Sabrina Ullman: Overnight warm front

January 15: Temporary warm-up

A warm front will move through overnight. Bitter cold conditions return on Friday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a chance of flurries. There will be a blustery wind of 10-15 mph. Temperatures will continue to rise overnight, reaching the upper 20s by the early morning hours.

Thursday will have a chance of morning flurries and a gusty northwest wind. Temperatures will be near 30 degrees for most of the day.

Friday will be mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s. The high temperatures for the day will likely be in the morning as a cold front moves through midday. A back door cold front in the evening will cause temperatures to plummet overnight.

Bitter cold conditions will begin Friday night and continue through the weekend and into next week. The coldest wind chills will be on Monday morning, but temperatures will stay below zero Saturday night through Monday.

Tonight

A slight chance of snow and freezing rain before midnight, then a chance of flurries. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature rising to around 27 by 3am. Blustery, with a west wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday

A chance of flurries before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30. Blustery, with a northwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Friday

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 28. Breezy, with a southwest wind around 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Saturday

Partly sunny and cold, with a high near 3. Blustery, with a northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Sunday

Partly sunny and cold, with a high near -8. Blustery, with a northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

M.L.King Day

Partly sunny and cold, with a high near -7. Blustery, with a northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Tuesday

Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 4. Southwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Wednesday

Partly sunny, with a high near 18. West wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.