Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-23
MUCH COLDER.
Temperature Will Fall to About 80
Degrees Tonight. .

Degrees Tonight.
Forecast till 8 pm. Wednesday: For the
District of Columbia, partly cloudy and
| much colder tonight and Wednesday; tenn
perature will fall to about 80 degrees to-
night: brisk westerly winds.
| For Delaware and Maryland. partly
cloudy and decidedly colder tonight and
Wednesday; brisk westerly winds.
For Virginia, fair and decidedly colder
| tonight and Wednesday: fresh to brisk
| westerly winds.
Maximum temperature past twenty
| four hours, IL: a year ago, A.
| Weather conditions and general forecast:
The area of high pressure over the Atlantic
has begun to give way. condition favora-
Bile to the eastward advance of the cold
weather now prevailing in the Mississippi
| valley. The temperatures continue abnor-
Guiding western New York and thence
southwark to western Georgia. Through
| out this area and westward to the Missis-
| sippt valley precipitation has been general.
| and in some places heavy during the last
! twentyfour hours. Snow continues in the
| upper lake region, and locally in the middle
Mississippi valley; elsewhere fair weather
| has prevailed, except in north Pacific coast
states. where rain continues.
The weather will clear tonight except In
| the upper Ohio valley, the lower lake re-
gfon and nor.hern New York. where there
| will be snow tonight and Wednesday.
The temperature in Atlantic coast districts
will fall 30 to IS degrees in the next twen-
| ty-four hours.
The winds along the middle Atlantic coast
will be brisk westerly: on the south Allan
| tic coast fresh westerly, and on the east
| gulf coast light northwest to west.
Storm warnings are displayed on the At
| lantic coast from Delaware Breakwater to
| New York. and on the Pacific coast from
Point Reeves light nOrthward.
| Cold wave warnings have been issued for
western North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia and for the northern and central
| portions of eastern Florida.
| The following heavy precipitation Qn
| inches) has been reported during the past
| twenty-four hours: Wytheville, 150; Char
| lotte, 1.26; Atlanta, 1.16; Macon, 190; Ashe-
vile, 2.3S; Tampa, 1.48; Elkins. LAP; Parry
| Sound, LA.
| Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh southerly, shifting to
northweSterly, winds, with rainy weather
| to the Grand Banks.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
| thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
MISUNDERSTANDING %, pm, 20;
| pm, 50; II midnight, "a. January %,
| 90.
Maximum, II. at 2:15 pm. January %;
minimum, 81, at am. January %.
Barometer-January %, pm, 30.05; 8
pm, 30.06; II midnight, 1904 January
| %, am, 1901; am, 5000; noon, 29.95;
| 2 pm, 29.93
Tide Tables.
| Today-Low tide, :O7 am. and 1:15 pm. /;
| high tide, ESQ am. and 7:10 pm.
| Tomorrow7sLow tide 200 am. and 200
| pm; high tide, 7:45 a. m. and 500 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, TIA am; sun sets, 500
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 7:13 am.
Moon sets, 4.07 pm.
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 -five minutes before sunrise.