HIGH: 79
LOW: 65
* Generous sunshine with puffy, summertime cumulus clouds diminishing along the lake and shifting inland.
* Excellent visibilities for the start of the three-day Chicago Air & Water Show this afternoon.
* Near-seasonable warmth. Inland highs in the low 80s.
* 5th day of northeast winds 6 to 16 m.p.h. limits shoreline highs to the mid- to upper-70s.
* Only a few scattered clouds, mild Friday night. Temperatures drop to the upper-50s west toward the Fox Valley, DeKalb and Rockford.
AUGUST 15 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 82(degrees)/63(degrees)
Record high: 98(degrees) (1944)
Record low: 48(degrees) (2004)
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