Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-04
WEATHER'S FREAK FEATURE
Low DEGREE IN TEMPERATURES
CONFINED TO DISTRICT.
Thermometer Registered SO This
Morning - Arizona the Hottest
Area-Earthquakes Predicted.

Another freak weather condition marked
the temperature in and about Washington
at an early hour this morning, according to
Prof. H. c. Frankenfleld, one of the official
forecasters at the weather bureau. The
minimum temperature recorded was SO de-
grees, just 20 degrees above the freezing
point. This is said to be the lowest July
temperature on record in thirty-seven years.
the length of time the official records of the
bureau have been kept. AS result citizens
found 1t quite comfortable to sleep under
coverlets last night, and the morning of the
day We celebrate opened up crisp and
bracing.
This area of low temperature was purely
local by some freak Of meteorology and
did not extend far beyond the limits of the
District of Columbia
The outlook for tomorrow Prof Franken-
field added, is that partly cloudy and some
what warmer weather will prevail.
1t was remarked that while the thermom-
eter here was in reaching distance Of the
freezing point, the weather bureau ther-
mometers at Phoenix, Ariz., recorded
sizzling temperature of 116 degrees in the
shade, and the heat wave at Miles City,
Mont, presented a temperature of 1O2 de-
greeS Fahrenheit.
Good Fourth of July weather is reported
throughout the country, except that there
are showers in the upper lake region, the
upper Mississippi valley, South Carolina
and Florida, with thunder showers west of
the Rockies.
Predicts Earthquakes.
The near approach of the planet Mars to
the earth, according to Rev. 1. R. Hicks
the st. Louis weather prophet, will cause
the world to be shaken by earthquakes dur
ing the present month. Copies of Hicks
predictions for July 1907, have just been
ntHrn1 in,
storm period of the month will be central
on the 9Th. A very warm wave will cross
the country from the 9th to the 11th the
barometer will fall to low readings and
clustering thunderstorms will reach active
to violent EXAMINATIONS on and touching the
sth to 10TH Look for only scattering rains
with possible cloudbursts in localities
widely separated Rising barometer and
change to cooler from about the 10TH
The third storm period reactionary, will
be central, he says, on the 18TH 14th and
10th. Mars will be nearer the earth than
Tor nfteen years past and seismic and vol
canlc disturbances will be most natural for
a period of several days, centering on and
about the 10TH the date of solar eclipse.
Threatening conditions and probably heavy
storms will eliminate about the 18th to
18th and may be prolonged through the
10th and 18th.
The fourth storm period, he says, will
cover the 18th to the 23d, but generally the
rainfall will be scattering and light, but
phenomenal ''waterspouts' may be looked
for. The eliminating storm days will be
on the Goth to 22d, followed by a change to
cooler.
The fifth storm period will be central
from the 9th to the Goth, the full moon
falling on the oath. within forty-eight
hours of sunset on the oath" he says,
many storms and marked seismic disturb
ances will be heard from in many parts of
the earth. SO that a maximum of such
phenomena may be noted. The Temperature
will fall after these storms"
The sixth storm period, according to Mr..
will be central on the 31st, extending from
the 18th two days into August. Much
warmer weather, with gathering thunder
clouds will begin in the west by the 10Th,
and for the four following days will pass
eastward across the continent.