Forecast: Still Winter, Still Cold

Don't worry, you will probably enjoy another opportunity to make one of these come May. For now, enjoy the still-seasonal cold!

I realize that some people hate winter. I realize that some people just want to wear shorts, whatever the season, want an extra hour of daylight even if it gets ripped out from under their sleeping heads on a random Sunday (this one coming up, FYI), want sunshine-warmed sidewalks all year 'round. Go back to Florida because that's not the way the seasons work, although that stands to change with our broken climate. For now, though, we still have two weeks of winter left, and this one will feel exactly like winter should: COLD.

As mentioned in yesterday's slush report, the National Weather Service expects temps to stay well below freezing for much of the week. The warmest point today, for example, comes around 3 p.m., which should be about 32 degrees with 23-degree windchill that makes the air feel far colder. Tomorrow's high, meanwhile, comes in around 28 degrees, but windchill and, ugh, unasked-for gusts should pull that down into the teens, even the single digits. On Thursday, things may warm up slightly, with technical highs around 31 and lows around 22. Don't get too excited because it's going to feel like teens-to-twenties temps out there, and the NWS is even charting a chance of snow through Thursday morning.

On Friday, however, temps could climb into the high 30s, threatening 40s on Saturday and potentially cracking a rainy 50 on Sunday.

Anyway, I don't want to leave you with the impression that this brisk slap from The Weather's frigid hand is normal fare, because arctic blasts result directly from atmospheric warming way up north. And then, if the past two years offer any clues as to our meteorological future, we'll probably get a big snow storm in April. Nothing makes any sense at all, but we can at least be certain about the season.

Diane, play us out: