The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
Thermometer After the 100
Mark Again Today.
Shower of Monday Evening
Hurt More Than Helped.
HE OFFERS NO RELIEF
Weather Man Can See Only
Showers and Heat Ahead.
The Sun Only Stops Business
an Hour for Three Showers.

| 1t is hot again today. The relief
| from the shower that fell at Topeka
at 4:5o O'Clock Monday evening an6
| netted 1T of an inch CT moisture, was
| only temporary. Although the mer-
| curry in the course of the storm fell
| twenty-three degrees in twenty min
| utes it soon began to rise and there
was little breeze stirring through the
night, which was uncomfortable. The
minimum temperature this morning
was IA degrees, but by $50 O'Clock
the quicksilver had climbed nine de-
grees to point two degrees above
that of Monday at the same hour-S5
degrees. At $40 it was IS.
The weather is of the hot and sticky
combination and there is no chance
of change in the atmospheric con-
d1tions according to the Washington
forecaster. Unsettled but generally
emperature is the prediction for to-
night and Wednesday. A continuance
of the light and variable winds is also
expected.
The heat record for August 1S was
smashed late Monday when the mer-
curry just before the storm reached 9S
degrees. The former high mark for
the date was 81 degrees in 1891.
The Santa Fe reports that local
showers fell between Emporia and
Kansas City. There was compare
lively heavy downpour between Hol-
lfday and O1athe. according to the re-
port. Carbonda1e got a good rain and
Pomona was included in the distribu-
tion of showers. Rain was reported
from the following government sta
tons: Dodge City, .04 of an inch; En-
poria, .01; Mcpherson, "a; Sedan, 80
and Kansas City, Mo-, .02.
1t is reported that light showers
fell in Dickinson county Waverly got
good rain. A shower that lasted
for twenty minutes fell at Pittsburg.
It will be seen that the showers for
the most part were widely scattered
and not sufficiently heavy to do much
good to the crops.
The rain has practically all gone
into the ground. The Kaw river rose
one-tenth of foot in twenty-four
hours but this is scarcely worth men
tioning.
There was scarcely any rain in High
land Park late Monday while the down.
pour in the west part of the city was
much heavier than in the business dis
trict. The storm was of purely local
nature.
An Associated Press report from
Pittsburg states that the light shower
that fell at that place did not bring
relief from the heat. The report:
1.-THE drouth in Pittsburg vicinity has
not been broken; two showers have
brought relief from the heat.
Last night was more like one in Oc-
tober than in August. Yesterday after
fell in 20 minutes. Early Sunday morn
ing there was precipitation that total
led % hundredhts of an inch. Both
showers served to do little more than
sprinkle the ground, refreshing the air,
the water situation is growing more
serious
The drouth situation in ST. Joseph
the surrounding territory, slightly
relieved by showers Saturday night is
becoming as serious as ever. Farmers
say the late corn was benefited a little
but that there was not enough rain to
provide water for stock, lack of which
is their most serious problem
The temperature at Hutchinson this
m orning was one degree cooler than
Monday morning at the same time.
No rain has fallen at that place in the
last "a hours.
E. w. Andrick of Wheaton, Kansas,
has written to the State Journal that
a rain of nearly an inch at that place
will be of great benefit to pastures
The letter which was dated August
reads: "A nice rain amounting to al
most an inch of water fell here in the
past SO hours. Although it came too
late to do the corn much good it will
help late pasture and alfalfa. There
will be practically no corn in this
will be cut up for fodder. Hundreds
of cattle have been shipped out of here
in the past three weeks, on account of
short pastures and low water"
Horton, Manhattan and Mcpherson
were the warmest places in the state
on Monday, according to the govern
ment reports at hand. Following is a |
list of maximum temperatures at
stations for the "a hours
ending at O'Clock this morning.