These are the times that try men's souls. Weathermen, anyhow. The single-digit cold, the record snows, the rumors of snow and even the obscure records breaking - those are the things that keep the weather news clicking. But that was last week.

This week, we've had some stiff breezes, but today even those have died away. Now we're looking at a couple of days with "a slight chance of showers," and temperatures loitering near the averages for this time of year in Baltimore. Where is the juice? Where is the adrenalin?

Nope. Not this week. The storm centers are passing through the Great Lakes into Canada, to our north and west, leaving us with a couple of days of vague shower forecasts, as fronts tied to those lows drag past without doing very much. 

Today it's a warm front, (red on the map)headed north to the Mason Dixon Line with plenty of clouds and moisture. That's what snuffed out this morning's sunshine. It will mean warmer highs tomorrows - in the upper 60s - but with clouds and a 40 percent chance of showers.

The clouds will obscure the rising tonight of the Worm Moon, also known to our forebears as the Lenten Moon, Sap Moon or Crow Moon - the third full moon since the winter solstice.

Then a cold front (blue) sweeps through late Wednesday into Thursday. That will chase off the showers and drop daytime highs to the 50s on Thursday. Friday will be even colder - 40s - as the high pressure builds in, but also what the weather service calls "much more quiet weather conditions and near seasonal temps through the end of the week."

Ho hum. Maybe I'll go watch reruns of the 1962 Ash Wednesday storm.