Evening star., 1901-05-13
FAIR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY,.
Moderate Temperature: Fresh North
westerly Windk

westerly Winds.
Forecast till s pm. Tuesday-For the Dis
trict Of Columbia and Maryland fair to-
night and Tuesday; moderate temperature;
fresh northwesterly winds.
For Virginia, fair tonight and Tuesday
cooler tonight in southeast portion fresh
northWeSterly winds.
| Weather conditions and general foreca st
The weather is clear and cool this morn
ing in the Ohio valley, the lake region ex-
ceptlng western New York, the upper Mis-
sissippi valley and the northwest. Show
ers have fallen during the night in the gulf
states and from the upper Ohio valley
northeastward to New England. Rain is
still falling in eastern New England and
western New York. The temperature has
fallen from degrees to II degrees in the
lower lake region, and risen about the
same amount in the Dakotas and eastern
Montana.
The weather will clear rapidly this after
noon in New England with somewhat lower
temperature. There will proba bly, be thun-
der storms and local rains in the southwest
and along the gulf coast tonight cOntinu-
ing in the southwest Tuesday The tenn
perature will continue low in the lower lake
region tonight, and light frost is indicated
in exposed places.
The winds on the New England coast will
be fresh to brisk south to southwest On
the middle and south Atlantic coast mostly
fresh westerly winds will prevail On the
lower lakes the winds will be brisk west to
northwest
Steamers which depart today for Euro
pean ports will have fresh westerly winds,
partly cloudy and cool weather to the
Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Gin
lnches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Texarkana, Ark / so:
Helena. Ark, LOS.
During the twenty four hours ending g
m. Sunday: Halifax, 1.34; Sherman, Tex,
2.2S.
Records for Tventy-FOur Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at I'm. yesterday:
Thermometer: May 124 prn I8. Snm
66; u midnight. 62. May 13-4 am, SO; s
am. "a: - noon, 60; pm, 60. Maximum
70, at pm. May II. Minimum-52, at I
am. May 13.
Barometer-May 12-4 pm. 1915; pm,
2971: u midnight. 2973. May 13-4 am
1915. am, 29.S7; noon, 29SS: , pm
$685. ''
Down Town Temperature.
Afheck's standard thermometer register
ed today as follows: am, 50; l. M, Il !;
PPM. 75.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at 8
am: Great Falls, temperature, 83: conli-
ton. 1: receiving reservoir, temperature, 66:
condition at north connection, l; condition
at soutn connection. II; distributing reser-
Vo1r, temperature, 81; condition at influent
gate house. SO; etfluent gate house, 36.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, 9:3s am. and 9:56 pm.
high tide, 3:O5 Am and 3:2S pm
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1O:35 am and 1914
pm.; high tide, 4:Ol am. and 4:2O pm
The Sun and Moon,
Today-Sun rises, 4:47 am; sun sets. TOO
pm.
Moon rises. 2:10 I'm. tomorrow
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 4:46 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 fir-
teen minutes after sunset and extnguished
forty-fve minutes before sunrise.