Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23

probably occasional light rains, colder;
brisk southwesterly winds.
For Virginia, rain and colder tonight
Tuesday partly cloudy and colder; brisk
southwesterly winds, diminishing.
Minimum temperature past twenty-four
hours, 40; year ago, 81.
Weather Conditions and General Fore
cast.-The shallow depression that occu-
pied the lower Mississippi valley Sunday
morning has developed with extra ordinary
rapidity. and is now central in the Ohio
valley, although practically the entire
country east of the Mississippi is under
it's influence. The barometer has fallen
an inch or more in the Ohio valley and
the middle Atlantic states in the last
tWenty-fourS, and heavy rains have fallen
from the lower lake region to the gulf
High temperatures characterize the storm
thus far in it's course.
The storm will move rapidly northeast
ward during the next thfrty-siX hours and
cause rain tonight in the lower lake re-
gion and the middle Atlantic states, fol-
lowed by colder weather in the lake re-
gion. with snow Tuesday The weather
in the middle Atlantic states Tuesday will
be unsettled, with occasional light rain
and somewhat lower temperatures.
Storm warnings are displayed from
Jacksonville to New York.
The winds along the middle Atlantic
coast will he high southeast to south; on
the south Atlantic coast brisk southwest
erly and on the east gulf coast fresh
westerly.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have brisk southeast to south
winds and rain to the Grand Banks.
The following heavy precipitation Din
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Pensacola, 1885, Lex
ington, LOS: Tampa. lis; Jacksonville,
40: Richmond LOG; Augusta La; Ra-
leigh 30: Charlotte. 22o: Asheville. LOS;
Lynchburg. 1.46: Philadelphia, LIS: At
lanta, LIS: Cincinnati. LOS; Evansville.
Peoria los; Mobile. 2.3+: Meridian. 1O4;
Montgomery. 1.sS; Louisville. lbs: Rose
burg -: Cape May 2.24: st. Louis. liz.
During the twenty-four hours ending S
am. Sunday: Amarillo. lbs; Galveston.
296: Okla homa. 1.S2: Fort Worth, lbs;
Shreveport, 900: Little Rock, LIZ; Fort
Smith, u.s. Palestine, ia.
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:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -, pm, A.;
S pm, Az; l. midnight. II. December "a
am, 43; s am, 90; II noon, 81; pm,
81.
Maximum, 81. at pm. December %;
minimum. 40, at am, December %.
Barometer-December.2 4 pm. 3025;
8 pm, 3O.15; II midnight. 1898, Decem-
Der %: 4 am. 1876; 8 am, Dab; noon,
1876; . pm, 29,16
Tide Tables.
Today-Low tide, $50 am. and 800
p. M; high tide. 1924 a. m. and 1910 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, $50 am. and $40
pm; high tide, IL am. and IL ID pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose at 7:l6 am. sun sets
at Al pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises at 7:17 am.
Moon rises at $40 pm. today.
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
fifteen minutes after sunset and eXtin
guished forty-five minutes before sunrise.
Downtown Temperature.
The temperature recorded today by
Feast & Co.'S standard thermometer was
a follows: a m, u, II noon, "a; m,
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