The sun., 1903-06-20
FOUR MINUTES OF SUMMER.
Sun SIGHTED ORR THE " EtTHER
nj REiI'S PORT' nov.
Just Peep snd AVA! II Went. anh Then
the Rain Descended and the Floods
Came An Apology for June From the
Chjcf Weather Man 10 the Public.

"
the Rain Descended and the Floods
Came An Apology for June From the
Chicr weather Man 10 the Public.
That GOOD old summer time brmoanrd
by Sun poet came Yesterday afternoon
and stayed four minutes. From lO3 TO
lO7 stranger supposed to he the sun
was seen poking through the clouts. II
was positively identified as the sun by
several PERSONS who sw re- that they had
become familiar with the sim in former
years that had real summers in them
But before .hr suns rays had a chance
to penetrate to the pavercn' OF thorough
fares like narrow Nassau street the clouds
got the better Of II again,
The sunshine clerk in the Weather Bureau
put his feet back ON the desk and thought
how much better it is to he paid by the
month than by the JOB when you happen
to be the official sunshine recorder in this
particular month Of June. The rain clerk
and his staff Of fog and drizzle ass stants
went to work again. somewhat refreshed
by their four minutes respite. Some OF
them had avaiad themselves Of the oppor-
tunity To eat 4 bite and take three
minute nap.
worked and no longer able to keep their
accounts straight. They reported last
night. for instance, that the rainfai! 'or
the day was on" one-tenth o. an inr'''
Anybody who was caught out between
and ':30 vest erday afternoon knew, WIFE
pu: the help of a Government gauge. that
II rained an inch minute.
That particular downpour in the June
series was preceded by ,en-minute spell
af darkness caused hy a remarkable bank,
ing of ran-flled clouds, which released
fhpir Spveral showers all together,
r. The old woman with a glass eye and
vcilow wig who has been selling umbrellas
at broadway and Wall street has retired.
She has bSonfht hone hon in o rFtn s;iyr aysne Tar
good bright day to enjoy the first ride
in her new automobile.
= Chief Emory of the local Weather Bureau
fell Yesterday an explanation was due
the public He said the cloud readers had "a
been led astray by the antics OF a'Gult
storm which came stroling up the coast
from Florida in the early part Of last week:
In The ordinary course Of events it would
have drftpd off seward to the northeast,
but ii didn't.
After hanging about here with its centre
Of the Jersey coast and giving us the heavy
rains oi the 1lth and 18th, il slowly trailed
off to the northwest and got as far as the
lower Lake region and Canada. Then 1t
sank away southward as far as Ffttsburg,
and then, executing q flank movement.
brought back its drench and drizzle on W
from the West II hung about here until
past the middle of the week and then began
TO crawl Of eastward, where it ought to
have gone in the first place 1t il now
out at sea and out of sight to the northeast;
But our troubles do not end there, accord
ing to Mr.. Emory. These is another low
pressure area moving down on Us from
the Northwest and still another, with it's
csnrre in the upper Mississippi Valley
Yesterday, coming at us from the West
Between the two it looks to the weather
office as though II would be nasty for day
or more.
with eleven days of June yet TO come
New York exceeds by AZ Of an inch the
normal rainfall for the entire month of
June. The total rainfall for this month
: up to o'clock Yesterday morning was 35s
inches. The normal average rainfall for
the month Is $40 inches, From June I,
when the dry spell was broken up, to to-day
il has rained every day but ono.