O Brother How Cold Art Thou?

My brother Phil loves the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou?". I'll have to admit the first time I saw it I didn't quite get it. But it's one of those movies that makes me chuckle more every time I see it. The tie in is with our second oldest brother JP. He used to live in Fairbanks, Alaska. Now he's in Dublin, Ireland. I used to give him a call now and then and ask, "How cold is it today?"
So today his e-mail says temps in Ireland have been running between 45 and 60, ABOVE. And he's glad he hasn't seen one vehicle with a power cord hanging out of the grill. He said I should check out the temps in interior Alaska. So far this month the warmest afternoon high has been 6 degrees above zero. The coldest low has been -51! Every morning this month has been below zero to start the day. And there are places in interior Alaska that have been even colder this month. Check out what long time Alaskans have to say about this cold: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AK_INTERIOR_FREEZE_AKOL-?SITE=AKFAI&SECTION=HOME
This would be the time I would call JP and say, "Man whatta weekend we just had. The end of January and Friday it was sunny and 55, Saturday was sunny and 62, and yesterday we hit 67. By the way how cold is it there?"
By the way our coldest official reading so far this month was 27 on the 7th of January. So we really don't have anything to complain about.
Some scattered showers should move through today with highs into the upper 50s to low 60s. Then mostly sunny, cool and breezy conditions for Tuesday. More clouds and some scattered showers Wednesday night and early Thursday. A break for Thursday afternoon through early Friday before another system brings a chance of showers back into the area late Friday.
The question now is, does this next system open the door for a taste of cooler air this next weekend? Right now it looks like we get significantly chillier. But nothing terribly cold. The Climate Prediction Center still has below normal temps coming for much of the U.S. for the period of Feb. 6th through the 12th. But even that may only produce daytime highs in the 40s. But that's quite a swing for us when we've been so warm.
If we get any colder than that, maybe I'll get a phone call from one of my siblings with the taunt, "O Brother How Cold Art Thou?"