HIGH: 55
LOW: 29
* Powerful south winds gust above 35 m.p.h. Tuesday morning.
* Winds shift to the west-northwest and ease to 12-24 m.p.h. this afternoon.
* Isolated showers in the morning, then partly sunny.
* Temperatures surge into the 50s for only the eighth time this year–only a few degrees above the 50-degree normal.
* Partly cloudy Tuesday night.
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MARCH 25 TEMPS (the date as published has been corrected in this text)
FORECAST
HIGH: 55
LOW: 29
RECORD
HIGH: 79 (2007)
LOW: 12 (1974)
NORMAL
HIGH: 50
LOW: 31
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