Quiet, but cooler weather expected this week

The thick cloud cover this morning has really kept temperatures from rising the past several hours.  In fact, we've been stuck at 29° for the past 6 hours!  At 10am we just moved up to 30°.  The clouds are beginning to thin some to our northeast, but expect the mostly cloudy skies to last through the afternoon.

The weather this week will remain quiet, however a cooling trend will begin to take place closer to the weekend.  A cold front moving out of southern Canada will replace whatever cloud cover we may lose this afternoon.  A few flurries remain possible tonight and again on Tuesday but probably nothing you'll need your shovel, or even broom, for.  A second and stronger cold front comes through late Thursday as a narrow ridge of high pressure moves up the west coastline.  Temperatures in Alaska are expected to warm above average for the first time in quite some awhile.  Meanwhile, as the old saying goes: "What goes up, must come down" will hold true for the remainder of the country.  The cold air that's been bottled up north will become displaced and move south Friday and Saturday.  It's modified Arctic air but even so it will be cooler than what we've felt the past couple weeks. -CK