HIGH: 27
LOW: 17
* Highs nearly 15 degrees below normal.
* Sporadic flurries in counties adjacent to Lake Michigan build into heavier lake snow showers this afternoon/evening.
* Partly sunny, breezy, cold elsewhere. Northwest winds become north 11-23 m.p.h.
* Snow showers grow more frequent at night in lakeside counties of Illinois/ Indiana.
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MARCH 7 TEMPS
FORECAST
HIGH: 27
LOW: 17
RECORD
HIGH: 78 (2000)
LOW: -2 (1943)
NORMAL
HIGH: 42
LOW: 26
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