After a quiet and calm Friday, rounds of accumulating snow and harsh cold will make for an active weekend forecast. 

Flurries and light snow showers will be scattered across the area early Saturday morning, with temperatures rising overnight out of the low 20s. A quick coating of snow will be possible, but snow will taper quickly by mid-morning, and the day turns quiet until later in the afternoon. 

Steady snow will begin around sunset and stay steady through just after midnight. Snow will add up to 3 to 5 inches across the area, with slick travel likely into early Sunday morning. Lake effect snow showers will take over quickly after the clipper system moves out, and lake effect snow showers will stay widely scattered after daybreak Sunday. 

Sunday morning's temperatures will turn harsh with air temperatures in the low teens and wind chill values near or even below zero for a time. Lake effect snow showers will remain widespread for communities north of Interstate 8,0 and flurries will stick around for communities south of that mark. Sunday will remain harsh with air temperatures in the low 20s and wind chills in the single digits. 

Monday remains frigid with air temperatures peaking in the low 20s and wind chills in the single digits all day; lake effect snow showers will fade overnight into Monday morning. 

We see a reprieve from the harsh cold on Tuesday and into the second half of the week. Tuesday's high temperatures peak in the low 30s, and high temperatures on Wednesday find their way to the low 40s. High temperatures will be the warmest on Thursday, arriving in the upper 40s to low 50s.