HIGH: 71
LOW: 57
* Powerful south winds take hold Wednesday afternoon and continue Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Gusts in excess of 30 m.p.h. likely.
* Unseasonable late season 70-degree spell extends into a third day. High temperatures nearly 20 degrees above normal.
* Generous sunshine filters through high clouds this afternoon.
* Patches of high, thin clouds Wednesday night, very windy and unseasonably mild.
NOV. 5 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 53(degrees)/35(degrees)
Record high: 79(degrees) (1978)
Record low: 11(degrees) (1951)
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