No Major Weather Systems For The Next Few Days

It looks as if the cold weather has settled in for awhile.  After the first 20 days of December being above normal... way above, in fact, averaging 12 degrees above normal, the last 2 days have been cooler than normal, and it looks as if this will continue for most of the Christmas Holiday week. The normal high temperatures during the next week are close to 30 degrees, and the normal lows are in the middle teens.  Tonight the temperature will drop of to near 14 degrees with light winds, and mostly clear skies.  On Sunday the high will be in the upper 20's under mostly sunny skies in the morning.  Skies will become partly cloudy in the afternoon.  It will become mostly cloudy with a low pressure system moving from the southern plains into Arkansas.  An inverted trough of low pressure extending northward from the low over southern Illinois on Monday morning could bring some light snow or flurries to the Stateline on Monday morning.  That system will continue to move off to the east leaving skies mostly cloudy on Christmas Eve.  The low Christmas morning will be in the middle teens.  It will be partly sunny and a little colder on Christmas Day with northerly winds, and a high in the middle 20's.  It will be mostly cloudy, breezy, and cold on Wednesday as a strong storm system spins up over eastern Tennessee.  The high will be only around 23 degrees on Wednesday with a brisk northeasterly wind.  The Canadian ridge of high pressure stretching southward across the plains will feed quite cold air into northern Illinois on Wednesday night with the low dropping to around 10 degrees, and the high on Thursday will only be around 21 degrees.  The cold ridge will shift of to the east across the Great Lakes on Friday as low pressure develops over the southern plains.  It will be mostly cloudy with a chance of some snow.  Chances of snow will continue on Saturday as the low moves northeast toward Chicago.