Record Cold Tonight; Snow Showers For Monday

To those of you who have had up to here with the cold: relief is in sight. Tomorrow will still be cold--highs in the teens in the afternoon--but there will be no wind, and the work week begins with temps in the 30s. And to end the week we'll be in the mid-40s. The cold snap will be over.

Today, though, will be miserable. It's -3 at the GSD Home Office, and we do not expect to see much northern movement of the mercury. Also, the wind continues to be gusty, bringing wind chill values close to -30 degrees. If you go outside, make sure you cover your skin. Tonight the wind will die down and, with no cloud cover, there will be what is called radiational cooling. Temps will get to -13 to -16 in the Berkshires tonight. Great googly moogly, that's cold.

We do have snow in the forecast. A weak system will move across our area during the day Monday. We could see a dusting up to an inch, but there's not too much to worry about there. After school activities should not be affected.

The weather forecast for later in the week is less certain. Again, it's the battle of the models. The North American gives us a chance of light snow overnight on Wednesday while the Euro keeps us high and dry and warmer. Let's just say right now that there is a chance for unsettled weather, with rain likely at some point, between the early hours of Thursday and Saturday evening.