The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-21
Snow Storms in Some Of the
Western States.
PEOPLE slElaH!NG ON SUNDAY
Weather Observer Won Herman Dis
cass7s the Causes ofthe Pres
eat Almost lnsufferable

cu.s,s the Causes ofthe Pres
eat Almost lnsuTerable
temperature.
One whole week of roasting, blister
mo heat and now the second has be-
gun. Seven days and nights of swelter-
mo in winter clothing which one dare
not change, and no relief yet in sight.
The proverbial balmy April, to which
the South is accustomed, with no
ridiculous "reminiscences of winter and
no absurd promises of summer, has
given place to the heat and sWeIter OF
the dog-days of August.
Saturday was the hottest day of all,
and the most humid of all. Yesterday
was only little better, the thermome-
ter registering %, with a mean tenn
perature for the day of so, whereas IT
would only have been So had it been
normal The lowest temperature our
ING Sunday night was 81; at o'clock
YESTERDAY morning it was 70; at II
o'clock at was %; at 3 o'clock 80; at
o'clock g2.3 The humidity during the
day was 20, which is extremely dry Tor
this section.
All the indications Of midsummer
are visible. People move sluggiahly
and as they walk along the streets they
visibly melt: many of the men have
thrown off their heavy clothing OF dis
carded their vests, the women have
aonned shirts-waists and light skirts,
and the straw hat and umbrella are
everywhere. The parks are crowded;
and the trees, which only few days
ago were stretching bare limbs to the
skies. are now, some of them, almost
full-leaved.
"And | don't see any indications OF
cooler weather just now, said Mr.. Won
Hermann, the man by whose dispen
sation things happen in connection
with the weather.
sAnd what" he was asked, sis the
cause of this hot wave? 1t is some
satisfaction to know the cause of the
trouble, though it doesn't tighten the
sufferings any"
THE conditions that are always fa-
vorable for hot wave are a low barom-
etric pressure in the northwest and a
high barometer on the South Atlantic
coast. The winds always blow from
a high towards a low barometer, so
that the present conditions favor the
flow of large quantity of topical air
from the south to the north. Now If
that low area in the northwest, instead
of moving off towards the northeast,
as it usually does, stays in its first
locality for any length of time. the
hot weather is bound to continue That
is what the recent storms in the north
west have done They appeared there
about a week ago. and haven't gone
away yet On Saturday, the hottest
day we have had here, it was showing
in Montana and North Dakota, and the
people were sleighing there Sunday,
and to-day the thermometer in those
States is below freezing. Dodge City,
Kansas, is snow-bound, and it is freez-
ing in Wyoming. But it is warm in
every State east of the Mississippi.
Over North Carolina where the high
area prevails, which is usually assoc
ciated with clear skies. the sun has its
full power; and the air being unusually
dry for this section of the country, the
conditions are entirely unfayorable for
the formation of local thunder-storms.
1.-THE hot periods rarely last more
than ten days and d break in the
weather ought to occur very soon,
though we can't see, as yet, any indi-
cations of it,
This mornings weather map fur
nishes slight indications that a change
may occur by Wednesday afternoon,
but it is by no means certain.
''This hot spell came SO late in April
that | think it very doubtful whether
we will have any freeze after ii and
the fruit crop will, therefore, be a good
one The claim that much Of the fruit
crop has already been killed is not
true, only the very earliest blooming
peaches being somewhat damaged, and
the apples certainly not at ALL
This is the hottest April that North
Carolina has ever had since any records
have been kept. The Weather Bureau
was established here in 1887 and there
has been nothing like it since then.
Before that time there are no records
for the highest and lowest tempera-
ture. though there are records of the
mean temperature. The highest Of
these we're in 1872, 1880 and 1852, when
the mean temperature vas above 90,
or 2 degrees below what it would be
this year. even If the temperature for
the balance Of the month were normal
which is not probable.
The coolest April on record was in
1874. when the mean temperature for
the month was SIS.
The forecast for the next twenty
four hours for Raleigh and vicinity is
fair and continued warm.
RECITAL AT PEACE INSTITUTE.
The recital at Peace last evening by
Miss Estelle w. Undertake, pianist,
and Miss Minnie L. Mangum. vocalist