Evening star., 1915-12-29
WEATHER.
Rain This Afternoon; Fair Tonight
and Tomorrow.

For the District of Columbia. rain
this afternoon: fair tonight and tomor-
row: not much change in temperature:
lowest temperature tonight about 82
degrees: strong southeast. shifting TO
west winds.
For Maryland. rain this afternoon;
partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow. fair;
easterly. shifting to westerly gales.
For Virginia, fair tonight and tomor-
row; colder tonight. and in southeast
portion tomorrow; southwest gales.
For West Virginia. rain turning into
snow and colder tonight: tomorrow.
partly cloudy; northwest gales.
The storm that was over Louisiana
yesterday morning gained great In
tensity, and moved northeastward to
the Ohio valley. where it is central this
morning. This storm has been attended
by rain, sleet and snow In the ONO
valley, and general rains throughout
the gulf. south Atlantic and middle
Atlantic states. Heavy rains 1ell
in the east gulf states. Tennessee,
the Carolinas and Georgia The storm
area that was central yesterday in the
northwest has moved southwark II is
causing SHOWS in the Rocky mountain
and plateau regions. and rains IN the
Pacific states. and it is followed by
much colder weather over the north
western states and the western plateau.
The weather continues warm in the
south Atlantic states, and the tempera-
ture has risen in the upper Mississippi
valley and the middle plains states.
The indications are that the OHIO VAL
ley storm will advance northeaStward
and be attended by sleet and snow in
the region of the great lakes. north
ern New York and northern New Eng
land during tonight and tomorrow.
Sleet and snow will occur this after
noon and probably tonight in the upper
Ohio valley. and there will be rains and
possibly sleet in the middle Atlantic
and southern New England states this
afternoon and tonight. followed by gen.
orally fair weather tomorrow in these
districts.
In the south Atlantic and east gulf
states, Tennessee and the lower Ohio
valley the weather will be generally
fair tonight and Thursday.
The temperature will be much lower
tonight in the south Atlantic states,
the Ohio valley and Tennessee.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Atlantic coast from Key West. Fla. to
Eastport, Me.
The winds along the New England
and middle Atlantic coasts will be
easterly, shifting to westerly gales; on
the south Atlantic coast, southwest
gales. except fresh south to west on
the Florida coast: on the east gulf
coast, fresh westerly.
steamers departing today for Euro
pean ports will have easterly to south
eriy gales and overcast weather. with
rain and snow to the Grand Banks.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
ermometer-Yesterday PM, 46;
Pm, 45; IL midnight, AZ; today, 4
am, 80; 8 am, s5; IL noon. 40; pm.
40. Maximum, 46, at 2 pm. yesterday,
minimum. 35. at s am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, "a: minimum, 80.
Barometer-Yesterday pm, 1895:
pm. 1904; IL midnight. 1897; today,
am, 1855; s am, 29.77; 10 noon,
2s.45: 2 pm, 29.46.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water
at s am: Great Falls-Temperatur
80; condition, $50. Dalecarlia reservoir
So; condition at north
connection, 10; condition at south con-
nection, 100. Georgetown distributing
acknowledgements "a; condition
at influent gatehouse. 60: condition at
eff1uent gatehouse. 10.
Weather in Various Cities.