Updated, 7:12 a.m.

Good morning on this unthawing Thursday.

It feels like only 5 to 10 degrees with the wind chill.

And the mercury is not budging.

For the next two days, we’re expecting to be hit with the coldest weather of the season so far.

It’s an arctic blast of the worst kind: snow that doesn’t stick, wind gusts powerful enough to strip away any final autumn leaves, and bitterly cold temperatures. But it wasn’t enough to cancel school.

The culprits are a pair of cold, cold fronts, one right after the other, said John Murray, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. “So the cold air is getting reinforced,” he said, with even icier air expected tonight.