Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-28
WARMER TONIGHT.
Clearing, With Lower Temperature
Thursday; High Winds.

Clearing. With Lower Temperature
Thursday, High Winds.
Forecast till s pm. Thursday: For the
District of Columbia, eastern Pennsylvania
New Jersey, Delaware Maryland and vir-
gnia, rain or snow and warmer tonight;
clearing, with lower temperature Thurs
| day; increasing and high easterly Winds
| shifting Thursday to northwesterly.
Special Weather Bulletin.
Snow has fallen to a depth of eight to fif-
teen inches In Illinois, northern Indiana
and eastern Missouri, and special reports
received at noon indicate that heavy snow
and high winds will seriously interfere with
traffic from northern Ohio over western
Pennsylvania and lower lake region and
| the interior of New York tonight and in
New England late tonight and Thursday.
In eastern Pennsylvania. New Jersey,
| Maryland and Virginia temperature condi-
tions favor rain, changing tonight to snow.
WILLIS L. MOORE,
Chief U. S. Weather Bureau.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
The storm which occupied western Texas
Tuesday morning has advanced to the Mis-
sissippi river. and is central this morning
about midway between CAIRO and Memphis
with lowest reported barometric pressure
% 20 inches. In advance of this storm rain
has fallen, with rising temperature. in the
Ohio valley and thence over the middle and
east gulf and south Atlantic states. In the
middle and west gulf states the rainfall has
been heavy. In the middle and upper Mis-
sissippi valley and over Lake Elrie south
ern Michigan and southern Lake Michigan
heavy snow has fallen.
Throughout the western states clearing
and colder weather is reported, with tenn
peratu below zero in the Red River of the
North valley and over eastern South Da-
kota.
bia, and ram is reported in the north Pa
cif1c coast states.
Along the middle gulf coast high south
ery winds prevailed last night On the
west gulf coast high southerly winds have
shifted to northwest.
The indie atoms that the Mississippi
valley storm will move northeastward over
the Ohio valley. attended by heavy snow in
the lower lake region and the north At
lantic states, by rain or snow in the middle
Atlantic states. and by rain in the south
Atlantic states. In the Ohio valley rain
will change to snow. with high easterly,
shifting to much colder northerly winds
In the gulf states rain will be followed by
clearing and much colder weather with
temperature about freezing to the coast
line by Thursday morning.
Along the New England coast the winds
will shift to easterly and increase in force.
with probl by heavy snow tonight and
Thursday. On the middle Atlantic coast
rain, with high easterly winds will prevail
tonight, possibly followed by snow furries
Thursday. On the south Atlantic coast high
southeast to south winds and rain will be
followed Thursday by clearing and colder
weather and winds shifting to northwest
ery.
Storm signals displayed from Browns
Vile to Eastport, and cold wave signals
are displayed in central and northern Ala
bama central and northern Mississippi,
| northeastern Louisiana, central and eastern
Arkansas and central and western parts of
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Special warnings of heavy snow have been
sent to New York and New England the
upper Ohio valley and lower lake region.
The following heavy prpcinif3 fiop lin
inches) has been reported during the past
| twenty-four hours: Springfield. H. 1.72;
Kansas City. 100: ST. Louis. 1.i2: Little
Rock, Lie; Nicksburg, 166; Keokuk, 1.16.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm yesterday:
Thermometer-February 27-4 pm. %: S
pm, 20; IL midnight. 2l. February 2s-4
| an, y: am, p; u noon. Sc; pm, IS
Maximum, IS, at pm, February IS: min
imum, 49, at 9 pm, February -.
pm, 3073; - midnight. 070. February
2S-4 am. 1906; 8 am. 1862; noon, 30 -
= pm, 3045.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at 8
am: Great Falls, temperature 35; condi-
ton, 3: receiving reservoir, temperature
81: condition at north connection, Z; condi-
ton at south connection, 4: distributing res
ervor. tempera ture. "a; condition at infu-
ent gate house ,; effiuent gate house, .
Tide Table.
Today-L1w tide. 1:0I am and :2S pm;
high tide $50 In. and 7:25 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, SO am. and 2:2O
p. m; high tide, 30 am. and s15 pm.
The sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 6:35; sun sets. 5:51.
New moon 6:25 am. tomorrow.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 6:34
inc City Lights.
Gas lamps all lighted by $50 pm: e-tin-
gushing begun at 5:41 am. The lighting is
begun one hour before the time named.
Arc lamps lighted at 6:15 pm; extin-
guished at 500 m.