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The cold front that is pushing through overnight tonight into Monday, kicking off mountain upslope snow showers in its wake, is the fourth in the past two weeks. It looks like that No. 5 in the series will push through about Thursday and No. 6 will go through around Sunday. Each one will bring a new reinforcement of colder air, and fire up snow showers on the western slopes of the Appalachians (some of which may bleed over onto our side). In between, sunny, dry but chilly days can be expected. There's no sign now of any kind of southern-tracking storm system bringing abundant moisture into the cold air. There might be something a little wetter developing toward the middle of the following week (about the 10th) but it could just as easily end up turning north into the Ohio Valley the way this weekend's storm did.

If we get a widespread measurable snow the next week or so, it will probably have to come from a stronger "Alberta clipper" system diving southeastward. Really potent Alberta clippers that can spread a few inches of snow across the area are infrequent, but the odds go up some as we enter December. 

In short: The unseasonably cold pattern continues, but at least through the next week, it doesn't look an especially icy or snowy one.