Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-09
NEAR RECORD HERE
FOR COLD WEATHER
Forty-Five Degrees Is But Two
Above Lowest Mark for
June-Crops Suffer.

A temperature within two degrees Of the.
lowest mark ever recorded in the Dis
trict OF Columbia during the month of
June was reached this morning. when
the weather bureau reported an official
mark Of A. degrees. The low mark. Is
degrees. was set June =. 1897. SO anna
teur weather observers who declared to-
day that the temperature early this
morning was the lowest every known in
v asllington at this time OF the year
We're wrong.
Other parts of the country. however.
are experiencing the oldest June weather
in their local history today. From points
in the middle Atlantic states. New Eng
landti the Ohio valley and the great
lakes country temperatures set new low
marks for June last night or early this
morning, and hard srosts were reported
from points all the way from Vermont
TO Wisconsin. The frosts did consider
able damage in central New York. Penn
syivania. Ohio and Michigan. as well
as in New England and Wisconsin.
More Frosts Predicted Tonight.
More frosts are predicted for tonight
in the great lakes region, upper Ohio
valley. norti, Atlantic states and the
mountain regions OF the middle Atlantic
states.
Moderately cool and generally fair
weather is to prevail during the early
part of tie week in all the eastern
states. according to the weekly forecast
of the weather bureau, this brand of
summer weather extending as far west
as the great lakes and the Mississippi
valley. Along the south Atlantic, how
ever, local rains are predicted
I'm the far west thc same climatic con-
ditions will prevail carly in the week,
though a disturbance that is now form
ing out there will be preceded by rising
temperatures and attended by local thun-
dcrstorns. This disturbance will move
slowly eastward, reaching this Fart OF
the country toward the close Of the
week.
The unusually cool weather of last
night and today. says the forecast, will
probably pass away by tonight, ana
warmer weather win set In tomorrow
Coolest June 8 in New York.
NEW YORK, June s.-Today was the
coolest June 8 in the history Of the
local weather bureau, whose records
go back to 1870. The temperature was
WV II ~ e cdiAS aitIS iiues AAu ia
dications We're that it would be as
low or lower early tomorrow. The
nearest approach to this record was
June Q. 1912, when the thermometer
registered 81 degrees.
PHILADELPHIA, June @.-Many
places In Pennsylvania reported frost
this morning. condition almost un-
known in this state for the month OF
roses. The weather bureau received
reports Of u heavy frost at Scranton.
Pa. AT Harrisburg and other central
parts OF the state light frost was re-
ported. The minimum temperature In
Philadelphia was II degrees. within l
degree Of the lowest ever recorded in
June by the weather bureau. Forty
degrees was registered in some parts
OF the interior Of the state.
Mercury Down to 90.
ROME, n. T.. June 9.-rhis section
suffered severely from frost last night
The mercury went down to Is. Farm and
garden produce were badly damaged.
MIDDLETOWN. n. Y. June 9.--There
was a heavy frost in this vicinity last
night Thin ice formed in places shut
off from the wind. Considerable damage
was done to vegetation.
MONTREAL. June Snow fell for
short time here today. The temperature
dropped to -. degrees in positions ex-
posed to the cold wind. The bleak con-
ditions are without 4 precedent in fifty
years.