By Dan Klepal
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Get ready to fall back into winter on Monday.

The weekend is shaping up to be gloomy and wet, with steadily falling temperatures.

All of that is expected to culminate Monday night and early Tuesday morning with the Tristate's first snowfall of the season - even if the flakes aren't expected to stick around for first light.

Myron Padgett, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington, said temperatures are expected to only reach the high 50s over the weekend before dropping into the mid-30s during the early hours Tuesday. That's about 15 degrees below normal. Combined with a small storm heading through the area, it should produce snow.

"The rain on Sunday should end before the cold air comes in," Padgett said.

"A second front will come through Monday, and there could be some flakes mixed in with the rain" but the ground will be too warm for it to stick.

"We usually don't get this type of weather patterns until late November, early December," Padgett said. Last year, the first flakes fell on Nov. 21.

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