Evening star., 1899-04-01
Month Comes in on Twenty-Eight-
Mile Gale.
TEMPERATURE NEAR FREEZING POINT
Easter Likely, However, to Present
a Smiling Face.
NJ ARCH A BLU STERE r

Balmy April made it's eighteen hundred
and ninety-ninth advent in this section of
weather-benighted country in wintry fash
ion on the wings of a twenty-eight-
wind, the accompanying temperature rang
ing down near the freezing point during
the early morning hours. While the entry
of the new month might have been more
propitfous, April was devoutly welcomed
and there were many mental celebrations
of the death of the old lion, March.
1t is believed now that the fearful wealth
er of many weeks past Is finally at an end.
4 beautiful Easter is promised, for today
there is not even the slightest disturbance
on the weather map. The temperature will
remain about the same as today, comfort
able and bracing A repetition of last year S
shower, which came just at the close of
the Easter morning services and ruined
many an exquisite spring frock, is not
looked for.
Merciless March maintained it's malodor-
Gus reputation this year in manner cal
culated to make sinners of the worst order
out of the greatest religious enthusiast.
The month was productive of every kind
meteorological world. Snow, rain, wind
and hail were the features of the maximum
portion of the thirty-one days calendared
for the month of inaugurationS and St.
been luxury enjoyed at rare Intervals.
Weather Bureau Record.
At the weather bureau record Is kept
of the gyrations and queer vagaries of the
elements in their relations TO the atmos-
phere within the District of Columbia The
records for the past month make intensely
interesting reading, giving, as they do, an
exact and excellent idea of the troubles
through which Washingtonians have but
recently passed.
The suns scintillating rays failed to find
their way through densely dull Clouds fif-
teen days during March. Nine days were
partly cloudy ard but seven were clear, a
record which the month of disagreeable
manners may well be proud of.
While not much of g. record-breaker IN
the point of extremes one way or the other,
March, 1892 is accorded the plume for
yariabieness. There have been many wide
ranges of the thermometer during day,
turning happy retirers into raging r1sers.
The highest temperature recorded was q
degrees, on the 18th, nearly summer heat.
The minimum for the same day was oil de-
grees. The lowest mercurial figure was ~
degrees on the 7th. The greatest range oc-
CURED March 10, when the thermometer
took a tumble from % degrees down to ID
degrees. The highest temperature ever re-
corded was S3 degrees, March %, 1894; the
lowest on record being degrees, March 4,
1873.
The March Gales.
March always famous for its plethoric
winds, was very blowy this year. The
seventh day of the month found the gov
ernment thermometer twisting and turning
at a great rate, endeavoring to record the
speed of forty miles an hour, which was
attained by the wind The highest wind
ever known for the month in Washington
was a forty-eight-mile gale blowing from
the northwest in 1878. The average hourly
velocity for the month just ended was ten
miles, very stiff city breeze.
Four and one-half inches of snow fell
March {. The total rainfall for the month
was four inches and sixteen-hundredths.
March, 1891 made the rainfall record of S.Si
inches, while March, 1888, had less than an
inch of rain during Its career.
The mean temperature for March was AZ
degrees. At present there is no indication
of warm weather. Winter is about done
however, and there will be steady rise In
the mercury from this time on. At least
that is the prediction of the weather bu-
reau.