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HIGH: 85

LOW: 65

* Warm, but a noticeable trend toward more comfort- able weather.

* A pullback from the muggy humidities of recent days continues Wednesday.

* Generous sunshine mixed with fair-weather clouds and wisps of high clouds.

* Light northwest winds, 5 to 13 m.p.h., shift northeast at the Lake Michigan shoreline as light lake breezes develop later this morning and afternoon.

* Clouds diminish overnight, cooler and less humid. Inland lows drop to near 60-degrees.

AUGUST 6 TEMPERATURES

Normal high/low: 83 (degrees) / 64 (degrees)

Record high: 101 (degrees) (1947)

Record low: 48 (degrees) (1994)

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Weather Report is prepared by the WGN-TV Weather Center, where Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN News at noon, 5:55 p.m. and 9 p.m.

WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.

IN THE WEB EDITION: For updated weather news, forecasts by ZIP code and local radar images, go to chicagotribune.com/weather or wgntv.com