The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-22
CLIMAX is REACHED
SATURDAYS UNPREGEDENTTCD
HEAT RECORD WILL NOT
BE DUPLICATED
LOOK FOR COOLER WEATHER
MI. Lyons, the Observer, Extends the
Comforting Prediction That
ST. PauIs Worst Is
Over

yes, the hot spell reached its climax
Saturday when the thermometer regis
tered 101 said Mr.. Lyons, the man who
guides the weather ship in st. Paul
And" he continued. II think l can
give you the assurance that the tidal
wave has drifted past us and from now
on our weather will be quite tolerable.
L look for the mercury to be dagress
lower Monday than it has been today,
and today the maximum was IS, which
is degrees below the maximum of Sat
urday-a remarkable reduction when you
come to think of it,"
No one found room for complaining of
cold weather yesterday, but a difference
of degrees to the good and famed by
an almost continuous breeze made the
day very bearabIe one indeed for this
season and brought forth from thou
sands Of hearts in st. Paul gratitude and
thanks for partial relief from the in
tense suffering of the day before
In comparison with the days immedi-
ately preceding, wher it was hot enough
to poach eggs on the sidewalk yester-
days breeze was like a cold storage
zephyr, and it looks now as though the
spinal column of the hot wave had at
last been broken.
The suns rays yesterday were tempered
by a gentle and refreshing breeze from
the northwest, which is a good augury,
end the indications are that the warm
spell is about over
On Saturday the mercury registered 101
in the shade, the hottest ever recorded,
at least since the weather service has
been in existence, and July of 1901 will
go down into history as the banner
month 50 far as heat in the Northwest
is concerned.
'The wave which carried with it the
intense heat said Weather Observer
Lyons yesterday, "seems to have been
moving East, and it has now settled over
Illinois and the Middle states Things
are not so bad today, and 1 do not think
that we will be punished with the heat
to any further extent"
The humidity, of moisture, yesterday
was only 90 per cent. which tempered the
rays of Old Sol and made life much more
tolerable The lowest mark reached by
the mercury for the past twenty-four
hours, UP to last evening, was 81 de-
grees, and this was early yesterday
morning.
For today even a more agreeable state
of affairs is predicted, the official fore
cast Indicating that the mercury will
take another header, and it will prob
ably hover about 80 degrees in the shade.
The hottest place in the Northwest
yesterday was at Huron, S. D., where
the mercury was doing business al the
rate of 104 in the shade, so that the den
liens of st. Paul may consider them
selves fortunate for being privileged to
live in such a cool and salubrious eli
mate.
The only rain recorded in tho North
west for several days was at Duluth,
which was visited by local showers dur
ing Saturday night and early yesterday
morning. About an inch of rain fell,
and it was acceptable to the toasted and
par-boiled citizens of that community
usually free from heat.
Even the iceman and the policeman,
who belonged to that privileged class Of
citizens did not suffer from the heat
yesterday as on preceding. days.
AS to the policeman, who has been
wont to stand in the middle of the streets
at the principal crossings, he simply
ceased to WOO the ardent and blistering
rays of the sun, and hied him to the
shade of the most convenient awning.
The iceman, who has been having his
innings Of late, felt happy once more
as his dreams of an ice famine had van
ished, and he now hopes to be able to
replenish the family refrigerator with
customary regularity.