The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-26
MERCURY KEEPS CLIMBING.
Savannah Experiences the Hottest
Night In Sixteen Years.

The Hot Wave Extending All over
the Country-No Signs Of g Let Up
For Day or Two-People Unable to
Sleep Indoors and Hundreds Spend
the Greater Part of the Night on
Porches and Balconies.
There was perceptible change in the
weather last night. It was cooler by sew
eral degrees at midnight than it was the
night before.
Monday night was the hottest ex-
perienced in Savannah since July II, 1887.
The temperature did n OF get lower than
80' and remained at that point only a
very short while. The wind pretty nearly
died out after eleven o'clock, averaging
only 2 miles per hour from midnight to
o'clock yesterday morning. At that
hour the mercury registered So.
OF the SO regular reporting wealth
er bureau stations, Savannah
reported the highest temperature at the
morning observation. Charleston, Key
West, Atlanta, New Orleans and Calves
ton were not far behind, each reporting
50. Augusta reported $50, Memphis and
Wilmington So, Nashville, St. Louis and
Chicago 76o, Norfolk, Washington and
Philadelphia 72', New York Co. Boston
81 and Bismarck, N. D., go. The heat
was most severe, however, in Alabama
and Georgia.
During the day mercury crowded up to
the 93 degree mark, ) degrees below
where it went Monday and there it stop
ped. 1t did not get below so degrees at
anytime during the day, the average be-
ing Sc degrees.
The heat during the afternoon was in
tense. Hardly breath of air was stir
ring, and the SUMS rays beat down until
they seemed to burn Very few people
were on the streets except those who by
necessity were compelled TO be out.
Everybody that could do so staid indoors.
Night did not bring much re
lief. There was not a sign of
a breeze and the leaves of the trees hung
limp and motionless. AS soon as the sun
went down, houses that had been shut up
tight to keep out the burning sun, were
thrown open, and people filled the porches
and sidewalks. Many of them staid there
the most of the night. Monday night
sleep was impossible in close rooms, and
last night hundreds of people slept in
hammocks on porches, and on lounges
where they could catch the faintest
breath of air.
The motor cars were crowded until II
O'Clock by people who rode to keep cool
The Thunderbolt cars were packed by
the salts. At midnight, however, a
breeze sprang up and made the remainder
of the night in a degree comfortable.
Compared with Monday night it was
from II to g cooler along the
Georgia and South Carolina coasts, in
Northeastern Florida and in Southern
North Carolina. Higher up in the Mid
die Atlantic states it was from g to 100
hotter The hot wave extends over the
entire south The average highest tenn
perature for the nine stations in this
section of the state reporting to
the weather bureau here was 9S9 yes
terday. At Albany, Alapaha, Balm
bridge, Millen and Americas mercury
was up to 100 degrees. At Townsville it
reached SO. Fort Gaines, Jacksonville
and WayCross reported SO degrees. In
North Georgia and in North Carolina and
Tennessee there was little let up. At
lanta, Augusta, Knoxville and Memphis
each reported "a degrees. The heat is
intense everywhere, and there is no indi-
cation of any decided change for the next
day or two.
Observer Smyth has compiled from the
records of the weather bureau data from
which it is possible to get some idea of
what the weather next month will be.
The records which he has used, cover a
period Of % years and show what the
weather has been for August during that
time. The mean temperature for the
month is so degrees. The warmest Au-
gust was that of 1878, with an average of
So The coolest was that of 1889, with
an average of 7S0 The highest tempera-
ture during any August was 1902 on the
Goth, 1878. The lowest was 639 on the
10th, 1879; and 18th, in 1890.
The average rainfall for the month is
| 7.46 inches The average number of days
with .0l of an inch or more, was IA. The
| greatest monthly rainfall was Is 13 inches
in 1871. The least was 1.S9 inches in 1887.
| The greatest amount recorded in any
/ twenty-four consecutive hours was 857
| inches Aug. 3, 1872
| The average number of clear days is 8,
! average number of partly cloudy days, Is,
and average number of cloudy days, 8.
The prevailing winds have been from
| the south and southwest. The highest
velocity during any August was eighty
miles, on the 9th, in 1881.