1 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 2001 www.delawareonline.com THE NEWS JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 2001 REGIONAL FORECAST New Castle County Today: Rain. High in Scranton, N.Y. the upper 40s.
New Tonight: Rain likely. York City Low in the mid-40s. N.J. Kent County Today: Rain. High about 50.
PA. Trenton Tonight: Rain likely. Temperatures steady or Harrisburg low slowly 50s. rising into the Wilmington Philadelphia Sussex County Today: Rain. High Elkton about 50.
Baltimore Tonight: Rain likely. Atlantic Temperatures steady or City slowly rising into the Washington, Dover low 50s. D.C. Delaware beaches DEL. Rehoboth Today: Rain.
High in Georgetown Beach the low 50s. MD. Tonight: Rain likely. Low in the upper 40s. Ocean Poconos Salisbury City Today: Occasional rain VA.
showers. High in the mid-40s. Richmond Tonight: Rain showers; Ocean chance of snow. Low temperature 37 about 30. S.
New Jersey the low 50s. Norfolk Today: Rain. High in Low in the upper 40s. Tonight: Rain likely. temperatures 0000 Partly Snow Rain Ice 1-storms Cloudy Cloudy Sunny FIVE-DAY EXTENDED LOCAL FORECAST Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday High Nigh High High High Low Low Low Low Low Times based on 24-hour clock.
computed from 44' 40' News Journal. Source: U.S. Naval TEMPERATURES THE SUN Yesterday's high: Average high: 39.9 Today: Rises 656 Yesterday's low: 32 Average low: 23.1 Today's Dawn 628 Yesterday's average: 42 Average average: 31.5 Today's Total light: 11 hours, 37 Tomorrow: Rises 655 Yesterday's records: high 68 in 1951; low -2 in 1979 Tomorrow's Dawn 627 Today's records: high 67 in 1990; low -4 in 1979 Tomorrow's Total light: 11 hours, Averages since 1948; records since 1894. Times based on 24-hour clock. DEGREE DAYS legal daylight hours.
Yesterday's HDD: 23 Average: 34 THE MOON Month to date: 361.5 Average MTD: 434 Since Sept. 1: 3395 Average seasonTD: 3234 Average month total: 899 Average season: 4858 The "HDD" heating-degree-day index of fuel consumption is the difference between and the average temperature. PRECIPITATION Yesterday: 0.03 inch Normal: 0.1 inch Month to date: 1.585 Normal MTD: 1.3 Today: Rises 0000 Season to date: 7.51 Normal SeasonTD: 7.83 Today's illumination: 61.8% Year to date: 4.725 Normal YTD: 4.33 Tomorrow: Rises 0103 Tomorrow's illumination: 51.6% Normal total month: 2.91; season: 9.42; year: 40.84 Yesterday's records: 2.28 rain in 1966; 2.6 snow in 1978 Today's records: 0.77 rain in 1984; 2.4 snow in 1962 Source: NOAA National Climatic Data Center. WEATHER TODAY NATIONAL FORECAST THE 40s Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. 20s 50s 10s 103 30s 30s 20s 40s 60s, -50s L.
