The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-24
C0LDEST DAY IN
At SUMMERS
Erratic Year Breaks Still An
other Record of Local
Weather Bureau.
NEW YORK HAS COMPANY
Temperature Auditors Expect
Reports to Show Frost
Elsewhere.
NEW YORK HAS COMPANY

THIS has been \ phenomenal vear In
weather Records have been tumblirg
over ore another since the marvellous
cold spell OF February. and yesterday,
the coldest day Of any summer in the
for;y-seven year period that Uncle Sam
has been keeping tabs on meteorological
thirgs. made rolks who went to sleep
with windows open wish they had put on
Il Few blankets
The chill came oN a swift nor'hwaster
that reached gale force several times.
and az 3l5 a. NJ. blew the mercury
down the tube TO A.. Tha; Is the mini
mum performance OF the official ther-
mometer on any June dav after The
formal entrance of summer, and summer
was one day and few hours old when
the unnatural cold snap arrived.
The local weather shop does TO. get
manv thermonetrical details on Sunday
OF all over the continent weather. but Il
surnised last Light that there we're tenn
peratures in the Northwest 'ha, wer"
pretty close to the fr"e7ins po!r'. on.
at Scranton the loves, yesterda" mo~c-
ing was 80 and a; hlhany It Was "a.
The auditors said thai - her. v7s not
mer hut that il was also tic co.ies' "a
| on the books Of any twenty days IN Ian"
! hereabout
one OF the not Ceab.e effects % the
cooncss was IA" darpcr i put on sum-
mer resorts and the beaches OF the var'
| Gus boroughs Cars. elevated subway
! and surface. took only hunp eds to
Coney Island, whittier on a summer sun
day, usually thousands are carried. Hot
! dogs .iold ike ace cream would or torrid
occasions The beach resorts % Staten
! Island were almost deserted a1d only
the hardest vcntured into the water.
I II was the same AZ Rockaway and
other seaside places. The owners OF con
I cessiors everywhere closed down in the
! afternoon and business at night was
duller than il ever has been in summer
| history.
The Weather Bureau sent nut warn
! ing yesterday morning. addressed par
! ticularly to the cranberry growers OF
New Jersey, that they had better pre-
/ pare for killing frost last night, Gar
den truck. It was said b. the local seer
particularly tomato vines. might also be
seriously affected.
! Caldwell, ~ j. reported that in
anticipation of the coming Of the heav.
! frost. the truck farmers Of that section
were covering their plants with bagging
| and newspapers. Smudge fires were
| burned last night to counteract the ef-
! feet Of the anticipated frost. II was
I said that the oldest farmers suspected
| that they might have repetition or the
killing early June frost OF 1897,
a. The cyclone that caused the frosty
visitation was on its way northeast last
| night, having been reported at 8 o'clock
! northeast OF Passport. Me. II dragged
down in its flight all the Arctic tenrpera-
ture that WAS lying around In the North.
west and carried 1t to sea edge and
| further.
Tho rcceding wind of last night Will
! make conditions conducive to heavy
| frost this morning. The temperature
here at midnight was % and me
prophets said it would go lower. The
prediction for to-day calls for fair skies
and coolness in the morning.