Good morning! It’s July 12 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…
Partly sunny in Aptos
Today will be areas of low clouds early; otherwise, mostly sunny and cool. The high will be 69 with a low of 54. Mostly cloudy now, changing to mostly sunny at 2 pm.
9 am
63°
Mostly cloudy
11 am
67°
1 pm
68°
3 pm
68°
Mostly sunny
5 pm
65°
7 pm
61°
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