Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-30
MORE BAD WEATHER AHEAD
INDICATIONS POINT TO SHOWERS
BY TOMORROW NIGHT.
Farmers Throughout the Country
Complaining of the Cold and Wet.
Cotton Twice Planted.

washington is right on the ragged edge
of more bad weather" said Forecaster
Frankenfeld of the weather bureau to a
Star reporter today, land the outlook for
the next twenty-four hours is rather I'M
certain. low is operating in the south,
and there Is rain all the way from
Texas up to southern Virginia, as
well as showers in the west. There IS
high in the north and splendid weather
all north of Washington, from the northern
lakes to Maine. 1t is doubtful if the high
will be able to chase the low off the map
and give good weather for number of
days.
1T is possible that tomorrow may be fair
but the indications are that by tomorrow
night there will again be showers. There
is little promise of change in the tenn
perature for the present. The temperature
remains unchanged in nearly all parts of
the country"
Mr.. Willis Moore director of the weather
bureau, and all of his forecasters sincerely
wish it were in their power to establish
warm, seasonabe weather in all parts of
the country, as there is complaint loud and
long from the cotton farmers of the south,
from the corn farmers of the great middle
west and from the grain farmers of the
far west. Southern farmers declare that
they have never, within their recollection,
the year. They have been compelled to
replant their cotton twice. and some of
them nave given up hope of being able to
make cotton crop and have turned their
attentlon TO corn and grain, which they
think may be able to mature before frost
next 1all. The western corn planter finds
the time getting very short in which he
can get in his crop and mature it before
frost In october, and in the far west every
thing is gloomy.
Mr.; Moore declares that the scientists of
ms bureau are unable to tell what has
caused the unprecedentedly backward
spring. They are willing he admits, to re-
celve information from any quarter All
the weather bureau knows is that along the
upper part of the northern country there
nave been succession of high-pressure
areas with succession Of low-pressure
areas in the south. The cold air from the
north has rushed toward the south. keeping
the country so cool that the ground has not
furnished enough warmth for plants of any
kind, except those exceptionally hardy. This
phenomenon of the highs in the north and
lows IN the south occurs every spring. but
this year the highs have been greater In
number and strength than at any time in
the history of the weather bureau.
There is compromising force in nature,
though, and Mr.. Moore is confident the
country will be getting summer in a very
short time. All he fears is that the people
will get so much of it and in such large
and red hot doses they will be yelling to
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the north. AT the time they want it he may
not be able to give it to them.
The weather bureau has issued a state
ment of the weather in Washington in June
for the past thirty-siX years, showing that
the normal temperature was % degrees.
The warmest month was in 1874 when the
average was 70. The coolest month was in
19O&, with an average of 81. The highest
temperature was 1O2, on June g. 1874, and
the lowest was 43 on June 2, 1897. The
average precipitation for the month was
40 inches. The average number of clear
days was TO- partly cloudy, 13; cloudy, Z.
The prevailing direction of the wind was
south