Evening star., 1901-07-23

Light NOrtherly Winds, Becoming
Variable, Indicated.

Forecast till pm. Wednesday.-For the
District Of Columbia, eastern New York.
eastern Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Della
ware and Maryland fair tonight and We'd
nesday; light nOrtherly winds, becoming
variable.
For Virginia, fair tonight and Wednes-
day; variable winds, mostly light southerly
on the coast.
Weather conditions and general forecast.
There has been abatement of the hot
wave, and maximum temperatures above
100 degrees prevailed generally throughout
the corn belt on Monday. In the Ohio val
ley, central Illinois and central Missouri
the maximum temperatures exceeded all
previous records of the weather bureau.
Temperatures were also high in the east
and extreme west. In addition to the heat
the weather continues almost entirely dry,
except in the southern portion of the middle
Atlantic states, and from the south Allan
tic states westward through Arizona, where
there We're local thunder storms.
The weather will be fair tonight IN the
east and south. and fair on Wednesday, ex-
cept in the south Atlantic and gulf states,
where occasional local thunder storms are
probable.
Temperature changes will be unimport-
ant.
On the middle Atlantic coast light west
to north winds will become variable: on
the south Atlantic coast the winds will be
light and mostly southerly; the gulf
coast they will be "ariable, and on the low
Ell lakes light north to east
Steamers which depart today for Euro
pean ports will nave light to fresh west
erly winds and fair weather to the Grand
Banks
The following heavy precipitations Gn
fnches) has been reported during the past
tive nty-four hours: Havana, LOG; Calves
ton, 3OS; Key West, 1.42.
Records for Txenty-FOur Hours
The following Of ba
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-July D. pm, 90; pm,
So; midnight, so. July D. am, II; 8 a. m,
81; IL noon, 81; 2 pm, 50.
Maximum, go 1T pm. July %; mini
mum, II, at 5 am. July %.
Barometer-Ju1y 70 pm, 29.91: pm.
1892; am, 2933; noon, 1886; pm.
29o4.
Downtown Temperature.
Readings today of the standard thermom-
eter at House & Hermann's, 7th and l
streets northwest, were as follows:
y am, 50; ~ m, 92 pm, 96
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of waite. at 8
am: Great Falls-Temperature, 80; condi-
tion, 6. Receiving reservoir-Temperature
So, condition at north connection 3; condi-
tion at south connection, 3. Distributing
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81; condition at IN
fluent gate house, g; effluent gate house, ::
Up-RiVer Water.
The Baltimore ard Ohio agent at Har
per's Ferry reported both rivers muddy to-
day.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, 7:47 am. and 1853 pm. :;
high tide, 1851 am and 1:13 pm
Tomorrow-Low tide, S:45 am. and S:4S
pm; high tide, las am and 200 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 4:o0 a.m.; sun sets, 7:23
pm.
Noon sets, II 20 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 4:51 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 tif-
teen minutes after sunset and eXtinguiShed
forty-fve minutes before sunrise.