The times., 1897-09-11
HOTTEST DAY THIS YEAR
Record Was Broken by Old Sol
-s>sterday Afternoon.
The THERMOMETERS aI the Weather
Bureaus Station Regi istered 98
Degrees in the Shade.

The record for the hot weather for the
summer of 1897 in Washington was broken
yesterday at O'Clock, when the mercury
jumped up TO SO degrees at the Weather
Bureau
The cOmpa ra lively cool weather of the
last days of August and the beginning
Of the present month had deuded an un-
suspecting public into the belief that the
warm weather OF summer was practically
at an end, but yesterday afternoon the
people Of Washington We're awakened from
! any such visions of comfort by the antics
! of the weather.
| Yesterday for fully an hour the mercury
1 played around the "a mark, but at
O'Clock all such dallying ceased and the
/ trustw orthy indicator al the Weather BE-
reau jumped to SO degrees or Just three
/ degrees higher than on June 80, the hot
I test day this summer previous to yester
/ day. There was practically air stir
i ring and not cloud TO intercept the
burning rs US of the sun when he opened
| up for business at g Ia.
! By O'clock the mercury had crawled
! up the tube TO II degrees, and it was
then that everybody became aware that
fans and cooling drinks would be tue
order of the day. From this hour the
suffering began, although there was but
4 one prostraticn reported during the day.
TiIaes' man called at the Weather
j Bureau about eo'clock last night andfeund
] Sage William busy forecasting the effects OF
! the Atlantic and Canadian highs on the
/ great Mississippi low.
+ To-day was the hottest day OF the year.
-and we may expect TO have the same heat
untu Sunday. You, see, there is great
area Of low pressure in the Mississippi
Valley that doesn't seem to want to be
dislodged am, as long as this is the case
we viii have the same warm weash.sr
+ that we have been having. We predicted
warmer weather in northeast Maine yes
+ teGdaY, and today there was rise OF
% degrees.
The temperature has continued high
east OF the Mississippi, while there has been
decided fan in the upper lake region.
washington was one OF the six leaders
yesterday that reported a temperature Of
! So. The others in the category are:
Philadelphia, Parkersburg, Pittsburg, ST.
LOUIS, and Nashville. Then followed with
81, Portland, Boston, Albany, Raleigh,
VicKsburG. Little Rock, Palestine, Indiana
polls, Cincinnati Chicago, Springfi eId,
Cairo, and Davenport. TIE recording Of
"a at Portland W as equal u the highest
ever before made during the first decade
| of September At Nantucket the therl
mometer was 30 degrees. or 5 degrees
4 higher than the record at that place.
/ The pressure is high off the South At
| lantic and North Pacific coasts. North
4 of Lake Superior it is low, and also st
4 New foundlaHd, and over the north Of Mon
| tana. The temperature WIN rise in north
! east New England. and there are favor
| able prospects for fall slightly in the
| lower lake region.
There VIII be showers in a strip from
| New Mexico to Lake Superior, IN the
gulf coast. and In Florida. II the low
strip in the Mississippi moves eastward
by Sunday We NAV expect a little showery
| weather, and some relief, othe rwise. there
viii be continued high temperature"