Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-24
Local Weather Not as Cold as Il
Seems to Be.
WEATHER BUREAUS EXPLANATION
Comparison Made With the Fip-
ures of Last Year.
IIiE RECORD ELSEW HERE

A northwest wind fresh from the ice box
was the first thing to greet residents of
Washington when they went out of doors
this morning
Il guess ST. Nick won't have to postnone
his annual visit on account of any yellow
fever quarantine around this section" said
| a joker this morning
1T seems as If the weather bureau final
ly got together. aud concluded to give the
OLD fellow the sort of a time he wants for
MS advent. Ii won't make any difference
because there is no snow. The old man
shook his sleigh and his reindeer have been
put out on the farm long ago. Santa trav-
els 10y an airship nowadays. If Andree had
taken some lessons from him he would
probably be hack now, delivering lectures
in all the large cities. Santa Claus is right
up to date"
Then the joker said something which
sounded like THE same" and was silent
for minute or So
The weather official stated this morning
when the bureau was visited by a Star re-
porter that the wind which was making
things hum about there and made il appear
so generally cold i'm Washington came from
the lake regi IN of the northwest The off,
cial seemed TO hold something I'm reserve.
however and another official hintel mys-
terious!y that the wind machine in the
large secret chamber in the rear of the bu-
leau annex had been repaired within the
past few days. More he would not tell
but powerful machinery Of some kind was
evidently in motion there. and the wind ap-
peared much stronger about the weather
bureau than where else.
Not 50 Cold.
1t was not nearly so cold in the capital
this morning as most people imagined. The
wind made ii seem cold and the tempera-
tLre has been so comparatively mild for
this season it felt cold by comparison. The
thermometer last night went down only to
10 degrees. That the minimum. and
at $ o'clock this morning the mercury had
climbed up to IL degrees.
The weather man told the reporter that
possibly II might he five or six degrees
colder tomorrow at this time. that the mer-
curry might fall to IL degrees above zero.
That is regarded as average Christmas
temperature for this season. Just a year
ago today the mercury fell to II degrees.
while the maximum was - degrees. Christ
mas day of last yeaC the mercury reached
a minimum OF Is degrees, the maximum be-
ing 30 degrees. IL will be a little colder to-
morrow, bu; not much. Unless in eXtraor-
dInary extremes, a difference of six or sew
en- degrees does not affect things very ma
terially. At noon today the thermometer
was n degrees above. which was eleven
degrees ohy below the freezing mark.
In New York at O'Clock this morning
the thermometer read 10 degrees whi IN
was or degrees colder than here, lni
the temperature, was Il degrees and there
fore a little more irigid than here.
Like the Fourth of July.
why, if the fellows up in the Klondika
had such weather this" old-timer
remarked today. They would think it WAS
the Fourth of July, and swear the dates in
the almanac were all wrong. | bet they
would be lying out in hammocks with
tEeir coats and vests off, with palm leaf
fans in their hands. Pshaw. You people
don't know what cold weather is. Just
Hait till your fingers freeze together and
make your hand look like a ducks foot
and then that's something like"
The forecast for tomorrow is for slightly
colder weather, generally fair along the
New England coast as far down as North
Carolira.