Evening star., 1902-03-17
COLD WAVE COMING.
Fresh Northwest to North Winds In
dicated,

dicated.
Forecast till pm. Tuesday-For the Dis
| trict Of Columbia, eastern Pennsylvania.
| Delaware and Maryland, fair, much colder
tonight, with cold wave. Tuesday fair and
cold; fresh northwest to north winds.
| For Virginia, fair, much colder tonight,
| with cold wave in the interior. Tuesday
| fair and cold; fresh northwest to north
winds.
Weather conditions and general forecast
| The cold wave continues In the northwest
and middle west, and has extended east
| ward through the upper Mississippi valley,
| the Ohio valley and the lake region.
The line of zero temperature extends
| through central Iowa. and minimum Of ~
degrees below zero is reported from the
| Saskatchewan valley. The temporal ures
| states and the southwest.
Rains and SHOWS have been general from
| the Mississippi valley eastward, followed by
| clearing weather in the central valleys;
snow also continued in the northwest.
1t will be decidedly colder tonight and
| Tuesday in the middle, south Atlantic and
east gulf states, with a cold wave over the
| former district. In the Ohio valley and
| lower lake region cold weather will con-
| tinue, with a stin further fall in tempera-
| ture tonight.
| There will be no precipitation of conse-
| quence, except probably snow nurries along
| the lakes
| On the middle Atlantic coast the winds
will be fresh to brisk northwesterly, and
on the south Atlantic and east gulf coasts
fresh northerly winds.
| Storm warnings are displayed on the At
| lantic coast from Delaware Breakwater to
| New York.
| Steamers which depart today for Euro
pean ports will have fresh to brisk west to
northwest winds and colder, cloudy weather
| to the Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Tin
| inches) has been reported during the past
twentyfour hours: Macon, TO; Whining
ton, 1.se: Charleston. 200; Jacksonville,
1.3O; Augusta, 1.64; Norfolk, IA
During the twenty-four hours ending y
| am. Sunday: Knoxville. LA; Atlanta l.5O;
Montgomery, LAB.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings Of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours begin
| ming at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-March 18. pm, "a; pm,
go: II midnight. CO. March II. am. 81;
am, 4s; noon, 48; pm. 40.
Maximum, Ga, at 4 pm, March 16. Mini
| mum, ~, al am, March II.
Barometer-March 16 pm, 9.93; 8 pm,
29.S7; II midnight, 1896. March II, am.
2.97; am, 3O.O3; noon, 3O.O7; pm,
1904.
Cold Wave Coming.
Office of the Chief Of the Weather Bureau,
Washington, D. c., March II, 1902.
Hoist cold wave flag; temperature will
fall below the freezing point by Tuesday.
FRANKENFIELD.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at y
am: Great Falls, temperature, 4S; cOndi-
tion, 4. Dalecarlia reservoir, temperature,
4S; condition at north connection. 3; condi-
t1on at south connection, 2. Georgetown
distributing reservoir. temperature. 4S: con-
dftion at influent gate house. 8: condition at
effluent gate house, 3. Washington city
| reservoir. temperature, "A; condition at in
fluent, ?; condition at eff1uent 2.
Tide Table.
Today-11ow tide $50 a m. and 9O6 p. m. ;
high tide, 1880 am. and 2:1O pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 9:27 am. and 1905
p. m.; high tide, 2:45 am and 316 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 61O am; sun sets. 6:OS
pm.
Moon sets, 2:4 m. tomorrow.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 8O8 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 tncandescent lamps lighted ff-
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.