var popupwin = null;
var first = true;
var previous_url;
var windowName = "intlCities";

function winopen(url) {
                if (first) {
                        popupwin = window.open(url, windowName, "width=500,height=475,status=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no");
                        popupwin.focus();
                        first = false ;
                } else {
                        if ( popupwin != null && !popupwin.closed && previous_url == url) { popupwin.focus(); }
                        else {
                                if (popupwin.closed) {
                                        popupwin = window.open(url, windowName, "width=500,height=475,status=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no");
                                        popupwin.focus();
                                } else {
                                        popupwin.location = url;
                                        popupwin.focus();
                                }
                        }
                }
								previous_url = url ;
        }

function leapto(selectName,popUp) {
var path = "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/";
var fileName;
var myindex=selectName.selectedIndex;
var regionName = selectName.options[myindex].value;
if(popUp)
{
 fileName = path+'intlcities.html?'+regionName;
 if(self.name == windowName)
 {
   self.location = fileName;
 } 
 else winopen(fileName); 

}

else 
{
fileName = regionName;
window.top.location.href = fileName;

}
}