The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27

The speciel Invitation which Willis L.
Moore. chief OF the Weather Bureau, Ia
sued to some nice cool showers to come
and play with US on Monday afternoon.
seems to have been dfsregarded. for
when z forecaster out at Wenty-fOurth
and NJ streets, looked over his weather
map this morning he couldn't find any
thing that looked like real coolth.
IT'S possible that there was a fiars-
back, such as greete,9 as at Inaugural
ton time-Oh. Happy Day-for Mr.
Moore was most insistent in his pre-
diction, but AL the forecaster could do
this morning was to say that we may
expect some ''locaF' showers
Local showers are about as useful as
local politics. They have momentary
effect on the general heat, but IL doesn't
last more than an hour or two at best
There wasn't any real relief in sight
this morning anywhere. New York
got a shower this morning, Jersey got
one yesterday afternoon. the Middle At
lantic and South Atlantic States got a
bit Of water. the Ohic and Mississippi
valleys were relieved eighty, but that s
about all that's coming to them for the
next thirty-six hours, probably.
No Let-up Promised.
The weather in the Atlantic States
north of Virginia will be partly cloudy
without material change in tempera-
ture today and Monday" says the
Weather Bureaus forecast this morn
ing. So New York and Philadelphia
and Baltimore and Boston and other
cities along the Atlantic seaboard are
bound 70 suffer for some time to come.
The only reason for a moderation in
Jersey and New York this morning Wa
that an area Of high barometric pres
sure got loose Omewhere out on the
Great Lakes and went down to look at
Coney on a Sunday afternoon.
OF course tbe Eastern seaboarCi's
pretty warm these days, but out in the
Southwest they have some weather that
heats ours There the official thermon9-
eters are built 20 go the limit and they
90 anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees high
er than they do here
Where the District Of Columbia shines
particularly is in humidity. There are
few portions of the land OF the free and
easy where the well-knCWn officer goes
any higher than he does hereabouts
The torecaster showed a Times reporter
this morning a record of humidity In
the city Tor the past week, the period
OF our latest hot spell.
The Humidity Record.
The greatest humidity was at s O'Clock
on the morning Of Thursday, the 3d.
The record shows for that time SO per
cent. Eighty-three per cent means that
the atmosphere was within II per cent
of being completely Saturated" The
point of "satuFation" is the particular
jumping of place where the ordinary
atmosphere changes into log or mist or
rain. Eighty-three degrees Of humidity
therefore is at least the brother-in-iaW
OF a light shower with the sun shining
The least the officer old for US was 60.
which came along ~ o'clock on the
evening Of the 21st, the first OF the real
hot days. That 90 per cent has not been
eQualed again. In spite of the fact that
we usually have dew at alght, the hu-
Nudity record shows less percentage at
night ali through the week, than in the
morning. The average high for the
seven days past IS seVenty-four, which
Is pretty good Tor 2 small town. The
average low for six days is 81, so that
II IS easily seen that Washington has
had about its share of humidity, with
only an average variation Of about
per cent.
Even in this respect. however. wash
lngton Doesn't fare much worse than the
rest or the Northern seaboard. Some of
me other cities get more breeze, but
the humidity runs high just the same
Exodus From City.
After one uninterrupted week of high
temperatures, With nice. choice, little
marks like 100 degrees stringing along
every day like bill collector. every
one OF the city's sweltering thousands
who could get away today got out and
viii stay. probably, as long as possible
tonight.
The exodus began long before most OF
tie city's population is accustomed 10
getting up and kept Up all the norpiny
CContinued on Second PaEe.l