HIGH: 58
LOW: 40
– Final day of this autumn’s first significant cool spell.
– Extensive cloudiness at the start with possible light showers–especially lakeside.
– Clouds break during the afternoon allowing some passing sunshine.
– Continued cool with highs 10 degrees below normal.
– Northeast winds shift more easterly later in the day averaging 5-15 m.p.h.
– Clearing and colder Friday night. Some patchy frost possible well inland. Coldest inland lows: mid-30s.
OCT. 3 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 68(degrees)/47(degrees)
Record high: 91(degrees) (1954)
Record low: 29(degrees) (1981)
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