From today, it's exactly six more weeks until spring. Or, six more weeks of winter according to Punxsutawney Phil.

After the past wintry week and brutal cold this morning, winter can't end soon enough for most people.But, there's no break over the next couple of weeks, according to forecasters.Global warming seems to have evaded the Northeast. In Allentown, high temperatures for January were an average of 6 degrees below normal.Morning temperatures recorded by readers included 3 degrees in Summit Hill, reported by Lisa Hiles; a wind chill of minus 19 at Beltzville reported by Dave Conway; and minus 1 in Lehighton recorded by Brett Heckman.The weather caused most local schools to delay classes for two hours today.Forecasts call for a series of impending storms over the next few days.AccuWeather reports a train of storms will bring round after round of snow from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast this weekend into early next week.Perhaps the storm to watch closely for widespread travel disruptions in the Northeast, including the mid-Atlantic, will be the caboose of the train."Sometimes the last storm in the series ends up to be the strongest and the largest. This is because the storm has the least amount of competition and marks the start of a new weather pattern," said Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams of AccuWeather.The last storm in the series is expected to move from the central Appalachians to the upper mid-Atlantic coast.It will strengthen from late Sunday into Monday. As this happens, cold air will spread southward, along with wintry precipitation.Depending on how quickly and how far south this last storm of the bunch tracks will determine the extent and amount of snow, or if we'll have a wintry mix."After the push of mild air into parts of the northern Plains, Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic, the pattern of waves of cold air will resume during next week and may last much of the month," Abrams said.The first part of the trio of storms will arrive during the day Sunday, but that will likely bring mostly rain and freezing rain as temperatures hit the upper 30s.A second storm also will have little impact.The third storm will bring snow, but most forecasters aren't predicting yet how much snow we'll be receiving.The National Weather Service is predicting 1-2 inches between Sunday night and Morning morning.The weather service meteorologists are leaning to the Monday into Tuesday event as being less severe than originally thought.One more weather event worth mentioning is next weekend, when Arctic air again moves south and could dip temperatures below zero. Daytime highs next weekend could be only in the teens."After the push of mild air into parts of the northern Plains, Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic, the pattern of waves of cold air will resume during next week and may last much of the month," Abrams said.He said, "Even with the waves of cold returning, there will still be a few brief episodes of semi-spring in between the cold shots."