Evening star., 1895-04-26
THIS APRIL HOT WAVE
It is Unusual, but Not Phenomenally
Awful.
1t Was Hot Yesterday in Boston,
Philndelphia and Other Places, but
1t Was Freezing I'm Dakota.

The weather bureau mas not put on an
extra force Of clerksto keep up with the
present hot wave, yet the phenomena con-
nected with 1t have given the entire staff
Of prophets enough Ito do yesterday and
today. III
It was Sc at o'clock yesterday even
ing. That was hot enough for July night.
No such April temperature has been felt
here since 1872. On the 22d of April in
that year the mercury went up to 90 The
mean temperature fer April this year, so
far, is SO. The average for evening is IS,
for morning 53. So ii was 2S degrees above
the average evening temperature yester-
day at 6 pm. This morning the mercury
had retreated to 81, which was the mini
mum for the night. That Is good first
class June or July night weather. If the
farmers hereabouts could be sure of just
such day and night weather for the next
thirty days ii would add many millions to
the value of the corn crop, and insure the
success of every Pingree potato patch IN
the country to say nothing of bringing the
summer girl out into the full bloom of
diaphanous outing lawns and laces.
Baltimore and Lynchburg shared the Sc
point with us yesterday, no other place
showing an equal temperature. Philadel-
phias highest was 81, and Boston's was 50.
In 1883, on the last day of April. Phila-
delphia saw the mercury go up to 91 the
highest April temperature ever seen there.
Boston's highest April heat was 81 In 1888.
Where We Get 1t.
The reason why it is hot can only be
guessed at in a broad semi-scientific way.
The steady southerly winds have brought
us for several days their freight of heat
unaffected by rains or Interfering cool
winds The absence of rain for a week or
more past has left the earth's surface dry
and warm, over which the superheated
breeZss, unimpeded, have hustled on north
ward without dropping single degree of
their unwelcome burden. Every precious
bit of 1t they have brought and laid at the
feet of a community ST v-7ltering in the thor
ough protection Of winter underwear.
lee in Wash Bowls.
AS Is usual, our gain, If it can be con-
sidered in the category of advantage. is
loss to others of our fellow mortals. There
was ice in the wash bowl at Ashland, Bis
marck and Winnipeg this morning. On the
northern shore of Lake Superior the quick
silver shrank into itself until the 1S mark
was above it. At Moorhead, Mimi. (where
Fargo keeps a signal Office across the Red
river. mile away, because the weather
reports are so awfully cold that they would
damage the town., the silver pencil crawled
down to So 1t was cooler down in Georgia
than 1t was here by ten to fifteen degrees.
Cooler Tonight.
The indications are full of consolation
future-that edge of the future out of
which tonight or tomorrow is to come.
And it will be 10 degrees cooler tonight
than last night. There has been a high
| barometer stalking across British Amer
lea today and yesterday at the rate of 500
miles day. Just now it is passing along
north of Lake Superior. 1t woke UP yes
terday morning up about Prince Albert, in
the northwest territory, and took its noon
ing at Winnipeg, and spent the night in
| the Rainy Lake woods. A corresponding
high barometer is lowering over the Gulf
| Of Mexico and passing eastward along the
| Atlantic coast. Between these lies a cloud
| want. And ii is coming our way. Yester-
| day it was broken up into several islands
and bubbles that must have brought cool,
| delicious showers to the favored inhab-
| itants of Ohio, Kentucky and western
| Pennsylvania. Today these bubbles have
sensibly rolled together in one nice, big,
broad mass that is steadily sweeping east
ward at dgnified speed, likely to bring
| 1t abreast of Washington some time to-
morrow. -.
No Storm Coming.
| There is no center to this rain condi-
| ton. 1t is not a storm, II has 10 wrath to
vent. 1t is simply the broad blessing of
what the weather prophet terms "rain-and-
| cloud condition" The warm winds Of the
south are meeting those Of colder north, and
the gentle April "condit{on" ensues To-