Evening star., 1909-08-29
WEATHER FORECAST.
Showers and Cooler Sunday-Mon-
day Fair and Cooler.

For the District Of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia--Partly cloudy. probably
showers Sunday: cooler by Sunday night.
Monday. fair and cooler; moderate vari-
able winds, becoming north and north
west
The West Indian hurricane has passed
inland near the mouth of the Rio Grande.
and 1t is rapidly diminishing in intensity.
This disturbance first appeared to the
east and north of Bridgetown. Barbados,
August 20. and moved thence on an al
most direct west-northwest course to the
western coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It
was attended by destructive winds and
transforms in southern portions of Haiti.
and later over southern and western
provinces of Cuba. the Yucatan channel.
the middle gulf and the southern Texas
coast. Beginning on the Goth and con-
tinung daily thereafter until the 9th.
telegraphic advices concerning the storm
were sent to south Atlantic and gulf
ports for the benefit of mariners. That
these advices were needed is affirmed by
the reports thus far received to the effect
that no vessels were lost in this hurri-
cane which was one of the SevereSt of
recent years in southern waters.
Scattered showers have fallen in the
middle west. the lake region. along the
gulf and Florida coasts in the upper Ohio
valley and at a few scattered points in
the middle Atlantic states.
A marked change to cooler weather has
overspread the upper lake region, the
upper Mississippi valley and the plains
states
showers in the Atlantic and gulf states
Sunday and in the latter region Monday.
Local rains are also probable In the
Rocky mountain region. In other dis
tricts the weather will be fair during
Sunday and Monday. A change to cooler
weather will overspread the eastern and
southern states during Sunday and Mon
day. The temperature will rise in the
northwest.
Storm warnings are displayed at Jupiter
and Miami.
The winds along the New England
coast will he moderate south and south
vest. shifting 10 northwesterly by Sun
day night; on the middle Atlantic coast
moderate variable, becoming north and
northwest: on the south Atlantic coast
moderate variable. except brisk northerly
on the Florida coast, on the east gulf
coast. moderate ariable. becoming north
erly by Sunday night: on the west gulf
coast moderate variable becoming north
erly. and on the great lakes moderate
northwest and west.
Tide Tables.
Today-14oW tide. 12:12 am. and 1858
pm. high tide. ell am. and 6:47 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 10 am. and LAS
pm; high tide. 7:oS am. and 1:39 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 5:25 am: sun sets
6.:;7 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 5:26 am.
Moon sets 3 O1 am. tomorrow.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset
extinguishing begun one hour before sun
rise. All arc and incandescent lamps
lighted fifteen minutes after sunset and
extinguished forty-fivc minutes before
sunrise.
Temperature.
Midnight, IS; = am. Co: am. 65
b am. s.; am. IL: 10 a m. rs; II noon
81: pm. IS; pm. 92; pm, IS
pm, a; 10 pm, 73. Maximum, 90
minimum. 81
Relative humidity-s am, IS: pm. 70
Rainfall (s pm. TO p.m), .04.
Hours of sunshine. 1913.
Per cent of possible sunshine, rs.
Temperature same date last year-Maxi
mum, %; minimum, 5S
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. August 2s.-Poto
mac clear and Shenandoah cloudy.
-,