The evening world., 1894-09-20
$40 INCHES OF Rain FELL.
That Was the Record Made by the
Storm Of Yesterday.
Farmer Dunn Tells Why It Wasn't
an Equinoctial Affair.

While the total rainfall during the
o'clock Tuesday morning, and which
lasted until 7.20 o'clock last night, does
not equal the record, Wednesday, Sept.
10, 1894, will be known In history as a
record-breaklng day Just the same.
From 5 o'clock yesterday morning
until 720 o'clock last night, when the
storm was over, 419 inches of rain had
fallen over ehis city. That is the great
time-a little less than twelve hours.
Previous to 8 A. NJ. yesterday, only
l.os inches had fallen, making a total Of
AS told in "The Evening World" yes
terday, the greatest rainfall ever known
for any one storm was Sept. % and %,
dSs When o b inches fell and Sept Il
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 9-1O0
Of an inch, but 1t was so Insignificant
the record
The storm has gone the way of all
the Others, sr and nothing Is left Of It
umbrellas and wiited laundry. 1t is fair
to-day, and Farmer Dunn says 1t will
remain SO, and that II Will be fair and
seemingly got ashamed of himself. He
made a great bluff this morning, when,
at 3 o'clock, he started out with per.
at ~ o'clock he had dropped down to
%. The mercury at that time stood at
the same figure.
r on the ssds howeyer Up u the
and and IN certain sections Of Brook
thing more than a memory. The
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.
tempts made to call the storm an. equi-
noStial affair: He gives a lot Of rea.
the kind, and that in fact. no such thing
This latest, he said, was an ordinary
everyday storm, which gathered in
Mexico. Monday 1t moved along with
the ordinary atmospheric conditions, and
developed no energy of any kind until
yesterday morning.
THE eyclonic season" he said. "usu-
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 II becomes a powerful factor in the
storms.
1T is not because the sun crosses the
equator on any given day." Mr.. Dunn
ontinued, that causes the rain-storm
there is no earthly reason to suppose
that when the sun reaches the equator
1t Is going to spring a trap and open
the sluice gates. You might as well
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
equator until tomorrow.
However, there Is no use in trying to
kill off this story of equinoctial storms.
1t is theory of long standing, and like
all 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
ives! 1t is a little warmer to-day, and,
in the Central States. cooler. The wind
ut s o'clock had toned down to twelve
miles hour