Evening star., 1909-08-31
JACK FROST BUSY IN AUGUST
MAKES HIS APPEARING UP IN
NEW ENGLAND.
Cooler Weather Hereabouts, Too,
With a Good Prospect of Its
Staying That Way.

Freezing weather in Maine and Yer
p,out and cool conditions in the District
make good reading for August
The mercury in the weather bureau
thermometers at Greenville. Me, this
morning registered minimum tempera-
turc OF Is, or degrees below the freezing
point At Northtield, VT, the recorded
tsmrerat,ire was -. or degrees below
the point ut which water becomes ice.
With this winter GOODNESS in evidence.
Jack Frost got busy in New England and
northern New York, and decorated the
landscapes with his frost films untli the
picture bore a most decided likeness 70
real winter instead % rhe summer month
Of August.
The teiegraphc reports received by
Prof C;arriott this morning for use IN
making uD his weather maps ana Iore-
casts gave the winter temperatures III
\ew England and the additional infor-
marion that there were heavy ffoSts IN
both New York state and New t-nSianu.
such conditions were described by the
weather seers as unusual, u, lilueeo' '''es
are not phenomenal
believe in superstitions, signs ana thlnss'
the cold weather in the north foreteilS an
early winter and a severe one. In almanac
lore frost and freezes IN August month
arc forerunners of heavy Sno"iaiS anu
thick ice when winter comes.
Rut as this is an age of scientific rea-
soning not much stock is taken IN the
long-rangc theories or past cehtu ne ~ ~
The man of science ice and frost IN New
York and New England means only an
other freak of meteoroiogy In iong me
of freakishness that has marked the
weather for several years.
Showers Tonight or Tomorrow
The present result of the early visit of
lack Frost To those sections viii be a con-
tinuance Of moderate temperatures in the
District and vicinity and some showers
tonight on tomorrow. Prot Iarriott said
today there is no hot weather In sight
hcrea bouts In the extreme northwest ana
middle west il is quite warm
The minimum temperature here TINS
morning was ~ degrees. 1t was the same
Yesterday morning
The weather bureau .officlalS nave re-
,.niyed word that the yellow balloon which
escaped from its moorinGs at Mount
Weather Va. last Sunday ahSnted yes
terday. after long Journey III cloudIand,
I'm the back yard of colored man named
CHARLES Guin in Culpeper county, Va,
near Brandy station. Attached 10 the
balloon were instruments for testing the
upper air currents. thermometers, ba-
rometer, etc. The meteorological appara-
tus was found to he uninjured
Another balloon that escaped from
Mount Weather more than month ago
was found several days later IN central
, 81 NAtl'd. Al iifSi II N''@ ''ii'N'u III VI
loon would go off TO sea and d" lost. II
appears. however. that after drifting east
ward toward the sea II was caught In an
other air current and brought back to the
place where IL was found.
The upper air readings that are taken
on tho instruments attached to the bal
loon that are sent up at Mount Weather
are said To he valuable aids to the fore
casters III making their prognostications
as to coming weather conditions Occa-
sionatly the balloons get loose because of
KINKS IN the wire To which they are at
tached or by reason of other causes. but
IN most instances they are found and re-
turned TO the bureau.