The New York herald., 1875-10-02

P~hAS StOPS. anu ueIc W. dIo StAAl hOuAAsA~A
ing about, two years after our paper money
panic, and scarcely see the end yet.
The storm Over the Lake Region
and the Atlantic States.
For some days past the barometrical read
ings over the region Of the Missouri and
lower lakes have indicated a very low
pressure, accom- panied by a comparatively
high temperature, moving with the usual
easterly tendency of northwestern storm CEN
tres. The air from the surrounding areas of
high barometer has been pouring into the
depression, creating rapid variations of tenn
perature, dangerous winds and unusually
heavy rains. At one o'clock A. M. on yes
terday morning the centre of low pressure
was at indianapolis, the temperature at that
point being ffty-four degrees and the baro-
meter at twenty-nine inches and fifty-nine
hundredths. Immediately to the northwest.
ward Of this disturbance we fnd an area of
high pressure. the centre being at Pembina,
the thermometer indicating thirty-eight
degrees and the barometer standing at thirty
inches and fourteen hundredths. The low
pressure isobars extended from near Gal
weston, Texas to Marquette, Michigan,
with slight variation from direct lines,
and, with the exception Of tue more
southerly States, clouds and heavy rains
prevailed east of the line indicated. The
rainfall extended at intervals from the Mis-
sssippi at Cairo northeasterly to the mouth
of the st. Lawrence. At noon yesterday the
centre of low pressure had advanced along
the southerly side of the lakes fa< enough
eastward to warrant the prediction of danger
Gus winds on the Middle Atlantic coast and
the cautionary signals were accordingly
hoisted in this city in the forenoon and still
continue to be displayed. The telegrams
from the lake region inform Of disasters to
shipping, but these have been unimportant,
owing to the timely display of cautionary sig
nails along the lake ports in anticipation of
dangerous gales. The barometer in this city at
six o'clock last evening stood at twenty-nine
inches and ffty-six hundredths, marking the
eastward approach of the storm cen
tire. At the time of observation heavy
rain was falling, accompanied by oc-
casional flashes of lightning. The sur
face current of air blew steadily from
the southwest, indicating the steady advance
eastward of the centre of low pressure.
Judging from the. movements of the high
and low pressure areas to the northward
and eastward of New York we will ex-
perience in this city and vicinity strong,
cold, northwesterly winds The temperature
will fall SO low as to produce frosts, and
will be followed, probably, this evening
by rising barometer and clearing weather.
During the past month the mean tempera-
ture in New York was sixty-three de-
grees and eighty hundredths, while the
mean for the same month, during the thir
teen years from 1850 to 1863, was sixty-five
degrees and ninety three hundredths, show
ing only slight variation for the month
of September in twenty-five years The mean
rainfall during the thirteen years above
mentioned for September was two inches
and eighty-four hundredths while for last
month it was two and half inches In
September, 1874, the unusually large mean
of seven and one-sixth inches was regis
tered.
The highest velocity attained by the
wind last month was thirty miles an hour,
on the 10th, at nine o'clock p. NJ, the pre-
vailing wind during the month being south
westerly. The data furnished by meteoro-
logical comparison of months and years shows
that New York city is visited less frequently
by violent storms than points to the north
and south and enjoys q more uniform climate
than many other places apparently less ex-
posed to the elemental warfare.