New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-19
THE HOTTESTJUNE Is KNOWN.
THAT Is ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL REC
ORDS
NO n,.yy HOWEVER. SAYS THAT IT IS PROB

A., n,.xx HOWEVER. SAYS THAT IT is PROB
AR,y GOING TO BE COOLER TONIGHT
The hot enough for you" phrase was worked 10
,ts full capacity yesterday. The city was not 0o
were the citizens 1t was the hottest JUNE 20 "a
the official records. Even in the cooineSs VI ,"'
weather prophets station on the hqu''ao'e
,re q temnerature Of Sc degrees was recordeu' anu
4, tho street thermometers the mercury cHHlueu
degrees higher. o,
So far as perspring humanity is cohcerheo'
science being put out of the question the street
thermometers the nearest to being 'he u"e III
acators Of the temperature in which people nave -
live and move and have their being. MI Dunn III
struments are up where the fresh sea oreezes oo"'
erd thew are completely surrounded by lattice
work 10 keep off the They record eNacu! lhe
average normal condition Of the atmosphere ne
street thermometers however are so"'e"n"'
given to exaggeration. So far as they are niil"-
enced by the heat which is radiated from 'he
scorching sidewalks and buildings theE zen ',o
tale of suffering humanity pretty exactly Dul ,ne
street thermometers are usually in boxes "hlch
serve as a shield and protection, ana III 'he case
of Perry's and Hudnuts. two OF the pest h""""'
are affixed to lampposts. The boxes prevent 'ne
free circulation Of the air and increase the
temperature over that which prevails 1901 away
from them The heat is also communicated al
rectly from the lampposts TO the thermometers
and helps to raise the mercury III people III 'ie
streets were in boxes and affixed 10 "hpPos's
they would be exactly as hot as the street '"e'
rnometers say they are. 1t may be a satisfaction
to some people TO know that they were not really
as hot Yesterday as they thought they We're
or course the practical question has been on
every ones lips How long Is this hot spell gong
70 last?" Mr.. Dunn promises TO break the spe" TO-
day He said yesterday that 1t would be not al
night, and continue so this morning with o"a"s7
for cooler weather toward night
There are some people probably. who want TO
know what caused this weather. where 1t came lro"
AID what's the use OF H. anyway? II was causeu
by an area OF low pressure over the GuI regions
and an area Of high pressure in the Sou'h Auahtc
States Low pressure means partial vacuum. Inc
warm air from the South Atlantic States naturally
flowed I'D into the vacuum. The area or hlsh
pressure. which was. so to speak overcharged Win
air assisted a northward movement OF the warm
air In other words the OF .ow pressure pulled
and the area Of high pressure pushed ana 'he
consequence was that New-York got the weather
which naturally belonged 70 Savannah and JACK
sonvIle II is expected that these conditions VIII
cease today and that New-York VIII get back lis
own weather tonight.
Mr. Dunn says that there Is only one way IN
which the probability OF hot or a cool summer
NAV be predicted. and even that he adds, doesn't
amount 10 much as forecast. But II is interesting
lust now because II is in favor of a cool summer
II has been found that the average normal tempera
ture for the year does not vary much from year 10
wear II one season Is unusually hot another Is
preserved Since January the excess OF tempera-
ture has been 800 degrees that is. the first part or
the wear has been IT. all 800 degrees warmer IMAM
the normal The presumption Is that the last par
OF the year will be correspondingy cooler than the
normal Since June | the excess has been reduced
l3 degrees.
The official temperature figures yesterday were as
follows: A. m. Il degrees. lowest; a m: - DE-
grees: 10 a. m, s. degrees L m o degrees b. Ill.,
IS degrees. r,,-a
IL was in 1871 s. degrees The humidity was ~ per
cent al a. m. yesterday mor"iHs' 81 pei N0''' 90
10 a. m: 70 per cent at : p. m - 20 - .
The normal humidity here Is about 6S per cent
The Temperature figures at HudnuIs were as ioI-
lows. A. H. IS degrees. 9 a. m, y degrees noon
So degrees; p 90 degrees; 3 ?, m. " degrees
Al Perry's they were: a. m, 10 degrees; a. m.
70 degrees; noon 81 degrees; P. m. 81 degrees
Fair weather prevailed all over the United States ties
Yesterday. The hot wave extended over nearly the
whole area east Of the Mississippi Inc c9.dest
pojnt from which report was received was w hlte
River Canada Just north Of Lake Superior. where
The freezing point was touched yesterday morning
The coolest place In the United States, outside OF
refrtgerator was Marquette. Mich, where ~ de-
recorded.
Ten persons. mostly aborers. were prostrated
with the heat in the streets OF THIS CITY Out 'o"o
OF the have proved lataI.