Enjoy Tuesday, because much colder air and active weather are on the way for a good part of the second half of the month. 

Tuesday will feature an increase in cloud cover throughout the day with high temperatures in the mid 40s and winds picking up and gusting up to 30 mph. A brief pocket of rain will work in and out around, and after sunset, and then after a brief pause, showers will return overnight. 

Temperatures will fall to the upper 30s and then quickly rise to the low 40s just after midnight on Wednesday before beginning to fall again. Showers will develop after midnight and then mix with wet snow after sunrise, before temperatures are cold enough for snow to fall in the afternoon. Snow will turn widespread into Wednesday night with some small accumulations possible before the end of the day. 

Snow remains widespread Wednesday night with road impacts likely and temperatures that will be much colder, falling to the upper teens. 

Snow showers will remain widespread for part of the day on Thursday before tapering off before sunset. A two-day total of 2 to 4 inches of accumulation is possible around and north of Interstate 80, and 1 to 2 inches south of that mark. Thursday will also remain much colder with high temperatures in the low 20s and wind chills in the single digits. 

From there, our forecast remains active; snow chances remain in the forecast Friday and into the weekend with low-end impacts and accumulations expected over that time frame. Temperatures will rise only to the upper 20s to low 30s Friday into Saturday before falling to the low 20s on Sunday and even upper teens next Monday. High temperatures look to remain much colder than the average leading into the final week of January.