The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-20
.l.2S INCHES OF RAIN FELL.
That Was the Record Made by the
Storm of Yesterday.
Farmer Dunn Tells why Il wasn't
an Equinoctial Affair.

While the total rainfall during the
storm which broke over New York at 6
o'clock Tuesday morning. and which
lasted until 100 o'clock last night, does
not equal the record, Wednesday, Sept.
~. 1894. will be known In history as
record breaking day Just the same.
From o'clock yesterday morning
until 7.2O o'clock last night, when the
storm was over, 4l9 inches of rain had
fallen over ehis city. That is the great
time-a little less than twelve hours.
Previous to A. NJ. yesterday. only
LOS Inches had fallen. making total Of
bS inches.
As TOLD in 1.-THE Evening World" yes
terday, the greatest rainfall ever known
for any one storm was Sept. 22 and %,
iSS2, when 6.17 inches fell, and Sept. Ii
and II, 1890. when 5,l2 inches descended
on New York. Both storms, however.
were for the full twenty-four hours
The storm did not exactly end at 72O
time. but about midnight 1t gave its
last expiring effort and an hour later
had died. That last effort gave 9-lOO
Of an inch. but 1t was so Insignificant
that Farmer Dunn would not let 1t go in
the record.
The storm has gone the way OF all
the Others ;o, and nothing Is left Of II
umbrellas and wilted laundry. 1t is fair
| to-day. and Farmer Dunn says it will
remain so. and that Il will be fair and
cool tomorrow. Old Humidity, too has
seemingly got ashamed of himself. He
made a great bluff this morning, when,
at o'clock, he started out with per-
centage of IS. Then he weakened, and
at 10 o'clock he had dropped down to
70 The mercury at that time stood at
the same figure.
On the west side, however, up in the
Twenty third and Twenty-fourth Wards,
nf
thing more than a memory The
sewers in Brooklyn were not half big
enough to carry, off the water which
backed up into the cellars of houses in
low-lying districts. In the Annexed
district streets have been closed up on
west side the bucket brigade has been
at work all day.
Farmer Dunn is annoyed at the at
tempts made TO call the storm an equi-
sons to show that it was nothing of
the kind. and that in fact. no such thing
as an equinoctial storm could happen.
everyday storm, which gathered in
Mexico Monday. 1t moved along with
The ordinary atmospheric conditions, and
yesterday morning.
THE cyclonic season." he said, ''usu-
ally begins from. the time the sun
starts to go south. and takes in the
months Of July, August and September,
. Tropical storms usually develop their
power on account of the sun leaving
the North. The great amount of evapo-
ration that takes place over the tropi-
cal regions and the South is due to
this travelling of the sun towards the
equator but the evaporation during this
time Is so rapid and such an enormous
amount Is gathered into the atmosphere
that 1t becomes powerful factor in the
storms.
1T is not because the sun crosses the
equator on any given day." MIR. Dunn
continued. that causes the rain-storm
There Is no earthly reason to suppose
that when the sun reaches the equator
the sluice gates. You might as we'll
say that when the sun reaches any other
point storms must necessarily follow.
Most of the tropical storms develop
and move northward long before the sun
gets to the equator at all. This storm.
for instance, developed in Mexico Mon
day and moved northward to the middle
Atlantic coast. This in spite OF the fact
that the sun does not get as far as the
tquator until tomorrow.
However, there Is no use In trying to
bill Off this story OF equinoctial storms.
Il is a theory of long standing. and. like
ell of its kind very hard to change.
There are dozens of other theories that
have as little truth in them"
Nearly all of the fog which accom-
panied the recent storm has disap-
peared. The temperature Is stationary
over the Atlantic States. In the North
ives! 1t is a little warmer to-day, and,
Rt o'clock had toned down to twelve
III miles hOnr