Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-05
THE HOTTEST DAY YET.
"Old Probs" Wears a Flannel Shirt
and Talks of a Shower,

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FOUR DAYS THAT HAVE SET THE RECORD OF
THE YRAR-wARMER THAN HERE
-coSsoLAT1oS DERIVED FROM THE WEATHER
BUREAU AvkRAoKs.
The man Who, with the foresight of sagacious
enterprise, had secured a corner on ice and
flannel shirts a week ago would today be as
wealthy as a Rothschild. He could almost
have owned the earth. Ice and flannel shirts
form the staples of existence just now. The
ice has other accompaniments. such as water,
and mint, and liquors of various shades and
degrees OF strength, and the flannel shirts are,
unfortunately, worn along with other garments
OF more or less weight. But this is a matter
OF necessity rather than choice, for if
humanity had its own way today it would re-
vert back to its original condition to the period
when fg leaves were quite au fat, and were
considered sufficiently full dress.
THE HOTTEST OF THE SEASON.
And all this comes from the fact that the
hottest weather OF the season is with us now.
The mercury in the thermometers is having a
real nice time trying to reach the tops of the
tubes and is not doing SO badly in the effort
after all. For four long ~days-and they have
been almost az long as any that the year pro-
duces-thls section of the country
has been baking and frying under
the influence Of a warm wave that has hung
over the entire eastern section OF the United
States with a miserable persistency that has
caused a general overhaulIng of summer goods
and many a sigh over undue shrinkages.
TARDY STORM.
This warm wave is not over yet, but is hold
ing its own firmly against the onslaughts of a
storm that has been trying for three days to
work its passage eastward. 1t is now soaking
southern Dakota and the neighboring acres,
but during the past twelve hours it moved only
about twenty-five miles. SO that there
is not much hope that it will reach us in very
short order. 1t is an odd reversal of things
that in winter a low arometer brings warmth
and in summer it brings cold. This storm will
cool off the Atlantic coast sometime tomorrow
or early Saturday morning, unless it gives up
the effort to drive the high before it. In case
il should surrender there il no knowing how
long the warm weather will last here.
THERE MAY BE 4 SHOWER.
Prot. Hazen, who is handling the predictions
for June in a flannel shirt, thinks that there
will be a let up by another day and a half and
that it is even possible that there may be .
shower tomorrow morning.
This warm wave has set the records for the
season in almost every city of the country.
Here the thermometer has gone as high as 80
degrees, which is three degrees higher than
before this year. 1t may go q degree or
two higher today. In Yuma, Ariz., which is
regarded rs the hottest place in the country,
the thermometer registered 106 day before
yesterday, and all through the western and
central parts of the country the mercury has
wavered along between IS and % degrees.
WHAT THE WEATHER ACCOUNT SAYS.
But there is one consolation in all this, and
that is to be found, after some search it may
be, in the fact that Washington city is just now
$40 degrees above the average temperature,
counting from the LIST Of January, and Is de-
grees ahead, counting from the LIST Of
June. This means cooler months yet to
come. That is, the chances are that the
weather is going to make considerable of an
effort before the close of the season to catch
up on Washington and end with an even record.
1t IL to be hoped that it will succeed. There
is an accompanying deficiency in the precipi-
tation of an inch and a small fraction since
January l and Of six-tenths since June /.
The streets were almost entirely deserted to-
day except by those whose business obliged
them to be out. These unfortunates kept In
the shade as much as possible. The sun was
glaring and the asphalt was broiling. At noon
on Pennsylvania avenue the thermometer reg
istered 9413l in the shade.