Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-22
ANOTHER RECORD FOR HEAT
sultry Sunday scorohes 0mahaus with
Unexpected TOrridity.
MAXIMUM or NINETY.THREE is REACHED
One of AprITs Meteorological Franks
overwheIms the City with n breath
Like tina of the Baby
oman Furnace.
Maximum. 90 above,

Maximum, SO abovei
summerr The real thlngl Not long,
ORA but sincere and genuine while
II lasted. That is the history OF yesterday.
Omaha seemed engulfed In a hot wave from
the tropics that came with misehievous
abruptness and caught folks only half pre-
pared.
At Z a. m. the government thermometer
registered IS above and the Man said
"Umph!" At II o'clock Il registered 70
above and Man said "Phewl" At 4:A5
o'clock II registered 80 above and Man said
well, never mind what he said. II will
be sufficient to know that II was something
about heat. At 9 o'clock It had fallen again
to SO and the Man began to breathe easier.
During the night the temperature fell
appreciably, though a strong wind con-
tinued to blow.
record Tor Several Years.
Omaha had an experience somewhat SINH
lar to this a year ago. In 1901 the maximum
for April II was ~ above at 2 D. m, for
April IS IL wes "a at 8 p. M. for April 10
It was "a at 2 p. m. and for April 20, which
was a year ago yesterday, II was SO at 4
p. m. The Welsh table OF temperatures,
taken at even hours, for this particular
day this year and in years past. reads:
1902. 1901. 1890. 1893. 1895.
NIL $sf!#%% ss$Ss5s!SF: + I 4
From this 1t will be noted that the April
20 Of 1902 Is 20 degrees warmer than the
next warmest April 20 in Eve years. An
other circumstance that made humanity
feel the condition with extraordinary acute
ness yesterday was the fact that there have
been no previous very warm days this year
to prepare the unbrowned cuticles for such
an ordeal. The previous high mark for
1902 was II, registered at 5 o'clock last
Thursday. The month opened. with the
moderate maximum Of 40 and fingered In
the forties and ffties for the first two
weeks. For last week the maximums were
Sunday, Sc; Monday, 80; Tuesday, 54'
Wednesday, So; Thursday, II; Friday, S.;
Saturday, 81.
what the Day Brought Out.
The effect of the blast in Omaha was to
make summer scenes crowd closely those OF
last winter. Shady hooks became populous;
parks became popular and soda fountains
became the Meccas of thirsty thousands.
Milady had out her openwork waist; the
head Of the house had out his o~penwork
hose-and the hired man had out his open
work GROWER" cut wide at the neck and
very deep down the front and back.
The chap whose salary isn't nearly as
large as bis honest hands nor ingenuity as
great as his feet plodded about in the in
evitable, heavy black suit, while the pers-
~plration trickled from his crown to his
soles and made him feel like courtplaster.
The other chap whose salary 10 larger than
either his hands, his feet or possibly his
head, was also right out In plain sight to
get all that was coming to him on the
strength of a new rig-up, which In color
matched the seasoning on a custard pie. but
which in appearance matched nothing else
on the Lords green earth.
Very few knew just how hot the day was
and OF the others only about one man in
each ten was brave enough to confess in
seriousness the figure he had in mind.