Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27
MENACE OF STORM
IN FLORIDA IS LESS
Tropical Disturbance, Now
Centered Southeast of
Key West, Weakening.

An apparent decrease in intensity
and very little movement during the
last "a hours were the observations of
the Weather Bureau today on the trop-
ical disturbance of the Bahama Islands.
At the same time the Weather Bu-
reau officials were hopeful that the
present storm would not strike with any
intensity the southeast coast of Florida
and advised in q message to its jack
sonville offiee that the residents of the
Everglades section could return to their
homes, for the present at least, with
out danger from the disturbance.
The reports to the bureau indicated
the center of the storm was q short
distance south or southwest of Andres
Island, Bahamas. $50 miles southwest Of
Its position on Wednesday morning.
ss.sss,,.. StorRRs Warnings Are Up. az,
Gales and winds Of probably hurri-
cane force, however, still prevail near
the center Of the storm, the bureau
said. and the display Of storm warnings
from Jupiter to Key West. Fla, was
ordered continued. The future course
OF the storm is as yet uncertain" the
bureau reported. but no rapid move
ment in any direction is expected DUR
ing the next "a hours.
r. w. Gray. meteorologist at Miami.
issued the following statement this
morning:
The storm this morning at 8 O'Clock
was apparently located about 100 miles
sTuth of Miami and IT'S miles east of
Key West. It may cause winds of mod
crate gale force at Miami today or to-
night, but there is no danger of hurri-
cane winds. There Is no reason for any
further alarm"
Moderate gale winds are from 80 to
46 miles per hour.
In the absence of vessel reports, Mr..
Gray would not predict a possible course
for the storm. High winds probably
would not be experienced at Key West
until tomorrow. and perhaps not at all.
he said. The weather man described the
storm as the most erratic in its move
ments Of any he had ever observed.
Hears From Bimini.
Comdr. r. L. Jack of the United
States Coast Guard base at Fort Lau-
derdale announced the receipt of a
radio communication from Biminf say
ing that the barometer pressure there
had dropped to 29.6o and that So
mile northwest wind was blowing
Lauderdale business establishments not
to remove storm shutters at the pres
ent time. The shutters were put up
several days ago when 1t was feared
that the tropical disturbance would
visit Florida.
There was slight change in
barometer readings at Havana early
this morning with a slow but certain
tendency to rise. Strong northwest
winds continued to blow and a par
TALLY storm clouded sky prevailed. The
at Havana sea walls.
According to DR.. Gutierrez Lama at
Belen Observatory there the change in
direction of winds at Key West, which
veered from northwest to northeast
maintaining A steady velocity of %
miles an hour, indicated that the
tropical storm was decreasing In in
tensity. He said that this condition
was q good indication the storm vas
of little present importance and that
1t held no menace for Cuba.
Southeast Of Key West.
"The storm is now centered southeast
of Key West at an approximate dis
tance of SIS miles, moving leisurely
toward the Gulf of Mexico in westerly
direction and will not visit Cuba" the
Belen report read.
Although Nassau. capital of the Ba-
hamas, had been silent since Wednes-
day afternoon, Tropical Radios station
at Miami spoke to Bimini and West
End in the Bahamas this morning.
Miami oficials of the Pan-American
Always reported to the lines offices in
New York today that the Havana
Miami mail plane had arrived safely
at the Floriday city from Cuba and re-
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