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WEATHER & WORLD
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Today
Tonight
Mostly sunny High: 42°
Increasing clouds Low: 26°
SUN AND MOON
Monday
Tuesday
Late-day showers High: 44° Low: 30°
Rain likely High: 44° Low: 33°
First
Full
Dec. 24
Jan. 1
Jan. 23
Thursday
Chance of showers High: 46° Low: 36°
Partly cloudy High: 42° Low: 30°
Forecast highs for Sunday, Dec. 18
Sunny
Pt. Cloudy
Last
Jan. 16
Fronts Cold
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ Very High
Air Quality Index Good
Moderate
Harmful
Main Pollutant: Particulate
0
250
500
Peak group: Absent
Mold Summary 957
0
12,500
25,000
Top Mold: Ascospores Source: Regional Air Pollution Control Agency
GLOBAL Athens Bangkok Calgary Jerusalem Kabul Kuwait City Mexico City Montreal Moscow Sydney Tokyo Toronto
66 89 43 68 53 68 73 39 37 71 53 42
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Warm Stationary
Columbus 41° | 27°
70s
80s
Pressure Low
High
Cincinnati 43° | 27°
90s 100s 110s
Punta Gorda, Fla. Low: -11 at Grand Marais, Minn.
Portsmouth 41° | 27°
NATIONAL CITIES Temperatures indicate Saturday’s high and overnight low to 8 p.m.
Pollen Summary 0
-10s
Yesterday’s Extremes: High: 82 at Fort Myers and
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PA.
TROY • 42° 26°
Dayton 41° | 25°
High
Youngstown 38° | 25°
Mansfield 36° | 25°
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Moderate
Cleveland 38° | 29°
Toledo 38° | 29°
Cloudy
Today’s UV factor.
Low
Sunday, December 18, 2011 AccuWeather.com forecast for daytime conditions, low/high temperatures
National forecast
ENVIRONMENT
Minimal
TODAY’S STATEWIDE FORECAST
MICH.
NATIONAL FORECAST
Sunrise Monday 7:53 a.m. ........................... Sunset tonight 5:14 p.m. ........................... Moonrise today 12:52 a.m. ........................... Moonset today 12:39 p.m. ........................... New
Wednesday
MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM
Hi Lo PrcOtlk Atlanta 53 43 Clr Atlantic City 47 31 Cldy Austin 61 47 Cldy Baltimore 43 36 Cldy Boise 42 23 PCldy Boston 41 37 Clr Buffalo 29 26MM Cldy Charleston,W.Va. 38 34 PCldy Chicago 32 28 .06 Clr 38 28 Clr Cincinnati Cleveland 31 31 .42 Cldy Columbus 33 33 .04PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 59 33 Cldy Dayton 33 28 Clr 40 20 Clr Denver Des Moines 47 26 Clr Detroit 30 29 .03 Cldy Fairbanks 05BB10 Cldy Fargo 38 15 Clr Grand Rapids 32 27 .05 Cldy Honolulu 82 70 .01PCldy Houston 64 50 Cldy Indianapolis 36 24 Clr Kansas City 53 25 Clr Key West 77 71 PCldy Las Vegas 61 36 Cldy
Hi Little Rock 58 Los Angeles 64 Louisville 43 Milwaukee 31 Mpls-St Paul 35 Nashville 47 New Orleans 60 New York City 39 Oklahoma City 57 Omaha 51 Orlando 77 Philadelphia 42 Phoenix 70 Pittsburgh 31 Rapid City 54 Sacramento 55 St Louis 48 St Petersburg 76 Salt Lake City 33 San Diego 62 San Francisco 55 23 St Ste Marie Seattle 50 Spokane 36 Syracuse 30 Tampa 79 Tucson 67 Washington,D.C. 43
Lo Prc Otlk 29 PCldy 49 PCldy 28 Clr 24 .04 Clr 20 .01 Clr 30 Clr 53 .04PCldy 36 PCldy 25 Cldy 25 Clr 56 Clr 33 Cldy 56 Rain 31 .02 Cldy 19 Clr 31 Clr 27 Clr 64 Clr 18 Cldy 49 PCldy 40 Clr 08 Cldy 34 Cldy 29 Cldy 28 .08PCldy 60 Clr 54 Rain 38 Cldy
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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................33 at 4:31 p.m. Low Yesterday..............................28 at 8:22 a.m. Normal High .....................................................37 Normal Low ......................................................24 Record High ........................................66 in 1984 Record Low..........................................-7 in 1989
Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m.............................trace Month to date ................................................3.30 Normal month to date ...................................1.72 Year to date .................................................54.68 Normal year to date ....................................39.65 Snowfall yesterday .......................................trace
TODAY IN HISTORY In 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first public, full-scale commercial nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.) In 1958, the world’s first communications satellite, SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment), was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket.
Today is Sunday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2011. There are 13 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight: On Dec. 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward. On this date: In 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered secret preparations for Nazi Germany to invade the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.)
In 1969, Britain’s House of Lords joined the House of Commons in making permanent a 1965 ban on the death penalty for murder. In 1971, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago the founding of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). In 1972, the United States began heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets during the Vietnam War. (The bombardment ended 11 days later.)
Egypt military uses heavy hand in crushing protest CAIRO (AP) — Troops pulled women across the pavement by their hair, knocking off their Muslim headscarves. Young activists were kicked in the head until they lay motionless in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Unfazed by TV cameras catching every move, Egypt’s military took a dramatically heavier hand Saturday to crush protests against
its rule in nearly 48 hours of continuous fighting in Egypt’s capital that has left more than 300 injured and nine dead, many of them shot to death. The most sustained crackdown yet is likely a sign that the generals who took power after the February ouster of Hosni Mubarak are confident that the Egyptian public is on its side after two
rounds of widely acclaimed parliament elections, that Islamist parties winning the vote will stay out of the fight while pro-democracy protesters become more isolated. Still, the generals risk turning more Egyptians against them, especially from outrage over the abuse of women. Photos and video posted online showed troops pulling up the shirt of one woman
protester in a conservative headscarf, leaving her half-naked as they dragged her in the street. “Do they think this is manly?” Toqa Nosseir, a 19-year old student, said of the attacks on women. “Where is the dignity?” Nosseir joined the protest over her parents’ objections because she couldn’t tolerate the clashes she had seen.
“No one can approve or accept what is happening here,” she said. “The military council wants to silence all criticism. They want to hold on power … I will not accept this humiliation just for the sake of stability.” Nearby in Tahrir, protesters held up newspapers with the image of the half-stripped woman on the front page to passing cars.
Flash floods deadly in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing at least 450 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, debris-filled waterways that were strewn with overturned vehicles and toppled trees. With nearly 300 people missing, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and top military officials were to fly to the worst-hit city of Cagayan de Oro on Sunday to help oversee search-andrescue efforts and deal with thousands of displaced villagers, as the weather began to clear and floodwaters receded. Among the items urgently needed are coffins and body bags, said Benito Ramos, who heads the govern-
ment’s disaster-response agency. “It’s overwhelming. We didn’t expect these many dead,” Ramos said. Army officers reported unidentified bodies piled up in morgues in Cagayan de Oro city, where electricity was restored in some areas, although the city of more than 500,000 people remained without tap water. Most of the victims were asleep Friday night when raging floodwaters cascaded from the mountains after 12 hours of rain from a late-season tropical storm in the southern Mindanao region. The region is unaccustomed to the typhoons that are common elsewhere in the archipelago. Ayi Hernandez, a former congressman, said he and his family were resting in their home in Cagayan de
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