Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-09
SHOWERS TONIGHT.
Tuesday Fair; Fresh to Brisk North
westerly Winds.

Tuesday Fair; Fresh to Brisk North
westerly Winds.
Forecast till pm. Tuesday:
For the District of Columbia, Delaware
and Maryland, showers and colder this af-
ternoon and tonight Tuesday, fair, fresh
to brisk northwesterly winds.
For Virginia. showers and colder tonight,
except fair in extreme western portion.
Tuesday fair; colder in extreme southeast
portion; fresh southerly, shifting to brisk
westerly winds.
Minimum temperature past twenty-four
hours, So; a year ago, 43.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
The western storm has reached the lower
lake region, having increased greatly in en-
eIgy. Its eastward movement has been
greatly accelerated by a strong area of high
pressure and colder weather to the west
ward.
There has been a decided drop in tenn
perature during the last thirty-six hours in
the plateau and Rocky mountain districts,
and over the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma and the Mississippi and lower
Ohio valleys. Frost is reported this NOM
ing from the Dakotas, western Nebraska,
Colorado and other points in the Rocky
mountain and plateau regions
The rains have ceased in the Mississippi
valley and over the eastern slope, but con-
tinue in the lake region and the upper Ohio
valley.
Rain is indicated for tonight In the mid
die Atlantic states and on the south Attain
tic coast, and for tonight and Tuesday in
the lower lake region.
The temperature will fall tonight in the
upper Ohio valley, the lower lake region
and the middle and south Atlantic states,
and several days of fair weather is prob
able south of the Ohio and east of the Mis-
issippi.
The wind along the middle Atlantic coast
will be fresh southerly, shifting to high
westerly with thunder squalls; on the south
Atlantic coast fresh to brisk westerly; on
east gulf coast fresh northwesterly and on
the lower lakes brisk northwesterly, dimn-
fishing Tuesday.
Storm warnings are displayed on Lakes
Huron, Erie and Ontario, and at Sault
Sainte Marie, and on the Atlantic coast
from Delaware Breakwater to PASSPORT,
also at Baltimore.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh southerly shifting to
westerly winds with showery weather to
the Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation I'm
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Marquette, LOS; Green
Bay, LIE; Escanaba, LIS.
During the twentyfour hours ending
am. Sunday: Marquette, l04; Meridian,
IA; Birmingham, 1.36; Concordia, L76
Records for Twenty -Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau IOT the IWenty-IOur hours beginning
at pm yesterday:
Thermometer-May g. 4 pm, II; pm,
II; IL midnight, "a: May 8, am, So; s
am, 66; II noon, Is; pm, So.
Maximum, 80, at pm, May 0; minimum.
SO. at am, May 0.
Barometer-May 8, 4 Pm, 29S6; 8 pm,
1884; IL midnight. $3.50; May 8, am,
29.75; am. 29.75: noon, 1912; pm,
29.67.
Downtown Temperature.
The temperature registered today by At
fiecks standard thermometer was as fol-
lows: 0 am, " .legrees; II noon, So; 1:30
Pm, 81.
Condition of the Water
Temperature and condition of water at y
am: Great Falls, temperature, 81; cOndi-
ton, 81. Dalecarlia reservoir, temperature,
IS; condition at north connection SO; cen
dition at south connection, %. Georgetown
dition at infiuent gatehouse. rs; condition
at efiiuent gatehouse, "a. Washington city
reservoir, temperature, 66; condition at in
fluent %; condition at effiuent, SO.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, 9:5S am. and 1O:15 pm;
high tide. 1915 am. and 1888 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 1912 am. and 11:01
pm; high tide, 4:03 am. and 4:22 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rises, 1855 am; sun sets, 6:50
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises. 4:54 am
Moon rises. 2:25 am. tomorrow.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tinguishing begun one hour before sunrise.
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.