Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-22
SHOWERS AND COOLER.
Tuesday Fair, Cooler; Light to Fresh
Winds.

Forecast till 8 pm. Tuesday: For the
District Of Columbia and Maryland, show
ers and cooler this afternoon or tonight.
Tuesday fair. cooler; light to fresh south
west to northwest winds.
For Virginia, showers tonight, except fair
on the coast; cooler in western portion.
Tuesday, fair; cooler light to fresh south
west to northwest winds.
Maximum temperature past twenty-four
hours, 80; year ago, 50.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
The northwest storm has moved eastward
to central Ontario, with diminishing inten-
sity, and is followed by a marked high
area, accompanied by much lower tenn
peratures, and also some light frost in the
central Rocky mountain region and in the
western portion of South Dakota. Another
disturbance Is moving in from the British
northwest. There have been showers and
thunder storms i'll the central Rocky noun
tain region, the central valleys and the
upper lake region; elsewhere the weather
has been generally fair.
There will be showers tonight in the Ohio
valley and the middle Atlantic states, fol-
lowed by fair weather Tuesday. In the
lower lake region the weather will be fair.
1t viii also be fair in the south, except IN
the interior of the east gulf states. where
local showers are probable, with the shift
ing of the winds.
Temperatures will be lower.
On the middle Atlantic coast the winds
Will DE ITeSn southwest 10 northwest, On
the south Atlantic coast light to fresh west
to northwest; on the east gulf coast light
to fresh northerly, and on the lower lakes
light to fresh westerly.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh to brisk south to
southwest winds, with showers to the
Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation On
| twenty-four hours: Milwaukee, Liz; Chi
cago, 1872; Springfield, ILL.,, LA; Springfield,
Mo-, 2.1S; Kansas City, 2.30; Amarillo, 1856;
Sydney, 1.64
am. Sunday: Eastport 2.6O; Atlantic City,
LA; Northfield, 1.16; Montreal, 224; Que
bee, 1.04; Chatham. 1856; Sydney, 100; Ell
kins, LAO; Portland, Me-, go; Concord, 1.95.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
pm s is mdnsSf g g. Augass g.
Maximum, 90 at 2 pm August IS; mini
August 81: pm, so.os: PM, S.os; -
J midnight, 5000. August %: 4 am, 1905
| 8 am, 5000; noon, 3O.O7; 2 pm, 5000.
Downtown Temperature.
The temperature registered today by AZ
heck's standard thermometer was as fol-
lows: am, So degrees; IL noon, SO de-
| grees; pm, 90 degrees.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at 8
am: Great Falls, temperature, 50; condi-
| ton. "a; Dalecarlia reservoir, temperature
distributing reservoir temperature, 80; con-
dition at south connection, Is; Georgetown
distributing reservoir, temperature, 80; con-
dition at infiuent gatehouse, 21 condition at
| effiuent gatehouse, 20; Washington city res
| ervoir, temperature, 70; condition at infiu-
ent 10; condition at effluent, q.
Tide Table.
| Today-Low tide, II 80 am; high tide,
| 6O4 am. and Sal p.m
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1903 am. and 1910
p.m.; high tide, 667 am. and $50 pm.
Up-River Water.
| Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
HARPER'S FERRY, w. Va, August %.
| The Potomac is clear and the Shenandoah
| is cloudy here today.
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 If
| teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-fve minutes before sunrise.