505 60s 40s 60s 708 60s 0s 40s 30s 708 10s: 50s 80s- 80s 30s- 30s 70s 80s- FRONTS: 2001 AccuWeather, Albany, N.Y 41 24 sno Albuquerque 60 34 cdy Anchorage 26 25 cdy Atlanta 49 39 cdy Austin 73 53 mn Billings 13 13 cdy Birmingham 53 46 cdy Bismarck 10 -3 cdy Boise 31 1 24 cdy Boston 46 23 rn Buffalo 39 27 rn Burlington, Vt. 31 18 sno Casper 28 22 cdy 54 39 cdy Charleston, W.Va.51 43 rm 50 34 cdy Cheyenne 45 19 sno Chicago 38 31 sno Cincinnati 48 40 rn Cleveland 46 29 rn KEY: cdy-cloudy, Temperatures indicate yesterday's Amsterdam 53 42 cdy Athens 54 48 cdy Bangkok 96 76 cdy Barbados 82 71 rn Beijing 37 20 cdy Beirut 69 53 cir Belgrade 54 28 cir Berlin 53 40 cdy Bermuda 61 55 Bogota 67 42 clr Brussels 58 40 Budapest 49 35 cdy Inc. AROUND Columbus, Ohio 48 38 39 18 sno Dallas-Ft Worth 59 47 Denver 47 26 sno Des Moines 37 26 sno Detroit 38 28 Duluth 22 6 cdy El Paso 55 46 cir Fairbanks 12 -9 cdy Flagstaff 40 20 sno Grand Rapids 34 31 sno 58 31 cdy Hartford Spgfid 43 20 Honolulu 81 72 cdy Houston 76 63 cdy Indianapolis 47 35 Jackson Miss. 68 54 cdy Jacksonville 59 49 cdy Juneau 36 30 cdy Kansas City 42 35 sno rn-rain, sh-showers, high and overnight low to AROUND B'Aires 80 59 cir Cairo 72 50 cir Calgary 19 -12 sn Caracas 86 73 cir Copenhagen 47 34 cdy Dhahran 75 46 cir Dublin 50 29 cdy Frankfurt 52 44 Geneva 50 42 Helsinki 37 29 Hong Kong 72 61 cdy Jerusalem 66 40 cir Temperatures indicate yesterday's high and overnight low to 8 a.m. EST.
ALMANAC Sets 1738 Dusk 1805 minutes. Sets 1739 Dusk 1806 39 minutes. Dawn and dusk define Sets 1052 Sets 1126 Sun and moon data 32' 00" site of The Observatory. Powerful storm blasts Southern California Associated Press The region's coated in staggering LOS ANGELES Down- tions of snowfall pours flooded roads and snow end: 5 to 7 feet in Los Angeles harbor that two docks were ripped apart early Tuesday. About 20 people who live aboard boats were evacu- buried mountain passes Tues- and 3 feet on Mount Wilson ated, but no one was hurt.
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55 32 cir EXTREMES: High 86 at Fort Providence 47 20 rn Myers, low -12 at Raleigh-Durham 59 34 cdy Hibbing, Minn. ts-thundershowers, sn-snow, st-snow flurries, i-ice, M-missing. 8 p.m. EST. THE WORLD Jo'burg 77 57 cdy Rome 60 45 cir Lima 78 68 cdy San Jose 81 67 cir London 54 38 Sao Paulo 90 69 Madrid 56 36 cir Seoul 32 20 cdy Manila 92 76 cdy Singapore 88 77 Mexico City 79 45 cdy Stockholm 41 32 cdy Montreal 16 -2 cdy Sydney 95 72 cdy Moscow 35 25 sn Tel Aviv 75 46 clr Nassau 83 70 cdy Tokyo 45 35 cdy Panama 91 91 cdy Toronto 31 16 cdy Paris 58 45 cdy Vienna 51 32 cdy Rio 90 77 cdy Warsaw 50 42 cdy TIDES Wilm.
Marine TerminalH-0451 L-1200 H-1653 L-0102 Reedy Island H-0358 L-1047 H-1626 L-2304 Chesapeake City H-0401 L-1009 H-1612 L-2320 Havre de Grace L-0902 H-1413 L-2143 H-0254 Chestertown L-0606 H-1153 L-1927 H-0014 Kent Island Narrows L-0404 H-0924 L-1656 H-2216 Woodland Beach H-0243 L-0929 H-1514 L-2200 St. Jones River H-0206 L-0856 H-1448 L-2121 Mispillion River H-0137 L-0814 H-1337 L-2028 Cape May Pier H-0105 L-0717 H-1308 L-1902 Roosevelt Inlet H-0118 L-0736 H-1340 L-1953 Cape Henlopen H-0104 L-0718 H-1308 L-1903 Rehoboth Beach H-0025 L-0628 H-1220 L-1901 Indian River Bridge H-0106 L-0631 H-1304 L-1848 Ocean City Pier H-0010 L-0620 H-1157 L-1930 Times based on 24-hour clock. Source: NOAA National Ocean Service. Polish mayor: Keep kids from Manson ideas" Fearing on the young effects people, of "bad PEOPLE mayor of Warsaw, Poland, on children away from a con- Commercial Union York Tuesday urged parents to keep their Insurcert by American shock rocker ance which has branches in Marilyn Manson. Portland and Bangor, Maine, "It promotes bad ideas, bad last week in Penobscot County values.
