Evening star., 1902-02-19
FAIR TONIGHT.
Thursday Increasing Cloudiness; Light
Westerly Winds.

westerly WINDS.
Forecast till pm. Thursday-For the
District of Columbia and Maryland fair
tonight. Thursday, increasing cloudiness;
light to fresh westerly winds, diminishing.
For Virginia. increasing cloudiness to-
night. Thursday, cloudy in northern, snow
In southern portion; light northwesteriy
winds, becoming northeasterly Thursday.
Weather conditions and general forecast
The storm Of Sunday night has moved to
the Gulf Of St. Lawrence Pressure con-
tinues unusually low at its center, read
ing Of $3.50 inches being recorded at sgd
ney this morning. A second storm has
moved southeastward from Colorado and Is
central this morning on the Texas coast.
The weather has cleared in New England
and eastern New York Light rains nave
fallen in the southwest and Mississippi val
ley and light SHOWS in the central Rocky
mountain region.
Temperature has fallen in New England
and the middle Atlantic states and risen in
the lower Mississippi valley. 1t has also
fallen in the southern slope region.
Rain is indicated for tonight in the lower
Mississippi valley, east gulf states, Georgia
South Carolina and the northwest portion
of Florida and there will be snow or rain
Thursday in Virginia and North Carolina,
and probably rain in Florida. South Caro-
lima and the coast districts Of Georgia:
Temperature will fall tonight In the lower
portion of the south Atlantic states, in
Guiding Florida.
Brisk northwesterly winds will continue
on the New York and New Jersey coasts
tonight and Thursday The winds on the
middle and south Atlantic coasts will con-
tirue from the west, diminishing tonight
and becoming fresh east to southeast on
the south Atlantic coast Thursday. On the
east gulf coast the winds will be fresh east
to south, increasing tonight.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Texas coast.
Steamers which depart today for Euro
pean ports will have fresh to brisk north
westerly winds and fair weather to the
Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation dn
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: st. Johns, 1.S0.
Records for Twenty Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twentyfOur hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
ermometer-February 1S. pm, 80; 8
pm. 28; II midnight, 26. February 10. 4
am. 25; S am, II; noon, %; , pm, q.
Maximum, 81, at 3 pm. February is; mini
mum. II, at I'M. February 19.
Barometer-February IS, pm. 1854;
pm. 2979; II midnight. 29.S1. February
10, am, 29.SS; s am, 5000; noon, 3O.15;
pm, 80. II
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and cOndltlOn or water at
am: Great Falls-Temperature, 80; con-
dition, 36. Dalecarlia acknowledgements
ture, 33; condition at north connection, 36:
condition at south connection, 36. George
town distributing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
80: condition at inf1uent gatehouse. 36; con-
dition at eff1uent gatehouse, 36 Washing
ton city ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 33; condf-
tion at influent, 81; condition at eff1uent, 26.
Tide Table.
Today-IoW tide II: SO am: high tide
sos am and 5:34 pm.
Tomorrow-Iow tide, 1918 am. and 1884
pm; high tide. $40 am. and 6:3 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises. GAO am: sun sets, $40
pm.
Moon sets, 5:12 am. tomorrow.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 6:4S 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 ncandescent lamps lighted fif-
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.