The weather outside is going to be a bit frightful this week.

As the polar vortex continues to send unusually cold temperatures our way, there is also a looming chance of some light snow .

Nicholas Beaty, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in State College, said that the Harrisburg area may reach “record breaking cold” overnight into Tuesday.

There’s no doubt that the temperature will drop to the low teens overnight tonight, Beaty said. The only question is whether or not it happens before midnight.

“The low temperature for today, if that was to happen before midnight, is 12 [degrees] in Harrisburg,” Beaty said. “But then if we get into tomorrow, the record low is 7 degrees.”

Either way, it will be really, really cold.

Things will warm up slightly by Wednesday, Beaty

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