few points where local heavy showers occurred, no rain 

 whatever occurring in numerous large areas. 



Week ending August 16. — The warm weather prevailing 

 the previous week over the districts east of the Mississippi 

 River gave way during the early part of the week to cooler 

 conditions, causing comparatively cool weather during 

 nearly the entire week over these sections. Warm weather 

 continued over the Great Plains region. Continued cool 

 weather was again the rule over the Plateau and Pacific 

 coast districts. The week was generally cooler than the 

 average over the Atlantic coast districts from the Carolinas 

 northward, deficiencies ranging from 2° to 4°. The rain- 

 fall consisted generally of local showers until near the close, 

 when a shallow depression moved from the upper Mississippi 

 valley eastward to the middle Atlantic coast, accompanied 

 by general and in some cases heavy rains over these dis- 

 tricts. Only small amounts of rain occurred over the eastern 

 portion of the middle Atlantic States from Maryland north- 

 ward, and portions of southern 'New England were without 

 rain. From the Mississippi valley westward to the Pacific 

 the weather was generally clear. 



Week ending August 23. — The week opened with a fur- 

 ther continuance of cool weather over the more eastern 

 districts, comparatively cool weather for the season continu- 

 ing for the entire week over the upper Ohio valley, Appa- 

 lachian regions and to the eastward. The warm wave over 

 the interior valleys and Great Plains increased in intensity, 

 culminating about the 17th and 18th in a hot wave of marked 

 intensity, the day temperatures being higher than previously 

 reported at that period of the month in many years. The 

 warm wave was dissipated towards the end of the week, 

 and moderate weather prevailed in all districts east of the 

 Eocky Mountains. Rainfall was fairly general, and at some 

 points excessive in amount, along the immediate Atlantic 

 coast from Florida to New England during portions of the 

 first two days of the week, the fall in ~New York for the 

 twenty-four hours ending at 8 a.m., August IT, being over 

 5 inches. A rainfall of nearly 3.5 inches was reported from 

 Yuma, Ariz., on the same date, — a remarkable fall for that 



