HIGH: 66
LOW: 61
FLASH FLOOD WATCH INTO THURSDAY NIGHT
* Showers sweep the area in downpour-generating clusters.
* Thunderstorms may be embedded within the rainfall from time to time
* Rainfall on saturated soils threatens to produce or exacerbate flooding.
* Rain is to affect the entire metro area. Rain intensity may ebb at times.
* Hazy, damp and cool with low clouds and areas of fog, particularly near Lake Michigan.
* Additional showers, possible t-storms at night. Continued cool and hazy.
AUG. 27 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 79(degrees)/60(degrees)
Record high: 97(degrees) (1973)
Record low: 47(degrees) (1982)
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