Evening star., 1901-08-26


trict of Columbia. Delaware. Maryland and
Virginia, fair tonight. Tuesday partly
cloudy; light north to northeast winds.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
During the past forty-eight hours there
have been showers, with numerous thunder
storms, in the Atlantic states, the upper
lake region. the upper Mississippi and low
er Missouri valleys, the central ROCKY
mountain region and the northwest. In the
southwest, and also west of the Rocky
mountains, the weather has continued gen.
orally fair.
A warm wave covers the central west and
maximum temperatures above 100 degrees
were quite general Sunday in the middle
slope. In the lake region. the east and
south the temperatures have been mod
crate
There will be showers tonight In the Ohio
valley, the lower lake region and on the
south Atlantic coast, and showers Tuesday
quite generally east of the Mississippi river,
exception the New England and middle At
lantic coasts There will also be showers
tonight in the northern portion of the
southwestern states.
Temperature changes will not be decided.
On the New England and middle Atlantic
coasts the winds will be light and variable
on the south Atlantic coast light easterly,
on the gulf coast variable, and on the lower
lakes variable with possibly occasional
thunder squalls.
Steamers which depart today for Euro
and partly cloudy weather to the Grand
Banks
The following heavy precipitation dn
lnches) has been reported during the past
tWenty-four hours: Savannah, LIS; Hall
fax, 116; Eastport, 100. During the twen-
ty-four hours ending am. Sunday: Port
land, Me-, 2.22; New York, 274; Boston,
2oS Philadelphia, 1.20; Cape May, 142;
Florence, S. c., 4.6i.
records for Twenty-FOur Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours begin
ming at pm. yesterday:
lhermometer-August %. pm. SO; s
pm. "A; IL midnight, IS. August 2s. 4 a. m.
Ga; am, 72; II noon, 81; 2 pm So Max
lmum, S3, at 1:30 pm, August IS; mini
mum, 63, at $50 am August 26
Observation-Disclosures o. p.m 3OO5; s
pm, 3o;0l: II midnight, 3006. August &C.
4 am, 1905; am, 3O.OS; II noon, 3OO5;
p. m, 5000.
Ascends From 20 to SO.
The temperature registered today by
House d Herrmann's standard thermome-
ter was as follows: am, 70; IL noon, S4 !;
pm, SO.
Up-River Water.
The Baltimore and Ohio agent at Har-
pers Ferry reports the Potomac river mud
dy and the Shenandoah very cloudy at that
point today.
Condition of the Water
Temperature and condition of water at 8
am: Great Falls, temperature, rs; condi-
ton, 4; receiving reservoir, temperature, 81 /;
condition at north connection, 2; condition
at south connection, Z; distributing reser-
Voir. temperature, 81; condition at infuent
gate house, 10.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, II :3S am and 11:46
pm; high tide, 4:56 a. m. and 5:17 pm.
TomorroW-LOW tide, 1927 pm; high
tide, 5:4l a. m. and Glib pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 5:22 a. m. sun sets G.4o
Moon sets, 2:56 m. tomorrow
Tomorrow-Sun rises. 5:22 a. m
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset: ex-
unguishing begun one hour before sunrise
All arc and incandescent lamps lighted fif-
teen minutes after sunset and eXtinguished
forty-hVe minutes before sunrise