The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-08-24
BLISTERING HOT.
The Northwest Catches a Dose
of Hot Stuff.
Government Thermometer at ST. Paul
Stood 90 Sunday, Mime.
apolis l01 at E p. m.

Hot hot !! hotl All over the
northwest seems to be the record and
the man with a cake of ice in his hat
was one to be envied. Yesterday fair
ly made things sizzle all over the
northwest, and today is pushing it as
hard second Ice cream and cool
drinks never tasted so good nor were
thew in such demand, and one felt,
when he had a good dish of the frozen
cream, or an iced drink, like the old
topper did, when he wished he had a
throat as long as the Connecticut river.
The Minneapolis Tribune says it was
blistering, red hot day there all day
Sunday and by common consent all
mention of the weather was barred
from conversation. The thermometric
registrations recorded by the Voegeli
caloramiter were as follows; a. M,
70; 6 a. M, 10; 8 a. M, "a; IL a., 80
3 D. M, 90; 6 p. M, 1O1.
The hot spell has lasted more than
two weeks now, and yesterday was the
worst day of them all
mo relief today, probably none
tomorrow, and it may not come for
a week yet - This is the disheartening
information that was given out at the
weather bureau last night after it had
been figured that Sunday was the hot
fest day of the year, and that the
week inst past was record breaker.
The Pioneer Press speaking of the
weather says
In the face of the fact that Minnesota
people are already pretty well par
boiled it begins to look as if the area
of low barometer out in North Dakota
does not propose to move toward the
gulf coast where it belongs. When it
goes on about it's business, down
in Texas somewhere, we will get
breezes straight from the north pole
and the shirt-waist man would. have
to put on his overcoat
For nearly two hours yesterday after
noon, from 80 o'clock on, the thermo
meter that bears the official govern
ment stamp, at st. Paul, on top of a
six story building, registered SO de-
grees The thermometers that were
down on the street level, where they
derived the benefit of the heat refrac-
tion from the pavements and got little
Of the breezes that blew overhead,
registered anywhere from SO to 104
degrees.
The mercury had pretty good
handicap when it started out to make
a century run yesterday morning. Be
ginning at 49, degrees, it logged along
at a very lively rate and at noon it
was wavering between 90 and 90 de-
grees, with an exceedingly bullish
tendency.
But one other town of the northwest
shared the misery of the Twin Cities,
although there were few in which the
temperature did not reach 80 degrees.
Green Bay reported maximum of
So degrees. Huron and Bismarck,
surrounded by the low barometric
area, managed to escape with maxi
mum of 80 degrees
While there has been no tendency
on the part of this area of low baro-
metric condition to move on, and un-
til it does move south we will have
hot weather, it is possible that it may
be hurried away by storm. Present
conditions are ripe for serious atmos-
pheric disturba noes, followed by the
disintegration of the hot wave, and
careful watch is being kept for the in
dications of such conditions. 1t is be-
lieved to be not improbable that some
portion of the northwest will get tor
nado at the close of this heated term