Today is September 6th. It's the 250th day of the year. 116 days remain. It's week 36 of the year.
Unless noted, the following data is based upon observations collected by the National Weather Service, Chicago, at O'Hare International Airport (ORD) between November 1978 and last year. Observations have been official at O'Hare since Thursday, January 17, 1980.
According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the normal high is 78 and the normal low is 57. The 29-year averages are 80 and 59.
On the cool side, in 1988 the high was 66 with a low of 43. In 1984 the high was 73 with the record low of 42. In 1986 the high was 67 with a low of 49. Other cool highs were 68 in both 1982 and 1993. Another cool low was 47 in 2000. The record coolest high of 61 was set way back in 1885. 21 of the 29 lows have been 50s (12) and 60s (9). Four lows a piece have been in the 40s and 70s.
The following astronomical data is provided by the United States Naval Observatory. In Crystal Lake, twilight begins at 5:56 and sunrise is at 6:24. Sunset is at 19:18 and twilight ends at 19:46. Twilight begins tomorrow at 5:57 and sunrise is at 6:25. There's a total of 12 hours, 54 minutes of daylight today and 13 hours, 50 minutes between twilights. The moon is waxing crescent, heading towards the first quarter tomorrow at 9:04. Illumination was 38% at midnight, will be 42% at noon and 47% at midnight tonight. Moonrise is at 13:47 and moonset is at 22:29. Moonlight time is 8 hours, 42 minutes today.
Grandparent's Day is tomorrow and Patriot Day is in five days. -Bernie-
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