Evening star., 1901-07-26

Unsettled Weather; Light Northeast
to EaSt Winds,

Forecast till pm. Saturday.-For the
District of Columbia, Delaware and Mary
land, unsettled weather, showers tonight
and Saturday; light northeast to east
winds.
For Virginia, unsettled weather, showers
tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight in
southern portion; light northeasterly
winds.
Weather conditions and general FORE
cast-The hot wave continued Thursday
over the corn belt with maximum tempera-
lures between ninety-five degrees and 1872
degrees, and there was no rain beyond
few scattered showers and thunder storms
in western Nebraska, southeastern Kansas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, southwestern Mis-
souri, and northern Ohio. North of the corn
belt moderate temperatures continued with
quite general thunder storms, heavy rains
having occurred in southwestern WiScon-
sin and in portions of the Michigan penin
sula. There were also showers in the lower
lake region, middle Atlantic and west gulf
states, the southwest and the extreme cen
trail west.
There will be showers tonight and Satur-
day in the south Atlantic and the greater
portion of the middle Atlantic states;
showers tonight in the lower lake region,
and tonight or Saturday in the gulf states.
Temperatures will continue moderate
over these districts. In the Ohio valley the
weather will continue fair and warm.
On the middle Atlantic coast the winds
will be light to fresh northeasterly; on the
south Atlantic and gulf coasts variable,
and on the lower lakes light to fresh east
ery.
Steamers which depart today for Europe
an ports will have fresh winds, mostly
northeasterly and becoming variable with
showers to the Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Tin
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Baltimore, 200; Mar
quette, 14S; Detroit, 1.32 La Crosse, 2.46;
Jupiter. 40; Puerto Principe, w. l., 2.12;
Prescott Ark, 1.52; Alexandria, La, Ito;
Amite La, 16O; Natchez, Miss, ESQ; Ard
more, Ind. Ter, 1.04.
Records for Twenty-FOur Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Juy 25, pm, 93; pm,
II; 12 midnight. r. July 20, 4 am, 20; S
a. m, II; II noon, 20; pm. 81 Maximum,
SO, at pm. July 20; minimum, 70. at
am, July 26.
2995; IL midnight 5000. July 26, am,
2995; am, 1902; noon, 29.9o; pm,
1895.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water at
8 a.m.-Great Falls, temperature, 81; con-
dition, 49, receiving reservoir, temperature,
81; condition at north connection, 8; con-
dition at south connection, 5; distributing
reservoir, temperature, 49, condition at iu-
fluent gate house, 8; effluent gate house. 8.
Tide Table.
Tcday-Low tide, 1O:42 am. and 1O:42
pm; high tide, 3:i4 a m. and 4:07 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide II "a am. and 11:36
pm; high tide, 4:36 am. and 5:12 p.m
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 453 am; sun sets,
7:20 pm.
Moon sets, 1:22 am. tomorrow.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 4:54 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 fif-
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty five minutes before sunrise
Up-River Water.
The Baltimore and Ohio agent at Har-
per's Ferry reported the Potomac river
cloudy and the Shenandoah river muddy at
| that point today.