The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-29
WEI, BUT NOT THE WsTTEs7.
sally Hss o.Ao Inches OF Rain to IT'S Credit
Since the nth.

Sally mas eco Inches OF Rain 70 Its Credit
Since the nth.
Member Of tho st. Swithin's Umbrella Trust
were tho only folks in this latitude who were
happy yesterday. The black mushrooms sprang
up everywhere. Some persons had their own
umbrellas and others-wel. as Ham said to
Japhet on . wet day. "Where did he get itf'
referring, perhaps. to Noshs CAMP. 1t was the
old story Of leadcn skies and intimations of .
second Deluge.
Between I O'Clock yesterday afternoon. when
q series OF thunder showers began. and 8 o'clock
at night, 1.50 inches of rain fell. and at mid
night the fall had been 2.46 inches. Tho wind.
which had been ~oasterly for several days. shifted
to tho quarter from which the showers came.
From Z o'clock in tho afternoon until mid
night It was either from the northwest or north.
edging at the last into the northeast. Between
9 and 10 o'clock tho rain came in sheets, cat
aracts, and torrents, and luckless folks who had
accumulated all the moisture their clothes and
skins could hold, simply walked calmly through
it or stood in it and. looked as forlorn as q
dIenched rooster in q BARNARD.
y there 10 any doubt In your mind that these
Weather Bureau and ask the man in charge to
let you see the records; Ks, You wi will I'm find that that ! the the
S SI,,I IanGgsasss ss says; there TS WAS q prfSs i!,
fS72.. when 9.45 inches of rain flooded this
neighborhood. These records are for the whole
of July. The record with which Assistant
Farmer Emery had to do last night 10 for only
eighteen days of the month. He was not officially
avian that any rain had fallen hero on July Is,
81. 6within's day, or on the two days succeed:
ing; nevertheless, some rain did fall on all
those days In Brooklyn. 1t was not much, but
It was enough to warrant the devotees OF tho
damp saint in declaring that there was
going- to be forty days moro Of 1t. Tho
record for the fifteen days that wero
worth counting by the Weather Bureau
shows that there wero heavy showers on July
ID, u, and Is. when LIS inches, Las inches,
and Zoe inches Of rain fell, and that since land
including) July IL $40 inches have fallen, with
three more days in tho month to DO heard from.
There was no rain before the 18th.
Tho reason for the persistent wetness about
New York may be found In the weather condi-
tions In the neiRhborhood of the Gulf OF ST. Law.
rence and about the lake regions. A low pressure
has been loafng around Lakes Erie and On
Cario for several weeks. 1t has spread this way,
and has extended seaward and down the coast
~ far % Virginia. The high pressure over the
St. Lawrence has not been high enough to push
the clouds Of low pressure away. II the high
would only develop q really altitudinous barom-
eter, we might soon have some sunshine and q
Bemblance Of summer conditions
There was q break at midnight In the storm
clouds In tho northwest, and the stars were visi-
BILE around masses of floating vapor, but Mr..
Emery was not inclined, with his barometer
registering only 90. 80, to say q the rain Is over"
That all rain records for July will be broken is o
probability that might be bet on.