Evening star., 1901-07-31
LOCAL SHOWERS.
Partly Cloudy and Cooler Tonight,
Thursday Fair.

Partly Cloudy and Cooler TOnighty
Thursday Fair.
Forecast till 6 pm. Thursday-For the
District OF Columbia, eastern Pennsylva-
mia, Delaware and Maryland. local showers
this afternoon, partly cloudy and cooler to-
night. Thursday fair; light westerly winds.
For Virginia, local showers this afternoon
In northern and western portions, partly
cloudy tonight, probably showers and cool
er in southeast portion. Thursday, fair:
light to fresh westerly winds.
Weather conditions and general forecast
During the past twenty-four hours there
have been showers in the Ohio, the middle
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys,
states and New England. There were also
light and scattered showers in California,
southwestern Oregon and the extreme
southwest.
The temperatures, as rule, were or 8
degrees lower, except in the middle At
lantic states and New England and tho
extreme northwest; over the latter district
there was a marked rise.
There will be showers this afternoon or
early this evening in the middle Atlantic
states, followed by partly cloudy weather
during the night and fair weather during
Thursday. There. will also be local show
ers In the gulf and south Atlantic states
early tonight or during Thursday after
noon; elsewhere east OF the Mississippi
river the weather will be fair.
Marked high pressure covers the middle
northwest this morning, and the eastern
movement of this high area will operate to
cause fairly moderate temperatures over
the eastern portion Of the country for the
next two and probably three days
On the middle Atlantic coast and lower
lake region the winds will be light 10 fresh
westerly: on the south Atlantic coast light
to fresh south to west and on the gulf coast
light northerly.
Steamers which depart today for Euro
pean ports will have fresh westerly winds
and showers to the Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation TN
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Cincinnati, 1.22; Nash
vile, 1.22; Fort Smith, 19O; Havana. IRA:
Russeilvilie, Ark, 800; Harris. Ark, 1.5O.
Records for Tvventy-Four Hours.
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday.
81 Thsrmometer-Jaiy 80; 4 pm. 81; 8 pm,
an. 70; u noon. 75; pm, a.
Maximum, 05. at pm, July 80; mini
mum, 73. at am, July 81.
., BarometeIaJnly sa NJ ,,sy So pm. 2s.ss; pm.
2ss7: s am. 2s.ss; noon. 2s.s8: pm,
$3.50.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at
am; Great Falls-Temperature, S5; con-
dftion, 80. Receiving reservoir-Tempera-
ture, IS; condition at north connection. 8o:
condition at south connection, So Distrib-
uting reservoir-Temperature 85; condition
at inf1uent gate house. SO; effiuent gate
house, SO.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, 1853 am and 2:s2 p.n,. !.
high tide am. and S:24 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 2:42 am. and 3:12
pm; high tide. S:47 am. and 9.OS pm.
The Sum and Moon.
Today-Sun rises 4:57 am; sun sets 7:15
pm.
Moon rises 7:0S pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 4:5S am.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtta lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tinguishing begun one hour before sunrise.
All arc and incandescent lamps lighted ff-
teen minutes after sunset and extinguislled
forty-five minutes before sunrise