It promotes violence," Superior Court in Bangor. Antoni Pietkiewicz said of the He and his wife, Tabitha, will religion-bashing seek the umbrella policy's $10 performer's million limit plus interest of lyrics. month, said their 1.5 He urged percent per during lawyer, Warren M. Silver of a radio inter- Bangor, who said the figure falls parents view to "protect well short of the Kings' physical our children, and financial damages. our young peo- King, 53, was injured in June ple" forbid- 1999 when a van driven by ding them to at- Bryan Smith of Fryeburg, tend the concert Maine, struck the author as he Tuesday night.
was walking along the shoulder The mayor Marilyn of Maine 5 near his vacation sharply criti- Manson home in Lovell. cized a Warsaw He suffered a broken leg and district governor for allowing hip, punctured lung, broken ribs the concert to be scheduled in and other injuries. He has unthe Torwar sports hall. dergone five surgeries since the Poland's powerful Roman accident, and Silver said anCatholic church and education other operation likely would be authorities also have protested. performed 1 this summer.
90 percent of Poland's 39 million people regard them- GOOD OL' MOM: Looking selves as Catholics. back, Lauren Bacall credits one person for her illustrious career 'HANNIBAL' her mother. Anthony Hopkins hasn't lost his "I can never talk enough taste yet for doing another turn about her because she was such a as Hannibal "The Cannibal" gift," the 76-year-old actress said Lecter. on Monday in Rochester, N. Y.
"I would like to do one more "The best of me came from her." sequel, which is being dis- She thanked her mother, Nacussed," the actor said Sunday talie Perske, for the sacrifices at the Berlin international film she made so Bacall could pursue festival after an out acting. When her father abantion showing of the doned the family, her mother sequel to 1991's Oscar-winning worked six days a week as an Silence of the Lambs." ecutive secretary, Bacall Audiences in the United More than 1,100 people came States also apparently haven't to Auditorium Center to hear tired of the blood-hungry ge- Bacall speak during the opening nius the film made $58 million night of Rochester's "Unique at the box office last weekend. Lives Experiences" series. Hopkins said the enduring The five-part series focuses on appeal of a character such as the lives of famous women. Hannibal came from the inner conflict within all Bacall canceled her appearpeople.
ance last month with the series "We are fascinated by the in Wilmington because of the darkness in ourselves," he said. of death of actor Jason Robards, "It's part our mechanism, the in our psyche, the light one of her former husbands. duality and the dark. "Hannibal Lecter he is the TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: TV perpure paradox of human nature." sonality Hugh Downs is 80. Actress-singer Florence Henderson INSURER SUED: Horror is 67.
Movie director Alan Parker writer Stephen King has sued is 57. Journalist Carl Bernstein is his insurance company for $10 57. Actor-dancer Gregory Hines is million, claiming it failed to pro- 55. TV personality Pat O'Brien is vide full coverage for injuries he 53. Actress Meg Tilly is 41.
Tennis suffered when a van hit him in player Manuela Maleeva is 34. MARINE FORECAST Delaware Bay Today: Southeast wind 10 knots, becoming south and increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the afternoon. Rain, with visibility 1 nautical mile at times. Seas 2 feet. Tonight: Wind southwest 20 to 25 knots, becoming west.
Rain likely. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Tomorrow: West wind 20 to 25 knots. Chance of showers early. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay Today: South wind 10 knots. Rain likely. Waves less than 1 foot. Tonight: Southwest wind 10 to 15 knots. Chance of rain.
Waves 1 foot. Tomorrow: West wind 10 knots, becoming north. Chance of rain. Waves less than 1 foot. western Maine two lawsuit years ago.
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