The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-16
TORRID WEATHER IN THE WEST.
Absence of Rain Results in the De
straetion of Crops.

The Weather Bureaus report for the
week ending yesterday morning was is
sued this afternoon. 1t shows that the
States Of the Middle Rocky Mountain re
gion and Missouri and Mississippi Valleys
have experienced another. the third con-
secutive. week Of intense heat. the maxi
rnrim temperatures over a large part Of
these districts ranging above 100 degrees
daily during the week, many stations re-
porting from 1c) 20 JOG degrees With an
almost entire absence of rain the crops
in The region named above nave been sub
iected to most unfavorabIe conditions In
the States Iyirg Immediately TO the east
ward OF the Mississippi River very high
temperatures have also prevailed, but the
heat has been less intense and its effects
no, so serious as in the districts to the
westward on tbs Atlantic Coast very ia
voTabIe temperature conditions have pre-
vailed with abundant II yins. excessive and
damaging in portions OF the Middle and
South Atlantic states. On the Pacific
/ Coast it has Dcen cool and dry with frost
IL Washington OF the 9Th.
The corn crop as a whole in the great
corn States Of the central valleys has ma
teTiaIly deteriorated, and has sustained
serious injury over the western portion of
the corn belt, especially in Missouri. Ne
braska, Kansas and Oklahoma. A very
large part of the crop is late. however,
and this has withstood the trying condi-
tons of drought and heat remarkably
wei. and with early rains will still make
a fair crop This IS particularly apple
able 10 iowa, Nebraska. and portions Of
Kansas and northern Missouri
. IN the Missouri and Mississippi Val
ieys. eastern portion of the upper Michi-
gan Peninsula. over the central Rocky
Mountain region, and northern portion Of
the west Gulf States, the average
daily excess amounted to more than six
degrees per day, and ranged from six to
twelve degrees i'll the Missouri Valley
Nearly normal temperatures prevailed in
southern Texas. Florida. the Ohio Valley,
southern New England, and over the
western portion of the Plateau region.
Over much the greater part OF the
country between the Mississippi River and
the Rocky Mountains, and also in the
4. States Immediately to the eastward in
1 Guiding Alabama and portions of Georgia
the maximum temperatures exceeded 100
degrees, and in portions of the Gulf
States and Missouri Valley ranged from
100 TO l05 degrees at numerous stations. III
degrees being reported from Columbia
No. Maximum temperatures Of 100 de-
I y
from the Sth to the 18th in the region
embraced by the middle Rocky Mountain
slope. lower Missouri ard central Miss
ississippi Valleys, the region covered by
these unusually high temperatures being
greatest on the I1th and 18th, extending
on the aforementioned date from South
Dakota southeastward to the central and
east Gulf coast, the readings ranging
from Iy0 20 Ig6 degrees In the Atlantic
coast district the maximum temperatures
were generally below 95 degrees, and on
the middle Atlantic and southern coast
ranged from 70 TO 50 degrees
The report further says that abundant
rains fell along the Atlantic Coast from
New Jersey southwark TO northern Flor
iea and in portions Of southern Texas
the rainfall in southern Virginia and
North Carolina being exceptionally heavy,
ranging from four TO seven inches. over
the northern portion of the Gulf States
and generally throughout the central
valleys, there was. little or no rain. On
the Pacific Coast there was as usual at
this season. general absence of pre-
cipitation
The seasonal precipitation from March
1 TO date G37 days. continues decidedly
deficient throughout the central valleys,
central and west Gulf States, over the
greater part OF the Lake region, and gen
( orally throughout the Plateau and Pa
cifc Coast districts From the west Gulf
Coast northeastwsrd 70 the lower Mis-
souri and central Mississippi Valleys the
seasonal precipita ton is less than 90 per
cent OF the average, and over consider
able areas in this region it falls below 30