Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
SLIGHTLY COOLER SUNDAY
But There is Little Genuine Relief in
Sight
A Great Battle of Temperatures Be-
tween the Eastern and Vest
ern States.

1t is aggravatiig rather than reassurirg
for the weather bureau to inform this un-
seasCnably sweltering community that
there is plenty Of cold air In the west to
cause gratifying fall in temperature if II
could only be permitted by the adverse ele-
ments to get to the Atlantic coast. That
Is exactly the situation as described by the
fcrecasters this morning. 1t Is practically
the same condition that existed three days
ago, when Washington ms began to realize
that instead of being merely warm, the
weather had suddenly become intensely
hot. There is precious little comfort in the
knowledge that SNOW mas been falling in
Montana and the neighboring states during
the past week, while the foliage has been
blossoming with an almost unprecedented
rapidity in the east.
The hot area continues to extend all over
the Atlantic states, and every Indication
points to the fact that WASHINGTON is the
headquarters of the entire enterprise that
has succeeded in smashing all the April
records The Mississippi river seems to
EaNe presented an impdssdbl barrier to
the coolness between the east and the west
until the suspicion begins to arise that a
new sectionalsm has come over the Loun-
try with the father of waters for the boun-
dary line.
n" Comfort for Neutrality-suspicious..
The weather map this morning was such
as - bring comfort to almost everybody
except the residents of the national cap
tal- An imnIe area was covered by The
shaded lines which indicate the falling of
rain or snow during the past twerty-four
hours, but the low or storm giving rise TO
TIL condition had not moved east to any
percepuble degree. By some tantalizing
ct mbiT alton of lat. cold and moisture the
rain area had thrust long, crooked fin
ger out to the east and southwark along
the coast Until just within hailing distance
OF this city, when ii stopped. Down in
Texas End Arizona the temperature has
laIieE twenty degrees OF more, a veritabie
ccld wave that would be a perfect bonanza
10 this baking community, but Texas is 100
Tar away for any comfort to be derived
from this fact which may cease to be a
lact as lar as Washington is concerned
l6ng before that cool air has reached the
coast
The morning forecast for the District Of
Columbia ard Maryland shows that il will
be falr tonight and fair tomorrow, with in
creasing cloudiness. Continued warm
weatf er was promised, and all the hone
there was in the situation was contained
IN the following phrase: Slightly cooler
Sunday morning"
Only One Place Hotter.
There YVES only one place in the country
hotter than Washington yesterday. That
was Charlotte, \. C, where a maximum Of
"a degrees was recorded. Washington's
record was a2, and the same point was OBJ
tanned by the official Thermometers in Phil
adelph!a al Parkersburg, w. Va. Just as
matter to tickle the Imagination of the
uncomfortable citizens of the east it might
be stated that Lander, Wyo., had the low
est temperature yesterday, % degrees, while
Rapid City, S. D., had "a, and Helena
Mont, %. 1t is now below freezing through
out the Rocky mountain region from New
Mexico rorthward to Montana and the Da-
kotas.
The records were smashed yesterday with
distressing frequency Albany, with a tenn
perature of s5 degrees, shot one degree
higher than the highest previous mark
New York city, with 81, also went one bet
ter than history records. The same Was
true of indianapolis, with Sc degrees. Pitts
burg, with sS, established a new point of
reference by two degrees, as we'll as Gin
cinnat!, with SO. Charlotte, with "a de-
grees-the banner city of the country for
the day for heat-went five points higher
than any previous time during :he second
ten days Of April Washington, with o.
and Norfolk, with 80, overshot the mark
by six degrees, and Philadelphians gasped
this morning when they found that their
temperature Of 81 was eight degrees higher
than on any previous April occasion.