HIGH: 85
LOW: 68
* Extensive cloudiness could produce a spotty shower or two while limiting highs to the 80s.
* The day’s warmth and elevated humidities could spawn several scattered but heavier t-storms later today.
* Southwest winds at 5 to 14 m.p.h.
* More cloudiness with a better chance for clusters of showers and thunderstorms developing at night.
* Locally heavy downpours possible with some late-night or predawn storms.
JULY 18 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 84(degrees)/64(degrees)
Record high: 100(degrees) (1946)
Record low: 53(degrees) (1979)
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