The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-28
REnrARKABAr coon WEArnER.
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 4esterdays weather was record breaker as to coolness, It was the coolest known in years in July, Scores or men were overcoats, and straw hats were discarded for the warmer felt hats. The thermometers all around town recorded 57 degrees early yes terday morning, low temperature for this time of the year. Late in the fore- noon 67 was the figure.
 Weather Observer Myers said last ev- ening that the indications were for showers to-day, with continued cool weather.
 Last evenings New York Sun says;
 This was the thirteenth day of St. Swithin's forty days of rain, and it ralned again to-day. The indications thls morning were for rain tomorrow, and there was no satisfactory reason TOT believing that it would let up for some time to come, so that the saint of rain appears to have a good chance of keeping up his record.
 It was colder to-day, too, than on any July 27 since records were kept in the weather bureau. 1t was also colder by degrees than it was yester- day.
 It was cold enough for the most en- thuslastic of cool weather enthusiasts yesterday, but the mercury was down only to GA degrees at o'clock last even ing.
 IoWard midnight the mercury began to get ready to drop down further still It was then at 61 degrees and remained al that point until after o'clock, when 1t fell one point more to 60, which was the lowest figure it reached That Is the lowest minimum tempera- tnre on any July 27, too, in great many years. To-day is therefore to be breaker of no small dimensions or pre- l tensions.
 After the sun got up this morning behind thick clouds of moisture, some of which made its way down to the al- ready soaked lands of Greater New York, the weather began to get trife warmer, but not much.
 The thermometer registered 62 degrees at o'clock, point higher an hour lat CT, and at 10 o'clock 1t was at GA de- grees.
 The humidity was also pretty high this morning-87 per cent. at 10 o'clock, or per cent. higher than at the same hour yesterday. As to the tempera- lures Of July 27 in past years, the cold est day previously recorded was in 1884, when on July 27 the thermometer regis- tered 61 degrees. Of course there have been colder days In past years, and once the thermometer is said to have gone down as low as 56 degrees but that was great many years ago, and there are not many such performances registered in the black book in the weather bureau
 St. Swithin may have something to do with this rain, and there are many who declare that he is to blame for it, but the weather bureau men deny that they have any record of the old bishop of Winchester They say that they have no record of his name on the books and know very little about him.
 The only weather men they know at oo broduWdy are EliaS B. Dunn, who is off on his vacation, and therefore not responsible for this weather, and his assistant, MT. Emery. who, in the ab- sence of his chief, has been holding the reins of power and powers of rain in his hands.
 July 15 was St Swithins day. It rained then and it has rained every day since then.
 There is clear weather west of the Mississippi river, and when the storm now centered over the lake regions gets through it's work there is chance of a cessation in the rain
 The indications, though, are for rain tonight and tomorrow, for stationary | temperature and easterly winds. C A.