The times., 1898-07-03
HOT TIME IN THE OLD I0V'
One of the Warmest Days Ever
Known in Washington.
YESTERDAYS HEAT RECORD
Washington the Hottest Place in
the whole Country, With But One
ExceptiOn-No Relief in Sight-one
Hundred md Five Degrees on
Pennsylvania Avenue.

Washington was the hottest place In the
United States yesterday with the single
exception of Phoenix, Ariz.
Washington's official thermometer read
l01 IL degrees at o'clock in the after
noon.
Phoenix, Ariz., is always the banner
hot place of the country. Phoenix yes
terday had l02, half degree hotter than
Washington.
Other places usually hot, like Cairo,
H.. Chicago, St. Louis and Chattanooga,
Tenn, strung along three TO ten degrees
cooler than Washington. The nearest ap-
proach TO Washington's weather was
Parkersburg. ". Va, which has an even
100.
On Pennsylvania Avenue and other
streets downtown between the high
buildings, with the concrete rejecting the
sunlight, the official record had nothing
in common with the reality. One of the
thermometers in the sun on Fifteenth
Street registered 100 Several on Penn
sylvania Avenue, in the shade yesterday
/ afternoon, went up TO l05. This was the
heat that pedestrians felt
The official records show that since
weather records were kept Washington
! has only had two hotter days than yes
terdAy On the 7th of September, 1884, the
| Thermometer went up 20 114. This was
! the hottest day. The hottest July day on
record was in 1887 when the temperature
reached 103. on the 18th.
These general facts agree in every way
! with the way people fets ABOUT yesterday,
/ except that there is no one in Washington
who viii acknowledge that there was ever
! a hotter day. Washington suffered yes
terday and used profanity and ice water.
J The ice water and the profanity both
made people hotter still.
The ice wagons and the soda fountains
! did the best business of the see3on-
! Starched shirts were at a discount Some
! people in the back districts didn't wear
| shirts of any description.
The worst feature OF the whole weather
| situation is that the weather sage prom
Uses no relief for today. The official pre-
diction for today is:
| Fair weather Sunday; continued high
| temperature; light southerly winds
Prof Bigeiow, at the Weather Bureau
! says In addition to this, that probably
| yesterdays record Is TO be repeated today,
| and that possibly IL will be excelled.
| There is not thunderstorm in sight, and
| not cooling breeze. Ee will not pre-
dict when there will be any moderation
| OF the tOrrld neat
| The reason for the hot wave is, scien-
| tifcaly. that the only breezes are from
! the South, over a stretch of hot country.
They get hotter as they come North.
! There is no movement Of the air from
the mountains in the West Also, the
| air is very dry, and the sun gets through
| il easily.
The dryness of the air prevents the ex-
tremity OF suffering from the weather,
| however With .uch a temperature II
! there were moisture in the air. there
| would be many cases of heat prostra-
| tion. There were no fatal cases yester-
day. ard very few people were overcome
The local temperature for yesterday
was as follows:
Midnight, 81; o'clock a. m. 70:
O'Clock, "a; 6 o'clock. 10: o'clock, SO; Il
| O'Clock. 90; noon. 81; q o'clock D. m, 80
3 o'clock. 1ol IL; O'Clock, 100; 6 O'Clock
80; S o'clock, 81.
Maximum, l01 1-2; minimum, "a; rela-
tive humidity. s a. m, %; 2 p. m, 35;
p. m.. 30.
The maximum in other cities was as
| follows: Albany, 80; Philadelphia. "a
Norfolk, 96; Charlotte. 9S: Jacksonville
80; Augusta, 80; Key West, Sc; Atlanta
81; Tampa, "a; Montgomery. 81; New Or
leans, 80; Knoxville. 9S; Memphis, 81
Parkersburg, 100; Cincinnati, 96; Chica-
go. 80: st. Louis 81: Cairo, 81
In Winnemucca, Nevada. there was 9
light frost yesterday morning. The tber.
mometer went down below 40 The wealth.
er was cold in Utah and Wyoming also
and cool in Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and
| Nebraska Florida had cool weather.