The times., 1899-06-05
A TOUCH OF SUMMER.
The Official Thermometer Register
ed Sc Degrees Yesterday.


Old Sol shining down through cloudless
sky favored Washington with a touch of
summer weather yesterday. 1t was the
first Sunday in June, and, although the
mercury was far below the record mark
on the official instrument at the Weather
Bureau, it was plenty warm enough. The
maximum temperature recorded at the
Weather Bureau was Sc degrees, but
in all parts of the city and even in the
suburbs it seemed much warmer than this.
The heat was felt early in the day and
long before noon outgoing trains and troll
ley cars conveyed hundreds of passengers
to cool hooks in the country. Negligee
shirts were much III evidence among men.
while the ladies wore the daintiest and
lightest summer attire practicable.
The familiar summer day salutat:on,
Warm enough for you?" was revived.
The weather forecaster said that Wash
ington, like most of the cities in the Mid
die Atlantic States, was fortunate in not
having 90-degree weather, but the great
sweltering public nevertheless fe-t
quite certain that the mercury was quiver-
ing around the 94-degree notch. In New
York a maximum OF only so degrees was
noted, while Sc was the highest reading OF
the day in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The South was less fortunate. Almost
q
high temperature. The highest came from
Nashville, Tenn, the brief telegram from
that point reading ninety y-eight degrees"
Chattanooga and Atlanta each reported 90
degree weather, and high temperatures
prevailed throughout North Carolina. The
heat centre was in the lower Mississippi
Valley, and in many towns and cities Sc
we're tnunderstorms, accompanied by heavy
rainfall occurred. At Tampa the precipi-
tation was LA inches, the heaviest in
years at that place. During the afternoon
the temperature at Tampa fell from IS to
70 degrees on account of the deluge. This
will operate it was said by Prof. Hazen
of the Weather Bureau, to keep things cool
here for several days.
The barometrc readings in the North
are very high, and this region of Ligh
pressure is very good thing ior the Mid
die Atlantic States, generally producing
brisk northeasterly winds and keeping the
temperature down. When the high pres
sure centre moves around to the Southern
and Gulf States, warm southerly winds
prevail here and the mercury rushes up
ward.
No very warm weather here is antici-
pated for several days, but the conditions
are such that it is not believed to be very
far in the future.
The warmest weather ever experienced in
Washington during the first decade of
June occurred, according TO the official
charts at the Weather Bureau, on June 3,
1874, when 102 degrees was recorded.
Many old timers recall that year, and rem
iniscences of that warm spell frequently
serve to console them whenever the ther-
mometer leaps upward.
At the Weather Bureau SphinXlike
countenance is maintained by the sages
when they are asked to predict the pros
poets for a warm or cool summer.
Anticipation of the heated spell may have
had something to do with causing the pop
ulace to think that yesterday was hot, but
however this may be, the proprietors of
up-riyer road houses and down-riyer re-
sorts gathered a harvest Of coin.