HIGH: 25
LOW: 15
ARCTIC CHILL LOOSENS ITS GRIP ON CHICAGO’S WEATHER, PERMITTING A 10- TO 15-DEGREE INCREASE IN DAYTIME HIGHS.
* A good deal of sun through patches of midlevel cloudiness.
* Temperatures range from the upper teens over the most heavily snow-covered far northwest suburbs to the mid-20s over the bare ground.
* West winds back southwest 7 to 18 mph.
* Scattered clouds Friday night, not as cold.
* Steady south to SW overnight winds will limit lows to 10(degrees) inland and the teens by the lakeshore.
DEC. 11 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 36(degrees)/22(degrees)
Record high: 61(degrees) (1949)
Record low: -5(degrees) (1972)
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