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THU
FRI
Mostly sunny, less humid, pleasant
Mostly sunny
SAT
Partly sunny, chance of storms late
SUN
MON
Overcast, humid, warm, chance of storms
Partly sunny, humid, scattered storms
SSE 10 mph
S 10-15 mph
SW 10-15 mph
Mostly sunny, less humid and cooler
WSW 10-20 mph
Partly sunny and mild
WNW 10-15 mph
Belvidere 77/55
McHenry 76/54
Crystal Lake 76/58
Rockford 78/56
Hampshire 76/55
90
Waukegan 74/55 Algonquin 76/56
88
Dixon 78/55
39
National Forecast
Today
Thursday
Friday
City
Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
Hi/Lo/W
Arlington Hts Aurora Bloomington Carbondale Champaign Chicago Clinton Evanston Galesburg Joliet Kankakee Mt. Vernon Naperville Peoria Princeton Rockford Rock Island Springfield Waukegan Wheaton
77/57/pc 78/56/pc 77/59/pc 86/63/pc 80/59/pc 78/58/pc 80/60/pc 73/59/pc 80/57/pc 77/57/pc 78/58/pc 83/59/pc 77/56/pc 79/61/pc 78/57/pc 78/56/pc 78/57/pc 80/62/pc 74/55/pc 77/56/pc
77/62/pc 79/60/pc 79/61/pc 86/66/pc 81/62/pc 78/62/pc 81/63/pc 75/63/pc 83/63/pc 78/60/pc 80/60/pc 83/62/pc 78/60/pc 83/65/pc 80/64/pc 79/62/pc 81/63/pc 83/66/pc 72/59/pc 79/61/pc
80/67/pc 79/66/pc 76/67/pc 89/70/pc 77/67/pc 80/67/pc 80/70/pc 79/67/pc 78/67/t 77/66/pc 76/66/pc 86/67/pc 78/67/pc 78/70/pc 78/69/pc 78/66/pc 78/68/t 81/71/pc 76/64/pc 80/68/pc
World Cities
Today
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
Low
69°
Normal high
84°
Normal low
64°
Record high
99° in 1955
Record low
48° in 1984
24 hours through 4 p.m. yest.
0.54”
Month to date
1.36”
Normal month to date
0.84”
Year to date
24.01”
Normal year to date
17.37”
RealFeel Temperature
The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature®is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors
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Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
Tue.
Pollen Source: Count National Allergy Bureau
Lake Forecast
WATER TEMP: Chicago Winds: NW at 7-14 kts. 78/58 Waves: 1-2 ft.
68
Trees Grasses Weeds Mold
Orland Park 77/58
Regional Cities
81°
Wed.
Aurora 78/56
Sandwich 77/55
Bill Bellis
Chief Meteorologist
W 10-15 mph
Oak Park 77/59
St. Charles 76/58
DeKalb 76/58
High
Precipitation
High pressure will return to our area today with sunshine and cooler air. It will be less humid with winds turning to the northeast in the afternoon creating cooler conditions along the lake. Thursday will be sunny and pleasant. Friday humidity will return with a chance of storms. The weekend will be warm and humid with scattered storms.
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Harvard 75/53
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Temperature
TUE
7658 7760 7964 8468 8666 7960 7654 Wind: NW-NE 10-15 mph
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Almanac at Chicago through 4 p.m. yesterday
Seven-Day Forecast for McHenry County TODAY
July 9, 2014 Northwest Herald Section A • Page 10
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Sun and Moon Sunrise
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
5:25 a.m.
Sunset
8:31 p.m.
Moonrise
5:40 p.m.
Moonset
2:45 a.m.
Moon Phases Full
Last
New
First
Jul 12
Jul 18
Jul 26
Aug 3
Air Quality Index
Tuesday’s reading
0-50 Good; 51-100 Moderate; 101-150 Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200 Unhealthy; 201-300 Very Unhealthy; 301-500 Hazardous Source: http://www.epa.state.il.us/air/aqi/index.html
Front
Front
Front
Cold
Warm
Stationary
UV Index Today
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Today
City
Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/W
Showers T-storms
Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Cancun Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Islamabad Istanbul Kabul Kingston Lima London Madrid
90/77/t 68/63/sh 97/73/s 110/79/s 91/69/c 78/59/t 60/58/r 59/45/s 97/74/s 90/76/s 68/49/pc 61/52/t 93/84/c 104/80/s 86/72/s 94/63/s 91/79/s 68/59/pc 71/59/pc 84/53/s
Manila Melbourne Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Paris Rome Santiago Sao Paulo Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw
86/78/r 53/43/sh 71/56/t 73/55/sh 77/57/s 104/86/s 65/57/pc 79/66/s 67/42/s 65/57/r 92/76/t 87/77/t 81/56/pc 68/45/s 88/74/s 87/78/r 72/52/pc 73/56/pc 70/55/pc 84/63/t
National Cities
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice
Rain
Flurries
Today
City
Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chattanooga Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines
Hi/Lo/W
82/59/pc 88/68/t 91/70/t 64/55/sh 87/70/t 85/70/t 95/70/pc 88/68/pc 90/65/s 86/70/t 81/58/s 99/69/pc 89/67/pc 74/56/pc 91/70/t 83/69/t 81/59/pc 75/58/pc 98/77/pc 79/57/pc 92/63/pc 81/62/pc
Snow
Ice
Today City
Detroit Duluth El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Flint Grand Rapids Green Bay Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Knoxville Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis
Hi/Lo/W
75/57/pc 71/52/pc 95/75/pc 72/56/t 77/57/s 73/54/pc 72/53/pc 70/52/pc 89/62/pc 89/76/pc 94/73/t 79/59/pc 93/72/t 85/67/pc 80/65/t 105/85/pc 79/65/pc 86/65/pc 87/69/t 89/76/t 74/54/pc 75/59/pc
Today City
Nashville New Haven New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, OR Raleigh Reno Richmond Rochester, MN Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Savannah
Hi/Lo/W
87/66/t 85/66/pc 91/76/t 88/72/pc 94/74/t 93/72/t 84/65/pc 90/74/t 89/72/t 100/85/t 78/57/pc 83/57/pc 94/70/pc 97/68/pc 92/72/t 74/56/pc 89/59/s 93/73/t 93/73/pc 75/68/pc 71/59/s 97/76/t
Today City
Seattle Shreveport Sioux Falls Spokane St. Louis St. Paul Syracuse Tacoma Tallahassee Tampa Toledo Topeka Tulsa Tucson Wash., DC Wichita Winston-Salem Worcester, MA
Hi/Lo/W
80/57/pc 93/73/pc 81/62/pc 93/61/s 86/68/pc 75/57/pc 76/56/pc 81/53/pc 93/73/t 90/77/t 76/55/pc 88/67/pc 91/71/t 92/77/t 90/72/t 88/67/pc 89/70/t 84/63/pc
Forecasts and graphics, except WFLD forecasts, provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014
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0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very high; 11+ Extreme
River Stages
as of 7 a.m. yesterday Flood
Current
24hr Chg.
Fox Lake
--
4.35
none
Nippersink Lake
--
4.19
-0.02
New Munster, WI
10
7.24
-0.07
McHenry
4
2.13
+0.01
Algonquin
3
1.91
+0.38
Weather History Thunderstorm downburst winds were implicated in the demise of a Boeing 727 attempting takeoff from New Orleans, La., on July 9, 1982. All 145 people aboard were killed. The plane scraped against trees and wires, then crashed.
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