We’ve seen temperatures slowly fall Sunday with mostly cloudy skies and northwest winds. Your weather timeline takes you into Tuesday and a cold start to the work week.

Sunday’s lows will be in the single digits, and Monday morning will see wind chills in the single digits below zero. You’ll want to dress the family appropriately.

It will be a cold morning at the bus stop, but things improve a bit by afternoon as winds diminish.

A fast-moving clipper system will bring a chance for light snow to central and southwest Iowa very early on Tuesday morning, as seen in the StormPath and snow accumulation graphics that follow. As you’ll see, amounts look to be light.

The GFS model is the outlier for Tuesday morning’s system, while the other four give the Des Moines metro area zero to 0.13″ of snow by early Tuesday.

Wind chills will also, again, start out below zero on Tuesday morning.

Turning to temperatures, things start to improve as we head through Wednesday and into Thursday and Friday. Cold air then returns next weekend.

Extended outlooks keep us cold and dry, and we may see the coldest air of the season by early next week.

The green line is the mean expected snowfall amount in the graphic below from the European computer model ensemble system, and it basically shows not a lot of expected snowfall for the Des Moines area through the end of the month.

Your WHO 13 7-day forecasts are below. Have a great Sunday!