster." ous version of "Same Old (ex- The Cliks and the sister pletive) team of Tegan and Sara both All the while Lauper seem- offered half-hour sets. Kresed more like an artist whose sley referred to written notes time has come rather than to fulfill his between-band role come and gone. as host, but freelanced enough encore continued with to give a funny performance.
Associated Press A firefighter carries belongings past the destroyed home of Michelle Tanga yesterday after an early morning storm passed through southwest Omaha, Neb. Indianapolis. In Michigan, two delivery workers for The Grand Rapids Press drowned early yesterday when their car became submerged in a creek that washed out a road near Lake Michigan in Saugatuck Township, the newspaper said. Two other people in the state were killed by falling trees, one man drowned and a woman died when high winds blew a recreational vehicle on top of her, authorities said. At least one tornado hit the Omaha, area with little to no warning as people slept yesterday morning, damaging several dozen homes and businesses.
No major injuries were reported. "I'd say it was a miracle no 1 one got killed," said Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey as he toured a heavily damaged neighborhood in the west Omaha area of Millard. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency in 29 counties and President Bush late yesterday declared a major disaster in 29 Indiana counties, freeing up aid. Iowa saw some of its worst flooding in more than a decade, Gov.
Chet Culver said in a statement as he declared an emergency in nearly a third of the state's 99 counties, freeing up state resources. A levee broke along the Winnebago River in Mason City, and its water treatment plant was shut down. Residents of the city of nearly 30,000 have been asked to avoid using tap water. Officials said water levels on the Iowa River at Iowa City could be like those during the historic floods of 1993, which put much of the state underwater. The University of Iowa plans to move several classes starting Tuesday.
In areas of Minnesota near the Iowa border, officials asked residents in the Winnebago Valley to evacuate. More than 60 people were being taken to a shelter in Caledonia from a campground. In Wisconsin, more than a dozen homes near the swollen Kickapoo River in La Farge were evacuated. The National Guard was called in to help get about 50 people out of a flooded trailer park in Ontario, Wis. I.
