Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-17
WEATHER FORECAST.
Cloudy and Threatening Tonight and
Tomorrow. With Occasional! Rain,

Forecast till pm. Thursday-For the
District CT Columbia and Virginia, cloudy
and threatening weather tonight and Thurs
day, with occasional light rain; fresh north
easterly winds.
For Maryland cloudy tonight and Thurs
day, with occasional light rain in south
ern portion; fresh to brisk northeasterly
winds.
Maximum temperature past twenty-four
hours, 50; year ago, so.
Weather conditions and general forecast
The Atlantic coast high has increased some
what in strength over the Canadian mari
time provinces and given way considerable
over Florida 1t continues to cause brisk
northeasterly. winds along the coast, with
cloudiness and rain south of Pennsylvania
and for a distance of several hundred miles
inland. A crescent-shaped depression, with
one horn over British Columbia and the
other over New Mexico, appears in western
districts, while area of high pressure
is advancing eastward over Oregon.
Cloudy, rainy weather will continue in the
south Atlantic and east gulf states and the
southern portion of the middle Atlantic
states tonlgh. and Thursday.
The temperature will not change materi-
ally and this condition will doubtless pre-
vail during Friday.
The winds along the middle Atlantic coast
will be fresh northeasterly; on the south
Atlantic coast, fresh to brisk northeasterly
on the east gulf coast. fresh and variable
and on the lower lakes, fresh to brisk
southeastern.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have fresh to brisk northoasterly
winds and cloudy 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 2 pm yesterday:
Thermometer: october 164 pm. 55;
pm, 63; u midnight. 81. October IL
am. 50: am. 81; II noon, 80; 2 pm. SO
| Maximum-59 at pm. October II. Mini
| mum-55, at am. October II.
Barometer: October 16-4 pm. 30.16;
pm, 3O.1S; u midnight. 1920. October Ii
a am. 1923; am. 1924; noon, 1924;
| pm, 1924.
Tide Tables
Today-Low tide, % am. and 1:41 pm.
| high tide, 7:12 am. and 1855 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, oil am. and 90;
pm. high tide. am. and $40 pm:
The Sun and Moon.
| Today-Sun rose. Gillian; sun sets, 5:2t
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 6:12 am.
| Moon sets 500 pm. New moon.
| The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps al
| lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex
| tinguishing begun one hour before sunrise
| All arc and incandescent lamps lighted fif
| teen minutes after sunset and eXtinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at
| a.m.-Great Falls: Temperature, SO: con-
| dition, 90. Dalecarlia reservoir: tempera
| ture, Sc; condition at north connection, IS
! condition at south connection, 20. George
town distributing reservoir: Temperature
81; condition at infuent gatehouse, IT; con
| dition at efiiuent gatehouse, 16. Washing
ton city reservoir, temperature. 30: cond
| ton at infuent, IS; condition at efiuent, 10
Up River Waters.
| Special Dispatch to The Star.
| HARPERS FERRY, w. Va, October H.
| Both rivers are clear.