Evening star., 1901-09-16
FRESH WESTERLY WINDS.

Fair and Cooler Tonight and Tues
day.
Forecast till s pm. Tuesday.-For the
District Of Columbia, eastern New York,
eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir-
ginia, fair and cooler tonight and Tuesday;
fresh westerly winds
Weather conditions and general forecast.
The West Indian storm has evidently
passed into the Gulf of Mexico through
the Yucatan channel. 1t will probably re-
curve in the gulf, and it is still unsafe for
vessels to cross the gulf during the next
few days.
The storm center in the north has turned
northeastward toward Hudson bay. but
the pressure continues markedly low over
Lake Superior. The storm caused high
winds over the lakes during Sunday, and
there were general showers over the north
ern half of the country, except in the mid
die slope There were also showers in
the southern states.
The temperatures have risen in the At
lantic states and the southwest and have
fallen elsewhere east of the Rocky noun
tains. Killing frosts occurred In southern
southeastern Idaho.
The weather will be fair and cooler to-
night and Tuesday in the Ohio valley, low
er lake region, the middle Atlantic states
and New England. In the southern states
there will be showers.
On the New England and middle Atlantic
coasts the winds will be fresh southwest to
west; on the south Atlantic tscoast fresh
and mostly southerly; on the east gulf
coast fresh easterly. and on the lower lakes
fresh to brisk westerly, SLOWLY diminish
ing. Il" sIe
Steamers which depart today for Euro
and fair weather to the Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Tin
inches) has been reported during the past
twentyfour hours: Whites River, LOO; Mar
quette. LIP; Galveston, 1.29;i Knoxville.
LOO; Trinidad, 2.26. II Ius
am. Sunday: Nashville, 20si Little Rock.
1.24; Corpus Christi. 1.54; Knoxville, 1.O2;
Galveston. 2.2o; Palestine. a.5oa
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings Of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-fonr hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Septembe Is. pm. 90; s
pm. 70: IL midnight. 70. September 16,
am, 81; 8 am, Il; II noon. So; pm, 81.
Maximum, 90, at 4 pm, september 10;
minimum, o. at am, September 49,
Barometer-September Is, pm, 1882;
pm, $3.50; II midnight, 29.94. Septem-
ber 16, am. 29.97; s am, 3O.O6; noon,
5000; pm, 299S.
Mercury Registers 30.
The temperature registered today by
House Herrmann's standard thermometer
am, 50; II noon, Sc: pm, 90.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at 8
am: Great Falls-Temperature, 75; condi-
ton. 81. Receiving reservoir-Temperature
76; condition at north connection, 13; condi-
tion at south connection. 10 Distributing
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II; condition at in
fluent gate house, q; effluent gate house,
Tide Table
Today-Low tide, 400 am. and 1926 pm
high tide, 1910 am. and 1O:30 pm.
TOmorrow-Low tide. 4:5S am. and 500
pm; high tide, 1O:37 am. and 11:O5 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 5:41 am; sun sets. 600
pm.
Moon sets, 1865 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 5:42 am.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tinguishing begun one hour before sunrise.
All arc and incandescent lamps lighted hf-
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-fve minutes before sunrise.