Windy, cold today; More cold weather to come through end of week

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Credit: Marshall Gorby/STAFF

Today will be blustery and cold, with highs only around 38 degrees and gusts as high as 21 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

There is a chance for some light rain and snow in the afternoon and around nightfall, but otherwise it will be cloudy and freezing, with a low around 29 degrees.

Blustery winds are expected for most of the night, making it feel like it is around 20 degrees outside.

Thursday will be breezy and a little colder. Highs will be around 36 degrees, and overnight temperatures and clouds will gradually fall, for a low around 25 degrees and partly clear skies by daybreak on Friday. A few flurries are possible Thursday evening.

A cold front moving in Thursday night will temperatures 20 to 25 colder than usual to the region.

On Friday, it will be windy, partly sunny and freezing cold, with highs only reaching up around 30 degrees.

Winds will be calmer on Friday night, but temperatures will be bitterly cold anyway, with lows around the mid-20s. Clouds will also gradually decrease overnight, for partly cloudy skies by morning.

Over the weekend, the NWS predicted mostly clear skies and more freezing cold, with highs near or below freezing, and breezy to blustery winds making it feel like single digits outside overnight.

Saturday high temperatures will hover around freezing and drop into the low 20s overnight. Highs will stay in the upper 20s Sunday with temperatures struggling to get into the 20s overight.

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