The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-05
RELIEF Is PROMISED
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IMPORTATION FROM EoRECAsTER
LYONS BUREAU PREDICTS DIS
sIPATION OF HOT WAVE
ANNUAL RECORD OF HEAT
Low Barometer Remaining station
AIRY Primary Cause of Hot Spell
Excessive Heat I'm Mon
tena and DakOtas.

The good people of st. Paul who have
been sweltering during the past week
may console themselves with the knowl-
edge that the present hot wave will be
dssipated some time during today when
/ vast quantity of cool air. which has
been circling to the north and west, is
/ scheduled to reach this section of the
! country.
Owing to the presence of refreshing
breezes the fact is not generally known
that the week just ended has been the
hottest thus far recorded at the local
weather office this season, the thermome-
ter having registered 50 degrees on two
days.
These Two days were Tuesday, the last
day of July, and Friday and although
the humidity was comparatively slight
ON those two dates, the weather was
quite warm enough to satisfy the most
eXacting, and nearly sufficient to clinch
st Pauls title to place in the first d.
vision of summer resorts The humidity
on the other days was adequate to main
tain the notion Of those who swear by
Sidewalk thermometers that the week all
the way through was Jolly hot.
According to the book record kept at
the local weather office in the Chamber
of Commerce building Forecaster Lyons
is authority for the statement that the
humidity ranged between so and 80 all
the seven days, an unusual thing for
St Paul.
AS stated, there is cool wave en- route
and unless all signs fail, 1t should make
it's appearance some time this afternoon
After q careful study of maps with
their odd little rings, dotted lines, PEN
ell notations etc, Mr.. Lyons summed up
the contents of Geographic information
received from different points in this
wea ther district, and condensed the in
formation as follows:
The exceeding low barometer has re-
manned quite stationary the whole of the
week over the Dakotas and Northwest
Canada, having moved but little. This
is the primary cause of the hot spell
which has driven the street gamins and
many others to the free baths and has lent
additional impetus to electric fans. Now
the winds have begun to move, as shown
by the fact that the thermometer at
Minnedosa. Manitoba, dropped yesterday
to AZ degrees, fall of 16 degrees over
night and as a result this low barometer
area Is shaken up, the winds change, and
the cool wave starts in motion. 1t Is
moving this way, according to the best
calculations at the big building on Rob
ert street, and tonight st. Paul Will ma
sleep among the possibilities. The limo
cent little post cards about the once
buildings and other public pla' which
yesterday bore the legend 81 Ter show
ers," will today read 'el and cooler.
Mr. Lyons explains 1t the thunder
showers if they ca,' were purely local
and even if the ~osphere was partially
cooled by Il it would become hot
again ,on as the sun made it's APP
pc" oe.
nus in opposition to a generally ac-
cepted theory. local thunderstorms do
not, except for the nonce, dispel the heat
Advices from Montana and the Dakotas
show that save for the farmers who are
raising corn, the natives have been pear
ing their burden with more resignation
than comfort The thermometer during
the past seven days has recorded from
100 to 112 degrees with little or no let
up. Relief has come to them. however
and the cool wave has by this time con-
WINGED them that life is worth living.
There has been little or no ram IN
this section for the past few days TO
ameliorate the suffering from heat, the
precipitation sheet showing but a small
rainfall, and that in Montana